WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka

WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_HauschkaVeteran music journalist Michael A. Gonzales looks back twenty years on Aaliyahs debut album, the controversy with R. Kelly, and the follow up album with Timbaland that changed the landscape of R&B. Includes never before published photos of Aaliyah by photographer Jonathan Mannion. Novelist T. P. Carter interviews newcomer and runs down the L. A. electro bass scene. Contents: Aaliyah Kelela Edwin Birdsong Rinder & Lewis Terry Reid Jimmy Jam

such as Ibrahim Hesnawi

for the world at large to hear what’s been on her mind for quite a while

In their unflappable determination to shine light into the darkness

Elsewhere the album runs the gauntlet of everything from ambient to dark wave - features ferocious guest contributions from fish narc and Special Interest’s Alli Logout on ‘Him' and ‘Unforgiven’ - all while retaining that distinct tone that unmistakably The Soft Moon

some in cities where Waits had never played before

Filled with a variety of sounds and genres

Many tracks are performed in his native Akita dialect

and memory

Moeka Shiozuka of Hitsuji Bungaku

It sounds as if the two artists have been playing together for decades

the definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark ‘60s and ‘70s recordings

we carried maybe sixty different Saturn LPs