Sir Richard Bishop
NCI Sports & Social Club
Holland Street
Oct 4, 2023
8:00 PM GMT+1
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SIR RICHARD BISHOP
As a solo guitarist, Sir Richard Bishop fuses the sounds of flamenco, North African rai and Turkish psych with the spirits of Django Reinhardt and Derek Bailey, early Middle Eastern pop and Central Asian ragas.
For over a quarter of a century, Bishop was part of the legendary, perplexing and mysterious experimental trio Sun City Girls. Extraordinarily prolific and possessed a world-gobbling vision, SCG took absurdist jazz-punk, ethno-improv and fuck-you audience confrontation to sublime and unimaginable heights until the death of drummer Charles Gocher in 2007. Bishop went on to form the psych-power trio Rangda with Ben Chasney (Six Organs Of Admittance) and Chris Corsano. Other influences are absorbed from his extended periods of travelling the world, collecting music for brother (and former SCG bandmate) Alan?s extra-geographic label Sublime Frequencies.
Returning now after a near-decade spent as a rare book dealer specialising in the occult and esoterica, Bishop envelops his lucid, tumbling guitar playing with magick, Tantra, and arcane weirdness. Expect a mixture of gypsy rag, Eastern drones, free improvisation, white noise plus everything and nothing in between.
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SHIT CREEK
Shimmering electronics, gleeful pulsing drone, violin screech and/or chopped-uppop songs. Join psychedelic noisenik Shit Creek on an improvised trip to bliss town
https://shit-creek.bandcamp.com/
JS CLAYTON
Solo percussion experimentations on a Chris Corsano, Steve Noble, Camille Emaille, Valentina Magaletti, etc. tip.
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Since 1981, Sir Richard Bishop has been traveling the spaceways as 1/3 of Ethno-Improv Pioneers, Sun City Girls. The Girls have released nearly 100 albums and tapes over the last 25 years, and have managed to perplex, amaze and alienate their audiences (as planned). Though they tour on rare occasions, they spend much of their time in the recording studio, working on writing & film projects, and exploring what's left of the planetary system, not necessarily in that order.
By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist.
Thanks to the powers that BE, in early 2005, Sir Richard Bishop began extensive touring as a solo artist, performing throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States, armed with only an acoustic guitar. His multiminded solo playing reflects influences of Django Reinhardt, Jimmy Page, and Ravi Shankar & the sounds of India, the Middle East and other points along the Gypsy trail.
Read MoreBy trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist.
Thanks to the powers that BE, in early 2005, Sir Richard Bishop began extensive touring as a solo artist, performing throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States, armed with only an acoustic guitar. His multiminded solo playing reflects influences of Django Reinhardt, Jimmy Page, and Ravi Shankar & the sounds of India, the Middle East and other points along the Gypsy trail.
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