Wire Magazine 475 - 1

Wire #475

Adventures in Sound and Music

£6.50

Inside this issue of Wire:

Don & Moki Cherry: An 18 page special surveying the globe-trotting creative achievements of Don Cherry’s organic music family by The Wire’s crack writing team: Frances Morgan, David Grundy, Howard Mandel, Neil Kulkarni, Francis Gooding, Magnus Nygren, Gabriel Bristow, Bill Meyer, Marcus J Moore, Pierre Crépon, Matt Krefting,... ​​Read More

Inside this issue of Wire:

Don & Moki Cherry: An 18 page special surveying the globe-trotting creative achievements of Don Cherry’s organic music family by The Wire’s crack writing team: Frances Morgan, David Grundy, Howard Mandel, Neil Kulkarni, Francis Gooding, Magnus Nygren, Gabriel Bristow, Bill Meyer, Marcus J Moore, Pierre Crépon, Matt Krefting, Phil Freeman, Emily Pothast, Clifford Allen, Clive Bell and Jo Hutton.

The Pitch: The Berlin improvising collective connect the sonic with the social. By Peter Margasak

Invisible Jukebox: GAIKA: Will The Wire’s mystery record selection reduce the London polymath to “Eternal Tears”? Tested by Ciaran Thapar;

Feng Jiangzhou: Experimental rock gets down and dirty in the hands of the Beijing noise veteran. By Anla Li.

Unlimited Editions: Pakapi Records

Unofficial Channels: Ethio-Pain

Aho Ssan: Networking with the Paris based producer. By Antonio Poscic

Powerplant: UK-Ukraine synth punks touch grass. By Spenser Tomson

Janneke van der Putten: Strange overtones from the Dutch vocalist. By Abi Bliss

Global Ear: São Paulo: Tape against tradition in the Brazilian metropolis. By Romulo Moraes

The Inner Sleeve:Suzanne Ciani on Glenn Gould/Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Goldberg Variations

Epiphanies: John Butcher goes deeper underground

Print Run: Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures Of Early Blues Music by Darryl W Bullock; Stampfel On Weber And The Complete Boston Broadsides 1964–1967 by Peter Stampfel; Conrad Schnitzler: Manchmal Art Es In Musik Aus (Sometimes It Turns Into Music) edited by Gregor Jansen; Music Farther Outside: Experimental Music During Brexit And The Pandemic by Bill Shoemaker; Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story Of Motor City Music by Joe Molloy; Party Lines: Dance Music And The Making Of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett; Radio Art Zone edited by Sarah Washington

On Screen: Amanda Kim Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV; Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz A Bright Nowhere: Journeying Into Improvisation

On Location: Doon Kanda, London, UK; Heroines Of Sound Festival, Berlin, Germany; Nkisi, London, UK; Disruptive Frequencies, London, UK; Edith Steyer, Berlin, Germany; DJ Sprinkles + Bézier, New York, US; Tomorrow Festival, Shenzhen, China; Ground Music Festival, Brusati, Italy; King Ayisoba + Ayuuna Sale + ZEA, Berlin, Germany; Experiments In Opera: Anthony Braxton Theater Improvisations, New York, US; Causa Efeito: O Novo Jazz Na Nova, Lisbon, Portugal

On Site: Brian Eno & Jiří Příhoda: Nave; Nwando Ebizie: Extreme Unction Vol 2

Soundcheck: DJ 0.000001, Abyss X, Jason Adasiewicz, Aphex Twin, Titi Bakorta, Baldruin, Natasha Barrett, Han Bennink & Terrie Ex, Big Freedia, Blevin Blectum, John Butcher, John Butcher/Dominic Lash/Emil Karlsen, John Butcher/Pat Thomas/ Dominic Lash/Steve Noble, Broken Chip, Kate Carr, The Chap, Ben Chasny & Rick Tomlinson, Coffin Prick, Coral Sea, Alan Courtis & David Grubbs, Darsombra, Angel Bat Dawid, Arnold Dreyblatt, Nick Dunston, DJ Finale, GAIKA, Gérard Grisey/Anders Tveit/NyNorsk Messingkvintett, Laurel Halo, Joshua Hill & Micaela Tobin, Iceboy Violet, Irreversible Entanglements, Mick Jenkins, DJ K, King Kashmere & Alecs DeLarge, Kong, Mary Jane Leach, Ruth Mascelli, Merzbow/Smegma, Million Square, Minaru, MonoLogue & Matt Atkins, MSSV, Normal Nada The Krakmaxter, Nakibembe Embaire Group, Pauline Oliveros, Pauline Oliveros/IONE/Christopher Willes/Public Recordings, Kassa Overall. Pelicanman, Ava Rasti, Seven)Suns, Six Organs Of Admittance, SLW cc Watt, Smegma/Merzbow, DJ Smiley Bobby, Soft-Bodied Humans, Stinking Lizaveta, Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake, Winkhaus with Steve Beresford, DJ Znobia, Various , Various Gespensterland, Various The NID Tapes: Electronic Music From India 1969–1972, Various Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War, Various Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War Remixes, Various Smalltown Supersound Remix Anthology 2002–2022 Vol 1–4

The Boomerang: Da Slyme, Dawson, The Dream Syndicate, Mark Fell & Will Guthrie, Lee/Hampel/Waisvisz/Gosseye/Johansson, Max Roach, David Shea, Various Magnetizdat DDR: Magnetbanduntergrund Ost 1979–1990/East German Tape Underground 1979–1990, Various Playing For The Man At The Door: Field Recordings From The Collection Of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971, Various Richard Sen Presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno, House & Breakbeat 1990–1994, Various SSR Records: In Retrospect


The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronica, hiphop, new jazz, modern composition, traditional musics and beyond. Passionate, intelligent and provocative

23 x 28 cm
Softcover
98 pages
September 2023
English
ISSN 0952-0686
In Stock
The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronica, hiphop, new jazz, modern composition, traditional musics and beyond. Passionate, intelligent and provocative