The Wire #488 - October 2024

The Wire #488 - October 2024

On the cover: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock’s outer limits. By James Hadfield. Plus: The Primer: John Butcher: A user’s guide to the saxophone innovator, from groups and collaborations to solo meditations. By Seymour Wright; Seppuku Pistols: Danko Iida’s anarchic performance troupe brings together the legacy of punk with Japanese pre-history. By Biba Kopf; Shamica Ruddock: Dub echoes and sonic fictions evoke postcolonial and diasporic experience in the work of the London artist. By Esi Eshun; Invisible Jukebox: Wolfgang Voigt: Will the Kompakt founder prove a Total success with The Wire’s mystery selection? Tested by Derek Walmsley. Also inside this issue: Global Ear in Nicosia; Unlimited Editions Nashazphone; The Inner Sleeve by Céline Gillain; Jabu; Gregory TS Walker; Viktar Siamaška; Epiphanies by Mark Webber; pages of reviews and much more.

About The Wire

The Wire is an independent print and online music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and provocative, The Wire wages war on the mundane and the mediocre. Its office is based in London, but it serves an international readership.