WIRE - Mar 493: Masma Dream World - MAG

The Wire 493 March 2025

The cover story will feature dark magus Devi Mambouka aka Masma Dream World discussing rituals, healing and the music of the shadow world with Emily Pothast.

Inside the issue you will find features on Brazilian singer and guitarist Caxtrinho who talks to Derek Walmsley, experimental cornetist Louis Laurain who talks to Clive Bell, and baritone guitar and drums duo Able Noise who talk to Abi Bliss.

The regular sections include an Invisible Jukebox with the one and only Lydia Lunch (30 years on from the last time she stepped into The Wire’s mystery listening booth in issue 114), an Epiphanies column filed by sine wave minimalist Sachiko M, guitar experimentalist Jules Reidy contributes the Inner Sleeve, and we unveil the long overdue return of the Collateral Damage column with George Rayner-Lawmusing on the meaning of folk music.

As usual, the review sections will be brimming over with our critics’ thoughts on all manner of new music activity: in Soundcheck, we have Derek Walmsley on Finnish electro, Daniel Spicer on Xhosa Cole’s Thelonious Monk project, Dan Barrow on Edvard Graham Lewis, and Claire Biddles on the Queer soundtrack; in Print Run, it’s Francis Gooding on Rammellzee, Byron Coley on Peter Jefferies, Stewart Smith on Peter Brötzmann, and Leah Kardos on Pauline Oliveros; in On Site, there’s Robert Barry on Mike Kelley; and in On Location, we have Gabriel Bristow on Han Bennink in London, Louis Pattison at Le Guess Who, Andy Hamilton at HCMF, Emily Bick on Laurie Anderson in Manchester, Claire Sawers on Elaine Mitchener in Edinburgh, and Bill Meyer at Catalytic Sound in Chicago.

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