Alvarius B

Born in Michigan, Alan Bishop co-founded the Sun City Girls with brother Richard Bishop and drummer Charles Gocher in Arizona 1981. Some 13 years into that band's career, Bishop began to issue music under the name Alvarius B., starting with 1994's self-titled effort and followed four years later with another self-titled release, that one a double. The music was an extension of the Sun City Girls' free-thinking experiments that wound together post-punk noise, improvisation, absurdity, and musical traditions from around the world into a prolific and adventurous catalog. In the e...