The Wire covers a wide range of alternative and underground 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.
The Wire #508
€13.75
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On the cover: Seefeel: The pioneering post-rockers push their sound both in detail and depth on their first new full length album in 15 years. By Abi Bliss; Ibrahim Alfa Jnr: The Brighton based techno pioneer takes stock after a brush with mortality. By Steph Kretowicz; Asher Gamedze: The South African percussionist shuffles the vocabulary of jazz drumming. By Francis Gooding; Magic Tuber Stringband: The North Carolina trio weave local ecology and history with quietly radical folk. By Bill Meyer; Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier: The French/Belgian duo stage improvisations in forgotten, interstitial and dramatic outdoor settings. By Daryl Worthington; Invisible Jukebox: Guttersnipe: Will the Leeds/Berlin based noise rock duo gutter out in The Wire’s mystery record test? Tested by Stewart Smith; KINACT: Rituals of waste. By Xenia Benivolski; Egg Meat: Scrambled speech. By Claire Biddles; Paul Pinto: Operatic overwhelm. By Kurt Gottschalk; Global Ear: Metal endurance in besieged Beirut. By Erling Lorentzen Sogge; Unlimited Editions: International improv via Paris’s Potlatch label. By Seymour Wright; The Inner Sleeve: Little Annie on Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue; Against The Grain: London’s sound systems thrive in community spaces. By Derek Walmsley; Epiphanies: Eugene S Robinson marvels at the integrity of Iggy Pop; Blarf: Prankster film scores. By Philip Brophy; Jake Muir: Morphing metal. By James Gormley; DJ Shadow: Sampleadelic sides. By John Morrison; Cosmic Music: The Life, Art And Transcendence Of Alice Coltrane: Heaven on Earth. By Dave Mandl; MaerzMusik: Berlin’s bleeding edge. By Peter Margasak; Assembly: Somerset House subversions. By Ilia Rogatchevski, and much more.
