wire: september 2020

Mourning [A] BLKstar: We meet the Cleveland Afrofuturist collective that is channelling the spirit of James Baldwin to forge new songs for the Black diaspora on recent album The Cycle and single 'Juneteenth'; Bunita Marcus: The Brooklyn pianist and composer reflects on six decades in new music and her influence on Morton Feldman as her Lecture For Jo Kondo receives a new recording. Lao Dan: The former member of post-punk unit Red Scarf talks about blazing a trail for free music in China, staging site-specific performances in caves and multitasking across saxophone, flute, dulcimer and more; Invisible Jukebox - Tricky: Bristol's finest sits down with The Wire's mystery record collection in his current base of Berlin.