Inside The Wire 285 November 2007

Atlantis, Buzz Goree and ‘Mad’ Mike Banks of Underground Resistance, photographed by Daniëlle van Ark

Regulars The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8
Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net

Features

Reviews Index 49 Soundcheck 50

Flying Lotus 10

Dave Stelfox meets California’s one-man cinematic orchestra, freak-hop rejuvenator and grand-nephew of Alice Coltrane

David Watson 12

The Joined-up World of The Wire 9
Plus Trip Or Squeek

The well travelled improvisor brings the skirl of the bagpipes to New York’s downtown scene. By Brian Morton

Daniel Menche 14
Cross Platform

This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including OM, Persian Electronic Music and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats

Global Ear 16 Charts 48 Out There 94

The Portland electronic extremist tells Nick Cain how he’s knocking himself out to tame the wild beast of noise

The Inner Sleeve 73 Print Run 74

Thurston Moore on Finnish hardcore

Erin MacLeod receives a guided tour of Addis Ababa’s jazz world from an Éthiopiques star

Juneau/Projects/ 18
Invisible Jukebox

New music books, including two studies of noise and silence, Luc Sante’s music writing and more

Britain’s woodcraft folk artists make hand carved guitars, drowning Walkmans and sonic skateboards. By David Stubbs

On Screen 76 On Site 77

The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more

JG Thirlwell 20

Anton Corbijn’s Control; plus John Control Sinclair and Rechenzentrum on DVD

Subscribe/Back Issues 98 The Wire Tapper/Free CDs 100 Epiphanies 106
Fleeing the gospel according to Mahalia Jackson, Howard Mandel discovers heaven is Harpo Marx

Scraping Foetus off the floor after a confrontation with The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Phil Freeman

Russell Haswell 24 Loren Connors 28

Gallery and mixed media events, including Alvin Curran outside Tate Modern and public sound art at Grain

A catalytic presence in British art and computer music for over a decade signs to Warner Classics for his latest act of digital decimation with Florian Hecker. By Will Montgomery

On Location 78

Concert and festival reviews, including the Numusic, Night Of The Unexpected and Colour Out Of Space festivals, Kemialliset Ystävät and more

How Brooklyn’s guitar transcendentalist spun heavenly harmonies from out of the squalor of 70s and 80s urban bohemia. By Marc Masters

Sonny Simmons 34 Underground Resistance 40

The versatile saxophonist and cor anglais innovator cried freedom with Coltrane, Dolphy and Ornette, and at 73, shows no sign of putting out the fire. By Andy Hamilton

The elusive Detroit Techno guerrilla cell are superheroes of the Motor City, waging electronic warfare on Capital. Founder ‘Mad’ Mike Banks explains campaign strategy to Mark Fisher