found: YCNGFE [SR] p2003:insert (Alvarius B.)
found: Allmusic website, June 26, 2003(Alvarius B.; Alan Bishop; guitarist of Sun City Girls) October 16, 2017 (separate entries for Alvarius B. and for Alan Bishop; 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; In the early 2000s, as Sublime Frequencies got off the ground, Bishop grew more productive as Alvarius B., issuing albums throughout the decade; Like Uncle Jim, the character Bishop sometimes played to deliver monologues on Sun City Girls albums and at performances, Bishop's songs were provocative, surreal, and often hilarious. The Sun City Girls slowed down, disbanding following Charles Gocher's death from cancer in 2007, and Bishop spent time on more Alvarius B. albums, recorded a disc as Uncle Jim, staged a tour as the Brothers Unconnected with his brother (who launched his own solo career as Sir Richard Bishop in parallel with Alan), and helped maintain the Sublime Frequencies label)
found: Molam [SR] 2004:insert (Alan Bishop; compiler)
found: Music Sojourn WWW site, Jan. 27, 2006:URL: http://musicsojourn.com/AR/Alt/page/b/BishopAlan.htm ("Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) discusses a whole rash of 2004 releases on the Sublime Frequencies label. This interview was recorded during a special edition of Outsight Radio Hours devoted to the fascinating ethnic field recordings and radio collages that Bishop releases on the Sublime Frequencies label." [interview not accessed])
found: Village Voice WWW site, Jan. 27, 2006:music, Apr. 5, 2004 ("Maverick ethnomusicologists Alan and Richard Bishop, two-thirds of magical-surrealist improvisers the Sun City Girls, have been wandering the third world with tape and video recorders in hand since 1983.")
found: Email from Alan Bishop, Jan. 27, 2006(he will not supply a birthdate or fuller form of name)
found: --And Shiva came for Charlie, 2009:disc label (Uncle Jim)
found: Wikipedia, October 16, 2017(Alan Bishop is an American musician, most famous for being the bassist and vocalist of experimental rock band Sun City Girls. He has also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim; co-founder, along with Hisham Mayet, of Sublime Frequencies, a Seattle-based record label; now a member of the Cairo-based band,The Invisible Hands)
found: Seattle weekly, Jan 28 2009, viewed online October 16, 2017(Alan Bishop; If there is any justice in the world, Seattle's own Alan Bishop will go down in music history as a catalyst on par with Alan Lomax and Harry Smith. Since the early 00s, the former Sun City Girl has been releasing audio travel-collages of raw global jams on his Sublime Frequencies imprint; Alan has kept the torch of mystique aflame with pseudonymous solo albums, such as Superstars of Greenwich Meantime under his cranky spoken-word badass alias Uncle Jim, and Abduction, his alien-folk-drifter classic as Alvarius B.) - http://archive.seattleweekly.com/2009-01-28/calendar/alan-bishop/ found: Advice for young musicians, via The Attic website, October 16, 2017(Alan Bishop is an American musician, known for being bassist and vocalist of the band Sun City Girls, along with his brother Richard Bishop and Charles Gocher (who passed away in 2007). Alan also released solo material under the aliases Alvarius B. and Uncle Jim and is now a member of the Cairo-based band, The Invisible Hands. Along with Hisham Mayet, Alan Bishop is the co-founder of Sublime Frequencies, a record label focused on collating esoteric music and imagery from all over the world, most notably Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.) - http://the-attic.net/reports/1638/advice-for-young-musicians.html notfound: U.S. copyright file, June 26, 2003;Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed.;Int. ww in pop. mus., 4th ed.;U.S. copyright file, Jan. 27, 2006
