Alan Bishop | |
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 Bishop at the UJAZZ Festival (Aarhus, Denmark 2017) | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Alvarius B. Uncle Jim |
| Born | October 6, 1959 Bethesda, Maryland |
| Genres | Sound collage [1] |
| Occupation(s) | Musician and Filmmaker |
| Instrument(s) | Bass, Sax and many other Eastern instruments |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Placebo, Majora, Abduction, Three Lobed Recordings, Sublime Frequencies and more |
| Formerly of | Sun City Girls |
Alan Bishop is an American musician best known for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls. [2] He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim. In the early 1980s Bishop played in the short-lived band Paris 1942 with Maureen Tucker of the Velvet Underground, and was briefly a member of skate punk group JFA. Bishop is now a member of the Cairo-based band The Invisible Hands. He is the co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a Seattle-based record label focused on collating esoteric music and imagery from all over the world, most notably Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.
