This month's cover star Kevin Martin has been collaborating with Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit. The pair first met during an improv session for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction, and now they're going to perform together for the first time at this year's Le Guess Who? festival. To mark the occasion they've offered Wire readers an exclusive listen to “After The Storm”, a track that started life at the BBC session before being completed at Martin’s studio in Berlin.

“[Hatis Noit’s] impressionistic approach, tonal brilliance and kaleidoscopic spectrum, evoked voices I had loved in the past,” says Martin. “Whether it echoed the mood of Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares or the beauty of Liz Fraser, it even navigated the eerie spaciousness of Japanese Gagaku traditions that I enjoy so much, so I just knew I was happy to collaborate with her, as she had outgrown her influences and blossomed into an extraordinary talent.

“In these times of climatic turbulence and socio-political upheaval, its deep seismic sonic flow and haunting melodies are a hymn to the stranded, offering comfort to those in need of solace.”

Hatis Noit adds. “As a solo vocalist and voice artist, I’d always dreamed of floating and being drowned in a beautiful sonic storm. And then I met Kevin Martin.”

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Le Guess Who? runs from 7–10 November. In December Hatis Noit will perform with London Contemporary Orchestra at London Southbank Centre, the final show in the year-long series Erased Tapes x LCO.

In the November issue of The Wire Kevin Martin and Stephen O’Malley met in Paris to dissect heavyweight sounds for an article mediated by Mike Barnes. Also in that issue: Francis Gooding decodes the conceptually minded Ideologic Organ label; Abi Bliss talks to choreographer Gisèle Vienne; Phil Freeman speaks to Martin’s close associate Justin Broadrick; and Joe Muggs discusses The Bug’s MC collaborators. Subscribers can read that issue on Exact Editions. Everyone else can either buy a copy in our shop or visit their local newsagent.