Tracks
Exclusive remix of MC Yallah & Eomac's “Mama Waliwamanyii”
July 2020
Hear a new reworking of the lead single from MC Yallah's latest release
Tracks
Hear the new album by Caroline Kraabel & John Edwards
July 2020
Day Night was improvised and recorded at the duo's home during the lockdown in London
Tracks
Wire Playlist: Musician-Owned Record Labels in Jazz in the 1940s–60s
July 2020
Jazz writer Pierre Crépon explores the beginnings of self-released music
On Air
Meg Woof presents Adventures In Sound And Music
July 2020
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This broadcast took place on 9 July and featured music by Yatta, Jessica Ekomane, Elucid, Roscoe Mitchell, Divide And Dissolve, and more
Mix
Wire Mix: Hausu Mountain
July 2020
The Chicago based label with maximalist kitsch tendencies presents a mix of recent releases
Free with The Wire 438
The Wire Tapper 53
The Wire Tapper 53 CD was free to all readers with The Wire 438 August issue. Please note the CD is currently out of stock but the compilation is still available as a download to Wire subscribers
Tracks
An audio introduction to Wendy Eisenberg
July 2020
The US guitarist compiles a selection of songs spanning their various previous releases and shares an exclusive track
On Air
Frances Morgan presents Adventures In Sound And Music
July 2020
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 2 July and featured music by Jana Rush, Edith Alonso, Ryoko Akama, patten, and more
Tracks
Stream Kassel Jaeger's Swamps/Things
July 2020
The French multi-instrumentalist shares his latest work – an audio representation of wading through a swamp
Live performance
John Russell remembers special Mopomoso performances
July 2020
The guitarist and events organiser shares videos from shows outside their regular sessions at London jazz venue The Vortex
Tracks
Tangerine Dream's deepest trips
July 2020
Matt Krefting selects some of the most psychedelic tracks from the German kosmische music institution's sprawling back catalogue
Tracks
billy woods on Backwoodz Studioz
June 2020
The Armand Hammer rapper behind the New York label chooses tracks from their imprint's back catalogue
Tracks
Listen to Marina Rosenfeld's Joy Of Fear
June 2020
Room40 digitally releases two of the US composer's early albums
On Air
Chris Bohn presents Adventures In Sound And Music
June 2020
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 25 June and featured music by Barbara Dane, Sylvia Hallett, AZOIK, and more
Tracks
(Virtual) Office Ambience 437
June 2020
Compiled from the playlists of working-at-home Wire staff during the making of issue 437
Tracks
Stream the latest EP by Bantou Mentale
June 2020
Ex-members of Konono No 1, Mbongwana Star and Staff Benda Bilili make up the Paris based quartet
On Air
Phil England presents Adventures In Sound And Music
June 2020
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 18 June and includes music by Harry Cox, Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd, MC Yallah & Eomac, Susan Alcorn and others
Tracks
New material by Nour Mobarak
June 2020
The experimental vocalist shares a track from her forthcoming release that explores the “affective quality of the human voice in space, outside of the fixed meanings of language”
On Air
Astrud Steehouder presents Adventures In Sound And Music
June 2020
The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place 11 June and featured music by Dean Blunt, Muhal Richard Abrams, Brother Ah, Space Afrika, and more
Mix
Phillip Sollmann mixes microtonal music
June 2020
The German producer shares a new playlist focusing on microtonality, taking in Ellen Fullman, Mark Fell, Maggi Payne, James Tenney and more