Current 93's David Tibet has paired up with Killing Joke co-founder and bassist Martin Glover aka Youth. Going out as Hypnopazūzu, their debut album will be released by House Of Mythology at the end of August. The pair previously worked together on Current 93's 1984 album Nature Unveiled, which also featured Annie Anxiety. On their duo debut album, which they describe as an expression of “their delayed and arrayed pubescence”, they work alongside a band called FullGullSkull.

“I am happy always to work with Youth in any way, forever and for ever and always and in all ways,” says Tibet. “I wait for my Ouija Board Planchette to receive his Mind’s Eye Text.”

Create Christ, Sailor Boy will be released as a three-sided LP (there will be a laser etching on the fourth) pressed in an array of different coloured vinyl options, and it will be available in two different covers, one by David Tibet, the other by Youth. It will also be released in CD and digital formats on 26 August by House Of Mythology. The live show will take place on 22 October at London Union Chapel, with support from The Stargazer's Assistant.

Check out album track “Magog At The MayPole” below.

Meakusma, the Belgium record label behind artists such as [sic!], Monochord and Ryo Murakaml, is set to host its first ever three day festival this September. Happening at Alter Schlachthof in Eupen, it promises a programme of music, “installations and lectures, fusing and confusing day and night, [and] acknowledging the lasting relevance and fierce sense of experimentation still running through underground electronic and experimental music today”.

Spread over five stages, the festival line-up features Roger Robinson & Disrupt, Babyfather, Mark Ernestus & Mark Ainley, Thomas Brinkmann, Ben UFO, rRoxymore, MM/KM, Mike Cooper, Eartheater, Karen Gwyer, Izabel Caligiore, and more.

Meakusma takes place between 23–25 September.

New website and zine talking music, culture, politics and activism

A new Glasgow based website has been launched under the name Communal Leisure. And in mid-August the collective are set to launch a print magazine accompanying the website.

Described by one of its members, Wire contributor Stewart Smith, as a “post-DIY platform”, the group’s aim is to manifest itself as a community forum to discuss all things music, arts and activist related.

“We aim to unpack ideas of work, labour, ‘DIY’ culture, and leisure.” explains the site's mission statement. “Our online poster wall primarily features events that are non-profit, free or cheap, politically aware and implicitly or actively working against forms of oppression based on race, gender, sexuality, ability, bodies and class. We have an open collective of people working on both our print and online forms, and are always up for new people getting involved.”

The zine’s first issue will feature articles about asylum, racism, DIY, work and leisure, as well as writings on underground music. “There's also a communist version of Oor Wullie, which is great fun!” adds Stewart.

You can also use the site to check out local events and add your own gig posters.

Following hot on the heels of its Japan:London exchange, Thirty Three Thirty Three has announced details of its next international series, London: Cairo.

At its core is the Masãfãt Festival, which expands on last year’s model series of linked concerts, panel discussions and workshops occurring in London, Cairo and Beirut. The festival culminates in September with a sequence of international concerts at London’s ICA and various venues in Downtown Cairo.

The London roll call of artists lists Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, Sam Shalabi, Will Guthrie, Nadah El Shazly, Tashweesh, Deena Abdelwahled, Karen Gwyer, Gaika, Lafawndah and Abdullah Miniawy, among others; and the Cairo line-up has Rezzett, Ola Saad, Abyusif, Gaika, Lee Gamble & Dave Gaskarth, Amnesia Scanner, Beatrice Dillon, Bradley Zero, and more. The concert programmes of both cities will be complemented by workshops, talks and screenings.

London:Cairo is run in collaboration with VENT Cairo. It is supported by the Arts Council and the British Council. It runs from 1–4 September in London, and from 20–24 September in Cairo.

The now almost legendary Supernormal festival will take place between 5–7 August at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire.

This year’s edition will feature its usual selection of performances and activities but with a few extras added to the bill. The expanded programme includes a new collaboration series and an artist in residency programme made available to festival alumini. 1990s feminist zine GirlFrenzy will be participating, reuniting its founder Erica Smith and artist Rachael House with view to creating a new issue with the help of festival goers. It’ll be the zine’s first since 1999. Plus, Wire DJs Gustave and Shane will be operating the decks for the usual Wire Soundsystem slot.

The festival line-up includes: Aine O'Dwyer, Angela Rawlings, Ashtray Navigations, DJ Shitmat, Giant Swan, Guttersnipe, Heather Leigh, Goodiepal & Pals, Helm & Valentina Magaletti, Sophie Cooper, Delphine Dora, Normil Hawaiians, Justin Broadrick, The Ex, a collaboration between Lina Lapelyte, Angharad Davies and Graham Dunning, and many others.

The festival will take place between 5–7 August, and tickets cost £85 (including camping).

This November marks the tenth anniversary of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who? festival. Held at various venues across the city, the 2016 edition will feature special stages curated by Wilco, Julia Holter, Savages and Suuns.

Artists confirmed so far include Tortoise, Fennesz, Steve Gunn, Lee Ranaldo, Bassekou Kouyaté, William Tyler, Arnold Dreyblatt, PITA, Klara Lewis and Kyoka (on Wilco’s stage); and Laurel Halo, Laraaji, Circuit Des Yeux (see The Wire 390), Lucrecia Dalt, Josephine Foster, the father and son duo of Tashi Wada & Yoshi Wada, and Aine O’Dwyer (on Holter’s stage). Suuns sent out invitations to DJ Nigga Fox, Jerusalem In My Heart, Samuel Kerridge and RP Boo, among others, and Savages’ roll call of artists features Tim Hecker, Beak>, Bo Ningen, Jessy Lanza, Container, Duke Garwood, Hannah Pee and others.

Daytime activities on 12–13 November include the Mega Record and CD Fair. Slated as the world’s largest of its kind, the 46th edition of the fair will take place at the Jaarbeurs Utrecht.

Le Guess Who? runs from 10–13 November. Joseph Stannard reviewed last year's edition in The Wire 384. Subscribers can read that article over at Exact Editions.

A new e-book has been published by music writer and Your Heart Out blogger Kevin Pearce. Your Heart Out has been running for five years and to date has 49 entries plus a series of mixtapes featuring music from Japan, South Korea, Portugal and more. Pearce is also responsible for producing a number of earlier publications, including the 1980s fanzines Hungry Beat and The Same Sky as well as his 1993 book Something Beginning With O. He has also penned screenplays for Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne. Called A Cracked Jewel Case, his new e-book is the final part in a trilogy of publications that offer up “a dub history of late 20th century pop culture”. It was preceded by 2014's A Moment Worth Waiting For (reviewed by Sukhdev Sandhu in The Wire 368) and You Know My Name: The Lovers, The Dreamers and Bobby Scott (2015).

“Here’s a book that you should open if you want to know much more about ...” promises the catchline. In the introduction, the book describes itself as a “celebration of pop porousness”. “It is not the story of music in the 1990s,” the introduction continues. “This is, instead, an illustration of how things fit together and create patterns.”

A Cracked Jewel Case is published only as an electronic edition, and it’s available via Amazon.

Your Heart Out was featured in Unofficial Channels by Tony Herrington in The Wire 326. Subscribers can read that article via Exact Editions.

A major batch of Jack Rose reissues is due to hit this autumn. Six of the American primitive pioneer’s discs will be released in September in a joint venture between Three Lobed Recordings and VHF.

“Jack's catalogue, much like his playing itself, is a living, breathing thing that shouldn’t be subject to collector pricing,” explains Cory Rayborn of Three Lobed via email. “So many of Jack’s records were intentionally limited for any number of reasons – they were to be used for tour merch, to fulfill anticipated demand at the time, etc. In the years since his passing many of these releases have become increasingly rare and in demand on the secondary market.” Rose, who died in 2009 at the age of 38, was one of the most prolific guitarists of the new weird America network chronicled by David Keenan in The Wire 234, and the renewed interest in fingerpicking guitar that Rose helped spark continues to this day.

VHF are set to reissue Rose’s Opium Musick, Raag Manifestos and Red Horse, White Mule, while Three Lobed will take care of I Do Play Rock And Roll, Dr Ragtime And His Pals and the self-titled album. The project was kicked off when Jack Rose’s estate approached the two labels last year. “There is nothing special per se regarding the timing other than the fact that these titles aren’t out there and should be,” says Rayborn.

With many of the original albums put together relatively quickly, reissuing them exactly as they were was an impossible task. “The concept was to present the titles closely (or relatively closely) to the look/feel of their original releases to the degree possible, and within the general aesthetic of VHF and Three Lobed,” Rayborn continues. “All six of the LPs have been pressed from new freshly cut lacquers. On the art side, there were moments requiring reconstruction and/or imagination that both Bill Kellum of VHF and I had to engage in since some original art components are long gone.” The tracklistings remain the same as the original releases, with the exception of Dr Ragtime And His Pals, which excludes three solo tracks that Rose himself removed from a previous reissue.

“I miss Jack a lot and with frequency,” Rayborn reflects. “I was interested in and followed his career actively from Pelt through his development as a solo performer. Over time we got to be friends and I would always enjoy the opportunities we would have to hang out, chat, talk records and drink bourbon. The ability to release two titles for Jack historically was monumental to me at the time and felt like a sort of validation of what I was trying to do with Three Lobed. It is a tremendous honour and privilege now to be able to have a hand in putting a portion of his work back out into the public sphere. I relish the idea of someone who has never heard Jack's music before picking up any of these titles, falling in love and discovering the depth and breadth of his discography.”

More information will be available via Three Lobed Recordings and VHF in the coming weeks. Wire Subscribers can read our New Weird America issue, which is now sold out, via our online archive.

After a lengthy hiatus, Colour Out Of Space, the experimental music and arts festival run by Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance of Chocolate Monk with Michael Sippings, returns to Brighton this autumn. The festival, whose sixth edition took place in 2013, will be taking place from 18-20 November. Performances will be centered on the Sallis Benney Theatre at University of Brighton, with events off site all over the weekend.

Once again Colour Out Of Space touches on improvisation, noise, sound poetry and all points in between, with a line-up that includes spectralist pioneers Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram, a trio of Steve Beresford, Tania Chen and Stewart Lee, violinists and composers Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte, writer and performance artist Claire Potter, musician and Wire contributor Matt Krefting, Australian sound collagist Matthew P Hopkins, and many more.

Longrunning Swedish arts organisation Fylkingen will present a night of Swedish sounds on Saturday 19 November, with artists including Wol, Anne Pajunen, Kent Tankred, Johannes Bergmark, Daniel Rozenhall & Sten Backman, Johanna Rosenqvist, and Marja-leena Sillanpää, with a film programme by Micke Prey. The weekend is also set to feature talks and panel discussions with hosts including The Wire’s Derek Walmsley and WFMU’s Fabio, among all the usual film and art programmes.

Colour Out Of Space will take place 18-20 November in Brighton, and for more information and new additions to the line-up you can check their website.

Alan Vega died over the weekend at the age of 78. He passed away in his sleep, according to a family statement posted on Henry Rollins’s website.

The Suicide co-founder had spent recent years more closely engaged with art than music, following a stroke in 2012. His light sculptures, a medium he’d explored since before the days of Suicide, have been exhibited extensively over the last decade. They formed a significant part of a major retrospective of Vega’s artwork mounted in Lyon in 2009.

2009 also saw a set of recordings released to celebrate Vega’s 70th birthday, with numerous artists covering his songs, most notably Bruce Springsteen taking on Suicide’s “Dream Baby Dream”. Vega’s last album was Sniper, a collaboration with Marc Hurtado back in 2010.

Suicide and Vega were interviewed numerous times by The Wire over the years, including an Invisible Jukebox with Edwin Pouncey in 1998 where Vega claimed he had an axe thrown at him when Suicide opened for The Clash in Glasgow. Vega also contributed an Inner Sleeve piece in 2007, where he wrote a freeform poem in praise of the cover of 7th Day Theory by Makaveli The Don Killuminati aka Tupac Shakur.