Wire Vinyl & CDs

Notes: Inside this issue:

Turntablists: Vinyl manipulators Maria Chavez, Mariam Rezaei and Victoria Shen prepare to hit the road (and the decks). By Emily Pothast

patten: Artist and musician Damien Roach confronts the future via AI generated samples. By Emily Bick

Dorothy Moskowitz: The former United States Of America vocalist returns with a bold new collaborative work. By Edwin Pouncey

Mihaly Vig: The Hungarian composer, actor and musician recalls his 40 year relationship with director Bela Tarr. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Invisible Jukebox: Tatsuya Yoshida: Will the drummer/vocalist be left in Ruins by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by James Hadfield

Unlimited Editions: Outlines

Unofficial Channels: Polar Sounds

Zoe Mc Pherson: Jungle beats and speculative futures. By Oli Warwick

Francisco Mela: 55 and free. By Daniel Spicer

Brighde Chaimbeul: Piping up. By Stewart Smith

Global Ear: Belfast. The underground thrives in Northern Ireland. By Brian Coney

The Inner Sleeve: :zoviet*france:'s Ben Ponton on The Damned's Damned Damned Damned

Epiphanies: Francisco Lopez heeds the call of the rainforest

The Wire Tapper 61: A track by track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: A Is For Anarchist: An ABC Book For Activists by billy woods & M Musgrove; A Licence To Rock And Pop: An Inventory Of Attitude by James Fry; Going Out: Walking, Listening, Soundmaking edited by Elena Biserna; On Minimalism: Documenting A Musical Movement edited by Kerry O'Brien & William Robin; The Names Of Minimalism: Authorship, Art Music, And Historiography In Dispute by Patrick Nickleson; I Feel Everything You Say, I Feel Everything You Hear edited by Jan Lankisch; Improvision: Orphic Art In The Age Of Jazz by Simon Shaw-Miller; Sound American No 29: The Roscoe Mitchell Issue edited by Nate Wooley; Time Come: Selected Prose 1975-2021 by Linton Kwesi Johnson
On Screen: Jeff Krulik, Joseph Pattisall & Joe Gross We Are Fugazi, From Washington DC; Sophie Robinson & Dunstan Bruce I Get Knocked Down

On Location: Michael Snow Memorial, Toronto, Canada; John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/John Edwards/Steve Noble, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; Saidi Kanda & Mvula Mandondo, Brighton, UK; The Ephemeron Loop, London, UK; Numero Twenty, Los Angeles, US; Tears | OV + The Howling, London, UK; Pierre Bastien & Louis Laurain, Brighton, UK; Riot Ensemble: Sonic Illusions, London, UK; The Residents, Leeds, UK; Howl, London, UK; Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Brooklyn, US

On Site: Anne Imhof; Christian Marclay

Soundcheck: Astroturf Noise, King Ayisoba, B Cool-Aid, Gerald Cleaver/Brandon Lopez/Hprizm, Attila Csihar, Drew Daniel & John Wiese, Deerhoof, Dry Thrust, Marc Ducret, Dunn With Rutmanis, Debby Friday, Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide, Katie Gately, Tim Hecker, hepa.Titus, James Holden, James Ilgenfritz/Sandy Ewen/Michael Foster, Jan Jelinek, King Vision Ultra, Ingrid Laubrock, James Brandon Lewis, Liturgy, Liv.e, London Brew, Lily Guarneros Maase, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra, Moss Freed/Union Division, Natural Information Society, Bill Orcutt, patten, The Reds, Pinks & Purples, Alasdair Roberts, William Roper/Cassia Streb/Tim Feeney, Bruce Russell, Scatter, Sightless Pit, Sleaford Mods, Paul St Hilaire, Thomas Stone, Surgeon, Time Phase Trio, Time Trout, Keith & Julie Tippett: Couple In Spirit, Yves Tumor, Dan Weiss Trio, Alan Wilkinson/Steve Noble/John Edwards, Xiu Xiu, Various Tutto A Posto E Niente In Ordine, Various Utopia Or Oblivion

The Boomerang: Death, Felt, Harald Grosskopf, Francois Jeanneau, Siegfried Kessler/Gus Nemeth/Stu Martin, Maajun, The Muffins, Phauss, Phew, Andrew Poppy, Unwound, Various Blacklips Bar: Androgyns & Deviants - Industrial Romance For Bruised & Battered Angels 1992-1995

Notes: On the cover: Darius Jones: The New York based composer and saxophonist draws connections between Fluxus and US avant jazz. By John Morrison. Plus: Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith; Clarissa Connelly: The Scottish born, Denmark based multi-instrumentalist meditates on myth, memory and modernity via her singular songcraft. By Leah Kardos; Shovel Dance Collective: The London avant folk ensemble balance the trad and the weird. By Lucy Thraves; Invisible Jukebox: Ka Baird: Will the New York based artist lose their Bearings when faced by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Ryan Meehan. Also inside this issue: The Wire Tapper 64; Arushi Jain; Kulku; Harmony Holiday; Richie Culver; Unlimited Editions Industrial Coast; Unofficial Channels The Rest; Global Ear: Dublin; The Inner Sleeve by Raji Rags; Epiphanies by Aura Satz; many pages of reviews and much more.

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: Includes new WIRE TAPPER CD
Inside the issue you''ll find elusive beats creator Zomby in a rare face-to-face encounter with club reporter Lisa Blanning, Dan Wilson drawing back the veil
on the occult origins of Daphne Oram''s radiophonic sound art, a guide to the labyrinthine back catalogue of alt.rock Renaissance Man Jim O''Rourke, plus
more alt.music news, reviews and previews than you can shake a stick at

Notes: Inside this issue:

Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career taking in burning pianos, animals and pulsars, the New Zealand composer turns her attention to love and loss. By Louise Gray

Once Upon A Time In Maida Vale: In 1970s London, Spanish exile Miguel JM Garcia Garcia established a space where anarcho punk and industrial music would flourish. By Nick Soulsby

Svitlana Nianio: The Ukrainian vocalist and keyboard player approaches folk song with an experimental ear. By Olena Pohonchenkova

Invisible Jukebox: Gerald Cleaver: Will the US drummer and electronic composer Adjust to The Wire's mystery record selection - or end up In The Wilderness? Tested by Collin Smith

Kramer: From Bongwater and Butthole Surfers to Palace, Low and now Laraaji - the US producer, musician and Shimmy-Disc proprietor continues to produce prosthetic memories. By Emily Pothast

Unlimited Editions: Guruguru Brain

Unofficial Channels: Radio Amnion

Coffin Prick: Moog and monotone from the Los Angeles synthesist. By Abi Bliss

Ellen Zweig: The New York based composer speaks out. By Robert Barry

Goat: Japanese rock gets polyrhythmic. By James Hadfield

Ziur: Digital to physical for the Berlin based producer. By Milos Hroch

Global Ear: Bucharest: DIY electronics vs minimal techno in the Romanian capital. By Steve Rickinson

The Inner Sleeve: Abdullah Miniawy on Fela Kuti's Fear Not For Man

Epiphanies: Sunik Kim and the human nature of Conlon Nancarrow

The Wire Tapper 62: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Print Run: Twist: An American Girl by Adele Bertei, Living Metal: Scenes Around The World edited by Bryan Bardine & Jerome Stueart, Decolonial Metal Music In Latin America by Nelson Varas-Diaz, Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today edited by Harald Kisiedu & George E Lewis, John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life edited by Nick Shilton, The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music And Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli, Uncurating Sound: Knowledge With Voice And Hands by Salome Voegelin, Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp On RogueArt by Clifford Allen, Cosmic Scholar: The Life And Times Of Harry Smith by John Szwed

On Screen: David Cronenberg Naked Lunch; Emil Spoelder The Dream Syndicate: How Did We Find Ourselves Here?

On Location: ZEZ, Zagreb, Croatia; The Silent Eye, London, UK; Why The Mountains Are Black, Konitsa, Greece; 24-Hour Drone, New York, US; Model/Actriz, London, UK; Hawkwind + Voivod, London, UK; Blue Now, London, UK; Impressions Of John Coltrane: Nat Birchall Quintet + David Angol Quartet + Ed Jones/Dominic Lash/Mark Wastell + Alan Skidmore, London, UK; Thing In The Spring 15, Keene, US; Suzanne Ciani + Li Yilei, London, UK; Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; Sophie Agnel, London, UK

On Site: XXL Dreams, The Hague, The Netherlands; Museum Of Portable Sound, Portsmouth, UK/Online

Souncheck: Eve Aboulkheir/Lasse Marhaug, Emil Amos, Steve Beresford & Angharad Davies, Lea Bertucci & Lawrence English, Adam Bohman/Martin Hackett/Sue Lynch, Dominic Coles, Mike Cooper, John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/ John Edwards/Steve Noble, Aaron Dilloway, Aaron Dilloway & AMURTARITI, Kevin Drumm, Baxter Dury, The End, Fabio Frizzi, JB Glazer, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Mats Gustafsson & Andreas Roysum, Hackedepicciotto, I Paesani featuring Gunter 'Baby' Sommer, Illegal Crowns, Kassel Jaeger, Killer Mike, Sunik Kim, Kœnig, Ana Kravanja & Elisabeth Harnik, Ana Kravanja & Vitja Balsalorsky, Laraaji & Kramer, Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek, The Nonidentical, Oxbow, Lucie Pachova, Sally Potter, Michael Allen Z Prime, Qow, Jer Reid & Tony Bevan, Dean Rodney Jr & The Cowboys, Renata Roman/Paola Ribiero/Laura.aLL, Kristen Roos, Rrose, Sexmob, Ben Scher, JG Thirlwell/Mivos Quartet, Pat Thomas, Pat Thomas & Caroline Kraabel, Pat Thomas/Chris Sharkey/Luke Reddin-Williams, David Toop & Lawrence English, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval/Lars Petter Hagen, Ute Wassermann, Weird Beard, Semay Wu, Ziur, ZULI, Various Disruptive Frequencies

The Boomerang: Air Miami, Dorothy Ashby, Autechre & Hafler Trio, The Black Dog, Black Dog Productions, John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, Gate, High Rise, Harold Land, The Plastic People Of The Universe, Sandwell District, Saphron, Vivian Stanshall, Frank Zappa, Various Bullshit Detector Vols 1-3

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20-plus years of collaboration, the director and singer unpack their dream-like songs over a damn fine cup of coffee. By Britt Brown

The Sound World Of David Lynch: The Wire's writers decode the strange audio messages embedded in the work of the visionary film director, with essays by Philip Brophy, Joe Muggs, Ned Raggett, Xenia Benivolski, Marc Weidenbaum, JR Moores, Lucy Thraves, Bill Meyer, Kurt Gottschalk, Emily Pothast, Claire Biddles, Ryan Meehan and Derek Walmsley, plus ONO's travis

Invisible Jukebox: Dhangsha: Will Asian Dub Foundation's founder member screw his face up at The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Daryl Worthington

Unlimited Editions: Gothenburg's Discreet Music label and distro reps DIY values in their international roster

The Inner Sleeve: Mabe Fratti on Pescado Rabioso's Artaud

Global Ear: Monterrey is the melting pot for cumbia sound system styles from Mexico and beyond. By Juan San Cristobal Lizama

Copper Sounds: Bristol's instrument inventors ring the changes from bells to ceramics. By Louis Pattison

Miaux: Retro synths provide a happy ending for the Belgium based musician and sountrack composer. By Leah Kardos

Theodora Laird & Caius Williams: The London improvising duo are back in the room with their site-specific jams. By Lucy Thraves

Epiphanies: Lonnie Holley goes to church and finds himself in the recording studio

The Wire Tapper 65: A track-by-track guide to this issue's free CD

Soundcheck: Ernie Althoff, A Song For You, Black Decelerant, Nathan Bowles Trio, Brique, Kim Cass, Clevelode, FIN, Alec Goldfarb, Haunted Plasma, Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Takashi Inagaki, Vijay Iyer, KMRU, Iztok Koren, Ana Kravanja, Samo Kutin, Landless, Lankum, Eve Libertine, LoSO, Ian Lynch, Drew McDowall, Joe McPhee with Ken Vandermark, Microcorps, more eaze/pardo/glass, Neil Luck, Antonina Nowacka, Oneida, Pale Spring, Tristan Perich & Ensemble, Pseudotouriste, Psychic Graveyard, Laila Sakini, Sawn Half, Scientist, Senyawa, Shark In A Bathtub, ShrapKnel, Wadada Leo Smith, Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Sote, Vince Staples, Tegh & Adel Poursamadi, JG Thirlwell, Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Tony Orrell, Thuluth, Laurie Tompkins & Max Syedtollan, Wave Generators, Weird Weather, Yokel, Patricia Wolf, Xylitol, Loula Yorke, ZULI

The Boomerang: Steve Beresford, Elaine Brown, Faust, Fingers, Jorga Mesfin, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Purl, Sparks, Noel, Martin Rev, Alan Vega, Ween

Print Run: Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines And Tomorrow's Music Today by Simon Reynolds; Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna; Neu Klang: The Definitive History Of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach; Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis And Free Jazz, From Analog To Digital by Michael Veal; The World Got Away: A Memoir by Mikel Rouse

On Screen: Matt Stephenson & Alan Jones Burning Bridges: The Story Of Paul Burwell

On Location: Badhead Festival, Shenzhen, China; Roadburn, Tilburg, Netherlands; Elaine Mitchener, London, UK; Robert Ashley's Foreign Experiences, New York, US; Moers Festival, Moers, Germany; Long Play Festival, New York, US; Blurt, London, UK; Chicago Jazz String Summit 2024, Chicago, US; Bristol New Music, Bristol, UK; Long Play: Sam Prekop & John McEntire + Kate NV + The Soft Pink Truth, New York, US; Lanark Artefax, London, UK

On Site: brecht fragments, London, UK

Notes: Inside this issue:

Richard Pinhas: At the age of 71 the French experimental guitarist and Heldon founder is still going all the way out. By Daniel Spicer

The Primer: French underground rock: A user's guide to the subcultural eruption that belched forth the likes of Heldon, Brigitte Fontaine, Lard Free and Art Zoyd. By Keith Moline

Weyes Blood: The US vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist delivers apocalyptic visions via deceptively lush avant pop. By Emily Pothast

Invisible Jukebox: Hamid Drake: Will the US drummer get the tempo of The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Bill Meyer.

Unlimited Editions: Dadaist Tapes

Unofficial Channels: DJ M-TRAXXX

Zubin Kanga: New horizons for the composer, pianist and technologist. By Emily Bick

Suzi Analogue: Never Normal for the Miami dancefloor experimentalist. By Neil Kulkarni

Ustad Noor Bakhsh: On the trail of the benju master. By Francis Gooding

Ale Hop: The Peruvian artist negotiates new sonic territories. By Hannah Pezzack

Global Ear: Korean Demilitarised Zone united by music in no man's land. By James Gui

The Inner Sleeve: Melvin Gibbs on Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head

Epiphanies: Inside and out with DJ Marcelle

Print Run: Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism And The Avant-Garde by Rebecca Binns; Extreme Music: From Silence To Noise And Everything In Between by Michael Tau; You're With Stupid: kranky, Chicago And The Reinvention Of Indie Music by Bruce Adams; Sonic Elements: Matrices, Cosmograms, & Ostinatos Of Circularity by Adam Rudolph; Improvising The Score by Gretchen L Carlson; Saxophone Colossus: The Life & Music Of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy; Holy Ghost: The Life & Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler by Richard Koloda

On Screen: Arturas Barysas Restored Short Films 1971-82; Alex Crowton & Bobby Dass This Is Sparklehorse

On Location: No Bounds 2022, Sheffield, UK; Riot Ensemble, London, UK; Gonerfest 19, Memphis, US; Malcy Duff And His Trouser Orchestra + Ecka Mordecai/Ash Reid/Fritz Welch + Rob Churm, London, UK; Meakusma, Eupen, Belgium; Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, US; Skanu Mess: 20th Anniversary, Riga, Latvia; The Hearing Experience, London, UK; FutureStops, Toronto, Canada; Terry Day & Friends: Celebrating The Archives, London, UK; Unsound, Krakow, Poland; Juliet Fraser: Wave Songs, London, UK

On Site: Hannah Catherine Jones OWED TO CHIRON (The Wounded Healer); Sonic Acts Biennial 2022

Soundcheck: Abduction, Mike Baggetta/Jim Keltner/Mike Watt, Blut Aus Nord, Yao Bobby & Simon Grab, Tyondai Braxton, Burial, Cainan Dawn, Xhosa Cole, William Fowler Collins, Adrian Corker, Dale Cornish, Richie Culver, Alex Cunningham/Patrick Shiroishi/Thom Nguyen, Richard Dawson, Giovanni Di Domenico, Giovanni Di Domenico & Zugzwang, Giovanni Di Domenico & Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva, Earth Room, Jimmy Edgar, Brunhild Ferrari & Christoph Heemann, Fire-Toolz, Forensic Trio, Carla dal Forno, Frances Pylons, Maxine Funke, Goat, Gotho, Heith, Holodec, The Howling, Ikonika, Isomonstrosity, Keith Jarrett, Molly Joyce, Kode9, Sarathy Korwar, James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Lykotonon, Magma, Moin, Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Bill Nace, Network Glass & Jason Crumer, Maggie Nicols, Mali Obomsawin, Oort Smog, Oxbow & Peter Brotzmann, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Theo Parrish, Pink Siifu & Real Bad Man, Ingrid Plum, Polyphia, Rabit, Say What, Secluded Bronte, Patrick Shiroishi, Susana Santos Silva & Alexandra Nilsson, Rishin Singh with Martin Sturm, Richard Skelton, Stargaze, Stonecirclesampler, Strategy, Pat Thomas, Richard Thomas, Thumbscrew, Devin Townsend

The Boomerang: The Apostles, George Burt, Cerberus Shoal, Essential Logic, Neu!, Jocelyn Pook, Charles Stepney, Thorr's Hammer, Masahiko Togashi with Don Cherry & Charlie Haden, Virgin Prunes

Notes: Inside this brand new issue:

Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes

Critics' Reflections: Wire's writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year

Columnists' Charts: Wire's specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition

Archive Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten archive records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes.

Engineered Phantoms: AI for the masses. By Abi Bliss

Back to the Land: Strange as folk. By Louis Pattison

Rival Camps: Crossing the streams. By Britt Brown

Weapons of Mass Distraction: Artists and Gaza. By GAIKA

Invisible Jukebox: Linton Kwesi Johnson: The veteran reggae poet faces down The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Gabriel Bristow

Laetitia Sadier: The Stereolab founder promotes community and healing with her new solo work. By Claire Biddles

Fred Frith: The Henry Cow co-founder returns to his groundbreaking 1974 album Guitar Solos with a reissue and a new album. By Clive Bell

Unlimited Editions: Bead Records

Unofficial Channels: Lanner Chronicle

Phil Geraldi: Road head music. By Emily Bick

HUUUM: Viennese whirl. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Lisa Ullen: Piano magic. By Peter Margasak

Thomas Ignatius: Medieval synthpop. By Leah Kardos

Global Ear: Chicago Democracy and improv in the Midwest. By Levi Dayan

The Inner Sleeve: Vince Clarke on The Human League's Travelogue

Epiphanies: Mariam Rezaei on Persian pitch-shifting

Print Run: Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dance Culture by Beth Lesser; Lost In Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV And Related, 1977-1981 by Richard Johnson; Deep Blues 1960-1988 by Val Wilmer; Ukrainian Field Notes edited by Gianmarco Del Re; At The Vanguard Of Vinyl by Darren Mueller; Too Much Too Young: Rude Boys, Racism And The Soundtrack Of A Generation - The 2 Tone Records Story by Daniel Rachel; NOTHING IS POSSIBLE NERVOUSNESS, OR IMMORALITY DON'T WAIT TO BE HUNTED TO HIDE/ SPOILT HEALTH by TRS: The Fucking Terrible Receding Shapes, Trading As TRIPLE NEGATIVE

On Screen: Midori Takada: Japan On Film; Robert Fantinatto Subotnick Portrait Of An Electronic Music Pioneer

On Location: Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, US; Sir Richard Bishop, Edinburgh, UK; Week-End Fest, Cologne, Germany; Black Industrial | Noise Event 4: Ain Bailey, London, UK; Out.Fest, Barreiro, Portugal; Gonerfest 20, Memphis, US; Sonica Surge, Glasgow, UK; People Like Us, London, UK; Loraine James, San Francisco, US; Usurper: That's That Then, Edinburgh, UK; Easter Margins Road 2 Redline Tour with OverMyBody Taipei, Taiwan; Donaueschinger Musiktage 2023, Donaueschingen, Germany

On Site: Val Wilmer Blue Moments, Black Sounds, London, UK; Meredith Monk: Calling, Munich, Germany; Barbara Ess Archives, New York, US

Soundcheck: Aesop Rock, Agitation Free, All Men Unto Me, Alternative TV, Chino Amobi, Andre 3000, Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja SK Ratkje, Anenon, Daniel Bachman, BEAM SPLITTER + Eivind Lonning & Espen Reinertsen, Beans, Lea Bertucci, Better Corners, Galya Bisengalieva, Black To Comm, Andy Blade & Buddies, Danny Brown, Conflux Coldwell, Amelia Cuni/Werner Durand/Uli Hohmann, CZN, Angharad Davies & Phil Julian, Eartheater, Max Eastley/Terry Day/John Butcher, Carlos Ferreira, Peter Gabriel, Gruzja, Holy Tongue, Robert Hood & Femi Kuti, Idea Fire Company, Ed Jones/Dominic Lash/Mark Wastell, KAVARI, Kid Acne, Klein, Anysia Kym & Jadasea, Dominic Lash/Rachel Musson/Phil Durrant/Steve Noble, Joelle Leandre & Rodolphe Loubatiere, George Lewis/ICE, DJ Manny, Trevor Mathison, Myra Melford's Fire & Water Quintet, MHYSA, Moin, Maggie Nicols/Matilda Rolfsson/Mark Wastell, Steve Noble, Aki Onda, Ordeal, Aruan Ortiz, Tony Oxley, Eddie Prevost/NO Moore/James O'Sullivan/Ross Lambert, Janneke van der Putten, Lucy Railton, Maja SK Ratkje & Nordic Affect, Mike Reed, Marc Richter, Raphael Rogi?ski, Patrick Shiroishi, Timelash, David Toop & Tania Caroline Chen, Universal Harmonies & Frequencies, V/Z, Alex Ward Items 6 & 7, Teresa Winter, Various C-01 Compilation, Various Flux Gourmet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Boomerang:

Barry Bermange/Delia Derbyshire/The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Earth, Khanate, Meat Puppets, Meshuggah, Het Pandorra Ensemble, Penny Rimbaud/Mikado Koko, Rudimentary Peni, Archie Shepp, Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit, War, Frank Zappa, Various The Complete Obscure Records Collection, Various One Mile From Heaven, Various Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol 2

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Khanate: The reconvened avant sludge quartet bring their fifth document of doom in the form of To Be Cruel. By Rob Turner

Beam Splitter: Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Norstebo explore intimacy via electroacoustics. By Julian Cowley

Invisible Jukebox: Dali De Saint Paul: The Bristol based vocalist and improvisor faces The Wire's mystery record selection. Tested by Phil England

Agitation Free: The German rock experimentalists return with a new album. By Daniel Spicer

Unlimited Editions: bie Records

Unofficial Channels: The Roulette Tapes

Violent Magic Orchestra: The Osaka outfit unite black metal, gabber and trance. By James Hadfield

Mpho Molikeng: Rebuilding African music with the Basotho multi-instrumentalist. By David Grundy

Galya Bisengalieva: The Kazakh-British artist invokes the spirit of the atom. By Abi Bliss

Eve Stainton: Capturing the Dykegeist with the Mancunian choreographer. By Claire Biddles

Global Ear: In Berlin brutality reigns at Germany's long-running extreme metal festival. By Thomas Osman

The Inner Sleeve: Alan Courtis on Mauricio Kagel's Exotica and Los Cau's Los Cau

Epiphanies: Nkisi follows the path of Kongo tradition into unseen worlds of sound

Print Run: First Floor: Reflections On Electronic Music Culture Volume 1 by Shawn Reynaldo; Journal De Mes Sons/Diary Of My Sounds by Pierre Henry; Subcontinental Synthesis: Electronic Music At The National Institute Of Design, India 1969-1972 edited by Paul Purgas; Transforming Moments by Richard Barrett; Gerard Grisey And Spectral Music: Composition In The Information Age by Liam Cagney; The Life And Music Of Gerard Grisey: Delirium And Form by Jeffrey Arlo Brown; Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone with Ben Greenman; Kleenex/LiLiPUT by Marlene Marder

On Screen: Maureen Gosling The 9 Lives Of Barbara Dane

On Site: Din, London, UK; Johanna Billing Each Moment Presents What Happens, London, UK

On Location: Unsound, Krakow, Poland; WOS Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Another Sky Festival, London, UK; M. Festival, New York, US; AR Kane, London, UK; Seanaps Festival, Leipzig, Germany; Cadillac & Ogun 50th Anniversary Concert, London, UK; Tubby's 5-Year Anniversary, Kingston, US; ArcTanGent, Bristol, UK

Soundcheck: Abstract Concrete, Susan Alcorn/Septeto Del Sur, Amor Muere, AshTreJinkins, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Christoph de Babalon, Francois J Bonnet & Stephen O'Malley, Diego Caicedo, Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen, Buck Curran, Sarah Davachi, Anthony Davis/Kyle Motl/Kjell Nordeson, Fielded, Flesh & The Dream, Fruit LoOops, Adele H, Poppy H, Helmet, Marina Herlop, Honeydrip, Islaja, Zubin Kanga, Ingrid Laubrock, Steve Lehman & Orchestre National De Jazz, Lucidvox, Manzanera Mackay, Charif Megarbane, Mendoza Hoff Revels, DJ Muggs & Dean Hurley, Stephen O'Malley & Anthony Pateras, Phet Phet Phet, PLF, Position Normal, Prong, Pyne, Razen, Joseph Shabason, Shackleton, Shackleton & Wac?aw Zimpel with Siddhartha Belmannu, Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata, Sone Institute, Space Afrika & Rainy Miller, Unkle G, Vanishing Twin, Vidrio, Hilary Woods, Yokel/D Ham/Franco Franco

The Boomerang: Ash Ra Tempel, Wally Badarou, Derek Bailey & Paul Motian, Betty Davis, Deerhoof, Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel, Marginal Consort, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Matthew Shipp Trio, Richard Wright, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Various If There's Hell Below, Various No Future, No Past: Finnish Speed & Thrash Metal Explosion 1986-1992

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances - and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds

Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley

Cuntroaches: Berlin's experimental noise punks tap into the sounds of the sewer. By Claire Biddles

Sun Yizhou: Beijing improvisors explore the appliance of science with household objects in everyday locations. By Daryl Worthington

Invisible Jukebox: Sun Araw: Will Cameron Stallones feel the warm glow of The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Emily Pothast

Global Ear: Taiwanese capital Taipei is a hub for psychedelic travellers from across South East Asia. By James Gui

Unlimited Editions: Brussels 7" specialists Les Disques Lexi are living the single life. By Claire Biddles

The Inner Sleeve: Composer and sound artist Rojin Sharafi on Duma's Duma

Flickers From The Fen: Dungeon synth wizard conjures with the power of folklore. By Louis Pattison

Poppy H: Subterranean smartphone travelogues provide an escape from trauma. By Spenser Tomson

Manja Risti?: The vibrations and currents of the Adriatic remap the idea of Europe. By Derek Walmsley

Epiphanies: Sussan Deyhim finds a good listener in longtime collaborator Richard Horowitz

Print Run: Sonic Faction by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman, Maya B Kronic (Editors); Kill Your Masters: Run The Jewels And The World That Made Them by Jaap van der Doelen; Made In NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music & Salsa's Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negron; Instrument Of War: Music And The Making Of America's Soldiers by David Suisman; Look Out! Issue One by The Old Hairdressers; It's Not A Pill I Need But A Sewer To Jump In by Fritz Welch; Asparagus Piss Raindrop by Asparagus Piss Raindrop

On Location: South Bermondsey Festival 2024, London, UK; La Batie, Geneva, Switzerland; Clod Ensemble & Nu Civilisation Orchestra: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, London, UK; Meakusma, Eupen, Belgium; Pat Thomas, London, UK; AR Kane + Roger Robinson + Jabu, Bristol, UK; Andrew Poppy, London, UK; Unsound 2024, Krakow, Poland; Pharmakon + Kollaps + Lana Del Rabies, London, UK; Another Sky 2024, London, UK; No Bounds, Sheffield & Rotherham, UK; Extended Spaces: Resonant Bodies, Berlin, Germany

On Site: Raven Chacon, Background Music, London, UK

On Screen: Jamie Ross-Hulme Hyper: The Stevie Hyper D Story

Soundcheck: Actress, Adrian de Alfonso, Altered Forms Trio, Hiro Ama, Big'n, The Body, Body Me?a, MF Clarke, Harry Cloud, crys cole, Daufodt, Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom, Ekoplekz, Fennesz, Keeley Forsyth, Limpe Fuchs & Mark Fell, Furze, God Bullies, Gong Gong Gong & Mong Tong, Hair And Space Museum, Glynn Heppenstall, Philip Jeck, Karate, Laibach, Meemo Comma, Ava Mendoza, Mauricio Moquillaza, Mordant Music, Oranssi Pazuzu, Papa M, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Red Brut, Klaus Schulze, Slomo, SO SNER, J Spaceman & John Coxon, Pat Thomas, Thumbscrew, The Unthanks, Weird Of Mouth, Simon Whetham, YATTA, Various Waho Kizani
The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Leah Kardos; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Bill Meyer;
Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Emily Pothast; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Dennis Bovell, John Cale, Can, cLOUDDEAD, MF DOOM, High Rise, Norman McLaren, Anthony Moore, Les Rallizes Denudes, Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi, Maj & Gunnar Sonstevold, Meredith L Young-Sowers

Notes: Inside this issue:

Meredith Monk: In the wake of a career-spanning box set the multidisciplinary artist discusses a lifetime of connection and communication. By Emily Bick.

Barbara Dane: The US folk/blues/jazz musician and activist details eight decades of anticapitalist agitation in a new memoir. By Emily Pothast.

Ocen James: The Ugandan Acholi fiddler talks electronic collaborations and riotous wedding jams. By Daniel Spicer.

Invisible Jukebox: aya: Will The Wire's mystery record selection be poetry to the ears of the UK DJ, producer and vocal artist? Tested by Meg Woof.

Unlimited Editions: Fox & His Friends. By Antonio Poscic.

Unofficial Channels: The Bristol Germ. By Noel Gardner.

Mark Jenkin: The Enys Men director explores Cornwall's hidden reverse. By Spenser Tomson.

Zaliva-D: Explosive electronics from the Beijing duo. By James Gui.

Territorial Gobbing: Leeds noisenik Theo Gowans cobbles it together. By Abi Bliss.

Jacqueline Nova: Opening the Colombian composer's archive. By Louise Gray.

Global Ear: Kansai: Fantasy and future unite in southern central Japan. By Miranda Remington

The Inner Sleeve: Audrey Chen on Nakatani-Chen Duo's LIMN

Epiphanies: The Raincoats' Gina Birch on a pivotal encounter with The Slits

Print Run: Assembling A Black Counter Culture by DeForrest Brown, Jr; From Scratch: Albanian Summer Picaresque edited by Pyke-Presje; The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music And Sound On The Brooklyn Waterfront by Cisco Bradley; dublab: Future Roots Radio edited by Mark 'Frosty' McNeill & Jeremiah Chiu; No Machos Or Pop Stars: When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt; The Bebop Scene In London's Soho, 1945-1950 by Ray Kinsella

On Screen: Tim Mackenzie-Smith Getting It Back: The Story Of Cymande; Michelle Heighway Energy: A Documentary About Damo Suzuki

On Location: X100, Berlin, Germany; Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, New York, US; Eartheater, Los Angeles, US; Underground Institute Festival, Berlin, Germany; Maarja Nuut + ASUNA, Tokyo, Japan; UNFURL, Sydney, Australia; OORtreders, Neerpelt, Belgium; We Jazz Festival, Helsinki, Finland; HCMF, Huddersfield, UK; Decibel New Music Ensemble, London, UK; Valentina Magaletti Residency, London, UK; Wilbury Radio, Letchworth Garden City, UK

On Site: Shinro Ohtake; The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale Of Modern Britain

Soundcheck: Chris Abrahams, ACA, Algiers, Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat, Alvarezz, The Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Nick Ashwood, Backxwash, Meg Baird, Bardo Todol & Robert Millis, Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Damon Smith, Patricia Brennan, John Cale, Calsutmoran, Christina Carter, Hannibal Chew III, Climax Golden Twins, Mike Cooper, Vladislav Delay, Delivery Health, Alliyah Enyo, Angelo M Farro, Avram Fefer/Marc Ribot/Eric Revis/Chad Taylor, Jurg Frey, GAHLMM, Ben LaMar Gay, Graham/Bishop/Karayorgis/McBride/Osgood, Kay Grant & Daniel Thompson, Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi, Hammered Hulls, Manga Saint Hilare, Martin Iddon, In Weather, Mark Jenkin, Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Luther Gray, Uri Katzenstein, Kelela, Jussi Lehtisalo, Kali Malone featuring Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton, Lionel Marchetti & Decibel, Dan McCarthy, Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid, The Necks, Negativland, Nighte, numun, Ivo Perelman, Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris, Richard Pinhas & Merzbow, Pole, Pulverize The Sound, Ruhail Qaisar, Reading Music, Ishmael Reed, Tomeka Reid & Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Rebecca Saunders, Shovel Dance Collective, John Smith, Snogg, Soulside, Suss, Tamarisk, Truemendous, Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins, Eli Wallace, Drew Wesely, Wolf Eyes, Christian Wolff & String Noise, Loula Yorke

The Boomerang: Beauty Pill, Butchamana & The Big Bang Brothers Band, Chris Capers & Joe Rigby, Joe Rigby & Chris Capers, Codeine, Grupo Um, Jill Kroesen, Laraaji, The Maglory Dengluch, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, PG Six, The Pyramids, Rex, Jody Stecher & Krishna Bhatt, Marvin Tate's D-Settlement, White Heaven, Various The 12th Annual International Sound Poetry Festival, Various Instant This/Instant That: NY NY 1978-1985

Notes: Inside this issue:

2022 Rewind: the year in underground music

Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes

Critics' Reflections: Wire writers discuss their cultural highs and lows for 2022

The New Vaudeville: Funny games. By Stewart Smith

Turntablists: Spin cycles. By Rob Turner

Columnists' Charts: Our specialist critics excavate all crevices of the culture for this year's most exciting music, from hiphop to modern composition

Books, Films & Events: Emily Bick surveys the year in print, cinema, audiovisual arts and live performance

Climate: Burning issues. By Phil England

Healing Sounds: Good vibrations. By Emily Pothast

Archive Releases Of The Year: Our contributors voted for their top ten archival records, CDs, downloads and streams, and we counted them all up

Invisible Jukebox: Kali Malone: Our mystery record selection pulls out all the stops for the composer and organist. Tested by Derek Walmsley

Unlimited Editions: REC-on

Unofficial Channels: Xenwiki

Heith: The Milanese producer looks to magickal traditions. By Milos Hroch

Venus Ex Machina: Cybernetics meet mythology for the researcher and composer. By Meg Woof

Kraus: New Zealand psych wizard goes for a float. By Kiran Dass

Daniel Bachman: The American Primitive guitarist chronicles climate crisis. By Louis Pattison

Global Ear: Kadikoy: The Istanbul neighbourhood is the home for metal and underground music. By Robert Rigney

The Inner Sleeve: Gaye Su Akyol on Morphine's Good

Epiphanies: Meg Baird on Sheila Kay Adams and John Cohen

Soundcheck: Christine Abdelnour & Andy Moor, Theophilus Oluwafifehami Ajayi, Amefrican Grunges, Daniel Bachman, Big Joanie, Blood Rhythms, The Brother Moves On, Christeene, Circuit Des Yeux & Claire Rousay, Alvin Curran, The Dowling Poole, FaUSt featuring Keiji Haino, Ben Frost, Satoko Fujii, Ghoe0.95st, Melvin Gibbs, Hieroglyphic Being, Ryoji Ikeda, I Know I'm An Alien, Philip Jeck, Leslie Keffer, Leslie Keffer & R Stevie Moore, Kitten Pyramid, Klein, Low Res, Roc Marciano & The Alchemist, MoE/Bruxa Maria, MoE Y Escalantes, Anthony Moore, Mthunzi Mvubu, Je'ro^me Noetinger, No Home, Rascali Klepitoire, Julia Reidy & Morten, Joh Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Vanessa Rossetto, Claire Rousay, Claire Rousay & E Fishpool, Rubbish Music, Slumberland featuring Sainkho Namtchylak, Akai Solo, Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1, Sourdure, Stabbing, Twinkle3 featuring David Sylvian & Kazuko Hohki, Urban Eden, Marc Urselli's SteppenDoom, Venus Ex Machina, Beau Wanzer & Hieroglyphic Being, Weyes Blood, billy woods x Messiah Musik, Yungmorpheus, Various Black Metal Rainbows Various Clap. An Anatomy Of Applause Various Dark Side Of The Sacred Star Various Fragility Of Sounds, Various Imaginary Landscapes Various Paroxysm: A Benefit Compilation For Leslie Keffer, Various Xtended Vox

The Boomerang: Alterations, Celtic Frost, Deicide, The Ex, The Fall, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joyce with Mauricio Maestro, Meredith Monk, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Les Rallizes De'nude's, Sidney Sager & The Ambrosian Singers, Topdown Dialectic, Markos Vamvakaris, Venom, Denis Wize

Print Run: Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off: Ambient Music's Psychedelic Past by Victor Szabo; Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations With Coil edited by Nick Soulsby; Junk Percussion: Notes For The Future by Roger Turner & Mari Kamada; For Zitka'la-S?a' by Raven Chacon; The Northern Silence: Journeys In Nordic Music & Culture by Andrew Mellor; Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee with Neil Cooper; Wetland Project: Explorations In Sound, Ecology And Post-Geographical Art edited by Brady Marks & Mark Timmings

On Screen: James Sharp The Jangling Man: The Martin Newell Story; Alexandra Cabral & Ian Svenonius The Lost Record

On Location: Semibreve, Braga, Portugal; Midwife, London, UK; Object Collection: Automatic Writing, NewYork, US; Cyborg Soloists, London, UK Akousma, Paris, France; Abdullah Ibrahim: EFG London Jazz Festival, London, UK; EFG London Jazz Festival: Henry Threadgill's Zooid + Anthony Braxton, London, UK; Come, London, UK; Zinc And Copper: Well Tuned Brass 2022, Berlin, Germany; Thumbscrew, London, UK

On Site: Carolee Schneemann Body Politics

Notes: Inside the new issue:

2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music

Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes

Critics' Reflections: Wire's writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year

Columnists' Charts: Wire's specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition

Archive Releases of the Year: Wire asked their contributors to vote for their top ten archive records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes

Let The Rhythm Hit Em: dream attack. By Drew Daniel

Coming Around Again: feedback with a vengeance. By Daryl Worthington

All Ears: taken aurally. By Louise Gray

Soldering On: analogue logic. By Deborah Nash

Perfect Sound Forever: compact discussions. By John Brien

YATTA: the New York based artist fuses noise, pop and improv with a spiritual sensibility. By Stephanie Phillips

Music Ex Machina: the epic history of algorithmic music is surveyed at a new exhibition in Lausanne. By Robert Barry

Bridget Hayden: the Vibracathedral Orchestra member swaps free rock for folk on a stark new album. By Lucy Thraves

Invisible Jukebox: Pat Thomas: will the pianist and improvisor have a grand time with The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Seymour Wright

Global Ear: Zurich: The peripatetic noise scene resists gentrification in Switzerland's biggest city. By Elia Brulhart

Unlimited Editions: Tape label Strategic Tape Reserve prepares to fail. By Antonio Poscic

The Inner Sleeve: Pamela Z on Robert Rauschenberg's Talking Heads cover

Sakina Abdou: Ground and improvisation. By Stewart Smith

Oranssi Pazuzu: Mutant metal. By Derek Walmsley

Black Rain: Neo-Neuromancer. By Phil Freeman

Michael J Schumacher: Living space sounds. By Kurt Gottschalk

Epiphanies: Rafael Toral learns that music is the boss

In the review sections:

Soundcheck: Michaela Antalova, Adrian Myhr, Arashi & Takeo Moriyama, Tyler Bates, BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton, Conal Blake/Regan Bowering/Li Song, Nicolas Carcavilla, Alvin Curran, Greg Davis, Degradation x Iceman Junglist Kru, Diemajin, Beatrice Dillon, Tashi Dorji, eat-girls, Fievel Is Glauque, Niklas Fite & Gunter Christmann, Full Of Hell & Andrew Nolan, Pascal Gaigne, Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Gebru/Maya Dunietz, Fuubutsushi, The Haunting, Daniela Huerta, Hungry Ghosts, Jana Irmert, Kyosaku, Kendrick Lamar, Matilde Meireles, Abdullah Miniawy, Iker Munduate, NET GALA, Other Light Ensemble, Perila, Bogdan Raczynski, Raffertie, George Rayner-Law, Stonecirclesampler, The Residents, Mariam Rezaei, Crystabel Efemena Riley, Colin Self, Rojin Sharafi, Patrick Shiroishi, Patrick Shiroishi/Alex Reviriego/Vasco Trilla, Sulla Lingua, Titi & Ale Hop, TRAINING + Ruth Goller, Toshiya Tsunoda & Taku Unami, Tungu, Usage/Efficiency/Variance/Platform/Domain, Various Tempat Angker: Horror Movie OSTs & Sound FX From Indonesia (1971-2015)

The Columns: Avant Rock by Tony Rettman; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Spenser Tomson; Hiphop & R&B by Richard Stacey; Jazz & Improv by Daniel Spicer; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley

The Boomerang: The Apostles; Don Cherry & Okay Temiz; Clannad; Patrick Cowley; Miles Davis; Bryan Ferry; Jimi Hendrix; Catherine Christer Hennix; The High Llamas; Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10; Hypnosonics; The Jazzmen; Phil Manzanera; The Orb; Primitive Art Group; Rudimentary Peni; Throbbing Gristle; McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson; Various Electro Throwdown: Sci-Fi Inter-Planetary Electro Attack On Planet Earth 1982-89

Print Run: Solid Foundation: An Oral History Of Reggae by David Katz; Ultra-red: A Journal Of Militant Sound Inquiry, Vol 1 edited by Dont Rhine, David Albright & Christina Sanchez Juarez; Ghost Of An Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror And The Spectre Of Nostalgia by Williams Burns; Cardiacs: A Big Book And A Band And The Whole World Window by Aaron Tanner; Bodies Of Sound: Becoming A Feminist Ear edited by Irene Revell & Sarah Shin; Sideways Through Time: An Oral History Of Hawkwind In The 1970s: Revised & Expanded by Joe Banks; Straight Up, Without Wings, The Musical Flight Of Joe McPhee by Joe McPhee

On Location: Meredith Monk, New York, US; Mary Lattimore + Walt McClements, London, UK; Sonica 2024, Glasgow, UK; Donaueschinger Musiktage, Donaueschingen, Germany; Wooley/Vandermark/Lytton, London, UK; Out.Fest, Barreiro, Portugal; Ska?u Mess, Riga, Latvia; Artifacts Trio, London, UK; Semibreve, Braga, Portugal; The Lappetites + Ipek Odaba?i & Ignaz Schick, Berlin, Germany; Wadada Leo Smith/Raven Chacon, New York, US; Beatrice Dillon, London, UK; Ghosted, London, UK.

On Site: Terry Adkins, Disclosure, London, UK; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea; Scott Myles, Head In A Bell, Glasgow, UK.

On Screen: Jeremy Marre Konkombe - The Nigerian Pop Music Scene.

Notes: Inside this issue:

AMM: For 50 years, Eddie Prevost, Keith Rowe and John Tilbury have had their sights set firmly on sonic freedom, changing the landscape of music in the process. By Clive Bell. AMM mini-Primer: A user's guide to the group's recent recordings. By Seymour Wright

Angharad Davies: The hardworking violinist and improvisor finds inspiration for her time dissolving recordings and performances through interpersonal connections. By Abi Bliss

UnicaZurn: Veteran industrialists Dave Knight and Stephen Thrower pour two lifetimes of experience into their dystopian stew. By Rob Turner

Invisible Jukebox: Hannah Catherine Jones: Will the UK composer be reduced to a Foxy Moron by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Meg Woof

Unlimited Editions: Nh?c Gay

Unofficial Channels: Tape Archives

Opal X: Harsh beauty from former Paper Dollhouse denizen. By Claire Biddles

Nexcyia: Producer Adam Dove gives it the old collage try. By Rob Turner

Teresa Winter: Sea salt memories from the Yorkshire based composer. By Louise Gray

K Of Arc: The beauty and horror of Kevin Craig's electronic fog. By Emily Pothast

Global Ear: Washington, DC: DIY still thrives in the hardcore heartland. By Jonathan Williger

The Inner Sleeve: Sarah Davachi on Genesis's Trespass

Epiphanies: Pamela Z picks up the phonemes

Print Run: New music books: Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson; Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock 'N' Roll by Peter Stanfield; Musical Migration And Imperial New York: Early Cold War Scenes by Brigid Cohen; Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose; The Artistry Of Bheki Mseleku by Andrew Lilley; Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise And Fall Of SST Records by Jim Ruland; Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks And The Story Of Reggae by Stuart Borthwick; Zabelle Panosian: I Am Servant Of Your Voice by Ian Nagoski with Harout Arakelian & Harry Kezelian

On Screen: Anisia Uzeyman & Saul Williams Neptune Frost; Toby Amies In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50

On Location: Ivan Shopov + Vague Voices + Hiro Kone + Evitceles, Sofia, Bulgaria; Black Josh & Milkavelli W + Lee Scott + Stinkin Slumrok, Brighton, UK; Robyn Hitchcock, London, UK; Rewire 2022, The Hague, Netherlands; Bang On A Can Long Play, New York, US; Ende Tymes 12: Night One, New York, US; Joe McPhee/Decoy, London, UK; Mdou Moctar, London, UK; Tectonics, Glasgow, UK; Yemandja, Berkeley, US; Intonal, Malmo, Sweden

On Site: William Kentridge/Nhlanhla Mahlangu/Kyle Shepherd SIBYL; TEGH & BAW SINK_VESSEL

Soundcheck: 106, Anteloper, Felicia Atkinson, Avvitagalli, Caterina Barbieri, Better Corners, Billain, The Black Albumen, Black Midi, Matt Carlson, Helena Celle, Madeleine Cocolas, Rhodri Davies, Degradation, Diatom Deli, Deliluh, The Dream Syndicate, Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Shiva Feshareki, Final, Fire! featuring Stephen O'Malley & David Sandstrom, G36 Vs JK Flesh, Gav & Jord, Hercules & Love Affair, Heldon, Randy Holden, Holy Tongue, Cat Hope, Susie Ibarra & Tashi Dorji, Iceberg, I Like To Sleep, Jackson/Hoogland/Abrams/Avery, Michael Gregory Jackson, Glenn Jones, Kendrick Lamar, Ruaridh Law, Left Hand Cuts Off The Right & Tasos Stamou, Valentina Magaletti, The Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Merzbow/Arcane Device, Merzbow & Lawrence English, Claudia Molitor, u-Ziq, MJ Noble, Noise Against Fascism, O Yuki Conjugate, Ohyung, Origin, Osasco Dynamics, Phase, Plastikman & Chilly Gonzales, Flora Purim, Quelle Chris, George Rayner-Law & Vinegar Tom, Shit & Shine, Mark Stewart, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Aaron Turner, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Various Taraxia

The Boomerang: Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band, Bill Bruford, Ian Carr with Nucleus Plus, Chillin Villain Empire, Lining Time, Anthony Moore, Nucleus, Tom Recchion, John Schuller, Scritti Politti, Surface Of The Earth, John Tilbury, David Toop, Ut, VALV?, Barney Wilen, Wire

Notes: Inside this issue:

Eugene S Robinson: The vocalist, author, actor and martial artist talks writing, performance and lazy journalism. By Laina Dawes.

Michael Allen Z Prime: The ecologist and bioelectrical composer unveils a new collection. By Julian Cowley; Plants on disc: Carlo Patrao's user's guide to music made with flora

O YAMA O: Cafe Oto's house band attempt to liberate the modern song. By Ilia Rogatchevski; Cafe Oto on disc: Stewart Smith surveys the most dynamic live albums from the venue

Invisible Jukebox: Nappy Nina:Will The Wire's mystery record selection leave the Brooklyn rapper in Dumb Doubt or will she prove Extra Ordinary? Tested by Olivia Bradley-Skill.

Garrett Saracho: The Los Angeles keyboardist rematerialises after years in the wilderness. By Daniel Spicer

Unlimited Editions: Trost Records

Unofficial Channels: Metal Music Theory

Lauren Bousfield: US artist pits maximalism against consumerism. By Claire Biddles

Magnus Granberg: Into the twilight zone with the Swedish composer. By Nick Storring

Me Lost Me: The Newcastle avant balladeer is game for folk. By Abi Bliss

Lary 7: Explosive junk from the New York based polymath. By Jo Hutton

Global Ear: Lviv: Tale of the Oleksandr Yurchenko tape. By Olena Pohonchenkova

The Inner Sleeve: Ale Hop on Popol Vuh's Einsjager Und Siebenjager

Epiphanies: Kyle Gann's musical world is shattered by Morton Feldman

Print Run: Yours In Beethoven: A Memoir Of My Musical Journey With Julius Eastman by Rocco Di Pietro; Bernhard Lang: Critical Guides To Contemporary Composers by Christine Dysers; Nadia Boulanger: War Years In America And Her Last Decades by James Whipple Miller; A Strange Celestial Road: My Time In The Sun Ra Arkestra by Ahmed Abdullah; Technical Manifesto For The Deviant Sound Engineer by wtRobina; The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress by Rick Lopez; Pull Down The Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984-86 - Tales From The New Zealand Music Underground by Richard Langston; Schwarzwaldfahrt by Peter Brotzmann & Han Bennink + David Keenan; Phill Niblock: Nothing But Working by Mathieu Copeland

On Screen: In-Edit International Music Documentary Film Festival

On Location: Ende Tymes, New York, US; Voice Actor, London, UK; John Wiese + Steve Beresford + Tears | Ov London, UK; Large Unit 10 Year Anniversary, Oslo, Norway; The Theatre Of Eternal Music, New York, US; Moor Mother, London, UK; Intonal Festival, Malmo, Sweden; Puppet + 6501, Shenzhen, China; Presences Electronique, Paris, France; Sonica, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Marina Herlop + Aga Ujima, London, UK; Helen + Samara Lubelski, New York, US

On Site: FM Einheit & Vinzenz Schwab: High On The Wind Luckenwalde, Germany; Shezad Dawood: Night In The Garden Of Love Brussels, Belgium

Soundcheck: Ruth Anderson & Annea Lockwood, Anohni & The Johnsons, Athos, Boris & Uniform, Bulbils, The Cat & Bells Club, Cloud Circuit, Shirley Collins, Laurence Crane, Creep Show, Ivan Cunningham's Freedom Pie, Amy Cutler, Decisive Pink, Dinner Party, Divide & Dissolve, Maxine Funke, Andrey Guryanov, PJ Harvey, Hawkwind, House Of All, Hunteress, Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke, Philip Jeck & Chris Watson, Khanate, Killah Priest, Kool Keith, Kukangendai, Piotr Kurek, Graham Lambkin, Lankum, Lauten Der Seele, Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void, Brandon Lopez, Mong Tong, James Moore, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Jim O'Rourke, O YAMA O, Rain Parade, Nicol Eltzroth Rosendorf, deVon Russell Gray/Nathan Hanson/Davu Seru, Sanam, Shapednoise, Soft Machine, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Dwight Trible, Gregg Turner Group, UCC Harlo, Ben Vida with Yarn/Wire & Nina Dante, Wolf Eyes, Peter Zummo, Various Echolocation: Resonate From Here

The Boomerang: AR Kane, Derek Bailey, Charlie Morrow & Friends, Ian Carr with Nucleus, Ornette Coleman, Corum, Charles Curtis/Alan Licht/ Dean Roberts, Rick Deitrick, The Fucking Champs, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Charlie Morrow/Sten Hanson/Carles Santos, Nana/Nelson Angelo/Novelli, Nucleus, Arthur Russell, Alan Skidmore, Nana Vasconcelos, Various Cease & Resist: Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk in The UK 1979-86, Various Holy Church Of The Ecstatic Soul: Gospel, Funk & Soul At The Crossroads 1971-83, Various We're An American Band: A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973

Notes: Inside the brand new issue:

Tomeka Reid: The cellist, composer, improvisor and band leader goes from strength to strength across several creative projects. By Stewart Smith

KMRU: The Kenyan sound artist finds a new mode of listening on his collaboration with Kevin Martin. By Ilia Rogatchevski

Bodies In Motion: Dance and music collide in the creative worlds of Malik Nashad Sharpe, NWAKKE and Bianca Scout. By Emily Bick and Misha Farrant

Gordan: Folk songs of the Balkans plug into noise and industrial currents in this cross-continental trio. By Abi Bliss

Tongue In The Mind: DJ and conceptualist Juliana Huxtable joins forces with Jealous Orgasm and Via App to rock the club. By Claire Biddles

Invisible Jukebox: Karl Bartos: Will the ex-Kraftwerk man have more fun computing The Wire's mystery record collection? Tested by Leah Kardos

Global Ear: Serbia's capital Belgrade is a key hub of East-West musical exchange. By Robert Rigney

Unlimited Editions: Notice Recordings

Unofficial Channels: A Moon Age Daydream

The Inner Sleeve: Alison Cotton on John Cale & Terry Riley's Church Of Anthrax

Nick Dunston: Afro-surrealist anti-opera from the heart of Berlin's new music community. By Peter Margasak

Nika Son: From concrete sounds to intermediate states with the Hamburg sound artist. By Louise Gray

Henry Birdsey: Myths and mysteries in New England nurture another style of country music. By Milos Hroch

Sisso & Maiko: Making a singeli and dance in East Africa's cutting edge club music scene. By Joshua Minsoo Kim

Epiphanies: Roulette artistic director Jim Staley's Berlin army adventures prime him for the Downtown NYC scene

Soundcheck: Actress, Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin, Karl Bartos, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, John Cale, Coffin Prick, Coffin Pricks, Loren Connors & Chris Cochrane, Chris Corsano, Darkthrone, d'Eon, Taylor Deupree, Dirty Three, JPA Falzone, Final, Mabe Fratti, Limpe Fuchs, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Alastair Galbraith, Miha Gantar, Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, Ghostface Killah, Goden, Liam Hockley, HYPER GAL, Iceboy Violet & Nueen, Arushi Jain, Janel & Anthony, Kaelan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson, Kronos Quartet & Friends, Lanark Artefax, The Lemon Twigs, Low Leaf, Raymond MacDonald, Rob Mazurek, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit, The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Annelies Monsere, Michael Morley, Michael Morley & Joachim Nordwall, Multiples, David Murray Quartet, Meshell Ndegeocello, NikNak, QOA, Redd Kross, The Righteous Yeah, Sarke, Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance, Shellac, Squid Pisser, Star Splitter, Sumac, Sun Ra, Kavus Torabi, The Utopia Strong, Ulcerate, Upright Forms, Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/ Dylan Day, Winter

The Boomerang: Bad Brains, Ernest Berk, Broadcast, Elton Dean's Unlimited Saxophone Company, Laibach, Photek, Royal Trux, Akio Suzuki, Various In The Beginning There Was Rhythm

Print Run: Rhythm In Nature: An Ecology Of Rhythm by Susie Ibarra; Streaming Music, Streaming Capital by Eric Drott; The Musician As Philosopher: New York's Vernacular Avant-Garde 1958-1978 by Michael Gallope; Terrible Freedom: The Life And Work Of Lucia Dlugoszewski by Amy C Beal; In The Brewing Luminous: The Life And Music Of Cecil Taylor by Philip Freeman; Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk And Fanzines In Britain, 1976-88 by Matthew Worley; A Worm's Eye View From A Bird's Beak by Raven Chacon

On Screen: Gary Hustwit Eno

On Location: Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands; Jehst + Confucius MC + Sleazy F Baby + SINDYSMAN, Manchester, UK; Variations Festival, Nantes, France; eavesdropping, London, UK; Jeff Mills, Tokyo, Japan; Charles Curtis, London, UK; Kim Gordon, New York, US; Sonic Protest, Paris, France; Jlin, London, UK; Syphen, London, UK; Sonica Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

On Site: John Wynne, The Organ Recital, London, UK; Massimo Bartolini with Caterina Barbieri/Gavin Bryars/Kali Malone, Due Qui/To Hear, Venice, Italy; Caterina Barbieri/Gigi Masin/Courtesy Gamble/ Opium Child, The Imaginary Place, Venice, Italy