Inside
The Wire 489 November 2024
Reviews
Features
47 Reviews Index 48 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 49 Blood Incantation Multidimensional metal. By Phil Freeman 57 FaithNYC Lower East Side laments. By Michael A Gonzales 71 Alan Lamb On the wire(s). By Spenser Tomson 72 Print Run New music books,
including: 73 Music From Elsewhere:
Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds And Other Curious Sources Doug Skinner’s esoteric menagerie of the uncanny. By Louis Pattison 75 On Screen New films and DVDs 76 On Location Recent live events and streams, including: 79 Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga
Rhythm Force Polyrhythmic spree. By Francis Gooding
10 Global Ear The Bolderāja venue reaches back to Riga’s underground past. By Daryl Worthington 12 Unlimited Editions Avant garde language games with the Reading Group label. By David Grundy 14 The Inner Sleeve Eleni Poulou on The Electric
Family: Mariopaint – The 12 Inch 16 Seo Bedroom beats from Lagos. By Joe Muggs 18 Callahan & Witscher Experimental music colleagues burst into song. By Daniel Neofetou
20 Kamilya Jubran The Palestinian oudist shifts scales and pitches to keep up the resistance. By Jo Hutton 98 Epiphanies Working in Bob Moog’s studio inspired David Borden to develop new capabilities for synthesizers
22 Invisible Jukebox Pharmakon Will The Wire’s mystery record collection prove a Bestial Burden for Margaret Chardiet? Tested by James Gormley
26 Water Damage Don’t mess with Austin, Texas’s shapeshifting drone rock network. By Miloš Hroch
4 The Wire Tapper 66 A track-by-track guide to this issue’s free CD 6 Masthead 8 Letters 46 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 92 Out There Festivals and gig listings 96 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs
30 Frank Chickens Kazuko Hohki’s ninja warriors celebrate four decades of iconoclastic performance. By Claire Biddles
34 Once Upon A Time
In Vilnius The journey of avant rock trailblazers IVTKYGYG embodies the tensions and creative fire of a reborn Lithuania. By Ilia Rogatchevski
40 Marshall Allen The Arkestra’s legendary guiding light celebrates his century with his very first solo album. By John Morrison
Cover photography by Adam Powell
