Wire Magazine 497 - 1

Wire #497

£6.50

Inside this issue:

Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.
Plus: Japanese exotica: A user’s guide by David Toop

Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young has learned from the possibility of failure. By Matt Krefting

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Inside this issue:

Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.
Plus: Japanese exotica: A user’s guide by David Toop

Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young has learned from the possibility of failure. By Matt Krefting

Christer Bothén: The Swedish multi-instrumentalist and onetime Don Cherry associate has continued along his own path. By Clive Bell

Crystabel Efemena Riley: The close listening of free improvisation offers vital moments of human connection for the London percussionist. By Abi Bliss

Blackhaine: Stockport’s industrial hiphop head is making waves on the world stage with his choreography collaborations. By Hugh Morris

KASAI: Footwork folk. By Daryl Worthington

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

23 x 28 cm
Softcover
July 2025
English
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