The Wire Tapper 25 Your track by track guide to this month’s free CD
09 Melmac “Accident” (edit)
01 From Le Désert Avance (Ronda) Hana French brothers Luc and Nicolas Reverter “Tate” created Le Désert Avance (The Desert Wire Tapper exclusive (Granny Records) Creeps Closer) from openended ‘instant The Greek duo Hana consists of Thanasis 04 composing’ sessions in a Krautrock style.
Papadopoulos and Thanos Bantis, formerly Nicholas Szczepanik “Blind cinema” is how they refer to their of the group Good Luck Mr Gorsky, who play “Please Stop Loving Me” (excerpt) hallucinatory, abstract, angst-ridden a variety of analogue synthesizers, samplers From Please Stop Loving Me (Streamline) soundworld. and sequencers. Formed in Thessaloniki in This native of Maryland began his musical summer 2010, Hana will release their debut activities with location recordings made on album this spring. a thriftstore tape recorder. Nowadays, as a student of sound in Chicago, he explores 07 emotion and memory on such releases as Manekinekod The Chiasmus, Dear Dad and this latest “Toy Factory” (installation excerpt) intimate work. From Data (Brigade Music) Greek artist Eleni Adamopoulou began her studies in classical music at the age of 12 and has since played piano, flute and
keyboards in a variety of different contexts, including jazz, classical and indie rock. As 10 well as completing her studies as a music Bohm & Cooper-Marquardt Duo teacher, she has produced radio “Ruf Der Apostel (Apostles Calling)”
programmes for Tripradio in her hometown Wire Tapper exclusive (Avachorda) of Athens. Manekinekod – one of three Inspired by “an artistic quest to not refer to aliases she has used – is a “factory of a particular sound, but to particular ideals”,
02 rhythms” with lyrics exploring “a world of this is the work of Sean Derrick Cooper- Artifact Shore 05 non-existence”. Marquardt, a Chicago-born American living “Instruments Of The Devil” Obsil in Berlin, and Lind Bohm, who create their From Instruments Of The Devil (Artifact Shore) “Snow Days In March” electroacoustic sound from combinations of Based in Brooklyn, New York City, Artifact From Vicino (Psychonavigation) computers, machines and real instruments. Shore’s influences include Noise, Prog and Field recordings interwined with classical post-rock, jazz and shoegaze. They are composition form the backbone of the work concerned with, in their own words, “grace of Obsil, aka Giulio Aldinucci. Vicino is the and fear, optimism and nihilism, clarity and third of his albums, following his earlier distortion”. Points and Distances releases. The name means Ob(serving) sil(ence).
11 Sheik Anorak/Weasel Walter/Mario
Rechtern
08 “Wotizup?” 06 Tchicai/Hurley/Sanders/Coxon Wire Tapper exclusive (Gaffer) 03 Socrates That Practiçes Music “Jomajomi Tchucosa (Live @ Midlands Art A three-way collaboration between a French K-Branding “Judged By The Left Eye” Centre 26/11/10)” (edit) guitarist, an American drummer and an “Driller” (excerpt) From Further Conclusions Against An Italian Wire Tapper exclusive (Treader) Austrian reeds player, “Wotizup?” is firmly From Alliance (Humpty Dumpty) Version (BAT) (Junior Aspirin) This piece was taken from a free music in the bracket of hard-edged, loud and Formed in 2004 in Brussels, this Belgian trio Andy Cooke and Alex Ellerington formed meeting, late last year, between veteran fiery improvisation honed with the intensity began as an experimental chaos-rock outfit their drums/electronics duo in 2002 and Danish saxophonist John Tchicai and of rock. Following their two previous whose debut Facial mixed free jazz and have been associated all along with the English improvisors Mark Sanders (drums), albums on Gaffer and Savage Land, a new hypnotic Industrial noise. Alliance is colder Junior Aspirin label. The pair will perform the Mike Hurley (piano) and Spring Heel Jack’s studio recording is imminent from this well and darker, with a discernible 80s influence. album in full at London’s ICA in May. John Coxon (guitar). travelled trio.
19 14 My Cat Is An Alien Christian Skjødt “The Antigravitational Sense Of “Innocent Square” (Wire Tapper exclusive Nothingness” (Wire Tapper alternate edit) edit) From What Space Is Made For (Elliptical Noise) From a forthcoming Tonometer Music release Italian brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio Christian Skjødt can sometimes be found work in a “secret base in the Western Alps”, playing drums in various dub, hiphop, Improv where they have been making instant and Noise outfits, but here the Danish compositions, electronic music and audio- improvisor and sound artist investigates visual art since 1997. This track comes from the properties of a homemade non-linear their latest magnum opus, a triple box set. analogue synthesizer. Skjødt himself runs the vinyl-only Tonometer imprint.
12 Mark Hanslip & Javier Carmona “Preambolo” (Wire Tapper edit)
From DosadoS (Babel)
Tenor saxophonist Mark Hanslip began on
Birmingham’s jazz and Improv scene before moving to London. His regular partner is 15 Barcelona based drummer/percussionist Stearica 17 20 Javier Carmona, whose roots are in rock “Warp Lag” (Wire Tapper edit) Nicolas Salomon Telebossa and punk, and this is the first fruit of their From Stearica Invade Acid Mothers Temple “Zoom” “Século Do Progresso” ongoing free music collaboration. (Homeopathic/Robot Elephant) Wire Tapper exclusive From Telebossa (Staubgold) A trio from Turin, Italy, Stearica have existed Influenced by a variety of genres, including Working together as Telebossa, Brazilian for the past 14 years. Their debut album rock, electro and turntablism, French composer Chico Mello and Nicholas Oltro featured special guests Dälek MC and composer and producer Salomon creates Bussmann of Austrian experimental rock Amy Denio, among others. This release a distinctive electronic sound that melds outfit Kapital Band 1 explore a new take on follows several tours with Japanese digital and acoustic, clarity and blurriness, samba, electronica, jazz and chamber music. psychedelic rockers Acid Mothers Temple complexity and minimalism. “Século Do Progresso” is a version of during 2010. Brazilian songwriter Noel Rosa’s 1934 song of the same name.
01 Hana “Tate” Wire Tapper exclusive (Granny Records) 12 Mark Hanslip & Javier Carmona “Preambolo” (Wire grannyrecords.org Tapper edit) From DosadoS (Babel) markhanslip.blogspot.com, babellabel.co.uk 02 Artifact Shore “Instruments Of The Devil” From Instruments Of The Devil (Artifact Shore) artifactshore.com 13 Luciano Maggiore & Francesco fuzz Brasini “Chàsm’ Achanès (Huge Abyss)” (Wire Tapper edit) From Chàsm’ 03 K-Branding “Driller” (excerpt) From Alliance (Humpty Dumpty) Achanès (Boring Machines) boringmachines.it k-branding.be, humptydumptyrecords.be 14 Christian Skjødt “Innocent Square” (Wire Tapper edit) 04 Nicholas Szczepanik “Please Stop Loving Me” (excerpt) From a forthcoming Tonometer Music release skjodt.net, From Please Stop Loving Me (Streamline) nszcz.com tonometermusic.com
05 Obsil “Snow Days In March” From Vicino (Psychonavigation) 15 Stearica “Warp Lag” (Wire Tapper edit) From Stearica Invade obsil.com, psychonavigation.com Acid Mothers Temple (Homeopathic/Robot Elephant) stearica.net, homeopathicrecords.com, robotelephant.co.uk 06 Socrates That Practices Music “Judged By The Left Eye” From Further Conclusions Against An Italian Version (Junior 16 Philippe Petit & Friends “Succumbed To Gravity” Wire Aspirin) junioraspirin.com Tapper exclusive (Aagoo) philippepetit.weebly.com, aagoo.com
07 Manekinekod “Toy Factory” (installation excerpt) 17 Nicolas Salomon “Zoom” Wire Tapper exclusive From Data (Brigade Music) brigade-music.com, nsalomon.com, soundcloud.com/nicolassalomon The Wire myspace.com/manekinekod 18 HHY & The Macumbas “Legba In Dub” From Legba/Houmfort Tapper 25 08 Tchicai/Hurley/Sanders/Coxon “Jomajomi Tchucosa Remixes (Soopa) soopa.org, soopa.org/artist/hhy-macumbas (Live @ Midlands Art Centre 26/11/10)” (edit) Wire Tapper 13 exclusive (Treader) treader.org 19 My Cat Is An Alien “The Antigravitational Sense Of Nothingness” (Wire Tapper alternate edit) From What Space 09 Melmac “Accident” (edit) From Le Désert Avance (Ronda) Is Made For (Elliptical Noise) mycatisanalien.com, ronda-label.com ellipticalnoise.bandcamp.com 10 Bohm & Cooper-Marquardt Duo “Ruf Der Apostel 20 Telebossa “Século Do Progresso” From Telebossa (Apostles Calling)” Wire Tapper exclusive (Avachorda) (Staubgold) telebossa.com, staubgold.com Luciano Maggiore & Francesco fuzz avachorda.de, avachorda.de/bohm-cooper-marquardt-duo 11 Sheik Anorak/Weasel Walter/Mario Rechtern “Wotizup?” Wire Tapper exclusive (Gaffer) anorak-walter-rechtern.com, gafferrecords.com
Brasini 18 Compiled by Andy Tait, Shane Woolman & Lisa Blanning Mastered by Toby Hrycek-Robinson Images: Patrick Ward, Monologue Study [15' 48"–20' 08"] (detail) This compilation © 2011 The Wire The Wire Tapper 25 is given away with The Wire issue 326 April 2011 “Chàsm’ Achanès (Huge Abyss)” (Wire 16 HHY & The Macumbas thewire.co.uk Not for sale Tapper edit) Philippe Petit & Friends “Legba In Dub” From Chàsm’ Achanès (Boring Machines) “Succumbed To Gravity” From Legba/Houmfort Remixes (Soopa) The Wire Tapper 25 is the latest volume in Sicilian electroacoustic tape composer Wire Tapper exclusive (Aagoo) HHY & The Macumbas emerge from the The Wire’s ongoing series of new music Maggiore is joined here by guitarist and The French electronica producer uses SOOPA collective, based in Porto, Portugal, compilations (for details of previous volumes, sound researcher Francesco Brasini for cymbalom, electric psalterion, turntables, who explore “chaos rock, skull-cave turn to page 105) and is given away with all an electro-drone which, in their words, computer and synths to build up layers and dub, spectral choirs and marching band copies of The Wire 326 (April 2011). If your “generates a circular temporality in process acoustic and field recordings, as improvisation”. This percussion-heavy copy of the CD is missing or damaged, either which the listener is invited to remember well as contributions from friends Alison voodoo dub track is part of a remix album return the magazine to where you bought it what the past is and to anticipate what Chesley (cello) and Mark Cunningham, which includes remixes by Badawi to get a replacement, or contact The Wire: could happen”. formerly of Mars (trumpet). and others. +44 (0)20 7422 5022, [email protected]