The Wire: Adventures In Music and Sound # 18th January 2024

New music with The Wire Magazine.

This episode hosted by Chris Bohn opens with Nashville based Chinese musician Wu Fei’s guzheng portrait of Nashville under heavy snow. It concludes with a piece by Guangdong, China group Wu Tiao Ren, "Unfinished Building", from their album Stories.

In between there’s some archive music from Felix Kubin’s tetchy teenage group Die Egozentrischen 2 (“The Germans”), and a reissue of Amon Düül’s 1972 album Disaster/Lüüd Noma; plus new music from toechter, Champagne Dub, AUTORHYTHM Meets Scientist, Happy Family, Maher Shalal Hash Baz (singing Oscar Wilde’s poem ”Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves”, as done by Jeanne Moreau in RW Fassbinder’s Querelle), PoiL Ueda, Anne Gillis, Annie Aries, and more.