🙏🏿💙✨💫 @thewiremagazine Repost: • The Wire 462 is out now!! Copies are available from our website now and will be appearing on newsstands from Thursday. On the cover: Saul Williams: The US poet, vocalist and actor has long set the power of language against colonialism. Now he pours this audiovisual experience into cinema with the Afrofuturist epic Neptune Frost. By Neil Kulkarni Laura Cannell: The rich possibilities of medieval and early music provide the impetus for the UK instrumentalist’s prolific output. By Louise Gray Alan Skidmore: Taking in encounters with Elvin Jones, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins, the lifelong career of the UK tenor saxophonist reads like a fever dream of hanging with the international jazz set. By Daniel Spicer Invisible Jukebox: Bob Mould: Will The Wire’s mystery record selection push the influential US guitarist and songwriter beyond the threshold? Tested by Rob Turner Also inside this issue... Unlimited Editions: Cortizona Unofficial Channels: Rāga Junglism Cheri Knight: The rediscovered US composer sings the body electric. By Claire Biddles Joe Rainey: Ojibwe vocalist locates pow wow factor. By Joshua Minsoo Kim Anna Butterss: Los Angeles shapes the Australian bassist’s improvisations. By Abi Bliss Michael Gregory Jackson: 40 years of six-string adventure with the US guitarist. By George Grella Global Ear: Gothenberg: Free folk ensemble Enhet För Fri Musik serve as focal point for the city’s underground music scene. By Michael Lawson The Inner Sleeve: Éliane Radigue on Adrien Mauduit’s Night Sky In Vicuña, Chile, 2019 Epiphanies: In Lagos a phone call kicks off Emeka Ogboh’s trail of anthropological discovery The Wire Tapper 59 CD: The latest edition of The Wire's compilation series comes free with every copy of the magazine Plus many, many pages of reviews of new and archive releases, music books, films and DVDs, events, exhibitions and more. Cover photography by David O Alekhuogie . . . #thewiremagazine #thewire #experimentalmusic #saulwilliams #poet #neptunefrost #audiovisualartist #improvisedmusic #jazz #musicmagazine