The Wire
Issue 475 - September 2023
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Don & Moki Cherry: An 18 page special surveying the globe-trotting creative achievements of Don Cherry’s organic music family by The Wire’s crack writing team: Frances Morgan, David Grundy, Howard Mandel, Neil Kulkarni, Francis Gooding, Magnus Nygren, Gabriel Bristow, Bill Meyer, Marcus J Moore, Pierre Crépon, Matt Krefting, Phil Freeman, Emily Pothast, Clifford Allen, Clive Bell and Jo Hutton.
The Pitch: The Berlin improvising collective connect the sonic with the social. By Peter Margasak
Invisible Jukebox: GAIKA: Will The Wire’s mystery record selection reduce the London polymath to “Eternal Tears”? Tested by Ciaran Thapar;
Feng Jiangzhou: Experimental rock gets down and dirty in the hands of the Beijing noise veteran. By Anla Li.
Unlimited Editions: Pakapi Records
Unofficial Channels: Ethio-Pain
Aho Ssan: Networking with the Paris based producer. By Antonio Poscic
Powerplant: UK-Ukraine synth punks touch grass. By Spenser Tomson
Janneke van der Putten: Strange overtones from the Dutch vocalist. By Abi Bliss
Global Ear: São Paulo: Tape against tradition in the Brazilian metropolis. By Romulo Moraes
The Inner Sleeve: Suzanne Ciani on Glenn Gould/Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Goldberg Variations
Epiphanies: John Butcher goes deeper underground