The new festival Safe As Milk has released the full line-up details for its first weekend event at Pontins, Prestatyn, in April.

Its roll call already includes Shirley Collins, The Residents, This Is Not This Heat, Dopplereffekt, Hieroglyphic Being, Nurse With Wound, Grouper, Actress, Michael Rother, Anna Meredith, Ata Kak, Princess Nokia, Gaika and others. New to the festival bill are Butthole Surfers, whose first UK appearance in five years is their only scheduled gig for 2017. Also added is a collaboration between Tony Allen and Jeff Mills, a performance that had its 2016 debut jam at Paris jazz club New Morning. Another fresh collaboration brings together Craig Leon & Martin Rev; while other artists just confirmed include Forest Swords, Blanck Mass, Richard Dawson, Demdike Stare, Rezzett, Warm Digits, Basic House and The Cosmic Dead. An extensive music documentary film programme will be announced soon with screenings happening throughout the weekend.

On a side note, Safe As Milk is also keen to shout about the selection of food and drinks on offer. “Never ones to neglect food & drink,” boast the organisers, “Safe As Milk have called upon some talented people to feed the masses.” They list Mother May I’s Vegan Kitchen, Scream For Pizza & Claw Hide Grill, 200 Degrees Coffee and Conwy Brewery as the festival’s nourishment providers.

Safe As Milk runs from 21–23 April. The full line-up can be viewed at their website. Tickets are available now for £199 including accommodation.

The headline of this article has been changed for clarity. It originally read: Butthole Surfers perform for the first time in five years at Safe As Milk

The first four acts have been announced for Terraforma 2017: Andrew Weatherall, Suzanne Ciani, Laaraji and Drexciya's Gerald Donald performing his Arpanet project. Artists in residence this year will be Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi aka Invernomuto, and Francesco Cavaliere, who performed at last year’s festival. Cavaliere also designed this year’s festival artwork, which he's called “Carte Mutaforma”. It will be unveiled on 14 February at Gluck50 in Milan.

Watch a short documentary of Terraforma 2016 by Steven Jønger:

The sustainable music festival will take place on the grounds of Villa Arconati, Milan, between 23–25 June. Camping is available at the event, which will also feature a series of talks and workshops. More acts are still to be announced, but the first round of 70€ tickets have already sold out. Early bird tickets are still available for 80€ which include a weekend festival pass and camping.

The seventh edition of Rewire runs from 31 March–2 April in The Hague. Spread across various venues in the Dutch city, the event numbers among its highlights a special live set from Jeff Mills and Tony Allen, marking the second time the pair have collaborated. Other acts now confirmed include This Is Not This Heat, Helena Hauff, Daniel Lanois, Peter Zinovieff & Lucy Railton, Wolf Eyes, Jessy Lanza, Aurora Halal, SHXCXCHCXSH, Virginia Wing and Carla dal Forno. Headlining Saturday will be Swans. Other artists scheduled to appear include Arca & Jesse Kanda, Daniel Wohl, Slagwerk Den Haag & Matangi Quartet presenting Holographic, GAIKA, Moor Mother, Horse Lords, Jameszoo Quartet, Sarathy Korwar and These Hidden Hands. More artists, talks, screenings and workshops are still to be announced. Individual tickets on sale at Rewire's website.

Rewire 2015 was reviewed by Chris Woolfrey in The Wire 377. Subscribers can read that via Exact Editions.

Can drummer and founding member Jaki Liebezeit has died. “It is with great sadness we have to announce that Jaki passed away this morning from sudden pneumonia,” read the announcement on Can's Facebook page. “He fell asleep peacefully, surrounded by his loved ones. We will miss him hugely.”

Born in Dresden on 26 May 1938, Liebezeit started his career as a free jazz drummer in the early 1960s when he joined The Manfred Schoof Quintet. As Julian Cope explains it in his 1995 publication Krautrocksampler: One Head's Guide To The Great Kosmische Musik – 1968 Onwards, the words of “some kind of freak” had a momentous affect on his drumming style. “The ‘freak’ had slagged Liebezeit for playing free jazz, and said: ‘Why do you play that shit? You must play monotonously.’ Those words stayed with him forever. Liebezeit had never heard the word 'monotonously' used in a positive way before, and the pealing bells of truth shot through him. He changed his drum style immediately, and it was with this concept of monotony that the drummer entered lnner Space. He, in turn, chided Holger Czukay for playing too much bass, and insisted that he try to play bass with ‘only one tone’.”

Inner Space would soon become Can, or The Can, the group so named by their first vocalist proper, Liebezeit’s American friend Malcolm Mooney. Though the Cologne based band went through numerous line-up changes and reincarnations, Liebezeit was always a core member. He was already 30 when he, Irmin Schmidt, Czukay, David C Johnson and Michael Karoli formed the group in 1968. In 1980 Liebezeit became a member of Phantom Band and worked with Jah Wobble (along with Czukay) on the 1981 LP How Much Are They? and the following year’s Full Circle. Liebezeit also collaborated with Philip Jeck, Pierre Bastien and Jac Berrocal, among others, He was set to appear alongside Mooney, Schmidt and Thurston Moore in The Can Project at The Barbican in April.

Diamanda Galás has announced the release of two new albums on 24 March. All The Way will feature reworks of jazz and traditional compositions including BB King's “The Thrill Is Gone“ and a solo piano interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” while In Concert At Saint Thomas The Apostle Harlem is a live album taken from her 2016 church performance at the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in New York – a performance that consisted of Galás performing a collection of death songs in Italian, German, French and Greek. The recording also features poems by Cesare Pavese and Ferdinand Freiligrath, and renditions of Jacques Brel’s “Fernand” and “Amsterdam”, and Albert Ayler’s “Angels”.

Listen to “All The Way” and “O Death” from All The Way:

In recent years Galás has been working throughout Europe on projects such as the performance piece Das Fieberspital. She collaborated with filmmaker Davide Pepe on the film work Schrei 27 in 2010 and headlined Rituals For The Blind Dead at Roadburn 2016.

All The Way and In Concert At Saint Thomas The Apostle Harlem will be released 24 March on Galás’s label Intravenal Sound Operations. Pre-orders are available now.

Kara Feely and Travis Just of Brooklyn performance group Object Collection have marshalled over 40 artists across "multiple disciplines and practices" for a compilation protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump, President-elect of The United States of America, on 20 January.

Notes From Sub-Underground features contributions from Matana Roberts, Michael Pisaro, Bob Bellerue, Lea Bertucci, String Noise, Mallory Catlett/Black-Eyed Susan, Bill Dietz, Dither Guitar Quartet, Shayna Dunkelman, Jim Findlay, Richard Foreman, Nick Hallett, Brian Harnetty, James Ilgenfritz, Bonnie Jones, Catherine Lamb, Zach Layton, Paula Matthusen, Phill Niblock, Object Collection and more.

The compilation, which is funded via contributions to its Indiegogo page, will be available as a digital download in FLAC and MP3 formats to anyone who contributes any amount. Download links will be emailed to contributors on 20 January. 100 per cent of the proceeds raised from the sale of the album will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union.

"Obviously this is not a substitute for direct political action," explain Feely and Just. "But as purveyors of experimental performance/music/theater/art, producing work is something we are good at. Subterranean networks are the lifeblood of our practice. It is a corollary for political activity. We flex these muscles now, to strengthen the ties across our communities.

"This compilation features only American artists," they add. "Obviously we are aware that this event in American politics impacts the entire world, quite possibly in terrible disproportion. And we want borders to be erased. Nonetheless, it seems best to us, for the purposes of this compilation, to focus it thus."

Off The Page Bergen marks a new start for the Norwegian version of The Wire's music festival without music. It previously took place in Norway’s capital Oslo, but this time it will happen at Landmark Bergen Kunstall on 27–28 January.

Held in partnership with nyMusikk, the event focuses on ideas on and around music itself, featuring a range of musicians and critics. The line-up include Rob Young discussing sleeve art as a form of theatre, Maia Urstad presenting Elegy To FM, Thora Dolven Balke delivering a radiophonic lecture, Eivind Buene in conversation with actor and musician Anders Danielsen Lie, Sarah Angliss on visceral music, and Stephen O’Malley will present some musical epiphanies. Also on the agenda is a series of film screenings, including Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present, Aura Satz's Little Doorways To Paths Not Yet Taken, a short film about the art of Foley, and documentaries about Robert Wyatt and Cambodian rock. The Wire and nyMusikk will be on the decks, and a music market will feature vinyl, cassettes, fanzines, comics, books, posters from Robotbutikken, Drid Machine, Tedragen, Bergen Zines, Maksimal, Hordaland Kunstsenter and others.

Off The Page Bergen 2017 will take place at Landmark Bergen Kunstall on 27–28 January. Tickets are on sale now.

Sound And Music have announced their latest initiative for contemporary composers. Claiming it to be their response to feedback from artists who say they desire to “shake up the UK's touring industry”, SAM have launched what they call Composer-Curator, which they describe as “a space for artists to take risks and to curate, organise and run their own grassroots event series”. The scheme is looking for UK based composers to curate and produce a performance series, festival or tour.

In other opportunity news, the new music organisation has teamed up with London Graduate Orchestra to offer two composers the chance to develop new works for them. More details can be found via Sound And Music's website.

William Ezechukwu Onyeabor has died, Luaka Bop has announced on Facebook. “It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we have to announce that the great Nigerian business leader and mythic music pioneer William Onyeabor has passed away at the age of 70,” states the label. “He died peacefully in his sleep following a brief illness, at his home in Enugu, Nigeria.

“For people in his hometown of Enugu, Nigeria,” its Facebook post continues, “Mr Onyeabor was simply referred to as ‘The Chief’. He was known for having created many opportunities for the people in his community.”

Onyeabor was born on 26 March1946. He recorded and released nine albums between 1977–85 at Wilfilms Limited, his own pressing plant in Enugu, southeast Nigeria. The plant is also noted for pressing Livy Ekemezie’s 1983 funk set Friday Night, as well as for housing its own Wilfilms label. As a musician and businessman, Onyeabor travelled the world to study record manufacturing set-ups. However he also worked in many other fields – for example, he received the West African Industrialist Of The Year award for opening a flour and food processing business, among other ventures. He was also president of Enugu's Musician's Union, and chairman of the city's local football team Enugu Rangers.

That Onyeabor was an elusive character led to many speculations as to what he had done throughout his career. He stopped making music when he became a Born Again Christian, and for many years he refused any interview requests that came his way. In 2013 Luaka Bop released the well-received Who Is William Onyeabor? anthology compiled by musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne. Julian Cowley described that release as a “mildly eccentric blend of synthesized soul and low-slung funk”, and as clearing up any questions as to who Onyeabor actually was. That album was followed by the film documentary Fantastic Man (named after a track on his 1979 album Tomorrow) and a tour of live shows that featured over 50 guests.

You can hear “When The Going Is Smooth And Good” from Anything You Sow (1985), which Luaka Bop noted as one of Onyeabor's most successful songs.

William Onyeabor is survived by his wife, children and four grandchildren.

A memorial fund has been set up in the the wake of Mark Fisher's death on 13 January. The writer, theorist, critic and teacher also known for his long-running K-Punk blog left behind his wife Zoë and young son George.

“We – Mark’s friends, comrades, and Goldsmiths and Repeater colleagues – have set up this collection to raise money for them,” explains the You Caring site, “in the hope that it will allow them space to grieve and come to terms with their loss, and reduce the number of things they have to deal with at this devastating time.

“There will of course be memorials, events and tributes to Mark to come,” the post continues, “but for now this is the best way people can honour his memory and help his family.”

You can donate to the fund via youcaring.com.