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Discrepant: inconsistent; conflicting; at variance [from Latin discrepāns, from discrepāre to differ in sound, from dis-1 + crepāre to be noisy]
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Boss Shots has been launched to provide Jamaican music fans with a one stop shop for all their musical needs, from the sounds of sixties Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae through to the more modern styles of Roots, Dub, Lovers Rock and Dancehall.

Already home to the legendary Island Records, Top Deck, Frontline and Trojan catalogues, it is overseen by the team that manage Trojan Records. They pledge to continue making available the very best in music, clothing and other collectable items.

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World Circuit Records has made its reputation by producing some of the finest albums of the past three decades. The label’s prestigious roster includes the Grammy-winning Buena Vista Social Club and associated solo artists (including Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Omara Portuondo and Orlando ‘Cachaíto’ López), Malian blues pioneer and Grammy-winner Ali Farka Touré, Malian divas and social activists Oumou Sangaré and Fatoumata Diawara, master kora player Toumani Diabaté, the illustrious Orchestra Baobab, musical iconoclast Cheikh Lô, and Fela Kuti’s legendary drummer and co-creator of Afrobeat Tony Allen. 
 
With reissues and brand new releases coming soon, World Circuit continues to bring diverse, genre-defying music to a wider audience.

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

MALARIA was formed based on the love of Keroncong, Reggae and Indonesian 60's psychedelic rock music.

FatCat Records is a British independent record label founded in 1997.

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