
Issue 222
August 2002
Tom Waits
Barfly, beatnik, hobo, hipster, Weimar cabaret singer, Stallone
co-star, Harry Partch fan: the chronicler of the American
underbelly has been playing confidence games with his identity and
music since the 70s. By Phil Freeman
Invisible Jukebox: Arthur Lee
Love's mainman and the orchestrator of Labour MPs' favourite album,
Forever Changes, has a bummer in the summer trying to
identify tracks by Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, Frank Zappa and
more. Teted by Mike Barnes
William Parker
David Keenan goes into the mystic with the 'mayor or the Lower East
Side' to hear how the bassist's channelling of the ancestral pulse
has been the catalyst for the most vital free jazz of the last
three decades
Lou Harrison
Wrestling his way out of the imprisoning straitjacket of Western
tuning systems, the West Coast composer hears the chimes of freedom
in a junkyard gamelan constructed out of automobile brake drums. By
Philip Clark
Leif Elggren & CM Von Hausswolff
Magnus Haglund journeys to Elgaland-Vargaland for an audience with
the Swedish conceptual sound artists whose meditations on the
physicality of sound have attempted to redraw the map according to
the logic of the cut-up
To Live & Shave In LA
David Keenan meets the philosophically savage personality of Tom
Smith and samples his 'white trash electroacoustics'
Boom Bip
The Cincinatti producer bridges the divide between his HipHop past
and his post-Hop present. By Philip Sherburne
Tchad Blake
The producer who has worked with Peter Gabriel, Los Lobos, Suzanne
Vega and Tom Waits finds inspiration from the locals in Zimbabwe.
By Richard Henderson
Global Ear
Marcus Boon finds changing times in Marrakech's Place of the
Dead
Epiphanies
Biba Kopf goes daft for DAF and Les Liaisons Dangereuses
In Print
Edgard Varèse, by Alan Clayson; Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop
Outside The USA, edited by Tony Mitchell; Ring Of Fire: The Johnny
Cash Reader, edited by Michael Streissguth
Cross Platform
Art and electronic music merge at the Pompidou Centre's Sonic
Process exhibition, previewed at this year's Sonar Festival. By
Anne Hilde Neset
Plus: Reviews of: Cybersonica; Crass: Killing Time
On Location
Sonar 2002, Barcelona CCCB/MACBA/Monjuïc 2, Spain; No Neck Blues
Band + Sunburned Hand Of The MAn + Mountains of Matallama,
Brattleboro Common Ground, USA; Peter Hammill, London Lyric
Theatre, UK; Sounding The Margins: 70th Birthday Retrospective
Celebration Of The Music Of Pauline Oliveros, San Francisco
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, USA; Mutek, Montréal Various Venues,
Canada; LMC 11th Annual Festival of Experimental Music, London
South Bank Centre, UK