Inside:
500 issues... 43 years... it's quite a feat. The Wire, that began its print life in 1982 as a avant garde and free jazz publication has persisted, evolved, and adapted. It is independently owned, remains intelligent and literate and still digs deep to bring us the "most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the plane". We're big fans, and glad to stock it.
This celebratory issue (that comes in a commemorative silver gatefold with artwork by Savage Pencil) is not a nostalgic look back, but an issue that, like all others, looks forward. Inside - longform improvisation from the Natural Information Society, themes of mortality and identity with Italian noise rock duo OvO, South Carolina born musician Weston Olencki ponders questions of place and colonialism, and Chicago pysch trio The Bitchin Bajas go with the flow.
Elsewhere saxophonist and tape composer Lea Bertucci takes on the Invisible Jukebox, Lucrecia Dalt recollects the cover of the Tindersticks 'Trouble Every Day' album sleeve, and Cerys Hafana: Gives a voice to the Welsh triple harp.
Expect:
Wire has brought us monthly adventures in sound and music since 1982. Erudite, thoughtful, and always playing in the margins.
Size: 230 x 280mm
