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50 Records Of The Year plus specialist charts

Maryanne Amacher is a sound artist whose city-to-city installations engulf listeners in ecstatic noise. Here, guitarist Alan Licht offers a personal appreciation of New Music’s best-kept secret.

Read Howard Mandel’s 1992 interview with the late Rashied Ali, who died on 12 August 2009. From issue 98 (April 1992)

Since summer 2003 we have been producing a series of limited edition shirts featuring specially commissioned designs by a variety of artists, designers and musicians. These special edition shirts are printed in limited runs of just 100 shirts each and sold by mail order via the pages of the magazine. Once all 100 have been sold, that’s it, they aren't reprinted. View a gallery of the T-Shirts here

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is an unlikely star – a religious recluse whose sensibility is more in tune with the deep past than the present. Rob Young goes in search of the ancient spirits that haunt Pärt’s music. Illustration by Julian Kulpa