WIRE, THE - #462 August 2022

"The Wire Tapper 59 CD. Every copy of the August issue will come with a free CD of the latest album in our series of underground music anthologies attached to the cover. This edition of The Wire Tapper features a cover designed by Bráulio Amado and contains 16 new tracks by MimiCof, Delmore FX, Evicshen, RSS Boy 1 featuring Waclaw Zimpel, Mark Stewart featuring KK Null, Madeleine Cocolas and more; On the cover... Saul Williams: The US poet, actor, songwriter and now film maker has moved from consciousness raising collaborations with DJ Krust, David Murray and Trent Reznor to the dystopian Afrofuturist visions of his co-directed Rwandan film project Neptune Frost. He talks to Neil Kulkarni about colonialism, and coltan as the new cotton. Inside the issue... Laura Cannell: Harnessing elemental forces of air, vibration and birdsong on violin, recorder and organ, the multi-instrumentalist talks to Louise Gray about her lifelong mission to capture the landscape of her native Suffolk, and he