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Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun

Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith

Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry

Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves

Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes

Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic

Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson

Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens

Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts

The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go

Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen

Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone

Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance

Soundcheck: Laura Agnusdei, Anzu Quartet, Apparitions, Backxwash, Black Rain, Francois J Bonnett/Sarah Davachi, Brûlez Les Meubles, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Cliche Toupee, Clipping, Chick Corea, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Earth Ball, en creux, The Ex, Ash Fure, Geologist & DS, Gnod & White Hills, Judith Hamann, Lonnie Holley, Imperial Triumphant, Eiko Ishibashi, Kafka's Ibiki, Kuunatic, Labyrinthe Des Esprits, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, Masma Dream World, Will Mason Quartet, Zoe Mc Pherson, more eaze & claire rousay, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Bob Mould, Jerome Noetinger, Conrad Pack, Panda Bear, Pink Must, Sophia Djebel Rose, Sandwell District, Colin Self, Sissy Spacek, Aleksandra Slyz, Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer, Spiral Deluxe, Huma Utku, Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, Anna Webber, Zhu Songjie, Rutger Zuydervelt, Various Aggregate: New Works For Automated Pipe Organs

The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Sam Davies; Hiphop & R&B by John Morrison; Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Cadentia Nova Danica; Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell; Michael Gregory Jackson; Jaroslav Koran; Oksana Linde; Ted Lucas; The Saints; The Sex Pistols; Smegma; Smith & Mighty; John Tchicai; Various Disco Charge Presents More Sin: Box Of Sin 2; Various Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Print Run: 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe; (A)tonal Adventures: A Chronicle Of Intakt Records by Patrik Landolt; Fusion! From Alice Coltrane To Moor Mother by Alex Coles; Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music by David Keenan; What Do You Call It: From Grassroots To The Golden Era Of UK Rap by David Kane; MC5: An Oral Biography Of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds; Peter Brotzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation by Daniel Spicer; Brotzmann In My Focus by eiga Koritnik; Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage And The Aesthetics Of Oblivion by Giorgio Biancorosso; Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story Of Dungeon Synth by Jordan Whiteman

On Location: David Murray/Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love, London, UK; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, London, UK; Unsound, Brussels, Belgium; Dedicated Play: BEAM SPLITTER x Xiu Xiu, Berlin, Germany + London, UK; Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424, Edinburgh, UK; Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, London, UK; Ben LaMar Gay, Berlin, Germany; Catalytic Sound Festival 2024, Chicago, US; Alexander Hawkins, London, UK; Roscoe Mitchell, Houston, US; MENT, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laurie Anderson, Manchester, UK

On Site: Breaking Lines, London, UK; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, Los Angeles, US; Tanat Teeradakorn: National Opera Complex, London, UK

Plus: Letters, Charts, Out There

Notes: ***B-STOCK: Tear on front cover, item otherwise in perfect condition***


Inside the brand new issue:

Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun

Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith

Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry

Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves

Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes

Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic

Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson

Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens

Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts

The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go

Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen

Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone

Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance

Soundcheck: Laura Agnusdei, Anzu Quartet, Apparitions, Backxwash, Black Rain, Francois J Bonnett/Sarah Davachi, Brûlez Les Meubles, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Cliche Toupee, Clipping, Chick Corea, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Earth Ball, en creux, The Ex, Ash Fure, Geologist & DS, Gnod & White Hills, Judith Hamann, Lonnie Holley, Imperial Triumphant, Eiko Ishibashi, Kafka's Ibiki, Kuunatic, Labyrinthe Des Esprits, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, Masma Dream World, Will Mason Quartet, Zoe Mc Pherson, more eaze & claire rousay, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, Bob Mould, Jerome Noetinger, Conrad Pack, Panda Bear, Pink Must, Sophia Djebel Rose, Sandwell District, Colin Self, Sissy Spacek, Aleksandra Slyz, Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer, Spiral Deluxe, Huma Utku, Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, Anna Webber, Zhu Songjie, Rutger Zuydervelt, Various Aggregate: New Works For Automated Pipe Organs

The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Sam Davies; Hiphop & R&B by John Morrison; Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Cadentia Nova Danica; Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell; Michael Gregory Jackson; Jaroslav Koran; Oksana Linde; Ted Lucas; The Saints; The Sex Pistols; Smegma; Smith & Mighty; John Tchicai; Various Disco Charge Presents More Sin: Box Of Sin 2; Various Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music

Print Run: 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe; (A)tonal Adventures: A Chronicle Of Intakt Records by Patrik Landolt; Fusion! From Alice Coltrane To Moor Mother by Alex Coles; Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music by David Keenan; What Do You Call It: From Grassroots To The Golden Era Of UK Rap by David Kane; MC5: An Oral Biography Of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds; Peter Brotzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation by Daniel Spicer; Brotzmann In My Focus by eiga Koritnik; Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage And The Aesthetics Of Oblivion by Giorgio Biancorosso; Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story Of Dungeon Synth by Jordan Whiteman

On Location: David Murray/Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love, London, UK; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, London, UK; Unsound, Brussels, Belgium; Dedicated Play: BEAM SPLITTER x Xiu Xiu, Berlin, Germany + London, UK; Deep Time: Basquiat & Cage 8424, Edinburgh, UK; Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio, London, UK; Ben LaMar Gay, Berlin, Germany; Catalytic Sound Festival 2024, Chicago, US; Alexander Hawkins, London, UK; Roscoe Mitchell, Houston, US; MENT, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Laurie Anderson, Manchester, UK

On Site: Breaking Lines, London, UK; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal, Los Angeles, US; Tanat Teeradakorn: National Opera Complex, London, UK

Plus: Letters, Charts, Out There

Notes: Inside our brand new issue:

Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME TO ME. By Emily Pothast

Louis Laurain: The French cornettist cooks up fresh brass constructions on new album C(or)N(e)T. By Clive Bell

Caxtrinho: The Brazilian guitarist maps Rio's outer regions through his dense, cubist songwriting. By Derek Walmsley

Able Noise: The European duo forge meticulous deconstructions of rock's conventions. By Abi Bliss

Polonius: Soundtracking the imagination. By Milos Hroch

Macie Stewart: Moving staircases. By Peter Margasak

Chris Cundy: Wild flowers. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: Lydia Lunch: Will the no wave legend get jerked around by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Claire Biddles

Unlimited Editions: Pointless Geometry explores every angle of the Polish underground scene. By Daryl Worthington

The Inner Sleeve: Jules Reidy on Chris Abrahams's Play Scar

Global Ear: Tijuana's Static Discos label sits at the crossroads of electronica in the Americas

Against The Grain: In a new opinion column, George Rayner-Law argues folk music has always been an act of storytelling

Epiphanies: Sachiko M experiences a creative reboot at a European festival

Soundcheck: Ambrose Akinmusire, Marshall Allen, aya, Pierre Bastien & Louis Laurain, Mari Boine, Califone, Xhosa Cole, Daimon, Richard Dawson, Dream Brigade, DSR Lines, Hugues Dufourt/Marilyn Nonken/NYU Contemporary Orchestra, David Edren, Lawrence English, Nina Garcia, General Magic, Golem Mecanique, Phillip Golub, Darin Gray/Pak Yan Lau/Steve Noble/Alan Wilkinson, Keiji Haino & Jun Morita, Keiji Haino & Natsuki Tamura, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions, Tim Hecker, Immersion & Suss, Jones Rowden, Jacob Kirkegaard, Cindy Lee, Edvard Graham Lewis, James Brandon Lewis Trio, Damon Locks, Mike Majkowski, Joe McPhee, numun, Orion Music Workshop, Maja Osojnik, Charlemagne Palestine & Seppe Gebruers, Han-earl Park/Lara Jones/Pat Thomas, Park Jiha, Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Rangers, Rattle, Peter Rehberg, Jules Reidy, Jules Reidy & Andrea Belfi, The Residents, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Zach Rowden & Laurentju Co?ac, Bruce Russell & Thierry Monnier via Fermata Ark, Saint Etienne, Shelter & Orion with Turner Williams Jr, Sunfear, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Third Circle, Tone Vitmn C, Alex Ward/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders, Wardruna, Die Wilde Jagd & Metropole Orkest, Nate Wooley, Raed Yassin

The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop & R&B by Mosi Reeves; Jazz & Improv by Stewart Smith; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Robbie Basho; Peter Brotzmann/John Edwards/Steve Noble/Jason Adasiewicz; Marilyn Crispell; Dub Syndicate; You Ishihara; Annette Peacock; Gianfranco Reverberi; Terre Thaemlitz; Various Bonus Beats: Rare & Unreleased Finnish Electro 1990-2002

Print Run: A Year Of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores For Pauline Oliveros edited by Stephanie Loveless; I Feel Famous: Punk Diaries 1977-1981 by Angela Jaeger; Forever Changes: The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee & Love by John Einarson; Peter Jefferies: The Other Side Of Reason by Andrew Schmidt; RAMM:?LL:Z?? (Racing For Thunder) edited by Maxwell Wolf & Jeff Mao; Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through The Post-Cagean Thicket by Nicholas Collins; Olivier Messiaen: A Critical Biography by Robert Sholl

On Screen: Scanner: Harry Smith At 100; Eva Aridjis Fuentes Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives Of Q Lazzarus

On Location: Lord Spikeheart + bela, London, UK; DJ Haram, Leeds, UK; GIOfest XVI: International Festival Of Improvisation, Glasgow, UK; London Contemporary Music Festival 2024, London, UK; Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK; Han Bennink, London, UK; Le Guess Who?, Utrecht, Netherlands; Unsound New York, New York, US; Arika Episode 11, Glasgow, UK; Jazzfest Berlin 2024, Berlin, Germany; Lunchmeat Festival, Prague, Czech Republic; Another Subculture: Attempting Something, London, UK; Always, Already There: An Incubator For Afrodiasporic New Music, Berlin, Germany

On site: Mike Kelley, Ghost And Spirit, London, UK; Andrew Chalk, Dreams Unseen, Manchester, UK

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens

Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member's Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding

Ailie Ormston: The Glasgow composer moves away from the conservatoire to conduct the sounds of the city. By Abi Bliss

Joke Lanz: At 60 years old the Swiss improvisor still takes a punk approach to the turntable. By Daniel Spicer

Bios Contrast: Kolkata musician Nilotpal Das cooks up the concept of brahmancore. By Misha Farrant

Laura Cocks: Chamber music is the site of connection for the flautist. By Stewart Smith

MIC: Grime provides the setting for sci-fi storytelling in the hands of the London MC. By Lucy Thraves

John King: The composer playing the blues for Palestine's lost communities. By Kurt Gottschalk

Tran Duy Uc: The Vietnamese multidisciplinary artist curates the self-scape. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Alvin Curran: Will the Musica Elettronica Viva member read maritime rites over The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Julian Cowley

Unlimited Editions: Meticulous design and sonics dovetail in New York new music label Greyfade. By Philip Watson

The Inner Sleeve: Seymour Wright on Anne Gillis's Lxgrin

Against The Grain: VAN magazine Editor Hugh Morris can't stand that jazzy sensation

Epiphanies: Surgeon gets all cut up by William S Burroughs and Brion Gysin

Soundcheck: Actress, Ahmed Ag Kaedy & Will Guthrie, Annie A, Peter Baumann, Lea Bertucci & Olivia Block, Biollante, Daniel Blumberg, Pierre Borel, Brutal Shift, Brutal Shift/Solar Yolk, Florence Cats, CBZK, Circuit Des Yeux, Anla Courtis Ja Lehtisalo, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Holger Czukay, Bryn Davis, Dead Pioneers, Divide And Dissolve, Dromedaries x Alexoteric, Dushume, Eska, Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, The Great Learning Orchestra, Hieroglyphic Being, History Dog, William Hooker, William Hooker with David S Ware & Alan Braufman, HxH, Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals, Chris Jonas, Fergus Jones, Kid Spatula, Kinski, Das Koolies, Ed Kuepper & Jim White, Laibach, The Steve Lehman Trio & Mark Turner, Mclusky, Me, Claudius, Roger Clark Miller, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Nahja Mora, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas, Neptunian Maximalism, The Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners Directed by Luciano Chessa, Anthony Pateras, Lucy Railton, Lee Ranaldo & Michael Vallera, Gryphon Rue, Laila Sakini, Kim Salmon & Masami Kawaguchi, Klaus Schulze, Slow Reading Club & Charlie Usher, Ches Smith, Sumac & Moor Mother, Neil Tennant/Mark Springer/Sacconi String Quartet, Throwing Muses, Penelope Trappes, William Tyler, Use Knife, Whatever The Weather, Various Soon I'll Run Out Of Air

The Columns: Avant Rock by Antonio Poscic; Critical Beats by Joe Muggs; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Leah Kardos; Global by Francis Gooding; Hiphop & R&B by Tim Fish; Jazz & Improv by Phil Freeman; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Paul Bley, Paul Bley Trio, Stanley Cowell, The Creation, Q Lazzarus, Kali Malone, Pentangle, Steve Reich, Charlie Rouse, Royal Trux, Pharoah Sanders, Charles Tolliver's Music Inc, Various Strata-East: The Legacy Begins

Print Run: Hating Jazz: A History Of Its Disparagement, Mockery, And Other Forms Of Abuse by Andrew S Berish; Mood Machine: The Rise Of Spotify And The Cost Of The Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly; Black Mystery School Pianists And Other Writings by Matthew Shipp; Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman; Small Town Joy: From Glam Rock To Hyperpop: How Queer Music Changed The Sound Of Scotland by Carrie Marshall; Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal edited by Erin Christoval; The Sound Of Utopia: Musicians In The Time Of Stalin by Michel Krielaars (translated by Jonathan Reeder); Dmitry Shostakovich And Music For Stalinist Cinema (1936-1953) by Joan Titus; Blank Forms 10: Alien Roots: Eliane Radigue edited by Lawrence Kumpf & Charles Curtis

On Screen: Dietmar Post Mona Mur In Conversation; Jean-Cosme Delaloye Desire: The Carl Craig Story; Marie Losier Peaches Goes Bananas

On Location: Jules Reidy + Nina Garcia + Adam Soper, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; Hekla + Dave Welder, London, UK; Sachiko M & Annette Krebs + Chris Pitsiokos & Axel Dorner, Berlin, Germany; Mamboat, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Come Back, London, UK; Borealis, Bergen, Norway; Ghais Guevara, London, UK; Sonics 25, Hastings, UK; 160 Unity: RP Boo + DJ Spinn + Kode9 + Big Dope P, London, UK; Experiments in Opera, New York, US; CTM, Berlin, Germany

On Site: Joy Boy, A Tribute To Julius Eastman, Aalst, Belgium; Leigh Bowery!, London, UK; Outlaws: Fashion Renegades Of 80s London, London, UK