Sir Richard Bishop
While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
locust90
CD / 180 gram LP
2009-09-22

Limited 2009 vinyl repress out now. If you're keeping score, this second edition features an inverted image of Lucretia and black labels. Lp is sealed.

“Bishop displays a virtuosity that borders on the flabbergasting." -Pitchfork

"searchingly original and experimental" - Art forum

"miraculous and the mysterious in equal portions" - Dream

"Bishop creates abstract and dissonant fingerstyle webs that evoke those famous LSD experiments with spiders; and he stretchesout in long raga-influenced improvisations that accelerate into flatpicked furies. " - Acoustic Guitar

This is an essential document by one of America's most original and inventive unaccompanied guitaristsworking today. While My Guitar Violently Bleeds is a splendid three piece gem in which the good Sir branches out & nods to points west, east & otherworldly. Classic spaghetti western tinged spidery fretwork(“Zurvan”), Fushitsusha style feedback drenched psych decay (“Smashana”) and a brilliant lengthy raga epic (“Mahavidya”) round out the proceedings by the Sun City Girls master musician.