ROOM is inviting you to a special musical night with Alan Bishop (Alvarius B) on Friday the 27th January. 

Alan Bishop (aka Alvarius B.) is a founding member of the Sublime Frequencies record label and Seattle's avant-garde and genre-defying Sun City Girls, whose career spanned 27 years and over 50 releases. His work in Sun City Girls, with Richard Bishop and Charles Gocher, alone stands as a testament to his fearless exploration of the outer reaches of improvisation and composition. 

From their telepathic free jazz/post rock psychedelic trio roots, to sprawling radio broadcasts incorporating noise, Italian pop, and sound collage, to gorgeous outer-national Arabic and Asian-inspired folk music, the group maintained their singular and uncompromising path from inception. Their musical restlessness continues to resonate in the wake of the passing of Charles Gocher and their subsequent disbanding. And as Alvarius B., Bishop has penned hundreds of his own original folk songs in a primitive "out" style that is unlike anything that anyone else is doing now. 

This body of work is informed by an obsessive love of psychedelic rock, free jazz, exotic music from beyond borders, Italian film soundtracks, and an extraordinary sense of humor. Since 2011, Bishop has been living in Cairo, composing & recording new Alvarius B. material while simultaneously establishing his own Egyptian-based band, The Invisible Hands, and co-forming the The Dwarfs of East Agouza with Maurice Louca and Sam Shalabi.

Ticket Price: EGP 50
For more information call ROOM at 01000681539