Biography

Alan Bishop has composed for, performed on and/or produced many critically acclaimed recordings over the past 30 years and is a highly influential elder of the American Underground music world. Bishop's Abduction Records label was founded in 1993 and is still operating today with 45 releases to date.He is also a music researcher, filmmaker, collage artist, writer and archivist incorporating areas as diverse as folk, jazz and improvisational music, manifesto text documents and travel journals, spoken word rants on conspiracy theory and various Middle Eastern and Asian cultural influences into his own processing laboratory.

Besides continuing a solo career as Alvarius B., Alan’s current obsession is to expose great lost treasures of sound, ceremony and experiences from under-appreciated musical legacies across the world through Sublime Frequencies, the record label he has managed and operated as majority owner since 2003.

This person was part of Sharjah Biennial 10

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