Improvika

Improvika Artist: Sir Richard Bishop
Label: Locust
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 656605706122
EAN: 0656605706122
ASIN: B0002QO4CW


Release Date: 2004-10-05

Improvika


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Tracks:

  1. Provenance Unknown
  2. Gnostic Gem
  3. Rudra's Feast
  4. Cryptonymus
  5. Jaisalmer
  6. Mystic Minor 23
  7. Tripurasundari
  8. Rose Secretions
  9. Skull of Sidon

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Album Description

By trade, Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. However, in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke-filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. In the twilight hours of a shadow world sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, he rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's one part bruit Peckinpah muscularity and two parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism…a very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel-string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed arabesques, Django-inspired gypsy arcs and Latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Bishop's follow-up to his part on Locust's celebrated Wooden Guitar collection, and his second full-length release after his debut on John Fahey's Revenant label.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Zero Stars would be the actual score.......2006-10-07

Beign a fan of acoustic or electro acoustic guitars made me buy this album. I have a good collection of CD's by such guitar greats as Steve Hackett, Anthony Phillips, Paco de Lucia, Andres Segovia, Strunz & Farah, Ottmar Leibert, Peter White, Earl Klugh among others. This has to be the worst guitar album in history. The whole CD sounds like a musician practicing or trying to tune the guitar. It like a warm up that never gets going. And the quality of the recording is so bad, that sounds like an amateur was in charge. Stay away from this CD and from this artist.

5 out of 5 stars

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