Inside The Wire 280 June 2007

Wiley photographed by Ivan Jones

Regulars

The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8 Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net. Plus Trip Or Squeek Global Ear 16 In San Francisco, Ken Hollings immerses himself in a 360° audiovisual experience at Asphodel’s Recombinant Media Labs

Charts 38 Out There 84 The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more Subscribe 88 Back Issues 90 Epiphanies 98 Novelist Michel Faber recalls a random encounter with a life-affirming Prog group in Budapest

Features

Zavoloka 10 The Ukrainian artist tunes her electronics to the Earth spirits she hears in her native folk culture. By Jim Haynes

Jozef van Wissem 12 The improvising Dutch lutenist has worked with Tetuzi Akiyama, Gary Lucas and more. By Dan Warburton

Tomas Korber 14 Call it anything but electroacoustic Improv (EAI), insists Züürich’s guitar/electronics manipulator. By Nick Cain

Cross Platform Modified Toy Orchestra 18 Birmingham artist Brian Duffy raids the toy chest for his circuit bending sound experiments. By David Stubbs

Invisible Jukebox Neil Campbell 20 The ex-Vibracathedral Orchestra dronemaster grapples with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Dan Warburton

The Sea And Cake 24 Alan Licht hears how the painterly activities of Sam Prekop, Archer Prewitt and Eric Claridge feed into the Chicago quartet’s modest, sophisticated pop

Kassin + Moreno + Domenico 28 Boasting family links with a Tropicáália giant, Rio’s eclectic avant bossa trio are on a virtuoso mission to perfect the physics of funk. By Sue Steward

Wiley 32 Grime’s self-appointed Eskimo king invites Derek Walmsley into his Roll Deep Studio to explain how his blizzard of beats and rhymes gathers momentum in East London’s streets

Reviews

Index 39 Soundcheck 40 This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Lasse Marhaug, African music from Drag City’s new Yaala Yaala imprint, Hyphy Hitz and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats The Inner Sleeve 65 Artist Mark Titchner on Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation Print Run 66 New music books, including a Southern hiphop history, John Sinclair’s polemic and a biography of Wayne Shorter On Screen 68 New music DVDs and film, including Tim Buckley and two Alejandro Jodorowsky cult movies On Site 69 Gallery and mixed media events, including Dundee’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival On Location 70 Concert and festival reviews, including All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minehead, Free Noise in London, The Donau Festival in Krems, Austria and more