On The Cover: Babble On! – 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 pulverised
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.
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Our weekly radio show on Resonance FM, hosted by Derek
Walmsley. With tracks by Bea Benjamin with Dollar Brand, Jon
Collin, Henry Flynt, Paul Metzger, Hajra Sucurija, Yarou Diguidirou
and more.
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with tracks by Jorge Coelho, Idea Fire
Company, Eric Chenaux & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, William Basinski,
Theo Parrish and more.
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with wedding music
from Ethiopia (traditional songs arranged by Getachew Degefu) and
Syria, Tamil, India, gnawa trance music from Morroco, the Big Band
music of Cairo's Salah Ragab, plus music from improvisors the world
over in aid of Japanese charities following the Fukushima
disaster.
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with tracks by
Daniel Menche, Radian, Dopplereffekt, Dick Mills & Brian
Hodgson, Ben Dalglish and more.
Derek Walmsley and Rob Young go in search of
Scotty Engel, also known as Noel Scott Engel, or the man who now
goes by the stage name he adopted almost 50 years ago, Scott
Walker. This show coincides with the publication of No
Regrets: Writings On Scott Walker, a collection of essays
put together by The Wire in conjunction with Orion Books.
Originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, 22 May 2012.
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with Vatican
Shadow, Lucio Capece, Cristian Vogel, Conrad Schnitzler, Don
Preston and more.
On the cover: Lil B – Lisa Blanning travels
to San Francisco for an audience with the Based God, who’s
subverting hiphop with complex notions of sexuality and race. Plus:
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Julian Cowley on Harvey Matusow's 1972
ICES Festival, Charles Hayward's Invisible Jukebox, Terre
Thaemlitz's Collateral Damage, Ian Helliwell, Los Llamarada, Ital,
Linder, Jeremy Deller and more.
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Read at Exact Editions
The Wire's Thursday evening
broadcast on Resonance FM returns in the new year with a new name:
Adventures In Sound And Music. Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with
tracks by André Vida, Ferran Fages, new Korean electroacoustic
improvs, White Out, Microkingdom and more.
2011 end of year special, hosted by Derek
Walmsley.
Check out this exclusive (and extended) two
part interview with Jeff Mills...
Hosted by Derek Walmsley with special guest
Tom Scholefield aka Konx-Om-Pax. Scholefield is performing at Jonny
Mugwump's Exotic Pylon night at London's Vortex, 25
November.
A special edition presenting rare
ethnographic recordings from the collection of writer, musician and
Wire contributor David Toop. Also available on Soundcloud.
This special edition of Adventures In Modern
Music presents rare and unheard ethnographic recordings from
the collection of writer, musician and...
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, spinning music from
artists rolling through Newcastle's Tusk festival in
October, including Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashi, Pulse
Emitter, Hype Williams and Hiss Golden Messenger. Plus 1940s era
Sun Ra from the depths of Michael D Anderson's Sun Ra archive,
recordings which are forthcoming on The Eternal Myth
Revealed box set.
Hosted by Derek Walmsley, with tracks by
Martin Carthy, Corrupted, Moniek Darge, James Ferraro, Sculpture,
Derek Bailey and more.
Adventures In Modern Music this week goes
crate digging through Thailand, Vietnam and Yemen with writer,
compiler and musician Chris Menist (Soundway, Dust To Digital,
Finders Keepers), with 7"s from Waipod Petchsuphan, Kwanjit
Siphajan, Raja Ali, Van Vi and more. Chris Menist will be spinning
records at Dancing Time With Soundway in London 10
September. For more DJ dates, check here.
Adventures In Modern Music this week cracks open a
dusty crate of South Asian vinyl with DJ, writer, promoter and
musician Chris Menist. Based in...
Host Derek Walmsley presents a special
episode on Bill Kouligas's Pan label, with music from Kouhei
Matsunaga/NHKyx, Heatsick, Eli Keszler, Ben Vida, Andre Vida, Bill
Kouligas, and Marginal Consort (their last performance from
2008).
Improvisations and field recordings spinning
through the vortex of the 1s and 2s. Hosted by Derek Walmsley.