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Review: 'Bishop, Sir Richard'
'Tangier Sessions'   

-  Album: 'Tangier Sessions' -  Label: 'Drag City'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '17th February 2015'

Our Rating:
Tangier has an enduring reputation as an ‘international zone’, the city that inspired William Burroughs’ legendary ‘Interzone’, as featured in ‘Naked Lunch’, and as a hub for writers, artists and musicians.

Sir Richard Bishop’s improvised album isn’t so much about the location in which the songs came into being, so much as a reflection of its creative spirit.

The flamenco ‘Frontier’ intersects the boundaries of folk and neoclassical, while ‘Bound in Morocco’ waves an elegant trail. The picked acoustic guitar, unaccompanied and recorded cleanly, allows the listener to hear and feel every note, and thus appreciate the intricacies and the technical skill. ‘Safe House’ again returns to Latin influences, its rapid strum passionate, exciting, engaging. And yes, you could probably dance to it.

The delicate and subtle notes take on spirits of their own as they peel off the fretboard, and ‘Mirage’ drifts like a bleak scene in a 60s western, and ‘International Zone’ exemplifies the ways in which ‘The Tangier Sessions’ demonstrates Bishop’s immense capacity to conjure images and atmospheres.

Sir Richard Bishop Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Bishop, Sir Richard - Tangier Sessions