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Guitarist based in Paris, Current member of SUNN O))), NAZORANAI, KHANATE. Originating New Hampshire 1974, arriving Paris in 2007 via NYC via LA via Suffolk via Seattle. Fortunate frequent collaborator; with artists and musicians from various paths of creativity in live and recorded music, visual art, design, theatre, film. Curator of IDEOLOGIC ORGAN label imprint in collaboration with Shelter Press. Thank you for your sustain, interest, attention & for listening to my efforts.

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Behold Finders Keepers, a British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch	Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Richard Bishop is an experimental guitarist whose improvisations and compositions often reflect the shadow worlds of India, the Middle East, North Africa, and other points along the Gypsy trail. 

Richard is a founding member (along with brother Alan Bishop) of legendary ethnic-improv pioneers and underground tricksters Sun City Girls, (1981-2007)  who produced an extensive discography of over 50 full length albums, 20 one-hour cassettes, and a dozen 7” records. In the early 1980s he was also a member of the group Paris 1942 which included Alan Bishop, J. Akkari and former Velvet Underground drummer Moe Tucker. 

Richard released his first solo record in 1998 on John Fahey's Revenant label.

Richard was also a co-founder of the Sublime Frequencies label (with Alan Bishop & Hisham Mayet). The label, whose mission is dedicated to acquiring and releasing obscure sights and sounds from Africa, India, S.E. Asia and beyond, began in 2003 and currently has over 100 releases to its credit (www.sublimefrequencies.com)


"Bishop is a splendid acoustic guitarist with a sure touch and an impressive vocabulary gleaned from the Spanish flamenco and North Indian classical traditions with a bit of Belgian Django Reinhardt's gypsy swing jazz mixed in." - Bill Meyer (Ink Blot Magazine)

"Bishop's music has an austere and pristine quality to it that makes him an absolute pleasure to listen to." - Nick Hennies (Foxy Digitalis)

"In order for guitar music to have value, it must remain new and on the move. There shall be no safe or sacred ground. To take risks and to challenge one's self and one's listeners, is the only way to maintain any worth." - Richard Bishop

PARTIAL DISCOGRAPHY

Salvador Kali (1998) Revenant Records
Improvika (2004) Locust Music 
Fingering The Devil (2006) Souther Records, UK
Elektronika Demonika (2007) Locust Music
While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (2007) Locust Music
Polytheistic Fragments (2007) Drag City
SRB/Earth (2008) Southern Lord
The Freak of Araby (2009)  Drag City
Graviton Polarity Generator 2010) Social Music Records
Intermezzo (2012) Ideological Organ
The Unrock Tapes (2012) Unrock
Beyond All Defects w/ W. David Oliphant (2012) Chodpa Media
Road to Siam (2014) Unrock
Solo Acoustic Volume Eight (2014) VDSQ
Tangier Sessions (2015) Drag City

Resonance104.4fm is London's art radio station.

A platform for sound and radio art, experimental art practice, specialist musics, free speech and deep thought, we broadcast original content from musicians, artists, scientists, instigators, critics and thinkers from London's kaleidoscopic communities.

Resonance FM is a challenging model of community media hailed as "the best radio station in the world".

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Glitterbeat is committed to global sounds and artists that don’t necessarily rubber-stamp our pre-conceptions of what regional music sounds like.  We live in a world of ever increasing intersections and the global musical conversation does not operate according to straight, predictable, and easily delineated rules. It is a conversation that is being reinvented and revolutionized each day.

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