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The Wire 447 is out now!

The May 2021 issue of The Wire features People Like Us, Joe Chambers, Embassador Dulgoon, Cathal Coughlan & Sean O’Hagan and much more

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Album premiere: PRSNT

Album premiere: PRSNT

Laurie Spiegel, Lafawndah, Lucrecia Dalt, Lyra Pramuk and others respond to the state of online music engagement with a new album lasting less than seven minutes

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Wire playlist: Dialect

Wire playlist: Dialect

As the Liverpudlian producer Andrew PM Hunt releases his fourth album as Dialect, he shares a playlist of tracks spanning his various projects, explaining what defines each one

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Premiere: Nakul Krishnamurthy

Premiere: Nakul Krishnamurthy

The Glasgow based vocalist shares an excerpt from his latest work Lal̩itam Varn̩n̩am Asuram, soon to premiere at Counterflows festival

Tracks

Premiere: tracks from Unsound's Intermission

Premiere: tracks from Unsound's Intermission

The Krakow based festival's new compilation features music and field recordings that document artists' experiences of the pandemic. Hear new works by DeForrest Brown, Jr & James Hoff and Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater

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Unlimited Editions: enmossed

Unlimited Editions: enmossed

To accompany his feature on the Maine based label in The Wire 445, Louis Pattison chooses standout tracks from the imprint's discography

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Wire mix: Muqata’a

Wire mix: Muqata’a

The Ramallah based producer shares a new mix featuring many unreleased tracks and explains the ideas behind his latest album كَامِل مَنْقوص Kamil Manqus

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Wire mix: CANVAS

Wire mix: CANVAS

CANVAS co-founders Olan Monk and Lugh O’Neill share a new mix and speak to The Wire's Claire Biddles about the origins of the label and the joy and curiosity of working on compilations

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Wire playlist: Mamer

Wire playlist: Mamer

Mabu Li selects tracks from the Chinese dombra and bass playing multi-instrumentalist's expansive discography

Essay

Flame on: Gentle Fire revisited

Flame on: Gentle Fire revisited

Julian Cowley talks to the surviving members of the pioneering avant garde ensemble, instrument builders and improvisors who between 1968–75 were equally at home performing Christian Wolff, premiering Karlheinz Stockhausen compositions, eating ice cream with John Cage or realising their own works anywhere in the world, be it at Glastonbury, London’s Sadler’s Wells or an arts festival in Shiraz, Iran

Video

Watch: Hiele “Brain”

Watch: Hiele “Brain”

Artist Gerard Herman sets Antwerp based producer Hiele's track “Brain” to a video montage of buzzing wildlife

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The Wire's Releases Of The Year 2020

The Wire's Releases Of The Year 2020

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those featured in the Top 50 Archive Releases Of The Year, in The Wire 443.

Mix

Wire mix: Floorplan

Wire mix: Floorplan

The Wire 442 cover stars share an exclusive new mix featuring many of their own productions and remixes

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Wire playlist: Yusuf Mumin and The Black Unity Trio

Wire playlist: Yusuf Mumin and The Black Unity Trio

Black Unity Trio saxophonist Yusuf Mumin discusses his music and inspirations, with an accompanying playlist including a Black Unity Trio composition newly remastered for the reissue of their legendary 1969 Al-Fatihah album, released on 27 November 2020 by Gotta Groove Records. By Yusuf Mumin, edited by Pierre Crépon.

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Wire Mix: Lamin Fofana

Wire Mix: Lamin Fofana

The Berlin based artist and producer shares a new work as part of his exploration of ambient environments based on Black experience and radical thinking