Alan Bishop's series of ethno-bonkers cds and DVDs

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As a certified Sun City Girls fanatic, naturally I've been checkin' 'em. Best so far is the Night Recordings of Bali CD. Anyone heard / seen them?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

i really WANT to hear these. i went to kim's looking for the bali cd and it was sold out!!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what is the deal with these? please explain!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Bishop, on his insane travels (search his fantastic article in an old issue of Halana) has made a series of field recordings - some rituals, some improv, even some clips of stuff taped from Bali radio stations!! I need to get the DVDs, Other Music has the CDs in stock as of today...Brilliant

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 29 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

they are all good, but the sumatran pop one is especially ace. i wrote it about with extracts from an email from mr bishop in my column/blog on the prl.

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 29 December 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

been listening to Radio Java, a lot. cassette captures of radio broadcasts of bizarre, wonderfully catchy pop music, radio adverts, news, cut up a treat. some people might be distracted by the occasionally blazing pace of Bishop's montage, but I'm happy with it, the montage itself is extremely musical, dreamy, there must have been a lot to choose from and he gets it all in there. all the other sublime frequency discs are on my shopping list.

― (Jon L), Monday, 29 December 2003 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Got 'em all and like 'em a lot--I love the idea of totally subjective ethnomusicology.

Scott Colburn recently mentioned somewhere that he & Bishop recently remixed & re-edited a couple more discs, including a new version of the totally deranged Princess Nicotine LP (more SE Asian cut-ups) and the blazing-hot 2-hour session the Sun City Girls assembled for WFMU a year or so ago (inc. the wildest version of the "Batman" theme you'll ever hear).

― Douglas (Douglas), Monday, 29 December 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, these sound worth investigating, thanks!

(honestly I had seen a couple in record stores and couldn't make heads nor tails)

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

jack could you provide a link?

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Goodness, I thought the thread title said 'ethno-hookers'.

Too bad, as I could have been of some help!

― DarrensCoq (DarrenK), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

jack cole, I'll have that thing for you by tomorrow afternoon.

― DarrensCoq (DarrenK), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Saw them at Mondo Kim's when I was in New York last week and listened for a minute or two to one of them, but ultimately passed them up. I'm kinda regretting it now...

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Monday, 29 December 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Radio Java is a genius mess, but it's not one of those things I won't put on too frequently. It's almost disconcertingly druggy.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 29 December 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Regardless, I would love to hear the other Sublime Frequencies stuff, and would love to hear some more opinions of them.

I taped that WFMU Sun City Girls thing that Douglas is referring to. Two cassettes, had that in my car for a couple of months. I almost drove off the road a couple times, it's completely engrossing.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 29 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me to post a new thread that Cris Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets was shot Saturday in the abdomen, after beating a Post Office security guard in the head with his own baton.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 29 December 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Web presence for Sublime Frequencies, FYI:
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/

Buy 'em direct w/ PayPal for $14 each.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 8 February 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/03/10/21856922/alan-bishops-indonesian-pop-tribute-band-koes-barat-to-release-sub-pop-lp-on-record-store-day

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:07 (ten years ago)

Oops, maybe I shoulda used one of these other ilx threads

S/D : Sublime Frequencies

More Sublime Frequencies

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:09 (ten years ago)

thanks for the heads up, that looks great

― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 16:17 (ten years ago)

From the Stranger piece above:

This new full-length builds upon the two archival releases that Sublime Frequencies (Bishop's label, with Hisham Mayet) issued in 2010; both are now out of print, but Koes Barat is an excellent portal into Indonesian psych/garage rock's wily charms.

Awww man, I never get these things quick enough.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:31 (ten years ago)

they tend to reissue them on CD after a while

― sleeve, Thursday, 12 March 2015 15:17 (ten years ago)

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Alan Bishop's series of ethno-bonkers cds and DVDs - anyone into 'em?