WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Many tracks are performed in

Many tracks are performed in his native Akita dialect

Moeka Shiozuka of Hitsuji Bungaku

In their unflappable determination to shine light into the darkness

some in cities where Waits had never played before

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

WAX POETICS Issue 59 - AALIYAH / KELELA COVER Artist_Hauschka Many tracks are performed inVeteran 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