Alan Bishop

Alan Bishop is an American musician and filmmaker, best known as bassist and vocalist of Sun City Girls, the experimental rock group active from 1979 to 2007. He co-founded the Seattle label Sublime Frequencies, which documents music from Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, and records solo as Alvarius B. Alan Bishop played in Sun City Girls, formed in Phoenix, Arizona, with his brother Richard Bishop and drummer Charles Gocher; the group ended after Gocher's death in 2007. He set up Sublime Frequencies with Hisham Mayet and has also released solo work as Uncle Jim.