Saxophonist and composer Ashley Paul has revived her Wagtail label following her recent relocation to London. The first release on the reactivated imprint is a cassette by Ben Pritchard titled A Drawn Out Line, which will be limited to 200 copies and is out now. Pritchard will join Paul, Sue Tompkins and a specially assembled group playing Paul’s compositions for a show at London’s Cafe Oto on 3 May.

More details on the label here.

Sun Ra film Space Is The Place is being released in an expanded edition, bundled with a 125 page book and a CD. The DVD includes both the original cut of Space Is The Place and the uncut version, with commentary from the film’s producer Jim Newman, plus home movies by Sun Ra and the Arkestra. The 125-page book contains photos, essays and interviews, with Arkestra members Marshall Allen and Danny Thompson, Ray Johnson (who played The Overseer in the film), director John Coney and screenplay writer Josh Smith. The CD contains the soundtrack, plus two extra tracks.

The expanded version of Space Is The Place is being released to mark the film's 40th anniversary, crowdfunded by Harte Recordings via Pledge music. More details here, and view a gallery of images taken on location at the filming of Space Is The Place at this link.

Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music is a new anthology of essays drawn from The Wire’s monthly Epiphanies column, which has been running in the magazine since issue 167 (January 1998). The book includes more than 50 essays in which a wide range of musicians, authors and critics detail their personal experiences of music’s transformative powers.

Contributors include Little Annie, Jerry Dammers, Geeta Dayal, Paul Gilroy, Michael Gira, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jonny Greenwood, David Grubbs, Adam Harper, Stewart Lee, Lydia Lunch, Momus, Ian Penman, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Nina Power, Simon Reynolds, Sukhdev Sandhu, Robert Wyatt and more. Subjects covered range from Sun Ra to Kate Bush; Fugazi to Ligeti; South Africa’s World Cup vuvuzelas to Hungarian prog rock; noisy street protests to the deathly silence inside an anechoic chamber.

The book has been edited by The Wire's Editor-in-Chief & Publisher Tony Herrington and designed by the magazine's Art Director Ben Weaver, with illustrations by Sculpture’s Reuben Sutherland.

Epiphanies: Life-changing Encounters With Music is published by Strange Attractor Press and goes on sale on 30 April, but advance copies, and full details of the contents, are now available in The Wire’s online bookshop.

Supersonic Festival and the British Library have issued an open call for artists to create a new installation or performance piece for this year’s Supersonic Festival.

The successful applicant will receive £750 and access to the British Library’s sound archive, as well as an introduction to the collection from the Library’s Curator. The British Library sound archive contains 6.5 million speech, music, wildlife and environmental recordings, dating back to the 1880s, and is currently undergoing a major digitisation project.

The deadline for applications is 27 March, with the final piece being performed for the first time at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, June 11–14. For more information on applying, head to the Supersonic website.

Electronic composer and musique concrète pioneer Tod Dockstader has died, aged 82. Dockstader studied psychology and art at the University of Minnesota, going on to study painting and film as a graduate student. He relocated to Hollywood in the mid-1950s, initially working as an apprentice film editor. He moved again to New York, where he taught himself sound engineering and landed an apprenticeship at Gotham Recording Studios. It was here that he collected the sounds he later used for Eight Electronic Pieces (1960), one of which was used in Frederico Fellini’s Satyricon (1969).

Dockstader went on to create a number of important tape works including Apocalypse (1961) and Quatermass (1964). Though his 1960s work for the Folkways and Owl labels gained modest acclaim, Dockstader lacked the academic credentials that would have given him access to establishments such as the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, from which he was rejected twice. He moved into making audiovisual work for schools and in the late 1970s and early 1980s recorded two volumes of electronic library music for Boosey & Hawkes, which were reissued in 2012 and 2013 by Mordant Music. A CD reissue campaign initiated by the Starkland label in the early 1990s caused a resurgence of interest in Dockstader’s music, and he returned to making music at the turn of the 21st century, using computer technology instead of tape. Dockstader died in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Jazz producer, writer and record label owner Orrin Keepnews has died. One of the founders of Riverside Records, Keepnews produced records by musicians including Bill Evans, George Russell, Yusef Lateef and Thelonious Monk.

Born in New York in 1923, he started out as a journalist and editor, running jazz magazine The Record Changer and writing one of the earliest features about Thelonious Monk in 1948. He would later write the sleevenotes for Monk’s 1956 album Brilliant Corners and, as its producer, spliced together the title track of that album after the musicians failed to record a complete take. After Riverside closed in 1964, Keepnews cofounded other labels, including Milestone in 1966 and Landmark in 1985. In 1987 he published a book, The View From Within: Jazz Writings 1948–87.

London record shop BM Soho (formerly Black Market Records) has closed after 27 years of service. Only a few days after its owners had announced new opening hours, the store had been emptied of stock with a sign reading “due to circumstances, BM Soho has to close” attached to its window. Online, it announced that it was closing "due to contractual dispute over the building" and its landlord assumed the building would soon be part of the regeneration of Soho, which has led to the demolition of club Madame Jojo's.

Black Market opened in 1988 and quickly became one of the UK’s foremost suppliers of new dance music and a hub of the London club scene. It became renowned for its exhaustive stock and informed staff, which included DJs and producers Nicky Blackmarket and Ray Keith. At the time of writing, the property at 25 D’Arblay Street was still available to let.

Konono No.1 are working with Angolan/Portuguese musician Batida, aka Pedro Coquenão. The Congotronics group and Coquenão are recording together in Lisbon, with plans to release the material on Crammed Discs later this year. Recording is currently in progress, and a release date is pencilled in for October.

The results of the collaboration will have its first outing at two shows with Coquenão at the end of the week, at Lisbon Lux on 6 March, and Coimbra Teatro Gil Vicente on 7 March. More details incoming at Crammed Discs.

A new film about Akron, Ohio's finest punk progenitors has been released. Hardcore Devo Live! was successfully crowdfunded last year via Pledge music and is now available to stream or download here.

The documentary includes footage from the ten date summer 2014 tour, which took place a few months after the death of original Devo drummer Bob Casale. Various members of the group are interviewed, and a full set list for the film is online here. Watch the trailer below.

The first Bristol screenings of The Film That Buys The Cinema take place next month at The Cube on 16–17 April. Both nights also include live music sets, with Auto Bitch playing on Thursday and The Dagger Brothers on Friday.

The film is an ongoing fundraising venture, featuring 70 one minute takes from 70 different artists. Proceeds from the film have helped The Cube organisation buy the building it is housed in. Tickets for Thursday available at this link, and at this link for the Friday screening. Watch a short teaser below.