Fica aqui a lista das revistas The Wire que eu tenho, com tópicos mais importantes e interessantes (para mim).
Quem quiser que faça scaning de algum artigo, entrevista, etc., envie email a solicitar, pf.
Nº / Data |
Capa |
Grupos / Bandas / Músicos |
Invisible Jukebox |
Rubricas |
160 Jun. 1997 |
Steve Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) |
Pierre Henry John Russell As One |
Ivor Cutler |
Global Ear: Malibu The Electric Cinema “Epiphanies”: David
Toop |
163 Nov. 1997 (na capa à
erro) Mas devia ser Set. 1997 |
Robert Wyatt |
Sun Ra Current 93 Terre Thaemlitz Van Dyke Parks Ornette Coleman Stock, Hausen &
Walkman Silver Apples |
Van Dyke Parks |
Free Postcards Inside . Autechre - Jah Wobble - Stereolab - + 1 (são reais e ainda estão no interior – agarrados – da revista Global Ear: Budapest “Epiphanies”: David
Toop |
165 Nov. 1997 |
Jim O’Rourke |
Oskar Sala Odd Size Tone Rec Sister Iodine Kasper Toeplitz Faust Windsor For The
Derby |
4 Hero |
Global Ear: Beijing - The Secret History of Film Music |
168 Fev. 1998 |
Matthew Shipp |
Fred Frith Lalo Schifrin Hugh Davies Req Kevin Ayers Tortoise Mouse on Mars Holger Hiller Xper.Xr. |
Julian Cope |
Global Ear: Havana
(by Holger Hiller) The Primer: Field Recordings For Beginners - The Secret History of Film Music |
173 Jul. 1998 |
Lydia Lunch |
Ken Vandermark Pluramon Max Brennan Ivo Perelman Aube Barry Adamson Philip Glass |
Spiritualized (Jason Pierce) |
Global Ear: Fes (by
Peter Cushaw) - The Secret History of Film Music - Simon Reynolds: Gabba gabba hey! Simon Reynolds on
Techno’s dum-dum boys (PCP label, from Frankfurt Epiphanies: Rob Young gets fuzzy over Felt’s
mid-80s angst |
179 Jan. 1999 |
David Sylvian |
John Cale Mayo Thompson Einstürzende Neubauten Harry Partch Pierre Henry |
Jim O’ Rourke |
- 98 Rewind - The Primer: Turntablism
for beginners - Undercurrents #1 A series of
uncovering the hidden wiring of the 20th century music. This month Erik Davis heralds the Dawn of the
electrification of sound. - Epihanies: Chris Bohn recalls na apocalyptic
night out in Berlin with Einstürzende
Neubauten |
186 Ago. 1999 |
Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) |
Tony Oxley Piano Magic Plug Research The Last Poets |
Blixa Bargeld |
- Far East freakout:
A User’s Guide to Japanese Psychedelia - Undercurrents #8 – Sound Art -
Sculping Sound: David Toop on The Music
of Machines - Epiphanies:
Cristoph Cox learns the hustle with a Last Poet |
198 Ago. 2000 |
Merzbow |
Simon H Fell Pinkie Maclure Bob Cobbing Blectum From
Blechdom Mike Cooper Incredible String
Band Die Tödliche Doris Hermann Nitsch Labradford |
Steven Severin (Cure, Siouxie &
The Banshees, …) |
- Phoenecia:
Schematic Sound Machine - The Primer: Art
Ensemble Of Chicago. A User’s Guide To the Great Black Music - Global Ear:
Detroit - Epiphanies: Ed
Baxter observes the waxing and waning of Scottish psychedelic folkies The
Incredible String Band |
59 Nov. 2019 (Electronic Sound) |
Delia Derbyshire (Doctor Who And
Beyond) |
Harry Edwards Bella Boo Ron Wright &
Neil Webb Working Men’s Club Critics: . Various – Use
Hearing Protection: Factory Records 1978-1979 / Factory Communications
1978-92 . Drew Mulholland – A Clockwork Orange . Dream Division – Transcend . Lo Five –
Geography of the Abyss . Various – The Quietened Journey (A Year
In The Country) . Antoni Maiovvi’s
Time Precint – British Interrail . Ekoplekz – In Search Of The Third Mantra |
7” Single Offer: The Radiophonic Workshop ‘Doctor Who’ / ‘Strange Lines And Distances’
yellow vinyl seven-inch |
Landmarks – Josh
Wink Time Machine – David Mancuso Under The Influence
– Little Boots Needs Must – Jimi
Hendrix Suburban Yearning –
William Doyle For The Record – Kim
Gordon Lucky Break – The Utopia Strong A Night At The
Moogseum Some Bazaar – Dave
Clarkson Label Profile – Clay Pipe Music Talking Shop – Matéria Prima
(Carlos) |
240 Fev. 2004 |
Einstürzende Neubauten |
Sun City Girls Joe Boyd Charles Mingus Anthony Pateras Portable Davis Redford Triad Hafler Trio Mike Cooper Bananafish |
Greg Tate |
- The Primer:
Charles Mingus – A guide to the recordings of the master jazz bassist and
composer who died 25 years ago. - Global Ear: São
Paulo Chris Moss reports
on new electronic fusions in São Paulo, Brazil’s most vibed up city - Epiphanies: Marc Masters - How na obscure zine
opened up a world of possibility for Marc Masters - Bananafish. |
251 Jan. 2005 |
LCD Soundsystem |
Glenn Jones Zeitkratzer Joanna Newsom Nils Okland My Cat Is An Alien Dalek Afrirampo |
Glenn Jones (Cul de Sac) |
- 2004 REWIND (Balanço) - Global Ear: Paris
– Rahma Khazam maps the new sound art networks spreading across Paris - Epiphanies:
Discovering New Zealenad electroacosutics pioneer Douglas Lilburn provided The Dead C’s Bruce Russell with na importante cultural touchstone for what it
means to the Antipodean. |
252 Fev. 2005 |
Anthony Braxton |
Mike Ladd Gang Gang Dance Hugh Davies Dylan Nyoukis Oki |
The Soft Pink Truth |
- The Primer – Subterranean Metal (Edwin
Pouncey immerses himself in the deadly slow but powerful currents of Earth,
Sun O))), Sleep, Ulver and more - Global Ear:
Matthew Collin rocks the cradle of Russian electronica in Kalashnikov’s
birthplace, Izhevsk - Epiphanie: John
Corbett recalls how losing his virginity to a Firesign Theatre comedy record
initiated him into áudio culture. |
253 Mar. 2005 |
MF Doom |
Bill Fay Hijokaidan James Tenney M Ward Colin Potter (by Rob
Young) Wally Shoup Hugh Metcalfe |
Ken Vandermark |
- Global Ear: Avi
Pitchon invetigates the ambiguities os Berlin’s
neo-Industrial scene - Epiphanies:
Teenage runaway Michael Gira loses
his psychedelic lunch at a Belgian rock festival – “How Pink Floyd and Art
Ensemble Of Chicago puit the zap on the head of itinerante teenager
MichaelGira |
254 Abr. 2005 |
Mike Patton |
Elliott Sharp Richard Barrett Venetian Snares MIA C-Schulz 12 (by Keith Moliné) Anthony & The Johnsons |
Ira Cohen |
- The Primer: Grime - Global Ear: São
Paolo - Epiphanies: Dutch
Anarchist group The Ex teach Mia
Clarke how to not follow leaders from |
255 Mai. 2005 |
Electrelane (by David Stubbs) |
Boris (by Edwin Pouncey) Josephine Foster The Complainer Annie Gosfield Kali Z Fasteau Foetus (by Alan Licht) Alex Von Schlippenbach (by David Keenan) |
Steve Beresford |
- Global Ear:
Houston - underground music scene Epiphanies:
Minimalist composer / violinista Tony
Conrad reels off the many revelatory musical moments he’s experienced
during a 40 year career. |
256 Jun. 2005 |
Laugh Till It Hurts (Special 14 pages
about Relations between Humour and
Music) |
Tod Dockstader The Books (byMatthew
Ingram) Cooper-Moore Clemens Gadenstatter |
Mark Stewart (by Phil England) |
- The Wire Tapper 13 - Global Ear: Buenos
Aires (with ex – Reynols member, Alan Courtis) - Epiphanies:
Inpsired by a chaotic performance by guitarrista Derek Bailey, comedian and
writer Stewart Lee riffs on the common ability of great humour and great
music to surprise. |
257 Jul. 2005 |
Jamie Lidell |
Ornette Coleman Animal Collective Magik Markers Monolake Tony Beevan |
Keiji Haino (by Alan Cummings) |
- Primer: Lone Horns
Improv - Global Ear: Yelena
Chernova reports from na eletrified Kiev on the sound of the Ukraine underground Epiphanies: Nick
Southgate reaches the rock outsider equivalente of Nirvana through the
teachings of Saint Julian (Julian Cope) |
258 Ago. 2005 |
The Red Krayola (Mayo Thompson) |
Pierre Schaeffer (by Goran Vejvoda and
Rob Young) This Heat (by Mike Barnes) Wolf Eyes (by Brian Coley) Anthony Braxton Björk Marissa Nadler The Skaters Ikuro Takahashi (Fushitsusha) |
Carla Bozulich |
- Global Ear: Pedro Gomes locates Lisbon’s most Creative musicians at
the Galeria Zé Dos Bois. Epiphanies: Just
when he was ready to scream “What else can you show me?” at the 1960s, after
witnessing Dylan going electric, among other musical landmarks, Steve Barker
had his mind blown all over agian in 1970 on the night Sun Ra touched down in
Liverpool |
259 Set. 2005 |
Richard Youngs By David Keenan |
Hugh Hopper (from Soft Machine) By Julian Cowley Ralf Wehowsky Alexander Hacke (by Louise Gray) Okkyung Lee Tracy + The Plastics Tony Oursler |
Broadcast By Mike Barnes |
- The Primer: Xenakis Philip Clark gets
his hyperbolic paraboloids in a twist over the Greek composer’s rigorous body
of work - Global Ear: Milan - Epiphanies: Selling off half of his records prompts
Philip Sherbourne to re-evaluate the trade-off between collecting and
creating |
260 Out. 2005 |
Boards Of Canada (In a rare interview
on home turf, the Scottish gnarly electronica duo share campfire stories with
Rob Young) |
Eliane Radigue (by Dan Warburton) The Dirty Three Jarboe Alexander Tucker Birchfield Cat Motel |
Warren Ellis By Louise Gray |
- Global Ear: Minsk
/ Belarussian - Epiphanies: A
bruising first encounter with the free jazz of Borbetomagus awakens the
critical muscle in the teenage Phil
Freeman |
261 Nov. 2005 |
Remake Model 60 cover versions
that rattle the state of song (dossier) |
Earth by Edwin Pouncey Rolf Julius Oren Marshall Mazen Kerbaj Jackson And His Computer Band |
Steve Reich by Mike Barnes |
- The Birth of
Japanese Free Music: Once Upon A Time In Shinjuku 30 By Alan Cummings - Global Ear:
Balinese Gamelan - Epiphanies: David
Toop finds new ways of listening in the silences of shakuhachi master
Watazumi, composer Minoru Miki and kotoplayer Keiko Nosaka |
262 Dez. 2005 |
Lightning Bolt (by Alan Licht) |
Ken Hyder Vashti Bunyan Tujiko Noriko Susanne Brokesch Rodney Graham |
Ray Russell |
- The Wire Tapper 14 - The Primer:
Jamaican Deejays Global Ear: Sydney
underground by Jon Dale - Epiphanies: In the
processo f interviewing alto saxophonist Lee Konitz for his ‘autobiography’,
Andy Hamilton discovers the true meaning of improvisation |
263 Jan. 2006 |
Rewind 2005 (Records Of The Year
+ musicians’ and writer’s reflections) |
Noah Hoeard Volcano The Bear Tetuzi Akiyama Burning Star Core Dan Wilson Yannis Kyriakides |
Nurse With Wound (Steven Stapleton) By Jim Haynes |
- Global Ear:
Toronto - Epiphanies: Tem
years after being inspired to presente electronic musico n a human scale,
Iris Garrelfs and Douglas Benford look back on the revelations of London’s
Sprawl club |
264 Fev. 2006 |
Edan |
Derek Bailey
(1930-2005) Bardo Pond Battles (by David Stubbs) Brigit Ulher Sleeparchive |
Steve Reid |
- Global Era: Hull - Epiphanies: A case
of mistaken identity in Moscow leads to Johny Brown’s discovery of the late
Soviet dissidente singer-songwriter Sasha Baschlachov |
265 Mar. 2006 |
Phill Niblock |
Quicksilver
Messenger Service Mat Maneri Wooden Wand Tape Keith Berry Max Eastley |
The Bug |
- Global Ear: Taipei - Epiphanies: A
televised encounter with Tangerine
Dream’s early 70’s ritualistic mystery captures the imagination of David Elliott |
266 Abr. 2006 |
Tom Verlaine |
Spring Heel Jack The Fall Linder Mouthus The Knife Ned Sublette |
Burnt Friedman (by Mark Barnes) |
- Primer: The Fall – A user’s guide to the Mancunian iconoclasts’
intimidatingly vast discography. By Stewart Lee - Global Ear: Kyzyl,
capital of Tuva - Epiphanies: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge recalls the
mind expanding psychedelic whirl of Hapshash And The Coloured Coat |
267 Mai. 2006 |
AGF |
Scott Walker Conrad Schnitzler Ryoji Ikeda Scatter Mattin David Rothenberg |
William Parker |
- Global Ear: Seoul - Epiphanies: Riding
New Zealand underground’s Xpressway label to his skull helps Nick Cain escape
the cul de saco f US independente rock and discover the complex, densely
allusive songs of Alastair Galbraith |
268 Jun. 2006 |
Sonic Youth |
Ekkehard Ehlers Yellow Swans John Fahey Terry Day Harry Rag (From Düsseldorf punk to pastoral futurismo
via Wim Wenders and Can with the SYPH vocalista. By David Stubbs.) Jutta Koether |
Rob Mazurek |
- The Wire Tapper 15 - Global Ear: Athens - Epiphanies: Tom
Perchard experiences familiar musical signals being jammed by Egyptian singer
Umm Kalthum |
269 Jul. 2006 |
Current 93 (by Keith Moliné) |
Die Tödliche Doris (by Biba Kopf) Kode 9 Annea Lockwood Boxcutter FM3 (by Marcus Boon) |
Kode 9 |
- Global Ear:
Hasselt, Belgium - Epiphanies: For
Lisa Blanning, a long night of musical revelations culminates in exposure to
Oval’s digital paradigma shuffle |
270 Ago. 2006 |
Smegma By David Keenan |
Dabrye Biosphere Akio Suzuki &
John Butcher Die Trip Computer Die – “Fray Bentos” By David Stubbs Brian Eno (cross plataform –
by Louise Gray) Philip Samartzis Leopard Leg John Wiese |
Biosphere (Geir Jenssen) By Anne Hilde Neset |
- Global Ear:
Belfast - Epiphanies: When
it comes to communication, you can’t beat drums. Vivien Goldman reflects on
the constant, empowering pulse that’s maked the changes through her life in
music, from Bob Marley to Chicks On Speed |
271 Set. 2006 |
Kool Keith (Dr Octagon) |
Charalambides AMM (The Primer – by Philip Clark) Merce Cunningham Ira Cohen (Cross Plataform) Digital Mystikz Excepter Jason Lescalleet |
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge By Alan Licht |
- Global Ear: Beirut - Epiphanies:
Novelist, critic and Roxy Music biographer Michael Bracewell remembers a
formative encounter with Lindsay Kemp in the 1970s |
272 Out. 2006 |
Pere Ubu |
Rafael Toral (by Dan Warburton) Melbourne 1976-1984 Jayne Parker (cross plataform –
by Julian Cowley) James Blackshaw COH Little Annie |
Chris Corsano |
- Global Ear:
Pretoria - Epiphanies: Mike
Barnes has his heart blackened by some os Eastern Europe’s most gut-wrenching
songs |
273 Nov. 2006 |
Joanna Newsom |
Lasse Marhaug Simon Reynolds on Haunted Audio Simon Reynolds sketches the spectral
presences in the work of Ghost Box, Trunk Records and others, mining
resonances from British post-war TV, film and library music Christof Kurzmann Mika Taanila (cross plataforma,
by Ken Hollings) Victor Gama Colleen Tovah Olson |
Om |
Global Ear: West
Jerusalem Epiphanies: Kicking
over the sacred cow of John Cage, Philip Brophy discovers many other
strategies for accessing a world of noise |
274 Dez. 2006 |
Melvins |
John Surman Texan Hiphop Charles Atlas (cross plataforma) Steve Mackay Hisato Higuchi Reanimator |
Marc Ribot (by Alan Licht) |
- The Wire Tapper
16: Free 21 track CD w/ Califone, Pansonic, Derek Bailey, The Slits, Alan
Veja and more - The Primer: Texan
Hiphop - Global Ear:
Ethiopia - Epiphanies: Barry
Miles has a first hand insight into the Beatles’ group mind and the power of
experimental pop music to create a revolution |
275 Jan. 2007 |
Rewind 2006 (Records Of The Year
+ musicians’ and writers’ reflections) |
Matt Valentine & Erika Elder Gary Smith Carla Kihlstedt Peter Evans Stranger Attractor (cross plataforma) |
Faust (Jean-Hervér Peron
and Zappi Diermaier) (by David Stubbs) |
- Global Ear:
Beijing - Epiphanies: A
secret history of Jewish punk helps dispel Alan Licht’s heeby jeebies about
his cultural roots |
276 Fev. 2007 |
Seismic performances (60 concerts that shook the world) |
Shinro Ohtake (cross plataform) Infinite Livez Richard Skelton Alan Vega |
Bert Jansch |
- The Primer: Adrian
Sherwood & On-U Sound - Global Ear: Basque
Country - Epiphanies: Former
Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon recalls how na early encounter with the Sex
Pistols sparked the creation of the EP that defined punk’s DIY ethic |
277 Mar. 2007 |
Grinderman (w/ Nick Cave) |
Peter Hammill (by Mike Barnes) Cairo: Cradle of
Electronica Paul Burwell
1949-2007 Robert Horton Polly Shang Kuan
Band Ray Lee (cross plataforma) |
Rachid Taha |
- Cairo: Cradle of
Electronica – In 1944, the world’s first piece of electronic music was
composed in the Egyptian capital. Rob Young tells the amazing story of its
crerator, Halim El-Dabh. - Global Ear:
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - Epiphanies: Before
the MTV crackdown, Cabaret Voltaire’s
vídeos killed the radio stars, and their tape cut-ups opened the way forward
for other non-musicians. By Peter
Rehberg. |
278 Abr. 2007 |
Terry Riley (by Richard
Henderson) |
Maja Ratjke Eyeless In Gaza Aufgehoben Islaja Michio Kurihara Hal Rammel (cross plataform) |
The Dead C |
- Global Ear: São
Paulo, Brasil - Epiphanies: A
booty pirated DJ mixtapes from Manhattan, which blended hiphop and bashment
reggae, opened a window on the world for Dave Stelfox |
279 Mai. 2007 |
Von Südenfed (Mark E Smith + Mouse On Mars) Mark E Smith and
Mouse on Mars’s new Project is not so much a collaboration as a shotgun
wedding marrying digital mayhem with cantankerous interventions. By
David Stubbs) |
Evan Parker Derek Jarman (cross plataform) Sylvie Courvoisier Carlos Giffoni |
Rhys Chatham (by Dan Warburton) |
- The Wire
Tapper 17: Free 20 track CD w/ Jack
Rose & Glenn Jones, Throbbing Gristle, Fridge, Fred Anderson, Von
Südenfed and more - The Primer:
Dubstep - Global Ear:
Budapest - Epiphanies: Steve
Winwood’s solo pop songs helped Joseph Stannard define hazy teenager emotions
as whet his apetite for imersive music |
280 Jun. 2007 |
Wiley |
Modified Toy Orchestra (cross plataform, by
David Stubbs) Tomas Korber Jozef van Wissen Zavoloka The Sea And Cake Kassin + Moreno +
Domenico |
Neil Campbell (ex-Vibracathedral
dronemaster … by Dan Warburton) |
- Global Ear: San
Francisco, by Ken Hollings - Epiphanies:
Novelist Michael Faber is enchanted by a spontaneous music ensemble in the
back streets of Budapest |
281 Jul. 2007 |
Throbbing Gristle The second coming (The four “wreckers
of civilisation” return with their first new material since breaking um in
1981. David Stubbs finds out how their uncompromising stance has matured) |
Keijo Robin Williamson Daniel AIU Higgs Skull Disco Mathieu Briand (cross plataform) |
Peter Rehberg |
- Global Ear: Minsk,
Belarus - Epiphanies:
Unimpressed by the comercial pressures of pop, author and journalist Sukhdev
Sandhu finds refuge in the eloquent passion of 1980s fanzine Are You Scared
To Get Happy |
282 Ago. 2007 |
Ricardo Villalobos |
Whitehouse (It´s for your own
good, say extreme power electronics artists William Bennett and Philip
Best, discussing their reputation as arch-transgressors of public taste.
By David Keenan. Laurie Anderson (cross plataform) Matthew Dear Axolotl |
Jonathan Harvey |
. The
Primer: British Psych-Folk By Rob
Young .
Global Ear: Bali .
Epiphanies: Hearing the Norman Dolph acetate of the Velvet Underground And
Nico renews Bruce Russell’s faith in the album that continues to fire the New
Zealand underground |
283 Set. 2007 |
PJ Harvey |
Oren Ambarchi Charlotte Moorman Paul Bley Daft Punk (cross plataform) Starving Weirdos Trim Lost In Hildurness |
Sir Richard Bishop |
- Global Ear:
Singapore - Epiphanies:
Digging through the airbrushed politeness of the World Music rack, Derek Walmsley
finds lowdown and dirty funk in the African pop of the early 80s |
284 Out. 2007 |
Robert Wyatt by David Toop |
Oxbow Bristol Blues &
Roots Walter & Sabrina Shape Of Broad Minds The Bug Ute Wasserman Camille Norment (cross plataform) |
Han Bennink (by Dan Warburton) |
- The Wire Tapper
18: Free 19 Track CD by The Focus Group, The Ex, Modified Toy Orchestra,
Damon & Naomi, Goodiepal, Mordant Music and more - Global Ear: New
Orleans, post Katrina - Epiphanies: Kevin
Martin aka The Bug learns respect for the bowel – churning properties of
bassbins at a Swans gig and a digi-dub soundclash |
285 Nov. 2007 |
Underground
Resistance |
Loren Connors Russell Haswell Sonny Simons Flying Lotus Daniel Menche David Watson Juneau / Projects / (cross plataform) |
JG Thirlwell (by Phil Freeman) |
- Global ear: Addis
Ababa (Ethiopia) - Epiphanies:
Recoiling from the heavenly power of gospel music, Howard Mendel reverses
onto Clud Nine to a Harpo Marx tune |
286 Dez. 2007 |
Pram |
Burial Michael Bracewell on
Roxy Music Bruno Pronsato Amir ElSaffar Lionel Marchetti David Ellis (cross plataform) |
Michael Gira (by Mark Barnes) |
- The Primer: Harry Parcht (by Brian Marley) - Global Ear: Buenos
Aires - Epiphanies: Mark Fisher recalls the ghosts of his
life coming back to haunt him in the form of Rufige Kru’s Jungle take on
Japan |
287 Jan. 2008 |
2007 Rewind (Records of the Year Musicians’ &
writers’ reflections) |
Six Organs Of
Admittance Steve Jansen Swedish Psychedelia Stefan Németh nsi. Ian Forsyth &
Jane Pollard |
Keith Rowe (from AMM) (by Dan Warburton) |
- Global Ear:
Pacitan, Indonesia - Epiphanies: Napalm
Death founder and Scorn member Nicholas Bullen claims asylum from reality
with Crass’s liberated punk ethic. |
288 Fev. 2008 |
Vladislav Delay |
Sightings Hot Chip Cath & Phil
Tyler Warrior Queen Wooden Shjips What’s opera.doc? (cross plataform) |
George E Lewis |
- Global Ear:
Baltimore - Epiphanies: In
flight from acting out a surrogate trumpet-playing career for his late
grandfather, Nick Sylvester falls in, out and back in love with jazz |
289 Mar. 2008 |
John Butcher |
Michael Hurley Autechre (by Keith Moliné) Valet Brendan Murray Baby Dee Jed Speare (cross plataform) Stephen Malkmus |
Andrew WK |
- Global Ear:
Queensland - Epiphanies:
Looking for a teenage riot of his own, Simon Hampson found it in ATR’s punk
Gabba album The Future Of War |
290 Abr. 2008 |
Gudrun Gut (from Malaria!,
Mania D and Neubauten to Ocean Club radio and Monika Enterprise, this
‘dilettante’ has genially hosted Berlin’s new music scene for 30 years. By
Philip Sherburne. |
J Dilla Henry Grimes Benga Robert Hood Religious Knives Cory Arcangel (cross plataform) Daniel Padden |
Michael Rother (The Neu! Guitarist
settles into a motorik groove with The Wire’s mystery record box. Tested by
Mike Barnes) |
- The Primer: Henry Cow: A
user’s guide to the recordings of this nomadic, utopian outfit, including the
extended Rock In Opposition family of Slapp Happy, The Work, Art Bears and
more. By Philip Clark. - The Wire Tapper
19: Free 20 Track CD w/ G.F. Fitz-Gerald & Lol Coxhill, Illusion Of
Safety, X.A. Cute & Mike Ladd, Talvin Singh, Kaffe Matthews and more - Global EarBogotá,
Colombia (by Victor Gama) - Epiphanies:
Volcano The Bear’s Daniel Padden is transported with delight by a cornucopia
of indigenous music from around the globe. |
291 Mai. 2008 |
Wolfgang Voigt (With the rereleases
of his classic, controversial GAS
series, the Kompakt / Profan / Studio 1 founder and Cologne minimal architect
talks psychedelic forestry with Rob Young) |
Max Eastley Kan Mikami Dean Roberts Dexplicit Frans de Waard (noise of many
stripes with the Dutch protagonist of Goem, Freiband, Zebra and more. By
David Stubs) Jon Hassell AV Festival (cross plataform) |
Carl Craig |
- Global Ear:
Vancouver - Epiphanies:
Lawrence English experiences the tedium of an Australian city broken by
Boredoms’ Brobdinggnagian waves of intensity |
292 Jun. 2008 |
Evangelista |
Nihilist Spasm Band People Like Us Yoshi Wada Dylan van der Schyff Machinefabriek Anat Ben-David (cross plataform) |
The RZA |
- Global Ear: nope - Epiphanies: A
hostile encounter with Cardigan Man and a lone saxophonist amid the audience
of London know-it-alls leaves Essex boy Mark Wastell bruised and confused |
293 Jul. 2008 |
Mark Stewart by Mark Fisher |
Bill Dixon The Necks Rustie Franz Hautzinger Zoe Laughlin /
Materials Library (cross plataform) Vijay Iyer on Cecil
Taylor |
.snd by Derek Walmsley |
- Epiphanies: A
single myustical chord from Cecil Taylor gives fellow pianist Vijay Iyer a
glimpse of eternity |
294 Ago. 2008 |
Tricky |
Michel Chion Sick Llama / Fag
Tapes Asva Reiko Kudo Atsuhiro Ito (cross plataform) |
Joe McPhee |
- The Primer:
Digital Dancehall (King Jammy to Cutty
Ranks) A user’s guide to
Jamaica’s digital revolution, with deejaying and minimal riddims from Wayne
Smith, King Jammy, King Tubby, Ninjaman, Shabba Ranks and more. By Dave
Stelfox. - Global Ear:
Detroit’s UFO Gallery - Epiphanies:
Materealising out of the radio ether, Robert Ashley’s mesmerizing monologue
on Private Parts makes Julian Cowley catch his breath. |
295 Set. 2008 |
Ultra-red (the revolution will
be downloadable) |
Trevor Watts Ghédalia Tazartès Dusk + Blackdown Aleks Kolkowski Allora &
Calzadilla (cross plataform) |
Daniel Johnston
& Jad Fair |
- Glogal Ear:
Beijing - Epiphanies: The
way Brian Eno’s Obscure label rescued modern music from the dead hand of
academia was a mind-altering experience for Tom Recchion |
296 Out. 2008 |
Richie Hawtin |
Benge (The alternative) Neil Young Ingrid Laubrock Runhild Gammelsaeter Lucky Dragons David Grubbs on brief encounters Lawrence Abu Hamdan (cross plataform) |
Makoto Kawabata (by Alan Cummings) |
- The Wire Tapper
20: Free 19 track CD w/ Grails, Mike Osborne, Paavoharju, Pantaleimon, MoHa!,
Zavoloka and more - The Primer: The
Alternative Neil Young (a user’s guide to
the roads less travelled in the long career of Canada’s finest guitar vet. By
Joseph Stannard - Global Ear:
Helsinki - Epiphanies: David
Grubbs appreciates the energy flash of cursory performances by Royal Trux and
Taku Sugimoto |
297 Nov. 2008 |
Unofficial Channels (A Tour Of Music’s
Unauthorisedm Domains – From Bootlegs To Blogs And Beyond) Sharity blogs,
mixtapes, pirate radio, online archives and more: The Wire’s 14 page guide to
all the right music that comes from all the wrong places |
Anthony Braxton Luciano Dick Raaijmakers Ken Jacobs (cross plataform) Gino Robair Tristan Perich (by Kurt Gottschalk) Yo! Majesty |
Hal Willner |
- Global Ear: Guca –
Serbia - Epiphanies: The
Total Music of Alterations sends Tony Herrington into a state of flux. |
298 Dez. 2008 |
Antony & The Johnsons |
Florian Hecker Radio Ballads Graveyards Noodles Bettina Köster Goodiepal The Owl Project (cross plataform) (by Anne Hilde Neset) |
The Band Of Holy Joy (by Biba Kopf) |
- Global Ear:
Toronto - The Primer: West African Psychedelia A user’s guide to
the fuzzy, funky sounds of post-colonial West Africa, fuelled by political
independence and pop-cultural revolution. By Richard Henderson - Epiphanies: Jonny Trunk explains how he graduated
from the Open University to major in the secret realm of sound defined by library music. |
299 Jan. 2009 |
2008 Rewind (Records of the Year Musicians’ &
Writers’ reflections) |
Emeralds Peverelist Voice Crack on film Hugo Wilcken on Joy Division Peter Liechti (cross plataform) |
Animal Collective (by Alan Licht) |
- Global Ear:
Knoxville, Tennessee - Epiphanies: For
Hugo Wilcken, lying on an Autralian beach in 1981, Joy Division painted a seductive portrait of continental Europe
as a modernist fantasy land. |
300 Fev. 2009 |
Jeff Mills (by Derek Wamsley) |
No-Neck Blues Band Martyn Mary Halvorson Hamilton Yarns Christina Carter on
Jandek Chris Petit turns
his radio on Ding >> Dong (cross plataform) |
James Plotkin (by Phil Freeman) |
- Global Ear: Tehran
– Iran - The Primer: William S Burroughs Jack Sargeant
surveys the recorded output of the literary outlaw, from his spoken word
documents to his cut-up tape and celluloid experiments - Epiphanies:
Switching his radio on, Chris Petit revels in the fleeting pleasures of the
single evocative songline |
301 Mar. 2009 |
Bonnie ‘Prince’
Billy (Will Oldham) |
Joan La Barbara Andrew Cyrille Menace Ruine Seymour Wright Zomby Jerry Dammers on Sun Ra Carsten Nicolai meets Michael
Nyman Sub Rosa vocal archive (cross plataform) |
Joe Morris |
- Global Ear: Phnom
Penh – Cambodja - Epiphanies: With Sun Ra as his cosmic guide, Jerry
Dammers travels to other planes of there. |
302 Abr. 2009 |
Sunn 0))) (by Joseph Stannard) |
Sudden Infant Magma (by Keith Moliné) Susanna White El-B Jeff Keen (cross plataform) Ian Penman on Nick Cave Sunny Murray on film Simon Fisher Turner on cassette memories Submarine Sounds (by marine biologist
Stefan Helmreich) |
Adrian Utley |
- The Wire Tapper
21: Free 21 track CD w/ Tony Bevan, Chris Corsano, Dominic Lash, Barbara
Morgenstern, Felix Kubin, Sheik Anorak & Weasel Walter, Sweet Billy
Pilgrim and more - Global Ear: San
Juan – Puerto Rico - Epiphanies: Ever
since his father bought him his first cassette device as a souvenir, Simon
Fisher Turner’s world has been transformed by portable sound records. |
303 Mai. 2009 |
Kode9 |
Sublime Frequencies Acid flashback: the
303 on disc Alexis O’Hara Belbury Poly (Ghost Box label founder Jim Jupp lifts the
lid on his hauntological hobby – by Mark Fisher) Lee Patterson The Hospitals Richard Foreman (cross plataform) Momus turns down the volume Pom Pom Records Moondog |
Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) (by Richard
Henderson) |
- The Primer: Roland TB-303 - Global Ear: Lima - Epiphanies: A John
Cage concert helped Momus avoid
tinnitus and savour the heightened intensity of quiet silence |
304 Jun. 2009 |
Ornette Coleman |
The Caretaker Comus (by Rob Young) Dan Graham Bora Yoon Graham Lambkin Arrington de Dionyso Gareth Williams’s
flaming tunes Louis Armstrong’s
hidden art Erik Davis on Ligeti Equinox Festival (cross plataform) |
Andy Moor |
- Global Ear: Sana’a
– Yemen - Epiphanies: At a
concert of Ligeti’s otherworldly Requiem, Erik Davis finds his entire body
turning into an ear |
305 Jul. 2009 |
Moritz von Oswald |
Pierre Henry (by Philip Clark) Ramleh (by David Keenan) Ran Blake Lucas Abela Giuseppe Ielasi Cooly G Jacob Kirkegaard (cross plataform) Foetus Tha Sa-Ra Creative
Partners Doug McCombs on
Minutemen |
Ariel Pink (by Mike Barnes) |
- Global Ear: Berlin - Epiphanies: City
girl Amanda Petrusich lets the Deep South’s most wanton, unscrupulous river
drag her towards an understanding of the mythos of Americana |
306 Ago. 2009 |
Madlib (Patrolling
yesterday’s universe with Beat Konducta) |
Hypnagogic pop (How James Ferraro,
Spencer Clark, Pocahaunted, Emeralds, et al are floating beyond Noise to a
dreampop hallucination of the 1980s. By David Keenan) The Skaters,
Pocahaunted, Emeralds British visionary
jazz John Surman, Keith
Tippett, Mike Westbrook, Nucleus Andrea Parkins Nisennenmondai (The all-female
Tokyo power trio’s monolithic motorik is gaining them a worldwide following.
By David Hickey) Diana Rogerson (Nick Richardson
laps up the whiplash and Kali-inspired wisdom of Chrystal Belle Scrodd) Rolf Julius (cross plataform) |
Sleazy Peter Christopherson (The co-founder of
Throbbing Gristle and Coil member stands on the threshold of identifying The
Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Mike Barnes) |
- The Primer: British visionary jazz A user’s guide to
the golden age of UK post-bop and elastic rock 1964-76, featuring John
Surman, Mike Westbrook, Nucleus and more. By Rob Young. - Global Ear: Belize - Epiphanies: Tuning
in to Sigur Rós and Julian Cope,
science fiction author and graphic novelist Warren Ellis elucidates how
portable music can intensify a sense of connection with time and place. |
307 Set. 2009 |
David Sylvian |
Aki Onda Julie Tippetts Joker Caroliner John Wynne 20 years of Warp Philip Jeck on
recycled sleeves Matt Thorne on
Viking Moses |
William Basinski (by David Stubbs) |
- Global Ear: Hanoi
– Vietnam - Epiphanies:
British novelist Matt Thorne sings the praises of Viking Moses and other
performers prepared to fly by the seat of their pants. |
308 Out. 2009 |
Broadcast (by Joseph Stannard) Collaborating with
hauntologists The Focus Group, Warp’s defining post-rock duo summon an occult
pop laden with psychadelia. |
Iancu Dimitrescu Dopplereffekt Kosmische music on disc Rashied Ali Sun Araw Hans Peter Kuhn (cross plataform) Christian Marclay on
Herb Alpert Peter Strickland on Nurse With Wound |
Lou Reed |
- The Primer: Kosmische Music: David
Keenan takes a trip with The Cosmic Couriers, Witthüser & Westrupp,
Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel and more to recover the music that Krautrock forgot. - Global Ear:
Jajouka – Morocco - Epiphanies: When
director Peter Strickland used an old Nurse
With Wound soundtrack in his new film Katalin Varga, the music’s initial
euphoric charge became dulled by overuse. - Wire Tapper 22 w/
Climax Golden Twins, Arrington de Dionyso, Pink Mountain, Yoshio Machida and
more |
309 Nov. 2009 |
Julian Cope (How the modern
antiquarian, megalithic European and Odinist rock ‘n’ roll heretic
orchestrates elegant chaos with his group Black Sheep. (by Rob Young) |
Cornelius Cardew Henry Threadgill Peter Walker 00I00 Mordant Music Bernie Krause (cross plataform) Bill Orcutt Susan Stenger Tanya Tgaq Ian Penman on disco William Bennett on Yoko Ono |
Jim Jarmusch |
- Global Ear:
Surakarta – Java Epiphanies: Susan
Stenger’s transistor radio provided her with a conduit to other musical
worlds, placing her in touch with John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and
Phil Niblock |
310 Dez. 2009 |
Sensational |
The now sound of Sheffield (by David Keenan) Ben Frost Lubomyr Melnyk Oneohtrix Point
Never Nico Vascellari (cross plataform) Dâm-Funk Ryan Gander on Neil
Young |
Carlos Giffoni (by Alan Licht) |
- Global Ear: Sydney - The Primer: King Crimson A user’s guide
through the maze of live and studio records that has proliferated in the 40
years since In The Court Of The Crimson King. By Joseph Stannard - Epiphanies:
Getting his head together at Thighpaulsandra’s house in the country, Stephen Thrower learns how to just
say Yes |
311 Jan. 2010 |
2009 Rewind Records of the Year
| Musicians’ & writers’ reflections |
Monolake Janek Schaefer Position Normal The Village
Orchestra Yan Jun Paul Rooney (cross plataform) Jad Fair Kodwo Eshun on sonic
warfare Cathil Unsworth on Gallon Drunk |
Josephine Foster |
- Global Ear:
Leipzig - Epiphanies: Crime
novelist Cathi Unsworth navigates London’s mean streets, using Gallon Drunk’s
spoken word collaboration with Derek Raymond as map. |
312 Fev. 2010 |
Wadada Leo Smith |
Mark Ernestus Mattin Raymond Dijkstra Moon Wiring Club (by Joseph Stannard) David Grubbs (cross plataform) Pangaea Robert Ashley Billie Ray Martin Nicolas Collins on Alvin Lucier |
Eliane Radigue (by Dan Warburton) |
- Global ear: Madeira
(by Tony Herrington) - Epiphanies: Armed
with an echolocation device, circuit-bending composer Nicolas Collins finds his bearings during a performance of Alvin
Lucier’s Vespers |
313 Mar. 210 |
Alasdair Roberts And the wyrd sound
of Glasgow (Caledonia Dreaming) (by Rob Young) |
Marina Rosenfeld The Thriteen
Assembly The Moodies Geiom Sebastain Lexer Yabby You (RIP) Céleste
Boursier-Mougenot Cross plataform) Alan Moore on John
Clare Iain Forsyth &
Jane Pollard on Adam And The Ants |
Dylan Nyoukis |
- Global Ear:
Houston - Epiphanies: Going
to school next door to the Northampton madhouse where the 19th
century English visionary poet John Clare was incarcerated left its mark on
writer. Alan Moore |
314 Abr. 2010 |
Congotronics (Konono No 1’s
rumble in the jungle) |
Edgar Varèse (by Ken Hollings) Eleh (by Matt Wuethrich) DJ Stingray Stefan Goldmann The Gaslamp Killer Raymond Scott (cross plataform) |
Joanna Newsom |
- The Primer: Giacinto Scelsi (Andy Hamilton
freefalls through the alien soundworlds of the Italian proto-spectralist
composer who spent his life in search of music’s third dimension.) - The Wire Tapper
23: Free 20 track CD w/ The A Band, Raymond Dijkstra, Rolf Julius, Han
Bennink, Clogs and more - Global Ear:
Thessaloniki – Greece - Epiphanies:
Catching the strains of a one-forgotten Culture Club song, Brandon LaBelle
ponders the regenerative effects of cannibal listening. |
315 Mai. 2010 |
Excepter |
Daniel Carter Sweet Seoul music Jahtari Lil B Toro Y Moi Craig Baldwin (cross plataform) Aaron Dilloway on Drunks With Guns John Wiese on The Haters Virgo |
August Darnell (by David Stubbs) |
- Global Ear:
Vancouver – Canada - Epiphanies:
Psychedelics and robotic music help Mark Pilkington get out of his body |
316 Jun. 2010 |
Felix Kubin Alien transmissions. By Momus (The Hamburg
cosmonaut repurposes dada, Neue Deutsche Welle, communist anthems and more
for his music, films and radiophonic plays. By Momus) |
Actress Demdike Stare Rangers (hypnagogic – by
David Keenan) Carlos Casas (cross plataform) Carsten Nicolai Graham Duff on Wire Oval Chicks On Speed Zwischenwelt The A Band |
Hudson Mohawke |
- Global Ear:
Fukuoka – Japan - Epiphanies: TV
comedy writer Graham Duff finds a measure to calibrate his pleasure in Wire’s
post-punk classic 154 |
317 Jul. 2010 |
The Bug The metamorphosis of Kevin Martin |
Chrome Hoof Poland’s hidden reverse (by Biba Kopf) DJ Nate Michael Pisaro Konx-Om-Pax (cross plataform) David Toop on John
Latham Alex Neilson on
Frank Sinatra Alan Moore |
Oneohtrix Point Never (by Andrew
Nosnitsky) |
- Global Ear:
Valledupar – Colombia - Epiphanies: In the
wee small hours, Trembling Bells’ Alex Nielson pours himself a blue cocktail
while listening to Frank Sinatra’s most sorrowful songs. |
318 |
Chris Watson (Ken Hollings meets
the sound recordist and Cabaret Voltaire founder whose mic penetrates the
wild places humans can’t reach.) |
Howard Riley Surgeon Chicks On Speed Peter Shapiro on cosmic disco The interstellar pulse of late 1970s / early
80s club music signaled the first truly futurist pop. Peter Shapiro on the
resurgence of grooving in zero gravity Julian Lynch Helena Gough Terror Danjah The Morning Line (cross plataform) |
Rhodri Davies |
- Global Ear:
Yogyakarta – Indonesia - Epiphanies: Owen
Hatherley learns how to find beauty in the brutality of English architecture
through the songs of Pulp. |
319 Set. 2010 |
Retro-Activity The past into the
present: A time-travelling
survey of music now. A survey of the past
percolating into present-day music, from Hypnagogic pop to samizdat reissues,
analogue synthesis, creative quotation and more. |
Paul Burwell Graham Simpson: Roxy
Music’s lost soul (by Stephen Thrower) Odd Future Cindytalk LA Vampires Aura Satz (cross plataform) |
Mordant Music (The London
hauntologist shows disturbing symptoms after being treated with The Wire’s
mystery record selection. Tested by Joseph Stannard) |
- Global Ear: Boise - Epiphanies: Arthur
Russell’s genre-bending studio experiment as Dinosaur L got Tim Lawrence to
break House rules and go bang into avant disco |
320 Out. 2010 |
Noise In The Ether Explorations in the art of radio
transmission. Knut Auferman
surveys a decade-long boom in creative broadcasting, including subversive
stations, sound art, wireless festivals, flash mobbing and more (8 pgs.) |
Los Angeles Free Music Society (by David Keenan). 8
pgs. Catherine Christer
Hennix Anne-James Chaton Entr’Acte Matt Stokes (cross plataform) |
Mike Watt |
- The Wire Tapper:
Free 20 track CD - Global Ear: Belém
– Brazil - Epiphanies: Artist
Russell Mills reveals his roots by going back to collage with Jack Jackson
and Kurt Schwitters |
321 Nov. 2010 |
Jennifer Walshe (The art of faking
it) |
Drexciya The Otolith Group
decode the techno enigma, plus the Detroit legends on record (cross plataform) Wim Mertens (by Clive Bell) Bjorn Torske Kommissar Hjuler
& Mama Baer Laetitia Sadier on Jorge Ben Brian Dillon on Kate
Bush Terry Riley |
John Tilbury |
- The Primer: A user’s guide to the
music and mythos of Drexciya,
including their myriad solo projects. (by Stephen Rennicks - Global Ear: Beirut
– Lebanon - Epiphanies:After
his mother’s death, Brian Dillon learns to feel again through the
ice-shattering ecstasies of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love. |
322 Dez. 2010 |
Shackleton Beat apocalypse |
Scientist Nam June Paik Jon Mueller Shabazz Palaces Vomir Charlie Morrow (cross plataform) Bruce Russell on
Kevin Drumm John Szwed on
Ornette Coleman |
William Bennett (by David Keenan) |
- Global Ear:
Budapest & Pecs – Hungary - Epiphanies: In the
week Ornette Coleman received the keys to the city of Hartford, Connecticut,
Sun Ra biographer John Szwed discovered another meaning of harmolodics |
323 Jan. 2011 |
Rewind 2010 Records of the Year Musicians’ &
writers’ reflections |
Giuseppe Ielasi Lichens Pat Maherr Toshiya Tsunoda (cross plataform) Ken Hollings on ghosts on wax (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Ken Hollings meets
the ghostbusters CM von Hausswolff and Michael Esposito, communing with dead
voices via Edison’s wax cylinder technology) Stephen Thrower on Peter
Christopherson (Stephen Thrower
pays tribute to the Throbbing Gristle and Coil founder who died in November
2010) |
Scanner (by Mike Barnes) |
- Global Ear: Leeds - Epiphanies: The
communal drone of the South African vuvuzela opens up a new world of
celebratory people’s music for Marcus Boon |
324 Fev. 2011 |
Deerhoof (by Joseph Stannard) |
Captain Beefheart (Strictly personal
tributes) Matthew Shipp Vanessa Rossetto Tri-Angle Records Salomé Voegelin on Morton Feldman Ian Penman on Cage & Cunningham |
Hype Williams (by Lisa Blanning) |
- Global Ear: Stockholm
– Sweden - Epiphanies: Salomé
Voegelin kneels within the contemplative space and ‘vertical listening’
experience of Morton Feldman’s
Rothko Chapel |
325 Mar. 2011 |
Theo Parrish |
David Bedford Alternative
Cambridge The Doozer The Man From Uranus Pete Um Nochexxx Natalie Beridze Mizz Beats Olaf Nicolai Cory Arcangel Lou Gare Nina Power on Fugazi Trevor Watts on
Burkina Faso Lundhal & Seitl (cross plataform) |
Michel Chion (by Dan Warburton) |
- Global Ear:
Burkina Faso - Epiphanies:
Growing up in rural England, Nina Power takes a shot of Fugazi’s Red Medicine
as a cure for the summertime blues. |
326 Abr. 2011 |
Richard Skelton |
Peter Evans Funkystepz Olivia Block Jenny Hval Charlie Nothing (cross plataform) Little Annie on
Miles Davis Once upon a time in Harlem Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
revisited Andy Battaglia revisits the
Columbia-Princeton ElectronicMusic Center, where the ghosts of Vladimir
Ussachevsky, Otto Luening and Milton Babbitt linger |
Green Gartside (Scritti Politti) (by Anne Hilde
Neset) |
- The Wire Tapper 25
– Free 20 track CD - Global Ear:
Helsinki – Finland - Epiphanies: Little
Annie Bandez gets kinf of blue whenever she feels homesick for New Yor City |
327 Mai. 2011 |
NOT NOT FUN Britt & Amanda
Brown lead Simon Reynolds through
the LA underground |
David Toop on mellow
soul New rap bratz Lil B Odd Future NRK Ekoplekz (Mark Fisher talks
blasted beats, vintage sci-fi and gutterbreaks with the Bristolian analogue
fetishist Micachu & The
Shapes Herbert Distel (cross plataform) |
Daniel Miller (by Rob Young) |
- Global Ear: São
Paulo – Brazil - Epiphanies: Since
Napster launched a global filesharing frenzy, the hunt itself has become more
thrilling than finding recorded treasures, argues UbuWeb founder Kenneth
Goldsmith |
328 Jun. 2011 |
Battles |
Retromania (Simon Reynolds reflects on how the
digital recolution has led to a tail-chasing obsession with the past, and a
climate of excess, in the music of our time) Sea shanties Caroline Bergvall (cross plataform) Matana Roberts DVA |
Demdike Stare (by Joseph Stannard) |
- Collateral Damage:
Chris Cutler presents the artist’s case against indiscriminate filesharing. - Global Ear: Hong
Kong - Epiphanies: 18
years apart, two My Bloody Valentine concerts delineated Paul Hagerty’s
ecstatic journey to the bliss point of noise. |
329 Jul. 2011 |
Roy Harper |
John Wall John Maus Nils Okland Errorsmith Adolf Wölfli (cross plataform) |
People Like Us (by Phil England) |
- Collateral Damage:
David Keenan makes the case for
music beginning at home. Global Ear: Beijing
– China. Epiphanies:
Following in John Cage’s footsteps, Luke Williams has an intra-body
experience in an anechoic chamber |
330 Ago. 2011 |
Zomby |
Daphne Oram (from founding the
BBC Radiophonic Workshop to designing new instruments for a new age, the
British composer / inventor was a true pioneer. By Dan Wilson) Seb Patan (cross plataform) Luo Chao Yun Forest Swords (Mark Fisher hears post-punk echoes in the
new Mersey home recordings of Matt Barnes) |
Jan Anderzén |
- The Primer: Jim O’Rourke (A guide to the
multi-talents of the Chicago born guitarist / improviser / producer, whose
prodigious output covers electronic drones, tape music, uneasy pop,
soundtracks and mor. By Yusef Sayed) - The Wire Tapper 26
CD - Global Ear: Kiev - Collateral Damage: Bob Ostertag comes to
terms with the ‘professional suicide’ of giving music away for free - Epiphanies: Hearing
the venomous voice of Dagmar Krause
in Slapp Happy and Art Bears left Cathal Coughlan with a
life-long taste for “War” and the art songs of those who waged it. |
331 Set. 2011 |
My Cat Is An Alien (by Ken Hollings) |
Fela Kuti in London Prurient Andy Stott Herb Diamante Jana Winderen (cross plataform) |
Alan Howarth (by Dave Tompkins) |
- Collateral Damage: Not Not Fun’s Amanda
Brown on the damaging effects of Filesharing on an underground culture
already haemorrhaging artists to the mainstream. - Global Ear: Cork –
Ireland - Epiphanies: A
decade on from 11 September 2001 attack on New York City’s World Trade
Center, Hua Hsu recalls the mundane writing tasks that got him through the
day. |
332 Out. 2011 |
Christian Marclay |
Hieroglyphic Being Bill Orcutt Militant tuning,
From JS Bach to La Monte Young Raime Shabaka Hutchings Ed Atkins (cross plataform) Sun Araw in Jamaica |
Chris & Cosey (by Mike Barnes) |
- The Primer: Militant tuning – A field
guide to the war on equal temperament, from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier to La Monte Young’s Well-Tuned Piano. By
Philip Clark. - Collateral Damage:
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner celebrates social networking
for pleasure and profit. - Global Ear:
Portmore – Jamaica - Epiphanies: How
performance artist Anat Ben-David found liberation through improvisation with
Kaffe Matthews, Chicks On Speed, Eddie Prévost and more. |
333 Nov. 2011 |
DJ / Rupture |
Radu Malfatti Christoph Heemann (by Keith Moliné) David Lynch (cross plataform) (by Clive Bell) Drew Daniel on queer
sound David Toop on the
SMíLE sessions Helm Bent Sorensen |
Gang Gang Dance |
- The Wire Tapper 27
– free 20 track CD - Collateral Damage (Marcus Boon comes
to praise the culture of copying, not to bury it) - Global Ear:
Barranquilla – Colombia - Epiphanies: Two
1970 performances by The Voices Of East Harlem transported a young Paul Gilroy
to other worlds |
334 Dez. 2011 |
Manuel Gottsching (The story of E2-E4) (The Ash Ra Tempel
guitarist reveals how he made electronic masterpiece E2-E4, influencing 30
years of repetitive House and trance rock. By Keith Moliné |
Turkish Psychedelia Grouper Sandwell District André Vida Roger Reynolds Eric Lumbleau (Collateral Damage) (Sharing
out-of-print records online confounds received narratives of musical history,
argues Mutant Sounds’ Eric Lubleau – blog) Nathalie Djurberg (cross plataform) |
Spinn & Rashad |
- The Primer:
Turkish Psychedelia (A user’s guide to
the byzantine East-West acid folk and rock fusions os Anadolou psych, by
Daniel Spicer - Global Ear:
Belfast. Epiphanies: A Polish
soprano voice shining through the crackling dirtcloud of history offered Esi
Edugyan a glimpse of blue sky while writing her novel about jazz musicians in
Nazi Germany. |
335 Jan. 2012 |
2011 Rewind Records of the Year Musicians’ &
witers’ reflections |
James Ferraro Spencer Clark Gonjasufi Kouhei Matsunaga Claudia Molitor (cross plataform) Mark Fisher on the noise of dissent David Keenan on the sedition of song Philip Clark on the
liberation of sounds |
Michael Chapman |
- Collateral Damage:
James Kirby argues for the controlled flow of free downloads to promote a
better understanding of the artist’s work. - Global Ear:
Brisbane - Epiphanies: When
Adam Harper tracked down a Cornelius Cardew score in a classical music
library, its pages revealed an infinity of future music |
336 Fev. 2012 |
Lil B |
ICES 72 Keith Fullerton Whitman (Derek Wamsley hears
tales of modular madness, computer geniuses and pinball wizardry from the New
England composer / archivist) Ital Los Llamarada Ian Helliwell (cross plataform) –
The Brighton boffin celebrates electronic’s hobbyist years in a new
documentary. By Joanne Lee - Jeremy Deller on The KLF Linder Sterling on
Barbara Hepworth |
Charles Hayward (The avantist
drummer of This Heat, Massacre, About Group and more drops a beat with The
Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Mike Barnes). |
- Collateral Damage:
We’re to quick to assume digital culture only equals online culture, argues Terre Thaemlitz - Global Ear: Delhi
– Jaipur – North India - Epiphanies:
Linder’s nocturnal encounter with a Barbara Hepworth sculpture connected the
energy lines between folk protest, meditation and her Northern roots. |
337 Mar. 2012 |
Earth (by Joseph Stannard) |
King Tubby Julia Holter Haroon Mirza (cross plataform) :zoviet*france: (by Phil England) Emptyset The Ex in Ethiopia |
Ghost Box (Belbury Poly’s Jim Jupp and The Focus
Group’s Julian House are spooked by The Wire’s uncanny record selection.
Tested by Rob Young |
- Collateral Damage:
A world of high bandwidth is good news for recombinant artists everywhere,
says Vicki Bennett - Globar Ear:
Ethiopia - The Primer: King Tubby - Epiphanies: In the
early 1990s, presenting his 70s rock heroes with examples of his student
artwork gave a drug-addled Matthew Ingram a ticket to commune with classic
rock mythology |
338 Abr. 2012 |
Sun Araw (by Derek Wamsley) |
Conlon Nancarrow Charles Gayle Nate Wooley Hanna Tuulikki Elizabeth Price (cross plataform) “We are all David Toop now” Simon Reynolds detects new ways of hearing. The writer and
musician’s vision of an interconnected musical landscape is now accessible
for all. Simon Reynolds wonders if the future should be less oceanic. |
Tom Moulton |
- The Wire Tapper
28: 20 track CD - Global Ear: -
Milan – Italy - Collateral Damage:
Dirty Electronics’ John Richards ponders a hands-on, participatory approach
to digital culture. - Epiphanies: A
Damascus moment ina London church connected author and sound sculptor Julian
Henriques with the intensified acoustic spaces created around Jamaican sound
systems. |
339 Mai. 2012 |
ATOMTM (Follow the Lieder –
In A Romantic Mood) |
Sean McCann Laurel Halo Benedict Drew (cross plataform) MOR meltdown – Ian
Penman on Scott Walker The great unlearning
London’s new Improv generation “Fümms bö wö taa zaa
Uu!” – A user’s guide to sound poetry |
Mary Halvorson |
- The Primer: Sound
Poetry – A guide to the artists, writers, composers and performers who
declared war on the word with their visceral and liberated texts. By Julian
Cowley - Collateral Damage:
Digital media might have a lower carbon footprint, but they’re not
resource-free, argues Phil England. - Global Ear: Seoul
– South Korea - Epiphanies: When
Richard King needed a miracle, he found it in a black-hole arena, as The
Grateful Dead made time elastic with “Dark Star” |
340 Jun. 2012 |
R Stevie Moore (the low vision of) |
Annea Lockwood (divinig music from
the elements) Bass Clef (“I believe in power
of rave”) Nick Colk Void Traxman Don Preston Flying Nun Ruth Ewan (cross plataform) |
Jan Jelinek (by Alexander
Samuels) |
- Collateral Damage:
How to navigate the new digital routes between African music and Western
listeners, asks Brian Shimkovitz - Global Ear:
Kingston - Epiphanies: A
precarious, rocky encounter early one morning on the beach of an island in
the Indian Ocean gave Mira Calix a new insight into time, movement and
change. |
341 Jul. 2012 |
LOW END THEORIES The Wire responds to
bass |
Featuring 75
monumental bass experiences David Toop on noises
from the deep Dave Tompkins on
Miami Bass Will Montgomery on
low frequency pressure Joe Muggs on the
society of the subwoofer Fushitsusha Duane Pitre Laetitia Sadier on
Blondie Ian Rawes (cross plataform) |
Reinhold Friedl |
- Collateral Damage:
Mixtape giveaways on hiphop blogs allow major labels to cherrypick rap
talent, claims Andrew Nosnitsky - Global
Ear:Istanbul - Epiphanies:
Recounting a string of epiphanies, from Blondie via English indie noise to
alchemical Tropicália, Laetitia Sadier channels the physical sensations of
music into sacred dimensions |
342 Ago. 2012 |
Ariel Pink The coming of the
beta male |
The multidimensional
woman Nina Power meets
Maria Minerva An Afro-jazz odyssey Val Wilmer
encounters Buddy Pipp Kassem Mosse Peter Ablinger Mark Fisher on Roxy
Music Dani Gal (cross plataform) |
Peter Cusack |
- Global Ear: Bamako
– Mali - Epiphanies: The
Wu-Tang Clan’s early 1990s audio dynamite set off a chain of explosions in
novelist TM Wolf’s head |
343 Set. 2012 |
Josephine Foster The country life and
folk trails |
Lol Coxhill Patrick Strickland (cross plataform) Penny Rimbaud &
Gee Vaucher (Life after Crass) Robert Hood (The mnml life) Terence Dwyer |
Terror Danjah (Life of Grime) |
- Global Ear:
Montreal – Canada - Epiphanies: Nick
Richardson recalls the year he blew his mind by joining de dots between
Xenakis, Lasse Marhaug nad Hototogisu |
344 Out. 2012 |
Flying Lotus |
Laurie Spiegel (The computer music
pioneer retraces the buzzing circuitry of New York’s 1970s electronic music
scene. By Frances Morgan.) Pelt Aldo Tambellini (cross plataform) |
John Butcher |
- The Wire Tapper 30
– Free 20 track CD - Global Ear: Hanoi
– Vietnam - Collateral Damage:
As formats become obsolete, sound archivists must rethink how we preserve
audio, says Will Prentice - Epiphanies: Buying
a pair of stiletto heels, joining a rockabilly group, and meeting David
Bowie: William Basinski spools through a loop of formative experiences. |
345 Nov. 2012 |
(Peter) Brötzmann |
Niney The Observer Stuart Wynn Jones Postwar Optophonic Pioneers In the UK in the
1950s, an anonymous band of cine camera hobbyists and tape recorder
enthusiasts was busy conducting DIY experiments in electronic sound. Stuart
Wynn Jones was one of the most ingenious of these obscure amateur
avangardists, an advertising executive whose homemade animated films and
opto-acoustic soundtracks help fill out the history of postwar electronic
Music. By Ian Helliwell. (6 pgs.) Beatrice Gibson (cross plataform) Robin The Fog (Bites) |
Loren Connors &
Suzanne Langille |
- The Primer – A
user’s guide to Brötzmann’s sprawling catalogue of solo and collaborative
recordings. By Daniel Spencer. Interview – by David
Keenan. - Global Ear: Basque
Country – Spain. - Epiphanies:
Hearing Krzyztof Penderecki’s orchestral works up close forced Jonny
Greenwood to accept the irreconciliable musical differences between recorded
and live music. |
346 Dez. 2012 |
Scott! (Scott Walker) By Mike Barnes |
Jonas Mekas (cross plataform) (Peter) Brötzmann
Redux Hacker Farm (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) David S Ware |
Pinch |
- Global Ear: Mexico
City - Epiphanies: Who
said black women can’t rock? Canadian writer Laina Dawes recalls how The
Family Stand and Skunk Anansie gave her the confidence to enter an aggressive
Metal Arena |
347 Jan. 2013 |
Rewind 2012 The Year In
Underground Music Charts Reflections Analyses |
Madge Gill (cross plataform) |
Bryan Ferry (by Michael
Bracewell) |
- Global Ear:
Christchurch – New Zealand - Drummer Charles Hayward recalls how a series
of childhood experiences introduced him to the sounds of the interzone |
348 Fev. 2013 |
Oneohtrix Point Never |
Studio For Electro-Instrumental Music (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 Cara Tolmie (cross plataforma) |
Ricardo Villalobos (by Alexander
Samuels) |
- Global Ear: Tilisi
– Georgia - Epiphanies: The
Creative tension between Karlheinz
Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer
emerged from their differing attitudes to theory and practice. John Dack
celebrates the transformative powers of both. |
349 Mar. 2013 |
Mats Gustafsson |
Lonnie Holley (cross plataform) Ergo Phizmiz A User’s Guide To US
Hardcore |
Little Annie |
- 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. Peter Shapiro offers a user’s guide. - Collateral Damage:
Alex Neilson finds common ground between folk music’s roots and its new
digital routes - Global Ear:
Tegucigalpa – Handuras - Epiphanies: From
Camden Town to the Georgian Republic, Soul Jazz founder Stuart Baker recounts
three incidents from a life of music salvage. |
350 Abr. 2013 |
Jakob Ullmann |
Storyboard P Ashley Paul Vicky Langan (cross plataform) |
Mika Vainio (by Jennifer Lucy
Allan) |
- The Wire Tapper
31: Free 20 track CD - Global Ear:
Tuscaloosa – Alabama – USA - Epiphanies:
Patrick Lundborg experiences transcendence in Donovan’s psychedelic folk music for children |
351 Mai. 2013 |
Wolf Eyes (The Devolution Of) As the kings of US
Noise regroup with a new album, cub reporter Mar Masters traces their feral
family tree through multiple side projects driven by gonzo DIY aesthetics and
a hunger for sonic exploration |
Morphosis Creative Music Studio (The story of
Woddstock utopia where Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso channeled Don Cherry and
Ornette Coleman’s free jazz philophosies into radical musical education. By
Howard Mandel) Pedro Reyes (cross plataform) |
Oval (by Alexander
Samuels) |
- Global Ear:
Ljubljana – Slovenia - Epiphanies: As a
teenager, US guitarist Glenn Jones saw Hendrix, Beefheart and The Stooges
live, and was spat on by Janis Joplin, but it was the music of John Fahey
that really expanded his mind |
352 Jun. 2013 |
Babble On! Decoding The Word In Underground Music (Corrupted, Cage,
Fluxus, Mantras, Flyting Footwork Noise !&#@! In a 20 page
special, Wire contributors assess and rethink the relationship between
underground music and words, text and language. Including Rob Young on songs
about themselves, Ken Hollings on Cage’s pulverized language, Derek Wamsley
on dread talk, Alasdair Roberts on verbal jousting, Daniel Spicer on hip
semantics, David Toop on Improv words nad 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 |
Foghorn Requiem (cross plataform) |
Jaap Blonk |
- Global Ear:
Newcastle, NSW – Australia - Epiphanies: Amid
the crumbling tenements of Budapest David Crowley is granted a private
performance by exiled poet, provocateur and multi-voiced singer Katalin Ladik |
353 Jul. 2013 |
The Dead C |
A User’s Guide To Don Cherry Rashad Becker Arturas Bumsteinas Paul Metzger The Durian Brithers Ryoko Akama (cross plataform) |
Pangea |
- The Primer: Don
Cherry – A user’s guide to navigating the borderless territory marked out by
the free-ranging trumpeter. By Brian Morton - Collateral Damage:
Vinyl’s resurgence should be celebrated with caution when it caters to
superfans only, say Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley of Numero Group - Global Ear: Kowlon
– Hong Kong. - Epiphanies:
Hearing Boredoms compelled David Novak to set off on a quest to understand
Japanese Noise. |
354 Ago. 2013 |
Rob Mazurek |
Meredith Monk Else Marie Pade (Anne Hilde Neset
hears the extraordinary life story of Denmark’s first electronic composer,
finally enjoying success at the age of 89. Circle Emma Hart (cross plataform) - Bites – Helena Hauff Anton Heyboer Marisa Anderson Sounding The Gallery Terminal Cheesecake |
Jussi Lehtisalo |
- The Wire Tapper
32: Free 20 track CD - Global Ear:
Istanbul - Epiphanies: Asmus Tietchens on how the godlike
guitar sound of The Shadows began his lifelong love of tape music. |
355 Set. 2013 |
Bristol’s New School (Young Echo + Livity Sound) |
(A User’s Guide To) Cabaret Voltaire Kazuo Imai Julia Holter on
Linda Perhacs Theo Parrish on
Biggie Smalls Devo de-evolved Hijokaidan de-filed Oblivian
Substanshall (cross plataform) - Bites . Silkie . BiS-Kaidan . El Mahdy Jr . Hacker Farm |
Christina Carter |
- The Primer: Cabaret Voltaire The Sheffield group
were much more than just Industrial revolutionaries and Techno innovators. Keith Moliné finds them to be always
one step ahead in our user’s guide. - Global Ear: St.
Louis – Missouri - The Inner Sleeve:
Julia Holter on Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs. - Epiphanies: The
eloquent aggression of Biggie Smalls taught college crate-digger Theo Parrish
how everyday racism could feed his music. |
356 Out. 2013 |
Matana Roberts |
Shangaan Electro The Necks Charles Cohen Britt Brown on Tim
Hecker Adrian Shaughnessy
on ECM Ian Penman on Sly
Stone White Material Malcy Duff Cave Olimpia Splendid Robin Meier & Al
Momeni Robert Haigh |
Nozinja |
- Global Ear:
Antwerp – Belgium - The Inner Sleeve:
Isambard Khroustaliov on Daniel Libeskind’s End Space drawings - Epiphanies:
Michael E Veal steers his way into the 21st century by following
Butch Morri’s panoramic hand signals. |
357 Nov. 2013 |
Laurel Halo (The Michigan born
producer talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about Techno utopias, digital identity
and making electronic music in the surveillance age.) |
David Dunn Sam Shalabi Jar Moff David Medalla Magik Markers A Spell To Ward Off
Darkness Hannah Sawtell (cross plataform) |
Archie Shepp |
- The Wire Tapper
33: Free 20 track CD. - Global Ear:
Dangriga – Belize - The Innersleeve:
Revenant’s Dean Blackwood on Leeds Records - Epiphanies:
Novelist Stewart Home discovers Chicago House at a party full of London’s
angry young men. |
358 Dez. 2013 |
Demdike Stare (by Joseph Stannard) |
Heatstick + Helm Robert Beatty (cross plataform) Laraaji Esmerine Dot Wiggin Diskotopia I Dream Of Wires (A new film documents the modular synth
resurgence. By Mark Pilkington) Joe McPhee The return of
Revenant Savage Pencil on Lou
Reed |
Maria Chavez |
- Collateral
Damage: Beware of funding bodies and
academics bearing gifts, their offers of support have hidden agendas, says
Sam Richards. - Globar Ear:
Western Russia - Inner Sleeve: Joe
McPhee on his own Notion Time. Epiphanies: Producer
Joe Mansfield recalls the moment he mined a hiphop classic from the depths of
an unassuming funk album. |
359 Jan. 2014 |
2013 REWIND The Year In
Underground Music Charts | Reflections
| Analyses |
Blue Daisy Kathy Alberici |
Richard Skelton |
- Collateral Damage:
Jazz is radical music, so why is it funded by big business? Asks Daniel
Spicer - Global Ear:
Copenhagen – Danmark. - The Inner Sleeve:
Mark Harwood on Bobb Trimble’s Harvest Of Dreams - Epiphanies: From
human conductors to electrical ones, Douglas Kahn has a lightbulb moment when
considering the connections between manmade and earth energy sources |
360 Fev. 2014 |
Jandek (Exclusive Face To
Face With) (In a world
exclusive, the fabled representative of Corwood Industries talks face to face
for the first time. By David Keenan. |
Stefan Jaworzyn Visionist Noise Above Noise Hannah Rickards (cross plataform) Roly Porter on
Metalheadz David Grubbs on
experimental myths |
Russell Haswell |
- Collateral Damage:
David Grubbs argues archive recordings of experimental music distort our
perception of time, space and avant garde history. Global Ear: Madeira
– Portugal - The Inner Sleeve:
Roly Porter on the Metalheadz logo |
361 Mar. 2014 |
Actress |
Jandek Redux Steve Lacy William Basinski’s Arcadia Carla Bozulich on
Billie Holiday Gnod Specter Continous Tone Beatriz Ferreyra Arcadi (cros plataform) |
Ellen Fullman |
- The Primer: Steve Lacy – A user’s
guide to the avant jazz strategies, soprano sax chirps and wayward art song
of one of improvised music’s great iconoclasts. By Michael E Veal - Global Ear: Kuala
Lumpur – Malaysia - The Inner Sleeve:
Test Dept.’s Paul Jamrozy on Górecki’s Symphony No 3 Epiphanies: Strung
out and flat broke in Los Angeles, Carla Bozulich is forced to sell the
record that once made everything all right |
362 Abr. 2014 |
The Ex |
Early DIY Synthesists (How Practical
Electronics magazine provided a hub for UK synth pioneers in the early 1970s.
By Ian Helliwell) Akira Sakata Drew Daniel on Slint Mark Fisher on Sleaford Mods Maya Dunietz Club of Friends Laurence Crane The Colundi Sequence Tashi Dorji Cevdet Erek (cross plataform) |
Marissa Nadler |
- The Wire Tapper
24: Anthology of underground music volume 34. - Collateral Damage:
Exposing Kraftwerk’s roots in
R&B and jazz has implications for EDM. By Tony Herrington. - Global Ear: Rio de
Janeiro – Brazil - The Innersleeve:
Will Shutes on The Fugs’ Songbook - Epiphanies:
Following the lieder as a Polish teenager taught Agata Pyzik how to listen
for the sublime in the electronic pop
music of the 1980s. |
363 Mai. 2014 |
The Compiler (Game-Changing, Compilations, Anthologies,
A-Chronicles & Lists – From Songsters & Saints to The Shinig;
From monastic mixtapes to dub manifestos) |
Marshall Allen Inga Copeland Eric Chenaux (cross plataform) Peanut Butter Wolf Arto Lindsay Officer! Nat Birchall Jack Ruby |
Okkyung Lee (by Kurt Gottschalk) |
- The Compiler: A 22 page survey of paradigm-busting
compilations, anthologies, mail order lists, mixtapes and other collections - Collateral Damage:
Neil Young’s Pono player simplifies the debate over digital sound. By Philip
Brophy - Global Ear: Delhi
– India - The Inner Sleeve:
Peanut Butter Wolf on Prince’s Controversy poster - Epiphanies: Arto
Lindsay takes a 12 step programme to musical enlightment |
364 Jun. 2014 |
Ben Frost |
Orphy Robinson The Electric Music
Hall Takashi Makino (cross plataform) Hailu Mergia Golden Teacher Grouper on The Dead
C Traxman Kasai All Stars Franck Vigroux If Wet… |
Mike Heron |
- Global Ear: Rome –
Italy - The Inner Sleeve:
Grouper’s Liz Harris on The Dead C’s Hell Is Now Love/Bone - Epiphanies: On a
New York street, the midnight hour chimes for Val Wilmer |
365 Jul. 2014 |
Yoshimi P - We |
EMS at 50 8for the last 50
years Stocholm’s electronic music studio has welcomed the world’s sonic
explorers. By Frances Morgan) Alan Courtis Mattin in Lagos King Britt Torturing Nurse Karen Gwyer James Toth DJ Taye International Nothing Sofia Jernberg Xeno & Oaklander |
Butterz |
- Global Ear: Lagos
– Nigeria - The Inner Sleeve:
King Britt on The Police’s Ghost In The Machine - Epiphanies: The
homespun folk wisdom of a Canadian chidren’s entertainer seeded a lifelong
love of song in preteen headbanger James Toth |
366 Ago. 2014 |
St. Vincent |
Lee Gamble Trevor Wishart Graham Lewis Jenny Hval Sue Tompkins Filastine Günter Schickert Sue Tompkins (cross plataform) Chrome (by David Keenan) |
Bernie Krause |
- The Wire Tapper:
Anthology of underground music volume 35 - Collateral Damage:
Crowdsourced music creates the facade of community but only serves to divide
composers and listeners. By Emily Bick - The Inner Sleeve:
Jenny Hval on Masayoshi Sukita’s portrait of David Bowie Epiphanies: Wire’s Graham Lewis discards a lifetime of
musical memories for the sound of a slipping fan belt |
367 Set. 2014 |
Dean Blunt |
Sarah Angliss (cross plataform) Drew Mulholland Slackk Catherine Lamb Pharaoh Sanders David Rosenboom Nisennenmondai (by Joseph Stannard) |
Justin Broadrick |
- The Primer – Pharaoh Sanders – The
freewheeling saxophonist’s career spans decades, encompassing some of free
jazz’s essential recordings. Phil Freeman presents a user’s guide. - The Inner Sleeve:
Jad Fair on NRBQ’s Tiddlywinks - Epiphanies:
Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson recalls a spooky encounter while
prospecting for vinyl gold in basements of dead collectors |
368 Out. 2014 |
Robert Fripp (by Mike Barnes) |
Bruce Lacey Pharmakon Adam Bohman (cross plataform) Jeremiah Cymerman Gazelle Twin Modou Moctar Lookin For The
Perfect Beat |
Grumbling Fur (by Joseph Stannard) |
- Global Ear:
Darmstadt - The Inner Sleeve:
Steve Gunn on Boby Brown’s The Elightment Beam of Axanda - Epiphanies: Peter
Jefferies makes an intimate connection with John Cale and his own future |
369 Nov. 2014 |
Richard Dawson |
Autechre (Remixes – A user’s
guide) Alfred 23 Harth Moniek Darge (cross plataform) Kenny Wheeler Katie Gately Ascetic House Selhenter Beatrice Dillon |
Cooly G |
- The Wire Tapper Cd
– Anthology of underground music volume 36 - The Primer: Autechre remixes – From Merzbow
and Earth to LFO and Surgeon, a user’s guide to the Sheffiled duo’s radical
reworkings - Global Ear:
Chennai - The Inner Sleeve:
Oreet Ashery on Valeska Gert’s Baby - Epiphanies: The
microtonal teaching of Joe Maneri sets melody free for saxophonist Ashley
Paul |
370 Dez. 2014 |
Freedom Principles (Strategies For
Liberating Sound And Music – Dutch Bubbling, Improv, Outward Bound Jazz,
Karaoke, Songs of Resistance, Psychedelia, Free Rock, Plunderphonics, Trap
Rap) |
Eiko Ishi bashi Amarass Laura Canell Bob Cobbing Ursula Mayer (cross plataform) |
Peter Zummo |
- Global Ear:
Shiraoi – Japan - The Inner Sleeve:
Clark on Sun O)))’s Block One - Epiphanies: The
siren-like voice of a theremin heard over the airwaves sent author Sean
Michaels on a quest to find the players who make it sing |
371 Jan. 2015 |
Rewind 2014 The Year In
Underground Music |
Rie Nakajima Mette Rasmussen Divine Styler Emeka Ogboh (cross plataform) |
Alasdair Roberts |
- Global Ear:
Bratislava – Slovakia - The Inner Sleeve:
Bob Stanley on Marianne Faithfull’s Come My Way - Epiphanies: Renée Green reflects upon sound’s unique
capacity to activate memory, via home tapes, audio books and the power of
song |
372 Fev. 2015 |
Mica Levi |
Hiphop Mixtapes Inside Red Bull
Music Academy Novelist Senyawa Heather Phillipson |
John Carpenter (by William Hutson) |
- The Primer: Hiphop
mixtapes – A user’s guide to the mjor playas in rap’s underground economy,
from 50 Cent to Lil B. By Jack Law - Global Ear:
Florence - Collateral Damage:
Stewart Morgan calls on music documentary makers to sing more like their
subjects - The Inner Sleeve:
Peter Strickland on Organum and the New Blocaders Roze - Epiphanies: A
vinyl odyssey from punk nihilism to improve illumination taught Tony Rettman
the futility of categorisation |
373 Mar. 2015 |
Carter Tutti (At Home With) |
Steve Coleman Cecil McBee Sacred Tapes |
Sleaford Mods |
- Global Ear: Mexico
City - The Inner Sleev: Alvin
Curran on his Canti e Vedute Del Giardino Magnetico and Fiori Chiari, Fiori
Oscuri - Epiphanies: The
elemental power of a Peter Brotzmann set in an Edinburgh theatre blows Alan
Warner away |
374 Abr. 2015 |
Holly Herndon |
Moondog (Brighton) Noise Poets Isnaj Dui Radiophrenia (The Glasgow art of
broadcasting. By Stewart Smith Jlin |
Lightning Bolt (by Matt Krefting) |
- The Wire Tapper:
Anthology of underground music – volume 37 - The Primer: Moondog – A user’s guide to the music of
the maverick composer who reconciled Baroque rounds with Native American
rhythms. By Dave Mandl - Global Ear: The
Hague – Netherlands - The Inner Sleeve:
Bruce McClure on Big Brother And The Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills - Epiphanies: From
Cage’s scores to Korean calligraphy, Philip Corner scrolls through a lifetime
of musical revelations |
375 Mai. 2015 |
Roscoe Mitchell & The AACM At 50 |
Tyondai Braxton Legowelt Harry Bertoia Sam Belinfante Bridget Hayden &
Claire Potter Chris Hladowski Brood Ma Martin Hannett (The invisible hand,
by Ian Penman) |
RP Boo |
- Global Ear: United
Arab Emirates - The Inner Sleeve:
Mutamassik on Muhal Richard Abrams’s Lifea Blinec - Epiphanies:
Confronted with the endless possibilities of a modular synth, Tyondai Braxton
learns to lose the control |
376 Jun. 2015 |
Deep Cover – Aliases, Pseudonyms & Alter
Egos |
Organum Sun Araw Palace DJ SS Clint Eastwood +
Others Erikoisdance Kara-Lis Coverdale Mikhail Karikis Nduduzo Makhathini
and Tumi Mogorosi |
Eugene Chadbourne |
- Global Ear: Hanoi
– Vietnam - The Inner Sleeve:
Actress on Agnes Martin’s Untitled (1997) - Epiphanies: The
ill-tempered scrawl of Pere Ubu’s Dub Housing sparked a mind riot for a
teenage Jessica Hopper |
377 Jul. 2015 |
Mark Fell |
Keiji Haino (a user’s guide to) Karin Krog Crys Cole Principe Discos |
Joshua Abrams |
- The Primer: Keiji Haino – A user’s guide
to the vast discography of Japan’s black clad mystery man. By Alan Cummings) - Global Ear:
Shenzhen – China - The Inner Sleeve:
Ductails’ Matt Mondanile on Pacific by Haruomi Hosono, Shigeru Suzuki and
Tatsuro Yamashita - Epiphanies:
Techno’s necessary repetition of chaotic forms birthed a new musical language
for Stefan Goldmann |
378 Ago. 2015 |
Ashtray Navigations & the
psychedelic sound of Yorkshire |
Flying Saucer Attack & other Bristol UFOs (Bristol UFOs As guitarist David Pearce returns after 15
years in the wilderness with a new Flying Saucer Attack album, he and members
of Movietone, Crescent and Third Eye Foundation tell the story of the West
Country’s cosmic reverse. By Joseph Stannard Ornette Coleman Ka Mikael Seifu Charlotte Prodger Pere Ubu |
Mark Perry |
- The Primer:
Yorkshire Psychedelia Frances Morgan takes
a trip through the essential catalogue of Ashtray Navigations and fellow
seekers Vibracathedral Orchestra, Astral Social Club and more - The Wire Tapper:
Anthology of underground music volume 38 - Global Ear: Lodz –
Poland - The Inner Sleeve:
Karen Gwyer on Florence Foster Jenkins’s The Glory (????) Of The Human Voice - Epiphanies: The
elemental rhythms of Haitian rara bands, English church bells and beating
swans’ wings put Leah Gordon in touch with the sublime |
379 Set. 2015 |
Julia Holter (Into the
wilderness) |
Blurt Music With My Insane
Friend Ramzi Khyam Allami Paul Matzger Helena Hauff Jerusalem In My
Heart Yanomami shamans Iain Chambers Kink Gong 808 |
Arnold Dreyblatt |
- Global Ear: Lima –
Peru - The Inner Sleeve:
Klara Lewis on Micachu’s Feeling Romantic Feeling Tropical Feeling III - Epiphanies: A
concert by a legendary Lebanese singer proves you don’t have to make records
to be remembered, finds Jerusalem In My Heart’s Radwan Ghazi Moumneh |
380 Out. 2015 |
Hieroglyphic Being & the Ankh of
Sun Ra |
Marshall Allen Gilles Peterson Art Yard Kristin Hersh Visonist Heatsick Storm Bugs Ernest Berk (Original EDM) (Following his
flight from the Nazis, the DIY musique concrete pioneer drew connections
between experimental composition and modern dance. By Ian Kelliwell) |
Randall Dunn (Metal master) |
- Collateral Damage:
Unsound’s Matt Schulz asks how festivals can stay true to their roots in a
curatorial age. - Global Ear:
Budapest - Hungary The Inner Sleeve:
Heatsick on Craig David’s Born To Do It - Epiphanies:
Moments of presence and absence compel Kristin
Hersh to consider the fragile but persistent nature of song. |
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