“Sublime Frequencies is a record label based out of Seattle that began in 2003. It is run by Alan and Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls and collaborators Hisham Mayet, Mark Gergis, and Robert Millis. They have been releasing CD’s, LP’s, and DVD’s of music and musical performances from North Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The type of music ranges from “traditional folk” to “pop” including beautiful hybrids of sounds that mixes East and West. Like Thai Pop or Cambodian Rock. SF works hard sifting through tons of material to find rare gems that are the best soundtrack for this absurd, globalized, “modern”/Western world. They are one of the few that are doing it without any agenda other than to make this music available for everyone, rather than to let it rot away in a storage room for insects to crawl over, allowing Western cultural imperialism to take control…”
text by George Glikerdas extracted from Foxy Digitalis’ conversation with Alan Bishop (sept 2009)
Alan Bishop interviewed by Sweet & Sound (fev 2010) and an audio interview about his collective work, experiences abroad… on BNL FM (june 2009).
