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Sir Richard Bishop Returns with Freak of Araby
In just a couple of months' time, the name Omar Khorshid will get more exposure amongst the indie music community (that is to say, any at all) than it has at any previous point in history. The reason? Erstwhile Sun City Girls guitar wizard Sir Richard Bishop's new album, Freak of Araby, due out on May 26 courtesy of the Drag City label.
The album is a tribute to the work of aforementioned Mr. Khorshid, a late, great Lebanese guitarist who started mixing the traditional music of his homeland with more modern influences in the '60s and passed away in '81 at the age of 36. Bishop himself is half-Lebanese and has been keenly interested in Lebanon's musical legacy for some time, having performed there and explored Lebanese sounds from the inside out, so this should give him a chance to share that side of his musical personality with the rest of the world.
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I saw Bishop open for Joanna Newsom a couple years ago. He played a song called "Nowhere Over the Rainbow" which meshed "Nowhere Man" with "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." And when he finished, he looked up and went "Get it?"
No, Sir Bishop. No I did not.
NICE.
mfiander, that's ok...the sun city girls spent decades confusing and confounding people.
to say i'm looking forward to this LP and subsequent tour is the understatement of my year.
Omar Khorshid was born in Egypt, not Lebanon. He's one of the unknown greats!
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Quick correction, Omar was born in Egypt and Sir Richard has never played in Lebanon. I made sure the festival he was scheduled to play there last year was cancelled. - Hank
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