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SIR RICHARD BISHOP - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Locust
CD // £12.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Jun 2007
Catalogue Number: L90

SIR RICHARD BISHOP - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds, Locust

This latest album from the fabulous Sir Richard Bishop opens with the classic unaccompanied guitar piece 'Zurvan', on which the maestro shows us his supreme touch on the wooden instrument, tangling and twisting phrases in a way only he can, and putting the army of young Takoma obsessives to shame. This is Bishop's devotional music, as deeply spiritual in its own way as anything you would expect to hear in a place of worship, it's just that Bishop has a way of showing this that is a little removed from the norm. The central piece 'Smashana' is next up which sees Bishop taking a totally different direction, eschewing his more traditional acoustic guitar work in favour of some hazy Fushitsusha style psychedelic improvisation. Through dense droning ambience Bishop's axe skills shine through brightly, taking us into the darker realms of his psyche (groan.) and again showing that he has a power over this kind of music that so many lack. To finish the album off we are treated to the album's longest piece, the 25 minute epic 'Mahavidya', a haunting raga underpinned with an Eastern drone allowing Bishop to effortlessly fingerpick over the top. Meditative and involving we hear the track build slowly and subtly from sparsely picked out notes to the kind of frenetic strumming and desperately technical playing the man is probably best known for. There might be something of an abundance of solo guitar records at the moment, but why settle for second best when you can have something from one of the genre's true originals. No doubt this will stand as one of the finest albums of its kind this year - a huge recommendation.

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