The Wire 511 September 2026 Issue The Wire

On the cover: Space Afrika. The Manchester?Berlin duo will release their new album Quiet Storm in September, drawing on ambient, triphop, techno and classical. Their second full length to appear on Dais Records following 2021's Honest Labour, it features contributions from Klein, Kelly Moran, and others. Story by Lucy Thraves. Inside: Lucy Liyou: Mr. Cobra, the latest album by the Korean-American composer, collagist and storyteller, combines autobiography, folk theatre, y2k pop and text-to-speech recordings. By Hugh Morris. Jad Atoui: The Lebanese sound artist and composer who has worked with the likes of John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Anderson has just released his new modular synth suite It Will Take Forever through Beirut's Ruptured label. By Daryl Worthington. Rump State: The noise adjacent Norwegian?American duo of Gaute Ganli and former Sightings guitarist Mark Morgan released their second album Psychic Sidekick via 12XU earlier this year. By Erick Bradshaw. Nuno Canavarro: The Portuguese electroacoustic composer whose 1988 album Plux Quba became a cult rarity before reissues on Molkai/Drag City brought it to wider attention will perform the world premiere of a new commission, Radiant Rift, at this year's Semibreve festival in Braga. By Robert Barry."