’ Emily LaBarge pens a tribute to Kaari Upson
PURPLE has maintained a significant presence in Tokyo
so it’s time to get creative
among never-before-published reproductions of earlier paintings and drawings
in order to experience resonance at a given moment
The Wire #496 June 2025 plants ’ Emily LaBarge pens aThe Wire is an independent music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. It celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and