The Wire 326. April 2011

Richard Skelton As A Broken Consort, Riftmusic and others, the UK sound artisan enters the wild places to create a ritual music of mourning and rebirth. By Clive Bell Once Upon A Time In... Harlem Andy Battaglia revisits the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where the ghosts of Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening and Milton Babbitt linger Peter Evans Philip Clark meets the New York trumpeter whose deconstructions of historic jazz are forging a new, dynamic version of the music’s future Invisible Jukebox: Green Gartside The Scritti Politti frontman hears some songs to remember in The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Anne Hilde Neset Funkystepz The London trio are spreading their dancefloor delirium across the capital. By Lisa Blanning Jenny Hval The Norwegian songwriter/novelist sings her lungs and liver out on her visceral new album. By Rob Young Olivia Block Field recordings inserted into real-time Improv keeps the element of surprise. By Julian Cowley Global Ear: Helsinki New venues like Ptarmigan encourage disorderly musical conduct in Finland’s capital. By Jenna Sutela Cross Platform: Charlie Nothing Byron Coley on a forgotten American outsider artist whose work stretched from psychedelic saxophone to inventing metallic Dingulators Epiphanies Little Annie Bandez penetrates the secret heart of New York via the magic tones of Miles’s Kind Of Blue The Inner Sleeve Bill Kouligas on The Germs