Wire 485 July 2024

Sisso & Maiko: Making a singeli and dance in East Africa’s cutting edge club music scene. By Joshua Minsoo Kim

Epiphanies: Roulette artistic director Jim Staley’s Berlin army adventures prime him for the Downtown NYC scene

Soundcheck: Actress, Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin, Karl Bartos, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, John Cale, Coffin Prick, Coffin Pricks, Loren Connors & Chris Cochrane, Chris Corsano, Darkthrone, d’Eon, Taylor Deupree, Dirty Three, JPA Falzone, Final, Mabe Fratti, Limpe Fuchs, FUJI|||||||||||TA, Alastair Galbraith, Miha Gantar, Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, Ghostface Killah, Göden, Liam Hockley, HYPER GAL, Iceboy Violet & Nueen, Arushi Jain, Janel & Anthony, Kælan Mikla & Bardi Johannsson, Kronos Quartet & Friends, Lanark Artefax, The Lemon Twigs, Low Leaf, Raymond MacDonald, Rob Mazurek, Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit, The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Annelies Monseré, Michael Morley, Michael Morley & Joachim Nordwall, Multiples, David Murray Quartet, Meshell Ndegeocello, NikNak, QOA, Redd Kross, The Righteous Yeah, Sarke, Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance, Shellac, Squid Pisser, Star Splitter, Sumac, Sun Ra, Kavus Torabi, The Utopia Strong, Ulcerate, Upright Forms, Sam Wilkes/Craig Weinrib/ Dylan Day, Winter

The Boomerang: Bad Brains, Ernest Berk, Broadcast, Elton Dean’s Unlimited Saxophone Company, Laibach, Photek, Royal Trux, Akio Suzuki, Various In The Beginning There Was Rhythm

Print Run: Rhythm In Nature: An Ecology Of Rhythm by Susie Ibarra; Streaming Music, Streaming Capital by Eric Drott; The Musician As Philosopher: New York’s Vernacular Avant-Garde 1958–1978 by Michael Gallope; Terrible Freedom: The Life And Work Of Lucia Dlugoszewski by Amy C Beal; In The Brewing Luminous: The Life And Music Of Cecil Taylor by Philip Freeman; Zerox Machine: Punk, Post-Punk And Fanzines In Britain, 1976–88 by Matthew Worley; A Worm’s Eye View From A Bird’s Beak by Raven Chacon

On Screen: Gary Hustwit Eno

On Location: Rewire, The Hague, Netherlands; Jehst + Confucius MC + Sleazy F Baby + SINDYSMAN, Manchester, UK; Variations Festival, Nantes, France; eavesdropping, London, UK; Jeff Mills, Tokyo, Japan; Charles Curtis, London, UK; Kim Gordon, New York, US; Sonic Protest, Paris, France; Jlin, London, UK; Syphen, London, UK; Sonica Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

On Site: John Wynne, The Organ Recital, London, UK; Massimo Bartolini with Caterina Barbieri/Gavin Bryars/Kali Malone, Due Qui/To Hear, Venice, Italy; Caterina Barbieri/Gigi Masin/Courtesy Gamble/ Opium Child, The Imaginary Place, Venice, Italy

Featured
Tomeka Reid
KMRU
Gordan
Karl Bartos
Bianca Scout
NWAKKE
Malik Nashad Sharpe
Tongue In The Mind
Nick Dunston
Sisso & Maiko
Henry Birdsey
Nika Son
Chris Corsano
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Kim Gordon
Charles Curtis
Jeff Mills
Alison Cotton
Contributors
Stewart Smith
Emily Bick
Misha Farrant
Ilia Rogatchevski
Leah Kardos
Claire Biddles
Abi Bliss
Robert Rigney
Derek Walmsley
Peter Margasak
Louise Gray
Miloš Hroch
Joshua Minsoo Kim