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WIRE 352
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"On the cover: Babble On!: In A 20-page special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between underground music and words, texst and language. Including Rob Young on songs about themselves, Ken Hollings on Cage's pulverized language, Derek Walmsley on dread talk, Alasdair Roberts on verbal jousting, Daniel Spicer on hip semantics, David Toop on Improv words and gestures, Nina Power on female machine voices, Hua Hsu on vocalese, Marcus Boon on profane rappers, Rory Gibb on Footwork's vocal science, and more. Inside this issue: Invisible Jukebox: Jaap Blonk (The Dutch vocal improviser has a glossolalia attach over The Wire's mystery record selection); Global Ear: New Castle, NSW; Cross Platform: Foghorn Requiem (In the North East of England, a trio of artists aim to harness the warning sounds of the maritime industry in an elegiac nautical soundwork); Epiphanies: (In Budapest, David Crowley tracks down a long forgotten but still mercurial Hungarian vocal aritist)."
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WIRE 351
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"On the cover: Wolf Eyes (As the kings of US Noise regroup with a new album, cub reporter Marc Masters traces their feral family tree through multiple side projects driven by gonzo DIY aesthetics and a hunger for sonic exploration). Inside the issue: Morphosis (Worlds collide in the music of Rabih Beaini, a real-time traveler who makes raw techno inspired by Sun Ra and Lebanese folk); Creative Music Studio (The story of the Woodstock utopia where Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso channeled Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman's free jazz philosophies into radical musical education); Invisible Jukebox: Oval (Markus Popp suffers no glitches as he listen to The Wire's mystery record selection); Cross Platform: Pedro Reyes (The Mexican artist turns guns into instruments for improvisers); Global Ear: Ljublijana (Hardcore punk and politicized rap mark the Slovenian capital's zombie uprisings); Epiphanies (How the former Cul De Sac leader Glenn Jones found a blueprint for the guitar in the renegade picking of John Fahey)."
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WIRE 350
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"Attached to the front cover of issue 350:The Wire Tapper 31, the latest in our ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. On the cover: Jakob Ullmann (Stasi interrogation methods and transcendent world religions inform the austere minimalism of this German composer); Ashley Paul (The jazz-trained New Yorker breathes delicate life into skeletal, digitally distressed song forms); Storyboard P (Greg Tate meets the New York street dancer and Flying Lotus collaborator whose animatronic motion-blur is a choreographed form of bullet time); Invisible Jukebox: Mika Vainio (The Wire's mystery record selection... it eats you up, as the Pan Sonic founder discovers); Cross Platform: Vicky Langan (Daniel Spicer follows the visceral trail leading to this Irish artist's extreme rituals and actions); Global Ear: Tuscaloosa (Kevin Nutt reports from Alabama's Sonic Frontiers series, where Improv meets homegrown 'pataphysics); Epiphanies (Patrick Lundborg finds Blakeian overtones in children's songs by psychedelic pied piper Donovan)."
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WIRE 349
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"On the cover: Mats Gustafsson (Behind the Swedish saxophonist's confrontational sound is a musician committed to collective action, from power trios to 30 piece groups). Inside the issue: Ergo Phizmiz (Clive Bell meets the rogue collagist and radio artist who's about to burst onto the stage with a Rabelaisian techno opera); The Primer: US Hardcore (The precision-drilled punk songs of Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat and more set new standards of discipline for America's underground in the early 1980s); Invisible Jukebox: Little Annie (Annie "Anxiety" Bandez applies her history in punk, dub and torch song to The Wire's mystery record selection); Cross Platform: Lonnie Hollie (Greg Tate charts the rise of the Alabama-born artist and neo-hoodoo musician whose sculptural memorials tell a secret history of black America); Global Ear: Tegucigalpa (In the Honduran capital, resistant DIY music is thriving in the wake of a military coup); Collateral Damage (Alex Nielson finds common ground between folk music's roots and its new digital routes); Epiphanies (Revelations abound for Soul Jazz's Stuart Baker via label lore, rare grooves and pop tapes)."
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WIRE 348
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"On the cover: Oneohtrix Point Never (Brooklyn synth explorer Daniel Lopatin talks technological illusions, video game theory and cinema for the ear with Derek Walmsley). Inside the issue: STEIM (Will Montgomery meets the wired alumni of Amsterdam's Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, currently in its fifth decade of sonic innovation); Joshua Abrams (The former bassist in Town And Country and The Roots is discovering the hypnotic gimbri tones and Gnawa rhythms of North Africa); Invisible Jukebox: Ricardo Villalobos (Berlin's Minimal techno master endures a marathon set from The Wire's mystery record selection); Cross Platform: Cara Tolmie (The Glaswegian artist explains her unsettling, tumultuous public actions); Global Ear: Tbilisi (Matthew Collin detects the first cracklings of a post-Soviet Georgian electronic scene); Epiphanies (John Dack celebrates the theories and practice of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer)."
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WIRE 335
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"On the cover: Rewind 2011. Our massive annual survey of the last 12 months of underground/outsider music activity, including the 50 records of the year, 50 archive releases of the year and specialist genre charts covering all bases from Avant Rock to Outer Limits. Plus our crack team of critics and contributors, as well as some of 2011's most active and high-flying musicians, give us their takes on the highs and lows of the cultural year. Features: Kouhei Matsunaga (Clive Bell meets the German born conceptual composer who treats scores as standalone artworks); Collateral Damage: Claudia Molitor (Philip Clark meets the German born conceptual composer who treats scores as standalone artworks); Gonjasufi (Dan Barrow enjoys a sun salutation and enters the wormhole with Warp's conscious beatmaker); Invisible Jukebox: Michael Chapman (The veteran folk guitarist and improviser becomes a fully qualified survivor of The Wire's mystery record selection); Spencer Clark/James Ferraro (The ex-Skaters talk about their separate Fourth World and Far Side Virtual second lives). Global Ear: Brisbane (Daniel Spencer gatecrashes the house hows, pub gigs and bedroom blowouts of Queensland's capital city); Epiphanies (Adam Harper on the transformative potential of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise graphic score)."
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WIRE 346
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"On the cover: Scott Walker (In a rare interview, the singer and composer talks Mike Barnes through his ambitious, brutal and absurdist new album, Bish Bosch); Cross Platform: Jonas Mekas (The filmmaker's 60 year career runs parallel to the history of New York's art and music avant garde); David S. Ware (The freeform sounds and spiritual journey of the late saxophonist, as remembered by his colleagues William Parker and Steven Joerg); Peter Brötzmann redux (David Keenan presents further words of wisdom from his extensive interview with the German improviser); Wyrd sounds from the West Country (Matthew Ingram visits Hacker Farm HQ and meets a motley crew of electronic musicians and culture jackers including Farmer Glitch, Kek-W, IX Tab and Kemper Norton); Invisible Jukebox: Pinch (The Bristolian dubstep producer and Tectonic boss has his chest rattled by The Wire's mystery record selection); Global Ear: Mexico City (Gabriel Stargardter hears cumbia sound systems pumping rebel music into the capital's toughest district); Epiphanies (Laina Dawes salutes the heavy music that shaped her identity while growing up as a black female rock fan)."
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WIRE 345
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"On the cover: Peter Brötzmann (A two-part special on the visionary improviser and visual artist who is still shaking the foundations of free music half a century into his career); The Primer: A user's guide to Brötzmann's sprawling catalogue of solo and collaborative recordings; Global Ear: Basque Country (New punk and hardcore groups uphold the legacy of the autonomous region's 1980s Radical Rock movement); Cross Platform: Beatrice Gibson (Julian Cowley hears how Cornelius Cardew's scores inspire the filmmaker's visual compositions); Invisible Jukebox: Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille (The first couple of avant blues take the test of The Wire's mystery record selection); Niney The Observer (Derek Walmsley meets the elusive roots producer and traces his story through the studios and streets of Kingston, Jamaica); Stuart Wynn Jones (Advertising man by day, avant garde filmmaker by night, this radical hobbyist was part of a UK postwar boom in amateur sound and vision experiments); Epiphanies: Jonny Greenwood learns a lesson about sound, space and listening at a Penderecki concert."
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WIRE 344
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"Attached to the cover of this issue....The Wire Tapper 30. The latest volume in our ongoing and exclusive series of groundbreaking new music compilations ensuring that this issue is available via the widest range of retailers and reaches the maximum number of readers. On the cover: Flying Lotus (Britt Brown meets the producer at his Los Angeles home to hear how his sampladelic music inhabits a world of children's stories); Laurie Spiegel (The computer music pioneer retraces the buzzing circuitry of New York's 1970s electronic music scene); Pelt (As the US drone collective release their first album since the death of former member Jack Rose, David Keenan meets the hillbilly Theater Of Eternal Music); Invisible Jukebox: John Butcher (The improvising saxophonist and feedback explorer applies spontaneous listening techniques to The Wire's mystery record selection); Cross Platform: Aldo Tambellini (The radical video artist's explosive black and white visions cast the 1960s in a dark light); Global Ear: Hanoi (David Crosbie finds a contemporary music vanguard thriving in Vietnam despite a lack of state support); Collateral Damage: As formats become obsolete, sound archivists must rethink how we preserve audio). Epiphanies: William Basinski puts on his stilettos and eyeliner and meets David Bowie backstage in Pennsylvania."
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WIRE 343
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"On the cover: Josephine Foster (After tracing a path through opera, lieder, folk and psych, the nomadic US singer finds her musical home in the charged landscape of Cadiz, Spain); Robert Hood (The new album by the Detroit techno pioneer and former member of Underground Resistance is an elegy for a city in ruins); Penny Rimbaud & Gee Vaucher (Almost 30 years after Crass disbanded, Phil England visits Dial House and finds the polymath duo still on the frontline of the counterculture wars); Terence Dwyer (Their 90 year old creator might disagree, but the early electronic works of this unsung UK composer shouldn't be forgotten); Invisible Jukebox: Terror Danjah (The Grime producer cocks his ear and locks into The Wire's mystery record selection); Cross Platform: Peter Strickland (Italian gorefests and Luciano Berio are the inspiration behind the UK director's new film); Global Ear: Montreal; Lol Coxhill (Steve Beresford remembers the late saxophonist and pays tribute to an advanced and democratic musician)."
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