Sun City Girls formed in 1979, but really hit their stride in the late 80s, producing almost 30 albums of their "snake charmer rock" over a 10-year period. The apex of this prolific era is without a doubt their 1990 album "Torch of the Mystics", a incredible amalgamation of Middle-Eastern and ethnic music, acid-garage, freak folk, and psychedelic mantras. Brothers Rick and Alan Bishop are the founders of Sun City Girls, and their world-music influence can be attributed to the painstakingly thorough research done by Alan for his label Sublime Frequencies, who unearth and release obscure music from the Middle East, Asia and Africa. "Torch of the Mystics" sounds like a trip to a desert oasis where Comus and Exuma are the house band and Terrence McKenna is behind the bar.
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