wire: may 2016

On the cover: Marissa Nadler (With her new album Strangers, produced by Sunn O))) associate Randall Dunn, the Boston based singer-songwriter and guitarist continues to map out the phantom zone between flesh and spirit). Inside the issue: Jair-Rohm Parker Wells (From contributing slap bass samples to the Apple Loop Library to rebooting the soul-scraping free jazz of Albert Ayler, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells is a walking bass dichotomy); Manchester Improv (North West England is proving fertile ground for new improve, thanks to labels like Golden Lab and Tombed Vision, and artists including Andrew Cheertham, The Hunter Brothers and Nat Birchall); Invisible Jukebox: Illan Volkov (The conductor takes his cue from The Wire's mystery record selection); Steven Julien (The debut album from the artist also known as Funkineven tears itself free from the dictates of the dancefloor). Plus The Wire Tapper 40: The next volume in our series of underground music anthologies is attached to the cover of every copy of the May issue -- 20 new tracks from DJ Stingray, Susanna, Supersilent, The Library Of Babel and more.