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Derek Walmsley presents Adventures In Sound And Music: The Wire 40 special

July 2022

The 7 July edition of our Resonance FM show continues the 40th birthday celebrations with 20 tracks from 20 of the most prolific labels from the first 20 years of the magazine, including Chico Freeman, Sun Ra, Bill Dixon, Autechre, Julie Tippetts & Maggie Nicols, and more

Bill Dixon
“Velvet”
From November 1981
(Soul Note)

Julie Tippetts & Maggie Nicols
“Whaling”
From Sweet And S'Ours
(FMP)

News From Babel
“Arcades Of Glass”
From Sirens & Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower
(Rē Records)

Chico Freeman
“Soweto Suite”
From The Search
(India Navigation)

Evan Parker
“The Snake Decides”
From The Snake Decides
(Incus)

John Zorn
“Allegro"
From Cobra
(Hat Hut)

Sun Ra & The Arkestra
“Love In Outer Space”
From Love in Outer Space: Live In Utrecht
(Leo)

Ahmed Abdullah & The Solomonic Quintet
“African Songbird”
From Ahmed Abdullah & The Solomonic Quintet
(Silkheart)

Ingram Marshall
“Eberbach I”
From Three Penitential Visions
(Nonesuch)

Harold Budd
“She Dances By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”
From By The Dawn's Early Light
(Opal)

Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila
“One World”
From Mambo
(Real World)

Dub Syndicate
“Roots Commandment”
From Echomania
(On-U Sound)

Pram
“Dancing On A Star”
From Helium
(Too Pure)

Earth
“Ripped On Fascist Ideas”
From Sunn Amps And Smashed Guitars
(Too Pure)

High Rise
“Ikon”
From Disallow
(PSF)

We™
“Believe Porpoise”
From As Is
(Asphodel)

Fennesz
“Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)”
From Plays
(Mego)

Snd
“(1:5)2”
From Modulations And Transformation 4
(Mille Plateaux)

Einstürzende Neubauten
“Heaven Is Of Honey”
From Silence Is Sexy
(Mute)

Autechre
“VI Scose Poise”
From Confield
(Warp)

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