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The Wire 488 October 2024

Reviews

Features

47 Reviews Index 48 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 49 Wendy Eisenberg Visionary songs. By Stewart Smith 54 Ivo Perelman Harmonic progression. By Andy Hamilton 71 Byard Lancaster Philadelphia freedom. By Byron Coley 73 Print Run New music books,

including: 75 Two-Headed Doctor:

Listening For Ghosts in Dr John’s Gris-Gris David Toop is haunted by a

New Orleans audio fiction. By Michaelangelo Matos 77 On Screen New films and DVDs 78 On Location Recent live events and streams, including: 80 Supernormal Rural psychedelia. By Derek Walmsley 84 On Site Recent exhibitions

8 Global Ear The psychedelic jams of Buzz’Azaz unite the divided city of Nicosia. By Robert Rigney 10 Unlimited Editions Nashazphone connects the global noise underground with North African sounds. By Louis Pattison 12 The Inner Sleeve Céline Gillain on Leonard

Cohen’s I’m Your Man 14 Jabu Bristol’s bass explorers reach dreampop nirvana. By Louis Pattison 16 Gregory TS Walker A forgetten suite for planetariums is a celestial trip. By Claire Biddles

18 Viktar Siamaška Improvisation and the airwaves provide solidarity for this Belarusian exile. By Ilia Rogatchevski 106 Epiphanies Mark Webber has his mind expanded by Spaceman 3

22 Invisible Jukebox Wolfgang Voigt Will the Kompakt founder prove a Total success with The Wire’s mystery selection? Tested by Derek Walmsley

34 The Primer: John Butcher A user’s guide to the saxophone innovator, from groups and collaborations to solo meditations. By Seymour Wright

26 Seppuku Pistols Danko Iida’s anarchic performance troupe brings together the legacy of punk with Japanese pre-history. By Biba Kopf

40 Keiji Haino From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock’s outer limits. By James Hadfield

4 Masthead 6 Letters 46 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 99 Out There Festivals and gig listings 104 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs

30 Shamica Ruddock Dub echoes and sonic fictions evoke postcolonial and diasporic experience in the work of the London artist. By Esi Eshun

Cover photography by Kazuyuki Funaki