Alan Bishop 13 Questions Alan Bishop is an American musician, born in Michigan, co-founder of Sun City Girls with his brother Richard Bishop and drummer Charles Gocher (November 12, 1952 – February 19, 2007) in Arizona, 1981. He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. Alvarius B. alias started with 1994s self-titled recordings and followed four years later with another double self-titled release. Alvarius B is an enigma with elements of sociopathy and a deft collusion of the beautiful, the musically sublime and the sarcastically, hilariously caustic.... The music was an perverted version of the Sun City Girls free-thinking experiments that wound together post-punk theater, improvisation,nonsense and musical traditions from around the world into a prolific and audacious catalog. While the first Alvarius B. disc collected some 32 short and noisy acoustic guitar sketches Bishop recorded on cassette between 1981 and 1989, later discs found him working as a lo-fi-style home-recording songwriter. Thirty-two instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of several folk guitar styles, from abrasive to delicate. Brothers Alan and Richard Bishop, embarked on a tour of the United States and Canada in May 2008, called The Brothers Unconnected in tribute to Charles death, featuring showings of the mans video works and stripped-down, acoustic versions of selected Sun City Girls songs, including several tracks written by Gocher himself. Sun City Girls are not really a Band but more of a factory of ideas; musical, artistic, philosophical and beyond. They are the epitome of DIY, having recorded, toured, traveled, researched, and hustled for over two decades creating an archive of music, film, writing, Art, etc., with their own financial and associate resources. Because of their fearless approach, bizarre performances, and trickster reputation, there are many legends spread about them: some TRUE, some half-true, some false, yet many of their more extreme resumé entries will probably remain, for the most part, unknown. Every mystery revealed about them seems to create even more mystery. There is a strange energy surrounding them and an honesty about their presentation which separates (and isolates) them from the entertainment industry. They are THEIR OWN entertainment industry, entertaining themselves. Tom Vague (Vague Magazine) He is the co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a Seattle-based record label focused on acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers, mostly from Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. The releases are primarily divided into four categories: field recordings, folk and pop compilations, radio collages from specific geographic locales, and DVDs. In the early 2000s, as Sublime Frequencies got off the ground, Bishop grew more productive as Alvarius B., issuing albums throughout the decade.In words of Alexander Provan: Bishop’s ethnomusicological mission is certainly deserving of its own documentary; his obvious, insatiable passion for these musical cultures and their living artifacts, along with his idiosyncratic tastes, imbues the Sublime Frequencies’ releases with a simple, even naïve, but always overpowering exuberance. But Bishop would rather “leave the over-analyzation to those who undoubtedly will suffocate the world music community with praise for this music in the future.” Bishop has released more than 70 records, introducing previously poorly know musical genres from Syria, Burma, Indonesia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Niger, Thailand, India, Morocco, Egypt, Western Sahara, Cambodia, Algeria, Turkey and from anywhere. preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/11/alan-bishop-13-questions.html SUZUKI JUNZO preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/11/suzuki-junzo-13-questions.html CHRIS RAINIER preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2014/11/chris-rainier-13-questions.html 13 QUESTIONS INDEX preparedguitar.blogspot.es/p/descripcion.html JOIN US IN OUR OPEN FACEBOOK PLACE https://facebook/groups/preparedguitar/
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