Wire #487

Wire Magazine issue 487

On the cover: The Body & Dis Fig: Sludge rock and extreme vocals create a space for solidarity and friendship in this cross-continental collaboration. By Antonio Poscic. Plus: 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; Unlimited Editions YOUTH; The Inner Sleeve by Eve Libertine; Global Ear in Barcelona; petals; Erica Dawn Lyle; Howard Thomas; Epiphanies by Roy Claire Potter; 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