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Wire Magazine 487 - September 2024

Wire Magazine 487 - September 2024

Emily Bick (Ed.)

Wire Magazine

2024

softcover

28 x 23 x 1 cm

98 pages

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Inside our brand new issue: 


The Body & Dis Fig
: Sludge rock and extreme vocals create a space for solidarity and friendship in this cross-continental collaboration. By Antonio Poscic.

Pavel Richter: Tape loops and ambient meditations provided an escape from Czechoslovakia’s rock underground. By Miloš Hroch

Steve Beresford: UK free improvisation’s great survivor reflects on half a century of upending expectations around a clutch of new releases. By Daniel Spicer

Farida Amadou: The electric bassist turns the instrument upside down in search of new sounds. By Stewart Smith

Dialect: Paganism meets hedonism in Andrew PM Hunt’s blueprint for a pastoral future. By Abi Bliss

Invisible Jukebox: Melt-Banana: Will the Japanese duo pull a fast one on The Wire’s mystery record collection? Tested by James Hadfield

petals: The open remit of free jazz provides the platform for poetic utopias for the Ugandan polymath. By David Grundy

Erica Dawn Lyle: Punk psychogeography and guitar jams interrogate Florida’s capitalist excesses. By Xenia Benivolski

Howard Thomas: The horror film fan and Slum Village associate explores the darker side of techno. By Derek Walmsley

Epiphanies: Roy Claire Potter finds the world in a David Foster Wallace story’s use of apostrophes

Print Run: Mixing Pop And Politics: A Marxist History Of Popular Music by Toby Manning; Euphoric Recall: A Half Century As A Music Fan, Producer, DJ, Record Executive And Tastemaker by Peter Jesperson; In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde And Me by Simon Raymonde; The Black Chord by David Corio & Vivien Goldman; The Radio Phonics Laboratory: Telecommunications, Speech Synthesis And The Birth Of Electronic Music by Justin Patrick Moore; Library Of Aethers: Selected Lyrics by Alasdair Roberts; The Cupboard Under The Stars by John Balance, Claus Laufenberg (Editor); Take This Hammer: Work, Song, Crisis by Paul Rekret

On Screen: Andrew Reich Born Innocent: The Red Kross Story

On Location: HTRK, London, UK; Tenendo Per Mano Il Futuro, London, UK; Oscillation: Materia Forma, Brussels, Belgium; Sound Within Sound, London, UK; Festival Causa/Efeito, Lisbon, Portugal; Gnaoua & World Music Festival, Essaouira, Morocco; Anthony Moore, London, UK; New Opera Days Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic; Open Ear, Sherkin Island, Ireland; Papermaking Music, London, UK; Motvind Festival, Rollag, Norway

On Site: Lonnie Holley All Rendered Truth, London, UK; Gary Stewart A Ripple In Time, London, UK

Soundcheck: Jessica Ackerley, Laurie Anderson, Bantu, Derek Baron & Luke Martin, Belong, Bloodmist, Patricia Brennan, Laura Cannell, Oliver Coates, Loren Connors & David Grubbs, Jeremiah Cymerman, Rhodri Davies, Dhangsha, Mark Dresser, Elkhorn, Endon, Estle, Floorplan, Gnod, Danny Paul Grody Duo, Sarah Hennies, Holy Tongue meets Shackleton, Human Impact, Eiko Ishibashi/Jim O’Rourke/Giovanni Di Domenico, The Jesus Lizard, Tobias Klein/Frank Rosaly/Marta Warelis, Jussi Lehtisalo, Alan Licht, Erica Dawn Lyle, Meridian Brothers, Jeff Mills, Monolake, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate, NicoNote, Frédéric D Oberland/Grégory Dargent/Tony Elieh/Wassim Halal, ØKSE, Stephen Pastel & Gavin Thomson, Powers/Rolin Duo, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Raphael Rogiński, Akira Sakata/Jim O´Rourke/Mette Rasmussen/Chris Corsano

The Columns: Avant Rock by Emily Bick; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Spenser Tomson; Hiphop & R&B by Mosi Reeves; Jazz & Improv by Stewart Smith; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang
: Aerial M, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Joel Chadabe, Diamanda Galás, Keiji Haino, Bobby Hutcherson, Joan Of Arc, Harold Land, Mark Lanegan, Daniel Lentz, MTDM, Tony Oxley Quintet, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Various The Devil Rides In: Spellbinding Satanic Magick & The Rockult 1966–1974, Various Miami Sound 2 – More Funk & Soul From Miami, Florida 1967–1974

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