Sir Richard Bishop – Intermezzo, Ideologic Organ – SOMA010 Vinyl LP
Factory sealed Vinyl LP.
Originally self released on CDR by Sir Richard Bishop 2011.
Master & vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin April 2012.
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A1 |
Dust & Spurs |
2:14 |
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A2 |
Reversionary Tactics |
2:31 |
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A3 |
Dance Of The Cedars |
2:29 |
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A4 |
Inner Redoubt |
14:56 |
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B1 |
Hump Tulip |
5:14 |
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B2 |
Dhumavati |
3:26 |
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B3 |
Molasses |
3:05 |
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B4 |
Cranial Tap |
5:25 |
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B5 |
Khajuraho |
5:41 |
For the last three decades Sir Richard Bishop has blazed a singular trail as one of the most consistently challenging and innovative guitar players around. Using a 3.5mm thick guitar pick, he batters his strings with unusual precision, leaving audiences unsure of what to expect next as he ploughs through everything from jazz and improv to Middle Eastern melodies and Western styles.
Bishop’s first group, Paris 1942, featured former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker, but it was with the Sun City Girls that he became widely known, releasing around fifty full-length albums, and dozens more cassettes and singles from 1981 onwards.
Bishop has been releasing solo records under his own name since 1998’s Salvador Kali through John Fahey’s Revenant label. While usually prolific, three years have passed since his last LP, the ‘Arabic surf’ record The Freak of Araby. Richard is now returning with two new solo efforts – Intermezzo, on Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ imprint (through Editions Mego), and The Unrock Tapes, on German label Unrock.
