The Wire Tapper included with this issue.
On the cover: Raven Chacon: The Diné/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun. Inside: 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. By Spenser Tomson; 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. Plus 40 pages of reviews including Backxwash: Done and dusted. By Claire Biddles; Labyrinthe Des Esprits: Therapeutic settings. By Spenser Tomson; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre OST: Pleasures of the flesh. By Philip Brophy; BEAM SPLITTER x Xiu Xiu: Pan-Asian improv. By Daniel Glassman; and much, much more.
