Sir Richard Bishop
Sir Richard Bishop has been a distinctive voice in experimental music for thirty years, and while the origins of his knighthood are murky and obscure, he certainly deserves the honor. As the guitarist and guiding voice of the Sun City Girls, he consistently startled, alarmed, perplexed, and confounded; over the course of nearly one-hundred, (mostly) micro-batch releases, he navigated through a weird, thick fog of free-improvisation, world-music esoterica, alien abductions, Romani balladeering, onstage bewilderment, and shamanistic cardboard theatrics. As a solo artist, he’s eschewed the overt insanity of the Sun City Girls for an acoustic guitar and a chair, but within the florid sounds that he generates, things are as contextually and conceptually... Read More
- Genre:
- Folk, Folk Rock, Psychedelic Folk, Experimental
