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Issue #354

August 2013

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Rob Mazurek
The Chicago Underground musician and visual artist spins cosmic connections between free jazz, science fiction and the music of Brazil. By Bill Meyer

Else Marie Pade
Anne Hilde Neset hears the extraordinary life story of Denmark’s first electronic composer, finally enjoying success at the age of 89

Meredith Monk
After 40 years blurring the boundaries of music, dance and theatre, the New York composer’s primordial vocal music still speaks volumes. By Frances Morgan

Invisible Jukebox Jussi Lehtisalo
The Circle frontman and Ektro boss rounds on The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Petri Kuljuntausta

Helena Hauff
The Hamburg DJ steps out. By Joe Muggs

Anton Heyboer
Dutch outsider artist reanimated. By Derek Walmsley

Marisa Anderson
US guitarist’s old-new folk forms. By Nick Southgate

Sounding The Gallery
When video art met avant garde music. By Louise Gray

Terminal Cheesecake
UK psych misfits regroup. By Daniel Spicer

Global Ear Istanbul
Daniel Spicer talks to Turkish musicians in the wake of the city’s recent protests

Cross Platform Emma Hart
Clive Bell meets the artist whose installations revel in the mess of everyday life and mundane work

Epiphanies
When Asmus Tietchens’s hopes of playing guitar like The Shadows were dashed, he turned to tape music

The Inner Sleeve
Shezad Dawood on Acid Mothers Temple’s Pink Lady Lemonade

Print Run
New music books: Heavy Metal in Indonesia; free jazz in the academy; Jon Rose’s new strategies for music making; and Beat writing’s influence on rock music

On Screen
Films & DVDs: Pat Collins’s Silence; Anthony Braxton & Tyler Ho Bynum live

On Site
Exhibitions, installations, etc: Audible Forces in London; SNAP in Aldeburgh

On Location
Festival and concert reviews: Spor, Volt and Editions Mego festivals; Milford Graves in New York; The Knife in London; and more