Paul Gilroy's Epiphanies article on two 1970 performances from The Voices Of East Harlem choir at the Isle Of Wight Festival and Albert Hall is featured in The Wire 333. Gilroy's latest book is Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies Of Black Atlantic Culture (Harvard University Press). On the cusp of the 1990s Gilroy wrote about jazz-funk and fusion for The Wire, in reviews and a regular column called New Fusion.
Musician and composer DJ /Rupture aka Jace Clayton is featured in The Wire 333 in an article by Peter Shapiro.
Chicago based electronic music producer Hieroglyphic Being aka Jamal Moss is featured in The Wire 332 in an article by Robin Howells.
Carter Tutti aka Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti are featured in The Wire 332 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Mike Barnes. Chris and Cosey will be performing at Unsound, Krakow this month. Click here for more details.
Philip Clark's Primer on Militant Tuning in The Wire 332 looks at how Just Intonation, microtones and overtones are used as secret weapons in the fightback against the sonic tyranny of equal temperament.
Jon Brooks's Music For Dieter Rams (out on Cafe Kaput) and As The Crow Flies (recorded under his The Advisory Circle moniker, released on Ghost Box) are reviewed by Mark Fisher in The Wire 321.
My Cat Is An Alien (brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio) are featured in an article by Ken Hollings in The Wire 331. Click here to listen to a selection of MCIAA tracks.
Ian Hodgson aka Moon Wiring Club wrote The Wire 331 Inner Sleeve on Höhner Accordion Orchestra Hamburg/Heinz Funk's Accordion Evergreen album.
Jan Anderzén, the Finnish frontman of Kemialliset Ystävät and Tomutonttu is featured in The Wire 330 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Daniel Spicer. Anderzén's newest release is Nääksää nää mun kyyneleet by Tuusanuuskat, a collaboration between Tomutonttu and Es, aka Fonal Records’s Sami Sänpäkkilä.
The group are well-known in the Ukraine, and released their most recent album Dolce Vita in spring last year. They have been touring it for the last year across the Ukraine, Russia, Western Europe and America.
Yusef Sayed's Primer on the guitarist/improvisor/producer Jim O'Rourke is in The Wire 330.
Dan Wilson's article on Daphne Oram, co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and inventor of the Oramics machine, is in The Wire 330.
Winebox Press is featured in an Unofficial Channels article by Daniel Spicer in The Wire 329.
The Promised Lands project is featured in an article by Clive Bell in The Wire 329.
Roy Harper is featured in The Wire 329 in an article by Rob Young.
Roy Harper is featured in The Wire 329 in an article by Rob Young.
People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett is featured in The Wire 329 Invisible Jukebox, tested by Phil England.
Josh Feola looks at Beijing's Noise scene in The Wire 329.
The Antique Phonograph Music Program, presented by Mac on New Jersey's WFMU, broadcasts a selection of "music from the acoustic era" cut onto wax cylinders, every Tuesday evening 8–9pm (Eastern Standard Time). Click here to listen to an Antique Phonograph mix with notes, exclusive to The Wire.