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The Wire 487 September 2024
Reviews
Features
43 Reviews Index 44 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 45 Laurie Anderson Plane song. By Louise Gray 53 Belong/Seefeel/
Three Quarter Skies New shoes. By Abi Bliss 67 Bobby Hutcherson Vibes theory. By Andy Hamilton 69 Print Run New music books etc,
including: 73 The Black Chord Photographer David Corio’s images of Black musicians revisited. By Steve Barker 73 On Screen New films and DVDs 74 On Location Recent live events and streams, including: 76 Gnaoua & World Music
Festival Lords of the trance. By Francis Gooding 80 On Site Recent exhibitions
8 Global Ear Improvisation makes alliance with metal in Barcelona. By Daryl Worthington 10 Unlimited Editions North West England’s
YOUTH label aims for pure imperfection. By Derek Walmsley 12 The Inner Sleeve Eve Libertine on Annie
Anxiety’s Soul Possession 14 petals The open remit of free jazz provides the platform for poetic utopias for the Ugandan polymath. By David Grundy 16 Erica Dawn Lyle Punk psychogeography and guitar jams interrogate Florida’s capitalist excesses. By Xenia Benivolski
17 Howard Thomas The horror film fan and Slum
Village associate explores the darker side of techno. By Derek Walmsley 98 Epiphanies Roy Claire Potter finds the world in a David Foster Wallace story’s use of apostrophes
4 Masthead 6 Letters 42 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 91 Out There Festivals and gig listings 96 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs
18 Invisible Jukebox Melt-Banana Will the Japanese duo pull a fast one on The Wire’s mystery record collection? Tested by James Hadfield
22 Dialect Paganism meets hedonism in Andrew PM Hunt’s blueprint for a pastoral future. By Abi Bliss
24 Pavel Richter Tape loops and ambient meditations provided an escape from Czechoslovakia’s rock underground. By Miloš Hroch
28 Farida Amadou The electric bassist turns the instrument upside down in search of new sounds. By Stewart Smith
32 Steve Beresford UK free improvisation’s great survivor reflects on half a century of upending expectations around a clutch of new releases. By Daniel Spicer
36 The Body & Dis Fig Sludge rock and extreme vocals create a space for solidarity and friendship in this cross- continental collaboration. By Antonio Poscic
Cover photography by Gracie Hammond