Inside The Wire 286 December 2007
Pram photographed by Ivan Jones
Regulars The Masthead 4 Letters 6 Bitstream 8
Trawling for gossip with The Wire’s news net
Features
Reviews Index 51 Soundcheck 52
Bruno Pronsato 12
How a former rock drummer transformed himself into an idiosyncratic House and Techno producer. By Philip Sherburne
Lionel Marchetti 14 Amir ElSaffar 16
Cross Platform
The Joined-up World of The Wire 10
Plus Trip Or Squeek
Dan Warburton speaks to the French composer whose cinema for the ears has reinvigorated musique concrète
Global Ear 18 Charts 50 Out There 94
The US based Iraqi santoor/trumpeter mixes blues and Arabic music in defiance of the occupation. By Kurt Gottschalk
This month’s selected CDs and vinyl, including Six Organs Of Admittance, Miles Davis’s complete On The Corner sessions, a stash of rare UK jazz rock records and more. Plus specialist columns on avant rock, critical beats, dub, electronica, hiphop, jazz & Improv, modern composition, outer limits, reissues, compilations and unusual formats
Daniel Neilsen finds tango returning to its savage roots in Buenos Aires
The Inner Sleeve 77 Print Run 78
David Ellis 20
Invisible Jukebox
To Rococo Rot’s Stefan Schneider on Durutti Column
Anne Hilde Neset meets the Southern US artist who sends rhythms rippling through ‘drum paintings’ and trash piles
The pick of the month’s festivals, concerts, club spaces, radio and more
Print & Digital Subscriptions 98 The Wire Tapper/ Back Issues 100 Epiphanies 106
The ghosts of Mark Fisher’s youth come back to haunt him in a Rufige Kru 12"
Michael Gira 22 Burial 28
New music books, including a Moondog biography, Joe Carducci on SST, Andy Hamilton on music and aesthetics, and more
The Angel Of Light illuminates the darkest corners of The Wire’s mystery record box. Tested by Mike Barnes
On Screen 80 On Site 81
Negativland and Monitorpop audiovisual magazine on DVD
On the eve of the release of his second album, the dubstep producer grants Mark Fisher a rare face-to-face interview to discuss his sonic mythographies of South London
Gallery and mixed media events, including major sound art exhibitions in Latvia and Belgium
Roxy Music 32 Pram 36
The Primer
On Location 82
Author Michael Bracewell picks up where his Remake/Remodel book leaves off, to re-examine early Roxy Music’s still thrilling crosswirings of pop, art and avant garde methods
Concert and festival reviews, including Today’sArt Festival in The Hague, Interface in Berlin, Glenn Branca in New York, Patti Smith in London and more
Keith Moliné enters the old dark house of the Birmingham sextet to see how their obsessions with late night TV and East European cartoons animate their exotic experimental pop
Harry Partch 40
Brian Marley follows the hobo trails of the 20th century American composer and instrument builder to piece together a users’ guide to his microtonal compositions on CD and DVD
