wire: december 2018

Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke; Japan's hardest working musical partnership sit down with James Hadfield to discuss Ishibashi's new album The Dream My Bones Dream and the neverending stream of experiments emerging from O'Rourke's Steamroom studio. Inside the issue: As a key hub of London's improv community, London Improvisers Orchestra marks its 20th anniversary with a series of performances and recordings. Phil England finds out what makes it tick. US electronic musician Michele Mercure discusses three decades of multimedia, TV, and theater collaborations with Emily Bick. Writer, ex-soldier and one man hiphop army Barrington Hendricks aka JPEGMAFIA talks to Emily Pothast about protest, power and the military industrial complex. Invisible Jukebox with fearless fusion bassist Melvin Gibbs.