Inside The Wire 309 | November 2009

Julian Cope photographed by Jake Walters

The Masthead 4

Letters 6

Bitstream 8 News and more from under the radar

Trip Or Squeek 9 Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil

Bites 10 Bill Orcutt, Tanya Tagaq, Performa 09, Notations 21 and Improv downloads

Charts 48

Out There 89 Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

Below The Radar + The Wire Tapper 96 Free downloads and CDs

Subscriptions 97

Reviews Index 49

Soundcheck 50 This month’s selected CDs, vinyl and downloads, including Brian Harnetty & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bill Orcutt, Ben Frost, the Wandelweiser collective and more. Plus avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, global, hiphop, jazz & Improv, outer limits, unusual formats and reissues

The Inner Sleeve 71 William Bennett on Yoko Ono’s Fly

Print Run 72 New music books: an Arthur Russell biography, two Velvet Underground tomes, and jazz writing by Graham Collier

On Screen 74 Katalin Varga and Died Young, Stayed Pretty on film, plus Billy Paul on DVD

On Site 75 Gallery and mixed media events, including Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre opera in London, and visualising the voice in Oslo

On Location 76 Festival and concert reviews including the Numusic festival in Stavanger, Norway, Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic, Warp 20 in Sheffield and more

OOIOO 14 The return of Boredoms drummer Yoshimi’s female post-punk primitives. By David Hickey

Mordant Music 16 Baron Mordant’s new album diagnoses SyMptoMs of a peculiarly British malaise. By Joseph Stannard

Global Ear Surakarta 18 Amid the din of central Java’s capital, new forms of gamelan are rattling around. By Joseph Luna

Cross Platform Bernie Krause 20 Richard Henderson tracks the former Beaver & Krause synthesist’s trail from Motown session player to critter-chasing field recordist

Invisible Jukebox Jim Jarmusch 22 The former Del Byzanteen turned film director who still moonlights with a rock group, Bad Rabbit, dips into The Wire’s record collection. Tested by Alan Licht

Peter Walker 26 The wandering raga-blues guitarist who soundtracked Tim Leary’s acid tests has since absorbed flamenco into his roots repertoire. By David Keenan

Cornelius Cardew 30 Philip Clark re-examines the legacy of the composer turned Maoist agit-propagandist whose graphic score Treatise questioned notions of control and freedom

Henry Threadgill 34 The player and composer behind Air, The Sextett, Zooid and more is still devising new strategies for his unusual ensembles. By Hank Shteamer

Julian Cope 40 How the modern antiquarian, megalithic European and Odinist rock ’n’ roll heretic orchestrates elegant chaos with his new group Black Sheep. By Rob Young

Epiphanies 98 The transistor radio she received for her First Holy Communion became eight year old Susan Stenger’s portal to a whole new world of sound