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The Wire Tapper 26 01 Tirudel Zenebe 11 Syd Ewart “Gue” (Wire Tapper edit) “The Kursk” From Ililta!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (Terp) Wire Tapper exclusive (Warmcircuit) THE WIRE TAPPER 26 TAPPER WIRE THE 02 Joe Morris Wildlife 12 Sonnamble “Display” (excerpt) “Aphelion I” From Traits (Riti/AUM Fidelity) From Blindlight (Forwind) 03 Aspec(t) 13 Enablers “Intorno Al Drago” “The Reader” From a forthcoming Nuun Records release From Blown Realms And Stalled Explosions (Exile On Mainstream/ Lancashire And Somerset) 04 DJ Balli “Skatebored Is Not Skateboard” (Valpelice Live Mix 2011) 14 Walter Schnaffs From In Skateboard We Noize! (Sonic Belligeranza) “I Am Germany” From Endless House (Dramatic) 05 Kikuchi Yukinori “Crystal” (Wire Tapper edit) 15 Bob Bellerue From Luminous (Test Tone Music) “Niagara” (excerpt) From a forthcoming Anarchymoon Recordings release 06 Anne James Chaton & Andy Moor “Princess In A Mercedes Class S 280” 16 Tulipomania From Transfer/2: Princess In A Car (Unsounds) “Found Guitar” From The Whispering Campaign (Sursumcorda) 07 Øystein Kapperud “Leland Wrapped In Plastic” 17 Enrico Coniglio From 311/Amnesia (Handmade Music) “The Void” From Snowscapes Of Tomorrow (Psychonavigation) 08 Savaging Spires “Bending The Rules Of Time” 18 AUN From Savaging Spires (Critical Heights) “Consumed By Flies” From VII (Denovali) 09 Elektronavn Sacred Songbook “Path Bodhisattva” (Wire excerpt edition) 19 Wooden Kimono Previously unreleased (Empty Sounds Rec) “Hello” From Moving To Disneyland (Perennial) 10 Contemporary Noise Sextet “Is That Revolution Sad?” 20 Angus Carlyle & Rupert Cox From Ghostwriter’s Joke (Denovali) “Three Toho Scenes” From Air Pressure (Gruenrekorder) Compiled by Andy Tait, Shane Woolman & Lisa Blanning Mastered by Toby Hrycek-Robinson. Cover painting by Ivan Seal © 2011 The Wire thewire.co.uk 01 Tirudel Zenebe 03 “Gue” (Wire Tapper edit) Aspec(t) 05 THE WIRE TAPPER 26 TAPPER WIRE THE From Ililta!: New Ethiopian Dance Music (Terp) “Intorno Al Drago” Kikuchi Yukinori Taken from a 12" split single shared with Tesfaye Taye, Tirudel From a forthcoming Nuun Records release “Crystal” (Wire Tapper edit) Zenebe’s “Gue” was produced with Mesele Asmamaw, who Naples’s Aspec(t) are SEC_ (Revox tape recorder, samples, From Luminous (Test Tone Music) has also worked with the Terp label on an earlier compilation no-input feedback) and Mario Gabola (acoustic/feedback Japanese computer musician Yukinori began making music as documenting Ethiopian musicians’ rehabilitation of traditional saxophone and electroacoustic chain of resonant drums, Billy? in 1993, the same year he launched his Test Tone Music dance musics lost during the nation’s Derg regime. This was piezo speaker feedback, mini-tapes, audio contact bars). label. Selecting sounds by improvisation and “considered recorded during one of Dutch underground group The Ex’s “Feedback, self-regulating systems, mimicry, mutations, unconsciousness”, his Max/MSP constructions have also musical exchange trips to Ethiopia. becoming-animal, asymmetrical dislocation” are the duo’s own been heard in sandmachine, ANSONIC and various overseas terprecords.nl keywords in their musique concrète research. collaborations. toxorecords.com/aspect facebook.com/yukinori.kikuchi nuun-records.com testtonemusic.net 02 Joe Morris Wildlife “Display” (excerpt) 04 06 From Traits (Riti/AUM Fidelity) DJ Balli Anne James Chaton & Andy Moor Wildlife is one of free jazz bassist Joe Morris’s many “Skatebored Is Not Skateboard” (Valpelice Live Mix “Princess In A Mercedes Class S 280” projects. Beginning as a trio, it now includes Jim Hobbs 2011) From Transfer/2: Princess In A Car (Unsounds) (alto saxophone), Petr Cancura (tenor/alto saxophones), From In Skateboard We Noize! (Sonic Belligeranza) Since Anne James Chaton joined The Ex on stage in 2004, the and Luther Gray (drums). “We use the idea of change as the “Hard electronics blaxploitation” is DJ Balli’s own description poet has collaborated with the group’s guitarist Andy Moor on primary device for the creation of sequence in performance,” of his contaminated dancehall/hiphop rhythms and ripped various multimedia projects. Their Transfer series is based on comments Morris, “rather than relying on one piece. Our noise shards. Working with exclusively skateboard-generated themes of transportation and transition; this track comes from intent is always to reach for a highly spirited performance that sounds here, the Italian’s noise-poisoned breaks use a their ‘reconstruction’ of Princess Diana’s last hours before grooves and is rich in melodic invention.” combination of turntablism, sonic manipulation and “vinyl her fatal car accident in 1997, and features a rhythm track by joe-morris.com infringement”. Yannis Kyriakides. aumfidelity.com myspace.com/djballi333 aj.chaton.free.fr 01 arcoyflecha.es belligeranza.c8.com unsounds.com 11 THE WIRE TAPPER 26 TAPPER WIRE THE 09 Syd Ewart 07 Elektronavn Sacred Songbook “The Kursk” Øystein Kapperud “Path Bodhisattva” (Wire excerpt edition) Wire Tapper exclusive (Warmcircuit) “Leland Wrapped In Plastic” Previously unreleased (Empty Sounds Rec) Ewart’s synthesizer piece, made on a Moog IIIc modular From 311/Amnesia (Handmade Music) ESS is the work of Danish composer sound artist, songwriter machine and a Roland JP8000, was made as a reaction to the Sculpted in the suburbs of Oslo, Norway, Kapperud’s and Improv drummer Magnus Olsen Majmon. His forthcoming Russian submarine disaster of 2000. The duduk on this track ethereal electronic music is, in his own words, a product of album Fire Of Creation employs all these talents, which have is played by Brian Duffy. “being stuck inside four walls half of the year, left to break previously been aired on other labels including Not Not Fun, warmcircuit.com the imaginary ones open”. Ikuisuus and Humbug. This track is licensed under Creative myspace.com/oysteinkapperud Commons. handmaderecords.net majmon.com emptysoundsrec.com 12 Sonnamble 08 10 “Aphelion I” Savaging Spires Contemporary Noise Sextet From Blindlight (Forwind) “Bending The Rules Of Time” “Is That Revolution Sad?” Sonnamble was set up by musician/engineer Conor Curran to From Savaging Spires (Critical Heights) From Ghostwriter’s Joke (Denovali) explore the possibilities of live improvisation using real-time This English group are drawing a veil over their identities This Polish group’s repertoire uses jazz as a springboard to processing with hardware and custom software, usually for now, but their “work song for the dead”, with its ragged elegant compositions delivered with punky energy. Spacious alongside bassist/lap steel guitarist Peter Marsh. The chorus, penny whistles and strings, invokes the glory days pieces, filled out with piano and a brass section, build towards forthcoming Blindlight album is the follow-up to their debut, of pastoral psychedelia. a climax they hope will “make the flesh creep”. Seven Months In E Minor. 02 criticalheights.com denovali.com/noisesextet forwind.net/artists/Sonnamble 13 Enablers 17 “The Reader” Enrico Coniglio THE WIRE TAPPER 26 TAPPER WIRE THE From Blown Realms And Stalled Explosions (Exile On Mainstream/ “The Void” Lancashire And Somerset) From Snowscapes Of Tomorrow (Psychonavigation) In the San Francisco based Enablers, the prose and poetry of 15 A guitarist, environmental sound recordist and sound Pete Simonelli is intricately woven into the dynamic interplay Bob Bellerue artist, Coniglio has previously worked with Nicola Alesini, of guitarists Joe Goldring and Kevin Thomson, and punctuated “Niagara” (excerpt) Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Arve Henriksen, Rena Jones, by the precise drumming of Doug Scharin. Their compositions From a forthcoming Anarchymoon Recordings release Oophoi, Janek Schaefer and others. Particularly inspired range from melodic minimalism to heavy, rhythmically Currently based in Bushwick, NY, Bob Bellerue spent many by the soundscape of the Venetian lagoon, his Ambient and challenging thickets of sound. years in Los Angeles, where he ran the sub-garde experimental atmospheric music aims to investigate the loss of identity of enablerssf.com music/performance space the Il Corral, and was involved in places and the uncertainty about the evolution of terrain. lancashireandsomerset.co.uk several local experimental music festivals. “Niagara” was enricoconiglio.com mainstreamrecords.de recorded at an unknown place and time, using radios and psychonavigation.com guitar pedals. halfnormal.com anarchymoon.com 14 Walter Schnaffs “I Am Germany” 16 18 From Endless House (Dramatic) Tulipomania AUN An erstwhile resident of Jiri Kantor’s 1973 avant garde “Found Guitar” “Consumed By Flies” superclub/electronic commune The Endless House, Walter From The Whispering Campaign (Sursumcorda) From VII (Denovali) Schnaffs has now resurfaced thanks to a new compilation Tulipomania come from Bristol, PA, and for their third album, AUN is the exploratory entity of veteran Montreal experimental/ on London’s Dramatic Records. Drenched in the sound of Cheryl Gelover (keyboards, backing vocals) and Tom Murray electronic musician Martin Dumais. The project blossomed into a thousand Roland Space Echoes, the expansive, opulent (vocals, bass, guitar) are joined again by Rob Campbell on its current duo form with the addition of Dumais’s wife Julie melancholy of Schnaffs’s soundworld now seems to reverberate drums. “Found Guitar” is the opening track from their new Leblanc (aka de.i.te). Combining guitars, bass and violin with with the tragi-comedy of Endless House’s spectacular failure. release, The Whispering
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