Wire, Issue 494, April 2025

Raven Chacon: The Dine/Navajo composer foregrounds unheard and silenced voices in his radical works for ensembles, electronics and noise. By Esi Eshun Ingrid Laubrock: The New York based reedist creates settings for koans and poems as part of a unique new compositional practice. By Stewart Smith Bastard Assignments: The radical new music ensemble get lost in the woods with their satire of the English countryside. By Robert Barry Infinity Knives: From Tom And Jerry to sociopolitics, rapper Tariq Ravelomanana keeps it unreal. By Lucy Thraves Cleaners From Venus: Martin Newell's songcraft and wordplay across many DIY albums evidence a uniquely wired mind. By Mike Barnes Lukas De Clerck: Brussels musician extends ancient pipe instruments into the present moment. By Antonio Poscic Penelope Trappes: Australian artist voices griefs past and present. By Spenser Tomson Ciaran Mackle: Sample manipulator twists folk song into cubist forms. By Daryl Worthington Invisible Jukebox: Jeff Mills: Will Detroit techno's great conceptualist be a wizard IDing The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Chal Ravens Unlimited Editions: Robert Ridley-Shackleton's Cardboard Club cutouts The Inner Sleeve: Loraine James on Circa Survive's On Letting Go Global Ear: Osaka's proto-industrialists revitalise the city's experimental music scene. By Jere Kilpinen Epiphanies: Golem Mecanique rewinds to a treasured VHS tape of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone Against The Grain: Mosi Reeves takes on underground hiphop's gender imbalance Soundcheck: Laura Agnusdei, Anzu Quartet, Apparitions, Backxwash, Black Rain, Francois J Bonnett/Sarah Davachi, Brulez Les Meubles, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Cliche Toupee, Clipping, Chick Corea, Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Earth Ball, en creux, The Ex, Ash Fure, Geologist & DS, Gnod & White Hills, Judith Hamann, Lonnie Holley, Imperial Triumphant, Eiko Ishibashi, Kafka's Ibiki, Kuunatic, Labyrinthe Des Esprits, Brandon Lopez, Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor, Masma Dream World, Will Mason Quartet, Zo? Mc Pherson, more eaze & claire rousay, Fred Moten & Brandon L?pez, Bob Mould, J?r?me Noetinger, Conrad Pack, Panda Bear, Pink Must, Sophia Djebel Rose, Sandwell District, Colin Self, Sissy Spacek, Aleksandra S?y?, Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer, Spiral Deluxe, H?ma Utku, Wolf Eyes x Anthony Braxton, Anna Webber, Zhu Songjie, Rutger Zuydervelt, Various Aggregate: New Works For Automated Pipe Organs The Columns: Avant Rock by Joseph Stannard; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Sam Davies; Hiphop & R&B by John Morrison; Jazz & Improv by Andy Hamilton; Modern Composition by Julian Cowley; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Raymond Cummings; Size Matters by Byron Coley The Boomerang: Cadentia Nova Danica; Tobe Hooper & Wayne Bell; Michael Gregory Jackson; Jaroslav Koran; Oksana Linde; Ted Lucas; The Saints; The Sex Pistols; Smegma; Smith & Mighty; John Tchicai; Various Disco Charge Presents More Sin: Box Of Sin 2; Various Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music Print Run: 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music by Jennifer Walshe; (A)tonal Adventures: A Chronicle Of Intakt Records by Patrik Landolt; Fusion! From Alice Coltrane To Moor Mother by Alex Coles; Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide To Late 20th-Century Underground Music by David Keenan; What Do You Call It: From Grassroots To The Golden Era Of UK Rap by David Kane; MC5: An Oral Biography Of Rock's Most Revolutionary Band by Brad Tolinski, Jaan Uhelszki & Ben Edmonds; Peter Brotzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution And The Politics Of Improvisation by Daniel Spicer; Brotzmann In My Focus by Ziga Koritnik; Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage And The Aesthetics Of Oblivion by Giorgio Biancorosso; Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story Of Dungeon Synth by Jordan Whiteman On Location: David Murray/Haker