Previously unpublished essay commissioned to
celebrate The Wire's 300th issue.
Hosted by Chris Bohn and Alan Cummings, with
special guest Masaki Batoh of Ghost talking about his Brain Pulse
Music project.
Shizuka Miura, vocalist and guitarist with
the Tokyo psychedelic group Shizuka, committed suicide in late
January...
Jennifer Allen
Sunn O))) Monoliths And Dimensions
(Southern Lord)
Black Dice Repo (Paw Tracks)
Zola Jesus The Spoils (Sacred...
On The Cover: Richie Hawtin - he has the
technology. Stuck To The Cover: The Wire Tapper 20 - a free
19-track CD featuring music by Grails, Mike Osborne, Paavoharju,
Pantaleimon, MoHa!, Zavoloka and more. Plus, Makoto Kawabata's
Invisible Jukebox, Benge, The Primer: The alternative Neil Young,
Ingrid Laubrock, Runhild Gammelsaeter, Lucky Dragons, David Grubbs
on brief encounters and more.
Read at Exact Editions
ON THE COVER: Melvins - The unpredictable
California based quartet intersperse neo-Metal albums with art film
soundtracks, avant garde provocations and audience baiting antics.
By Phil Freeman
STUCK ON THE COVER: The Wire Tapper 16 - Free 21 track CD with
tracks by Califone, Pansonic, Derek Bailey, The Slits, Alan Vega
and more
FEATURES: John Surman, Texan Hiphop, Marc Ribot,
Charles Atlas, Steve Mackay, Reanimator, Hisato Higuchi, Beat
Furrer
Buy - £4.00
Read at Exact Editions
ON THE COVER: Lightning Bolt
FEATURES: Ken Hyder, Vashti Bunyan, Invisible Jukebox: Ray
Russell, Primer: Jamaican Deejays, Tujiko Noriko, Susanne Brokesch,
Kang Tae Hwan
PLUS: Wire Tapper 14: All copies of this month's
issue come with a free 16 track CD, the latest volume in our
ongoing series of new music compilations. The CD features tracks by
Oren Marshall, Dirty Projectors, Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid,
This Heat, Nels Cline/Wally Shoup/Chris Corsano and more
Buy - £6.00
ON THE COVER: Jamie Lidell - How Super Collider's
former singer discovered a deeper voice to become the godson of
soul. By Rob Young
FEATURES: Ornette Coleman, Animal Collective,
Invisible Jukebox: Keiji Haino, Primer: Lone Horns Improv, Magik
Markers, Monolake, Tony Bevan
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ON THE COVER: MF Doom - Hua Hsu investigates the
many personae of one of HipHop's most mysterious figures.
FEATURES: Bill Fay, Hijokaidan, James Tenney,
Invisible Jukebox: Ken Vandermark, M Ward, Colin Potter, Wally
Shoup, Hugh Metcalfe
Buy - £6.00
ON THE COVER: The State of Song - Our survey of
songs that break the mould, from Art Ensemble of Chicago to Hans
Zender and 58 points in between
FEATURES: Hafler Trio, Invisible Jukebox: Buck 65,
Takehisa Kosugi, Jem Finer, Nautical Almanac, Oxbow on Dino
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ON THE COVER: Keiji Haino - Alan Cummings
penetrates the universal consciousness of the Tokyo shaman, who has
conducted a 30 year quest to outdo the Big Bang with his
Fushitsusha and Aihiyo groups, solo guitar noise, percussion
rituals and DJ sets
FEATURES: John Coltrane, Primer: Nurse With Wound,
Wordsound, Philip Jeck, Invisible Jukebox: Simon Fisher Turner, DJ
/Rupture, Goodiepal, DJ Spooky, Peter Brötzmann, Musique
Actuelle
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On The Cover: Scanner: For a multimedia mogul such
as Robin Rimbaud, music is just another node in a complex web of
collaborative activity that defines the democratic processes of the
digital world. By Rob Young
Features: Tony Oxley, The Primer: Japanese
Psychedelia, Sound Art, Blixa Bargeld's Jukebox, Piano Magic, Plug
Research, The Last Poets
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