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Review: Few jazz-cats are funky than the Azymuth gang, and few of their albums are funkier than this one. Telecommunication is now 40 years old and so gets this special anniversary reissue and it is the first time it has ever been reissued on vinyl since 1982. The Brazilian trip behind it again drew on national and international influences, bringing samba to jazz-funk across its eight magical cuts. As part of the Jazz Dispensary Series, this has been remastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl so it has never sounded better.

Review: Jonathan Kirby's vision, outlined in his Safe To Disconnect series of albums, is to create psychedelectronic music using a range of vintage and digital instruments. Conjuring up an aesthetic somewhere between apocryphal library music, lounge-trance and retrofuture exotics, this follow-up to his 2021 album of the same name channels both smooth and hypnotic moments, and is thus a worthy addition to the catalogue of Swiss label Second Thoughts. Highlights include the tearful dreamcore of 'New Girl' and the out-of-time, arpeggiation-string combo on 'So Much In Love'.

Review: Finnish jazz collective Oiro Pena is fronted by the prolific composer and saxophonist Antti Vauhkonen and this new album was recorded in a studio as well as some bedrooms and less salubrious locations around Helsinki, It was recorded in 2022 and mixes up lo-fi jazz, experimental sounds, spiritual overtones and avant-garde musical forms with four vocal tracks featuring Merikukka Kiviharju. As well as original lines, she sings parts from some classic Finnish folk songs. It makes for a powerful and timeless record that comes in heavily limited quantities.

Review: Fat Freddy's Drop originally released Blackbird in 2013 on their own The Drop label, and now they're revisiting this surefire classic with a remix package which takes their mellow, soulful dub strain in some surprising directions. The Remix of 'Blackbird' which opens up the album features Kings picking up the mic, while the mighty Nightmares on Wax gets busy with a version of 'Russia'. Yarni and Liv East take 'Silver & Gold' in the direction of loose, earthy house and Feiertag adds some shimmering dub tech, minimal and broken beat touches to his version of 'Mother Mother'. It's an ambitious and expansive collection for home listeners and eclectic DJs alike.

Review: We last heard from Texan ambient maestros Zake & City of Dawn on last year's Agape, and now the pair return with another extended sojourn into the infinite horizon of their home turf. Squarely focused on slow release drone with a melancholic lilt, theirs is a music of patience which revels in the subtlest of harmonic, tonal and textural shifts. The title track of the album forms a natural centrifugal point around which the other laconic pieces unfurl, resulting in the kind of pristine, placid record you'll reach for whenever you need the surest of pure meditations.

Review: ***B-STOCK: Creasing to corner of outer sleeve, product unopened & in excellent condition***


David Vanian, splitting off from his role as the lead singer of the Damned, once made an effective detour known as David Vanian and the Phantom Chords. The Chords' self-titled debut from 1995, reissued here, is a fusion of rockabilly and gothic rock - often classified as gothabilly. The band perform a mixture of covers and original material, including 'Voodoo Doll', 'The House Is Haunted' and 'Jezebel', laying down the massive, twangy, incipient sound of gothabilly with Vanian himself sounding as if to be singing in a massive catacomb's chasm.

Review: Japanese math rock band Tricot hailed from Kyoto and formed back in 2010. The trio featured vocalist and guitarist Ikumi "Ikkyu" Nakajima, guitarist Motoko "Motifour" Kida, and bassist Hiromi "Hirohiro" Sagane and they soon became synonymous with intricately constructed rhythms. They are prolific, too, having put out seven albums so far and A N D is their second from March 2015. It came on their own label Bakuretsu Records and now gets reissued on black and pink vinyl. Its meticulously and tightly woven grooves still stand up almost a decade on.

Review: Kyoto four-piece Tricot deliver an extremely pleasing album in the form of T H E, their debut studio album and an incendiary, wayward project in the realm of sugary math rock via pop. The band have remained hard at this formula for years, but it's T H E that really cements their sound, thanks to time ensuring the polishing of its constituent parts - be it the breathy, knife-edge vocals of singer Ikkyu Nakajima; stop-start counterpoints, rhythms and harmonies; and themes of struggle relating to instant gratification, projection and the creative process.

Review: American group The Creators are long time soul maestros who have had some of their best bits reissued by gold standard diggers Athens of the North and now it is Stream who offer up this new-old 45rpm. It features the heart rending and swopping soul sounds of 'I Can't Believe It's True (Where Did Our Love Go)' with its lavish instrumentals and slow, persuasive rhythms really leaving their. On the flip, you'll get treated to a mono version of 'I Can't Believe It's True (Where Did Our Love Go)' which is more raw.

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

Review: Blaqk Audio aka AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget dropped their second album Bright Black Heaven back in 2012. It now gets reissued via Music On Vinyl and has been cut on 45rpm for extra low-end punchy and louder volume. It comes on individually hand-numbered clear vinyl and is housed in a gatefold sleeve so is a special collector's piece indeed. Upon release, the album topped the US charts in the Billboard Dance and Electronic categories and has a moody synth vibe, darl pop sounds and plenty of 80s flourishes all bottled up with some gothic overtones.