WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Moeka Shiozuka of Hitsuji Bungaku

Moeka Shiozuka of Hitsuji Bungaku

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

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

Many tracks are performed in his native Akita dialect

such as Ibrahim Hesnawi

WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Moeka Shiozuka of Hitsuji BungakuVeteran 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