Wire #511
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WIRE MAGAZINE 511- SPACE AFRIKA ON THE COVER
Featuring:
Space Afrika: The Manchester-Berlin duo remap connections between club culture and 1970s underground radio networks on their latest album. By Lucy Thraves
Jad Atoui: The Lebanese electronic composer and improvisor tunes into the inner workings of plants and hard drives. By... Read More
WIRE MAGAZINE 511- SPACE AFRIKA ON THE COVER
Featuring:
Space Afrika: The Manchester-Berlin duo remap connections between club culture and 1970s underground radio networks on their latest album. By Lucy Thraves
Jad Atoui: The Lebanese electronic composer and improvisor tunes into the inner workings of plants and hard drives. By Daryl Worthington
Nuno Canavarro: The Portuguese composer reflects on the making of his 1988 cult album Plux Quba. By Robert Barry
Lucy Liyou: The Korean American musician uses pansori inspired theatrical elements and text-to-speech technology to explore identity. By Hugh Morris
Rump State: Ex-Sightings guitarist Mark Morgan and Gaute Granli’s experiments in lo-fi. By Erick Bradshaw
Mark S Williamson: The Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra founder on making improvised music with kids. By Abi Bliss
Darla Quintana: Astronomy meets audio in the Chilean composer’s second album. By Juan San Cristóbal Lizama
Invisible Jukebox: Jennifer Herrema: Will the Royal Trux and RTX founder reign supreme with The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Claire Biddles
Global Ear: Blackpool’s grassroots music culture is generous and resilient. By Yewande Adeniran
Unlimited Editions: Lovers & Lollypops sweetens Porto’s underground scene. By April Clare Welsh
The Inner Sleeve: Ivan Seal on The Caretaker’s Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 6
Against The Grain: Are collective listening events really all about the music? By Derek Walmsley
Epiphanies: Performing in wartime bunkers leads Alan Courtis to reflect on the purpose of music today.
Soundcheck: Ellen Allien; Another Planet & Steel Tipped Dove; Felicia Atkinson; Attorneys General with Tetuzi Akiyama & Elico Suzuki; Attorneys General with Mike O’Malley, Alex McKenzie & Tara Cunningham; Attorneys General with Mark Sanders & Mark Hanslip; Bach Artillerie; Paul Beaudoin; Josh Berman Trio; BIG|BRAVE; Black Meteoric Star; Christer Bothén / Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin; Tyondai Braxton; The Breedling; Cargo Cults; Conflux Coldwell; Deerhoof & The Sound Sanctuary; Defcee & Steel Tipped Dove; Dinosaur Jr; Brian Ennals & Blockhead; Foodman; Le Grand Sbam; Luke Haines; Highsigh; Alex Zhang Hungtai; Kassel Jaeger; Kelela; David Maranha & Rodrigo Amado; Nick Mazzarella; Nate Mercereau; Jeff Mills; Neptunian Maximalism; Nu Jazz; The Odyssey Cult; Ivo Perelman / Elliott Sharp / Cyro Baptista; Ivo Perelman / Matthew Shipp / William Parker / Bobby Kapp; Ivo Perelman & Damon Smith; Physic; Pye Corner Audio; Terry Riley / Claire Chase / JACK Quartet / Samuel Clay Birmaher; Fatboi Sharif & Elucid; Shawescape Renegade; Los Shawis De Iquitos, Recorded By Pablo Picco; Six Sex; Tyshawn Sorey; Tyshawn Sorey & Pat Thomas; Speaker Music; Marvin Tate; Thorn Wych; Henry Threadgill Zooid; Henry Threadgill / Vijay Iyer / Dafnis Prieto; David Thrussell & Shinjuku Thief; Tricky; Hanna Tuulikki & Tommy Perman; Ken Ueno & Wukir Suryadi; Various Jutna
Columns: Avant Rock by Noel Gardner; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Jazz & Improv by Phil Freeman; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley
Boomerang: Absolute Grey; Neil Ardley; Albert Ayler; Dollar Brand / Don Cherry / Carlos Ward; Marion Brown; Master Wilburn Burchette; Miles Davis; Death By Milkfloat; Eleh; F/i; Pigface with Genesis P-Orridge; Plug; Quiet Sun; Rudimentary Peni; Tony Williams Lifetime
Print Run: [Ahmed] – Writing edited by Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip, Pat Thomas & Seymour Wright; Death Trip: Iggy And The Stooges 1972–74 by Michael S Begnal; Dub Revolution: Jamaica’s Sonic Innovators And The Birth Of Remix Culture by David Katz; Aftershock: The Seismic Impact Of Dubstep by Lauren Martin; Scene Within A Scene: Scottish Independent Music 1992–2001 by Grant McPhee; Transmission Of Japanese Jiuta Sōkyoku For Shamisen And Koto: Negotiating Musical Identity by Shino Arisawa
On Screen: Sue Carpenter 40 Watts From Nowhere; Alystyre Julian Outrider
On Location: Focus #7: Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh + Atte Elias Kantonen + Miłosz Kędra + BJ Nilsen, Paris, France; Stop Over 4: Perspectives, Berlin, Germany; Nine Days Of Green, Copenhagen, Denmark; Déjâ Vu & Wukir Suryadi, Faenza, Italy; Motvind, Rollag, Norway; INDEX, Braga, Portugal; Tyshawn Sorey, London, UK; FUJI|||||||||||TA, London, UK; Sound Stories, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Glenn Branca Symphony No 13 (Hallucination City) For 100 Guitars, New York, US; Whitney Johnson / Lia Kohl / Macie Stewart, Chicago, US; The Black Lights, Blackpool, UK
On Site: FLARE-UP, London, UK; Jasper Marsalis Still Life, London, UK; Sounding Towards & From-To, London, UK
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