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Inside The Wire 385 | March 2016

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24 Church organs The organ may seem an unlikely avant garde instrument, but a handful of contemporary artists are finding new uses for its awe-inspiring sonic impact. By Philip Clark

4 Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream News and more from under the radar

9 Trip Or Squeek Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil

17 Unofficial Channels Circuit Sniffing

40 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists

82 Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

88 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs

28 Awful Records + Harsh Riddims Atlanta, Georgia has been a hiphop heartland since the 1990s. Now a new breed of lo-fi outliers clustered around indie labels Awful and Harsh Riddims are edging the music into the twilight zone. By Ian McQuaid

34 Boris The Japanese trio have embraced rock,

metal, noise, pop, drone and more in their 25 year career to date. They’re now set to release a new collaboration with noise magus Merzbow. By James Hadfield

Bites

10 Ánde Somby The Sámi vocalist runs with the wolves. By Clive Bell

12 Anenon Los Angeles musician Brian Allen Simon maps the city’s freeways. By Sam Lefebvre

14 Anna Meredith The Scottish composer reveals a talent for kaleidoscopic avant pop. By Abi Bliss

16 Alex McLean The algorave pioneer explains the allure of live coding. By Emily Bick

Global Ear 18 Calais Migrants in the French port city find a few moments of peace in folk songs and sound systems. By Celeste Cantor-Stephens

Invisible Jukebox 20 Andrew Weatherall The UK house and techno veteran rattles his sabre at The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Chal Ravens

66 The Inner Sleeve Jazzman’s Gerald Short on Jef Gilson &

Malagasy’s ’Zao

90 Epiphanies Baron Mordant’s tongue is untied by Nick

Edwards aka Ekoplekz

41 Reviews Index 42 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including:

43 Mamiffer Faith in the present. By Marc Masters

45 David Bowie The star goes out. By Louise Gray

49 Adrian Younge Retro temptations. By Neil Kulkarni

52 Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino The hidden ritual. By William Hutson

54 Acoustic guitarists Finger pickin’ good. By Bill Meyer

63 Flying Saucer Attack Daylight discs. By Abi Bliss

65 AMM The eternal now. By Daniel Spicer

67 Print Run New music books: new works on Bob Cobbing and Charles Lloyd, plus adventures in music theory and new ways of listening

70 On Screen New films and DVDs: Uwe Rasch’s Aus

Vierundzwanzig, Nicolas Collins’s Salvaged: Compositions 1986–2014

71 On Location Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: Ramleh,

Peter Zinovieff, Simon Bookish and King Ayisoba 74 On Site Recent Exhibitions: Dean Blunt in London,

Alien Encounters in Nottingham