Sir Richard Bishop
Improvika
Locust 61
CD / 180 gram LP
2009-03-31

Improvika is now available on limited edition 180 gram vinyl housed in a hand pulled silkscreened artist's paper jacket courtesy of Paul Metzger.
On Improvika, Sir Richard Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 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, & latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's follow up to his part on locust's celebrated Wooden Guitar collection and second full length release after his debut on John Fahey's Revenant label.