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!Bishop displays a virtuosity that borders on the flabbergasting.7 - Pitchfork
7searchingly original and e<perimental7 - Art fforum
7miraculous and the mysterious in e?ual portions7 - Dream
7Improvika is the type of album guitarists study, wishing they could slow the CD down Eas players used to slow down LPs to learn
a guitarist's techni?ueHI acoustic fans, on the other hand, will be pleased to have a meaningful, full-bodied guitar album.7

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!Bishop creates abstract and dissonant fingerstyle webs that evoke those famous LSD e<periments with spidersI and he stretches
out in long raga-influenced improvisations that accelerate into flatpicked furies. 7 - Acoustic G

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branches out & nods to points west, east & otherworldly. Classic spaghetti western tinged spidery fretwork

E!OurvanPH, Fushitsusha style feedback drenched psych decay E!SmashanaPH and a brilliant lengthy raga

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Tours with Bonnie Prince Billy & Animal Collective
Extensive touring throughout 2007
Feature articles slated to run in print & web media

CD BOX LOT: 25
STREET DATE:June 19, 2007

LABEL: LOCUST
CAT#: LST90
FORMAT: CD / Limited 180 gram vinyl
UPC#:656605709024

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SIR RICHARD BISHOP

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