Inside The Wire 284 October 2007

Robert Wyatt photographed by Jake Walters

Regulars The Masthead 6 Letters 8 Bitstream 10
Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net

Features

Reviews Index 53 Soundcheck 54

The Wire Tapper 18 4
Your track by track guide to this month’s free cover mount CD

Shape Of Broad Minds 16
Nick Sylvester hears about psychedelic hiphop from Philadelphia’s Jneiro Janel, the fresh prince of Viberia

The Joined-up World of The Wire 12
Plus Trip Or Squeek

Ute Wassermann 18 Walter & Sabrina 20
Keith Moliné enters the sleazy, insidious world of the London nihilist rock duo Cross Platform

This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Pram, Talibam!, Harmonia and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats

Global Ear 22

The German Improv vocalist pushes her body to extreme limits to generate multiphonic ululations. By Julian Cowley

The Inner Sleeve 79
Lydia Lunch on Elmer Bernstein

Alex V Cook digs for emerging music in post-Katrina New Orleans

Print Run 80

Charts 52 Out There 100

New music books, including Michael Bracewell’s Roxy Music history, Michael Gray’s Blind Willie McTell biography and more

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

Camille Norment 24
Invisible Jukebox

On Screen 82 On Site 83

Subscribe 106 Back Issues 108 Epiphanies 114

The American installation artist uses sub-bass and vanishing mirrors to play with racial identity politics. By Louise Gray

Jazz in Europe, Johanna Went and Earle Brown on DVD

Kevin Martin on Swans, digidub and how The Bug got into the bassbin

Han Bennink 26 Oxbow 32

Gallery and mixed media events, including Edwin van der Heide and Leafcutter John

The puckish Dutch percussionist drums his fingers to The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Dan Warburton

On Location 84

The all-singing, all-stripping hardcore heavyweights are the music world’s answer to Fight Club. Singer/slugger Eugene Robinson breaks the only rule to Phil Freeman

Concert and festival reviews, including Athens’s Synch Festival, Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, MIA, Konono No 1 and more

Once upon a time in Bristol 36 Robert Wyatt 44

Out of St Pauls’s claustrophobic mix of reggae, post-punk and hiphop, Smith & Mighty, The Wild Bunch and more spun a protective web of maternal bass. By Peter Webb

In a revealing interview, the garrulous singer and his wife Alfreda Benge discuss the troubled backdrop to his latest album Comicopera. By David Toop