Disarmed

Those of you who are familiar with the Sun City Girls would not surprised by many of the noises emanating from (Sir) Richard Bishop's guitar. His stylistic range is intimidatingly broad, exotic in a very real way, but he pulls it off without it sounding like musical tourism. Driving through Maryland, alternating between stretches of ugliness and woodsiness, his Polytheistic Fragments album felt as foreign as yesterday's jam. But then this piece came on, and it seemed that beauty finds itself at home just about anywhere.

Sir Richard Bishop - Quiescent Return