Using 16 different texts from James Joyce's all-but-impenetrable novel {-Finnegan's Wake}, vocalist Phil Minton, pianist Veryan Weston, saxophonist John Butcher, and drummer Roger Turner have created a mosaic of sound upon which narrative itself -- both musical and literal -- are entwined in a manner that suggests that they are indeed inseparable from one another at their base. This quartet made free use of Joyce's text, not as a way of illuminating it, but as a way of illuminating their ...   [ read more ]

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On the cover: Wilco. Edwin Pouncey hears how Chicago's alt country stars Wilco cracked the cocoon of success to release the free spirits within, while Julian Cowley talks to the American composer, Beth Anderson. Also features interviews with Phil Minton and the Chinese splatterpunk quartet Hang on the Box, as well as a guide to Noise music, from Lou Reed through Industrial grind to today's digital sound extremists.

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