THE WIRE 497 HARUOMI HOSONO by The Wire
| Title | The Wire 497, July 2025 |
| Author(s)/Editor(s) | |
| Publisher | The Wire |
| Pages | 98 |
| Dimensions |
210 x 297mm |
| Format | Softcover |
| Year | 2025 |
Adventures in Sound and Music.
Inside our brand new issue:
Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.
Plus: Japanese exotica: A user’s guide by David Toop
Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young has learned from the possibility of failure. By Matt Krefting
Christer Bothén: The Swedish multi-instrumentalist and onetime Don Cherry associate has continued along his own path. By Clive Bell
Crystabel Efemena Riley: The close listening of free improvisation offers vital moments of human connection for the London percussionist. By Abi Bliss
Blackhaine: Stockport’s industrial hiphop head is making waves on the world stage with his choreography collaborations. By Hugh Morris
KASAI: Footwork folk. By Daryl Worthington
Use Knife: Rhythms of refuge. By Xenia Benivolski
Nina Garcia: Doppler-like effects. By Miloš Hroch
Invisible Jukebox: DJ Scotch Egg: Will the bassist and breakcore pioneer crack The Wire’s mystery record collection? Tested by Daniel Neofetou
Global Ear: Experimental music in the Bangladeshi capital thrives under the government’s radar. By Simon Coates
Unlimited Editions: Dusty Ballz plugs the Chinese diaspora into the global avant garde. By Daryl Worthington
The Inner Sleeve: Djrum on Svarte Greiner’s Knive
Against The Grain: Underground music must urgently defend its trans and queer communities, urges Rosie Esther Solomon
Epiphanies: Joy Guidry finds true freedom in the life lessons of Sun Ra
Soundcheck: Ellen Arkbro, Rashad Becker, Bios Contrast & Nilotpal Das, Elvin Brandhi, Anthony Braxton, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, Raven Chacon, Chepang, Column258, Content Provider, Melaine Dalibert & David Sylvian, Kevin Drumm, Egg Girl Girl, Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe, Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, Escape-Ism, Everything Is Psychedelic, Ben LaMar Gay, Gnäw, Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake, Georg Graewe & Sonic Fiction Orchestra, Joy Guidry, DJ Haram, Herbert & Momoko, Alan Jenkins, kodiki, Hampus Lindwall, Lippard Arkbro Lindwall, Maurice Louca, Matmos, Rainy Miller, Moin, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Nazar, Stephen O’Malley, Osmium, Daniel O’Sulllivan, paszka, Rufige Kru, Schmitz & Niebuhr, Sensor Ghost, Ursula Sereghy, Mark Stewart, ThisIsDA, MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen, Zosha Warpeha & Mariel Terán, Larry Wish
The Columns: Avant Rock by Edwin Pouncey; Critical Beats by Misha Farrant; Dub & Reggae by Steve Barker; Electronics by Steph Kretowicz; Global by Francis Gooding; Jazz & Improv by Daniel Spicer; Noise, Industrial & Beyond by Louis Pattison; Size Matters by Byron Coley
The Boomerang: Freddie Hubbard; Iration Steppas; Bennie Maupin; Charles Mingus; Repetition Repetition; Gruff Rhys; Arthur Russell; Pete Shelley; David Van Tieghem; To Live And Shave In LA; Various: All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978–1985; Various: Disk Musik: A DD Records Compilation
Print Run: TRIP MAGAZEEN: The Complete Collection 1992–1994by DJ THREE, Grumptronix
& Peter Wohelski; The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, And Machines From Automata To AI by David Hadju; Philosophy Of Jazz by Daniel Martin Feige (translated by Nathan Ross); Meredith Monk: Callingedited by Anna Schneider, Beatrix Ruf & Peter Sciscioli; Monk In Pieces directed by Billy Shebar & David C Roberts; Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance And Contemporary Art by Simon Rose; Songs In The Key Of MP3 by Liam Inscoe-Jones; Sex Is No Emergency: Adventures In A Post Punk Wonderland by Dorothy Max Prior; Alien Water: Six Decades Paddling In Unpopular Musicby Ian A Anderson
On Screen: Isaac Gale & Ryan Olson Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted; Alex Ross Perry Pavements
On Location: Mappa Live, London, UK; Sun Yizhou + Zhao Cong + Zhu Wenbo, London, UK; Mosquito Farm & Zhao Cong + Wenbo/Barker/Betteridge/Mai/Zhu/Shaoyang/Zhuo + Rory Salter & Sun Yizho, London, UK; IZ, Shenzhen, China; AD LIB > 66VOCALISTBODIES,NOT, London, UK; Container, London, UK; Reading Group Residency, London, UK; Apartment House, London, UK; Thawed Out, Chicago, US; Kumio Kurachi, London, UK; Long Play Festival, New York, US; Wolf Eyes + Sly & The Family Drone + Soborgnost, London, UK; Vanessa Rossetto + Matthew Revert + Tom Betteridge, London, UK
On Site: Sound And Silence: An Exhibition Of Contemporary Bells, Bovey Tracey, UK
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Title
The Wire 497, July 2025
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Publisher
The Wire
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Pages
98
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Dimensions
210 x 297mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2025
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