For Hilary Woods, it begins with the body: “The only bit of geographical space we all inhabit,” as she puts it. After two instrumental albums, Night CRIÚ, her third for Sacred Bones, marks what press materials announce as a “return to voice", but for the Irish composer and film maker, it represents something more fundamental – a re-entry into the most intimate territory available to her. “I think every time I sit down to write anything is a re-entry into something,” she reflects during her conversation with Leah Kardos in The Wire 503/504. “And I'm interested in what the memories and things of the body hold.”

Here, she curates an exclusive Wire mix that draws together her own work with music by collaborators and influences.

Tracklist

Dean Hurley “Low Sustained Mystery”
Hilary Woods “Endgames”
Lasse Marhaug “Context”
Jo Berger Myhre/Erlend Viken/Thomas Stønen “Gråura”
Hilary Woods “Offerings”
Jun Miyake “Flesh For Eve”
Gabriel Ferrandini “Crying Game”
Lisa O'Neill “Blackbird”
De Danann “Master Crowley’s”
Hilary Woods “Brightly”
Oliver Turvey “Brass Tav And 30 Erosions 2”
Sibylle Baier “Tonight”
Hilary Woods “Where The Bough Is Broken”
Sean O Conghaile “Caoineadh”
Thought Gang “Woodcutters From Fiery Ships”
The Palestrina Choir “Don Oiche Úd I mBeithil”
Jóhann Jóhannsson “One Is True”
The Caretaker “Moments Of Sufficient Lucidity”
Hilary Woods “Kith”
Can “Vitamin C”
Francois Hardy “Voilà”
Dean Hurley “Slow One Chord Blues”
Hilary Woods “Voce”
Hilary Woods “Faults”

Hilary Woods is interviewed by Leah Kardos in The Wire 503/504. Pick up a copy of the issue in our online shop. Subscribers can also read the full interview in the digital library.