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Interviews

A growing collection of interviews from The Wire magazine's archives

Maryanne Amacher: Expressway to Your Skull

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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.
Posted 23/10/09

Rashied Ali: Into stellar space

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Read Howard Mandel’s 1992 interview with the late Rashied Ali, who died on 12 August 2009. From issue 98 (April 1992)
Posted 09/09/09

Arvo Pärt: Faithing The Music

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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
Posted 07/08/09

Different Drummer: Magma

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Paul Stump's interview with Christian Vander's Magma from #137m July 1995
Posted 02/04/09

John Martyn: Feeling Gravity's Pull (1998)

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Read about Rob Young's audience with the late John Martyn. From issue 172 June 1998
Posted 31/03/09

Hands-on Experience: Talvin Singh

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Talvin Singh - virtuoso percussionist, producer, club organiser and musical live wire - is a crucial contributor to the passage of black and Asian music into the wide world of global pop. Rob Young speaks to him about his collaborations with Bjork, Sun Ra and On-U Sound, and hears a vision of the future sound of India
Posted 01/10/08

Neue Deutsche Wellen

Cologne and Düsseldorf are hives of musical activity. A loose community of musicians, label owners, club runners and sonic theorists is building on the legacies of Can, Kraftwerk and DAF, creating the electronic soundtrack for a united Europe. Rob Young meets the stars of selten gehörte Musik: Mouse On Mars, Mike Ink, Dr Walker, A-Musik, Pluramon and more
Posted 21/05/08

Primal Architect

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The compositions of Iannis Xenakis are shot through with the sound of warfare, crowds, arcane mathematics and Chaos Theories. Ben Watson meets a composer whose attempts to transform Futurism into sound capsize the cliches of modern classical music.
Posted 20/02/08

Matthew Shipp

Of the all free spirits making up New York’s downtown artistic nexus, pianist Matthew Shipp has come closest to finding the superchord that will blast conventional harmonies wide open. By Howard Mandel.
Posted 30/01/08

Charles Gayle

On the streets and in the subways of New York, the spirit of black free jazz lives on in the music of a few true believers – musicians like Charles Gayle; homeless, neglected but still burning with the passion to be free. By Howard Mandel.
Posted 30/01/08
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