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The Wire bookshop An online shop dealing in selected specialist music books. All subscribers to the magazine get automatic discounts on all titles in the shop. Go to thewire. co.uk/shop Improvisation Rites: From John Cage’s Song Books To The Scratch Orchestra’s Nature Study Notes Stefan Szczelkun Stefan Szczelkun Pbk 168pp A Memoir: From Oran To Marseilles (1938-1992) Maurice El Médioni Repeater Pbk 256pp Sonic Agency: Sound And Emergent Forms Of Resistance Brandon LaBelle Goldsmiths Press Hbk 224pp The New Analog: Listening And Reconnecting In A Digital World Damon Krukowski The New Press Hbk 224pp Audio Culture: Readings In Modern Music (Revised Edition) Christoph Cox & Daniel Warner (Eds) Bloomsbury Pbk 664pp Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women And The Women That Love Them Rhian E Jones & Eli Davies (Eds) Repeater Pbk 288 pp Getatchew Mekuria: The Lion Of Ethiopian Saxophone The Ex (Eds) Terp Records Pbk 170 pp The Music Of The Future Robert Barry Repeater Pbk 184 pp Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & The Meaning Of Grime Jeffrey Boakye Influx Press Hbk 400 pp Post Punk Then And Now Gavin Butt, Kodwo Eshun & Mark Fisher (Eds) Repeater Pbk 300pp Mama Said There’d Be Days Like This: My Life In The Jazz World Val Wilmer The Women’s Press Pbk 377 pp The Lived Experience Of Improvisation In Music, Learning And Life Simon Rose Intellect/University Of Chicago Press Pbk 257 pp
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Inside The Wire 409 | March 2018 Graves by Andreas Laszlo Konrath ilford C over: M igh); Pau lease ( Ha Isaac B 96 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs 24 Robert Haigh From industrial music via drum ’n’ bass to minimal piano, the former Omni Trio operative has carved out a unique career thanks to his deeply interrogative approach to rhythm and melody. By Simon Reynolds l Davis ( Psyphony) 4 Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream News and more from under the radar 17 Unofficial Channels Negative Insight 42 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 91 Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings 28 Psyphonics The esoteric practice of channelling ideas and information via sound has an extensive secret history, taking in TC Lethbridge, Daphne Oram, Chris Watson, Led Zeppelin and Aphex Twin. By Dan Wilson Bites 10 Neutral The Swedish duo repeat and recollect. By Ilia Rogatchevski 12 Kate Carr The London based field recordist and label founder makes and unmakes her world of sound. By Clive Bell 14 Todd Barton & Ursula K Le Guin A 1985 cassette of future folk by the composer and the late author has just resurfaced. By Emily Pothast 16 Stroom Ziggy Devriendt’s label and radio hub uncovers Belgium’s hidden reverse. By Tristan Bath Global Ear 18 Belfast The city’s LGBTQ and feminist communities step up to provide a safe space for selfexpression. By Tara McEvoy Invisible Jukebox 20 Young Echo Will the Bristol collective fall prey to the killing sound of The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Daisy Hyde 70 The Inner Sleeve SIREN on Maren Karlson’s City Of Destroying Angels 98 Epiphanies Veronica Vasicka looks back on a misspent youth in the record stores of New York City 32 Milford Graves The percussionist, herbalist and educator has cut a titanic figure in free music for almost 60 years. By Alan Licht. Plus: Julian Cowley on Graves’s essential recordings 43 Reviews Index 44 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 45 Lea Bertucci New York state of mind. By Julian Cowley 51 Tal National Hybrid vehicle. By Francis Gooding 67 High Rise Penthouse and pavement. By Matt Krefting 71 On Screen Phil Cox’s Betty: They Say I’m Different 72 Print Run New music books: Jamaican music, sound in experimental film, Scott Walker’s lyrics, Turkish psych, and more 76 On Site Recent exhibitions: From Ear To Ear To Eye: Sounds And Stories From Across The Arab World, Super Field 77 On Location Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: The Electric Lucifer, We Breathe Binary, Bastard Assignments, and more

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Inside The Wire 409 | March 2018

Graves by Andreas Laszlo Konrath ilford

C over: M

igh); Pau lease ( Ha

Isaac B

96 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs 24 Robert Haigh From industrial music via drum ’n’ bass to minimal piano, the former Omni Trio operative has carved out a unique career thanks to his deeply interrogative approach to rhythm and melody. By Simon Reynolds l Davis ( Psyphony) 4 Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream News and more from under the radar 17 Unofficial Channels Negative Insight 42 Charts

The Office Ambience and other playlists 91 Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

28 Psyphonics The esoteric practice of channelling ideas and information via sound has an extensive secret history, taking in TC Lethbridge, Daphne Oram, Chris Watson, Led Zeppelin and Aphex Twin. By Dan Wilson Bites

10 Neutral The Swedish duo repeat and recollect. By Ilia

Rogatchevski 12 Kate Carr The London based field recordist and label founder makes and unmakes her world of sound. By Clive Bell 14 Todd Barton & Ursula K

Le Guin A 1985 cassette of future folk by the composer and the late author has just resurfaced. By Emily Pothast 16 Stroom Ziggy Devriendt’s label and radio hub uncovers Belgium’s hidden reverse. By Tristan Bath Global Ear 18 Belfast The city’s LGBTQ and feminist communities step up to provide a safe space for selfexpression. By Tara McEvoy Invisible Jukebox 20 Young Echo Will the Bristol collective fall prey to the killing sound of The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Daisy Hyde 70 The Inner Sleeve SIREN on Maren Karlson’s City Of Destroying

Angels 98 Epiphanies

Veronica Vasicka looks back on a misspent youth in the record stores of New York City

32 Milford Graves The percussionist, herbalist and educator has cut a titanic figure in free music for almost 60 years. By Alan Licht. Plus: Julian Cowley on Graves’s essential recordings

43 Reviews Index

44 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 45 Lea Bertucci New York state of mind. By Julian Cowley 51 Tal National Hybrid vehicle. By Francis Gooding 67 High Rise Penthouse and pavement. By Matt Krefting 71 On Screen Phil Cox’s Betty: They Say I’m Different 72 Print Run New music books: Jamaican music, sound in experimental film, Scott Walker’s lyrics, Turkish psych, and more 76 On Site Recent exhibitions: From Ear To Ear To Eye:

Sounds And Stories From Across The Arab World, Super Field 77 On Location Recent festivals, gigs and clubs: The Electric

Lucifer, We Breathe Binary, Bastard Assignments, and more

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