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The Wire 456
February 2022
On the cover: Mdou Moctar – the Nigerien kings of the almighty riff talk touring, rock, suffering and the invaluable discipline of the wedding circuit.
Inside: the Lebanese musician, artist and filmmaker Mazen Kerbaj establishes global relationships via an idiosyncratic musical language; a user’s guide to the discography of French composer Éliane Radigue; and Chicago master musicians Jeff Parker and Ben LaMar Gay take the Invisible Jukebox.
Plus profiles of Hedvig Mollestad, Duma, Robbie Lee, and Matthew J Rolin & Jen Powers; Tim Hecker on Fugazi; Zeitkratzer’s Reinhold Friedl on Iannis Xenakis; and the usual jam packed reviews section with faUSt, GLOR1A, Archie Shepp, Björk, 75 Dollar Bill, Oren Ambarchi, Animal Collective, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Luke Stewart, Tanya Tagaq, William S Burroughs, Can, Don Cherry, Hermeto Pascoal, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Pamela Z, Frank Zappa and more.
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