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The 2017 Le Guess Who? festival invited The Wire's deputy editor Joseph Stannard to host talks with two acts from the line up

In addition to their joint performance at Utrecht's Le Guess Who? 2017, Kevin Martin aka The Bug & Dylan Carlson from Seattle based band Earth took an hour to speak with The Wire in a filmed interview. The pair discussed how they first came across each other's music, the concepts behind their collaborative work, as well as Jah Shaka, John and Alice Coltrane, and more.

Stannard was also joined by the Lebanese Montréal based producer and performer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, one half of Jerusalem In My Heart. He spoke about the project's sometimes aleatoric methods, its mission to not appear in the same venue more than once, the challenges that come with collaboration and people missing the point.

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goat (jp): Joy In Fear

Watch a 16 minute concept film of tracks from Joy In Fear, the 2023 album by Japanese rockers goat (jp)

Steph Richards “Power Vibe”

The US trumpeter shares a supernatural LA noir created with the help of generative AI for a track from her latest album Power Vibe

Xhosa Cole All Roads

The saxophonist shares a film in which he dances with his two brothers beneath Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction

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Galya Bisengalieva “Chagan”

Directed by artist Nicol Vizoli, the video for composer Galya Bisengalieva's “Chagan” reflects on the haunting nature of a radioactive lake in Kazakhstan