Wire Magazine 489 - November 2024 - Marshall Allen

Inside this issue:

Marshall Allen: The Arkestra’s legendary guiding light celebrates his century with his very first solo album. By John Morrison

Once Upon A Time In Vilnius: The journey of avant rock trailblazers IVTKYGYG embodies the tensions and creative fire of a reborn Lithuania. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Water Damage: Don’t mess with Austin, Texas’s shapeshifting drone rock network. By Miloš Hroch

Frank Chickens: Kazuko Hohki’s ninja warriors celebrate four decades of iconoclastic performance. By Claire Biddles

Invisible Jukebox: Pharmakon: Will The Wire’s mystery record collection prove a Bestial Burden for Margaret Chardiet? Tested by James Gormley

Global Ear: The Bolderāja venue reaches back to Riga’s underground past. By Daryl Worthington

Unlimited Editions: Avant garde language games with the Reading Group label. By David Grundy

The Inner Sleeve: Eleni Poulou on The Electric Family: Mariopaint – The 12 Inch

Seo: Bedroom beats from Lagos. By Joe Muggs

Callahan & Witscher: Experimental music colleagues burst into song. By Daniel Neofetou

Kamilya Jubran: The Palestinian oudist shifts scales and pitches to keep up the resistance. By Jo Hutton

Epiphanies: Working in Bob Moog’s studio inspired David Borden to develop new capabilities for synthesizers

The Wire Tapper 66: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: Sonic Faction by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman & Maya B Kronic (Editors); 1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock; The Shell Is A Cell by Daniel O’Sullivan; Music From Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, And Other Curious Sources by Doug Skinner; Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group And Braille Collective Story by Daniel Beban; American Drummers 1959–1988 by Val Wilmer

On Location: AN(8)X Festival, Berlin, Germany; Seefeel, London, UK; Nkisi, London, UK; Blow Out 2024, Oslo, Norway; CS + Kreme, London, UK; Rally, London, UK; Nourished By Time + Thredd, London, UK; Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, London, UK; Einstürzende Neubauten, London, UK; Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK; thingNY, Brooklyn, US

On Site: Community Of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists In The US, 1960s–1970s, Philadelphia, US

On Screen: Ergo Phizmiz The Madonna Of Bedminster

Soundcheck: Felicia Atkinson, BARK!, Blood Incantation, Tim Bowness, The Bug, Buñuel, Carducci Bros, Butcher/Davies/Edwards/Sanders/Thomas, John Butcher/Angharad Davies/Mark Sanders/Pat Thomas, Corsano Balza Watt Trio, Li Daiguo & Liang YiYuan, Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal, Kai Fagaschinski & Yan Jun, FaithNYC, Fictional Souvenirs, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Harvestman, Hawksmoor, HLM38, Immersion, Kassel Jaeger, Darius Jones, Alma Laprida, LEWISPYBEY, LL Cool J, MC5, Dan Melchior, Moin, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co, The Necks, MJ O’Neill, Opeth, People Like Us, Pharmakon, Rakim, Jules Reidy, Robyn Rocket & People You May Of Heard Of, Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Sarine, Sculpture, Shovel Dance Collective, Shunt Resistor & The L-13 Light Industrial Orchestra, SOPHIE, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Standing Stones featuring Alasdair Roberts, Stick In The Wheel, Storm Corrosion, Yasmin Williams, Various Alley Of The Sun, Various Redline Impact

The Columns: Avant Rock by Noel Gardner, Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker, Electronics by Sam Davies, Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish, Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton, Modern Composition by Julian Cowley, Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings, Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: William Basinski, Bedouin Ascent, Michèle Bokanowski, Sandy Bull, Dorothy Carter, Ron Geesin, Alan Lamb, Chico Mello & Helinho Brandão, Vincent Price, Lee Underwood