After David Naegele’s departure, David Storrs had little connection with Valley Of The Sun, as replacement music director Robert Slap’s sensibilities skewed more towards the commercial, progressive ...
Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...
Listen to two tracks featuring the late Bow Gamelan percussionist, instrument builder and noisemaker Paul Burwell (1949-2007) as chosen by his fellow musician and friend Jez Riley. Riley adds, "I ...
This is another shepherd's melody from the Balkans adapted to the violin of Alexis Zoumbas. Probably the saddest 78 that I own. Recorded in New York City in 1928.
Philip Freeman shares an excerpt from his new biography of Cecil Taylor, which takes the reader from the pianist and composer's birth in 1929 to his death in 2018 and beyond ...
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...
Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...
Stream two tracks from Aleksi Perälä's forthcoming release using the Perälä and Grant Wilson-Claridge's custom musical scale, the Colundi Sequence. Perälä and Wilson-Claridge's creation is covered by ...