Wire #481

On the cover: The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable. By Joseph Stannard; Plus: DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the influential dance style. By April Clare Welsh; Linda Smith: The return of the Baltimore songwriter who amassed a wealth of lo-fi pop in the 1980s and 90s. By Claire Biddles; Ariel Kalma: The electronic music veteran maintains his cosmic trajectory well into his seventies. By Daniel Spicer; Invisible Jukebox Kahil El’Zabar: Will the US bandleader know What It Is! when faced with The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Howard Mandel. Also inside this issue: Billy Bultheel; Lumpeks; Yasuhiro Morinaga; John Pope; Unlimited Editions Thanatosis Produktion; Unofficial Channels The Blindboy Podcast; The Inner Sleeve by Teresa Winter; Global Ear: Santiago; Epiphanies by Edward Ka-Spel; many pages of reviews and much more.

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