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 #509
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On the cover: EarthBall: The Canadian quintet’s freeform punk aesthetic embodies the values of the close-knit Vancouver Island scene. By Emily Pothast; DoYeon Kim: The bandleader and virtuoso gayageum player connects consciousness with the cosmos. By Stewart Smith; Onilu: The Philadelphia ensemble are riding a new wave of radical percussion playing. By Phil Freeman; Jocy de Oliveira: The Brazilian nonagenarian’s remarkable journey through piano, opera and vocal work is the subject of a new film. By Andy Cumming; Tomáš Šenkyřík: The Czech field recordist tracks the sounds, habitats and natural activity in his local surroundings. By Daryl Worthington; Invisible Jukebox: Richard Dawson: Will The Wire’s mystery record selection reverberate with the Newcastle singer-songwriter? Tested by Claire Biddles. Eoobe: DIY electronics power the Amsterdam duo’s esoteric musical vision. By Hannah Pezzack; Aldana Duoraan & Tomáš Niesner: Siberia meets Central Europe in guitar and mouth harp duets. By Miloš Hroch; Global Ear: Sicilian capital Palermo’s chaotic and rebellious past has created hardy soil for music subcultures. By Alexander Samuels; Unlimited Editions: Daniyal Ahmed’s Honiunhoni label seeks out Pakistani sounds far from the beaten track. By Francis Gooding; The Inner Sleeve: Zoh Amba on Jason Molina’s Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go; Against The Grain: Can cold oi shed its troubled inheritance? By Seth Wheeler; Epiphanies: Unconscious (and conscious) bias is still a part of the art world for Infinity Knives aka Tariq Ravelomanana; and in the reviews sections: Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson: Slo-mo sounds. By Gabriel Bristow; Boards Of Canada: Into the fire. By Spenser Tomson; Father Dionysios Tabakis: Amplifier worship. By Phil Freeman; How Black Music Took Over The World: Vibrate on. By Esi Eshun; Colour Out Of Space: Dadaists and deckchairs. By Ilia Rogatchevski; Oscillation: Mothership connections. By Peter Margasak, and much more.
