Reviews Features Inside The Wire 452 | October 2021 43 Reviews Index 44 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 45 Sone Institute Modern decomposition. By Dan Barrow 53 Purbayan Chatterjee Hands across the borders. By Neil Kulkarni 65 Nikki Giovanni Poems, prayers and promises. By Greg Tate 67 Van Der Graaf Generator Hammill salad. By Daniel Spicer 69 Print Run New music books: sound art and climate change, a Deep South punkhouse, John Lurie’s memoirs, and more 72 On Screen New films and DVDs: Great Noises That Fill The Air: Music, Poetry And Performance On Film; What Is Man And What Is Guitar?: Keith Rowe 74 On Location Recent festivals, live events and streams: Alligator: Go!, Jazz Em Agosto, Bang On A Can Loud Weekend, Charlemagne Palestine, and more 79 On Site Recent art shows: Ilia Rogatchevski & Laura Rogatchevskaia’s Echo Chamber; Sonambiente 8 Unlimited Editions C/Site Recordings 8 Unofficial Channels Song Work 10 They Hate Change Florida duo Tampa with rap’s DNA. By Neil Kulkarni 12 id m theft able Water palaver for the improvising tuba player. By Joe Murray 14 More Eaze Suburban collage from the Texas based composer. By Antonio Poscic 16 Siksa Polish duo confront oppression. By Miloš Hroch 18 Global Ear New York’s TIME:SPANS festival revives the intimacy of live sound 68 The Inner Sleeve Carlos Casas on a Batavia gasometer pressure gauge plate 98 Epiphanies Thomas Köner recalls formative vibrations 4 Masthead 6 Letters 42 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 91 Out There Festivals, streams, gigs, clubs 96 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs Invisible Jukebox 20 Theresa Wong × Ellen Fullman The Bay Area experimental musicians tackle a mystery record selection. Tested by each other Cover: Faust photographed by Ronald Dick 24 Mary Lou Williams Taking in vaudeville, bebop, gospelinflected hard bop, free jazz and beyond, the late composer’s career is littered with gems of a prescient modernity. By Alexander Hawkins 28 Faust On the eve of a new box set chronicling their 1970s music, the German band’s members and crew discuss their contrarian art of falling apart that has kept them going over 50 years. By Daniel Spicer. Plus, a survey of Faust’s often equally fractious contemporaries including: 39 Amon Düül A Bavarian psychedelic legacy. By Edwin Pouncey 40 Klaus Dinger La Düsseldorf and other Neu! adventures. By David Elliott 41 Dieter Moebius Clusters of collaboration. By Matt Krefting