Alex Neilson is curating a series of events in Coventry titled Lady Godiva's Operation. The first event takes place on 26 October with Six Organs Of Admittance, Family Elan, and Crying Lion. More shows are to be announced in the coming months. The events are programmed with The Tin Music And Arts centre in Coventry, and the first takes place at Drapers Bar in the city centre.

Details on further shows incoming.

Triple Point Records, run by New York jazz journalist Ben Ratliff (currently working on a biography of Cecil Taylor) has unearthed and is releasing a double LP of previously unknown line up, the Frank Lowe Quartet, recorded in 1974. The sessions, unreleased until now, were engineered and recorded by Rashied Ali at his Survival Studios, and includes Frank Lowe, Joseph Bowie, William Parker, and Steve Reid, with trumpet by Ahmed Abdullah on one side.

Out Loud is released on 4 November via Triple Point. More details on the release available here.

EDIT: Triple Point is in fact run by Joe Lizzi and Jazz historian Ben Young. Apologies for the error.

The Spaceape, aka Stephen Samuel Gordon, has died from a rare form of cancer. His record Sine Of The Dub was the first ever release on Hyperdub in 2004, and Gordon worked closely with label head Kode9 on a number of releases including Memories Of The Future and Black Sun, and the EP Devil Is A Liar, released last month. Gordon also self released a record in 2006 and collaborated with The Bug, Martyn, and Jerry Dammers, among others.

A full statement from Hyperdub is online here.

In February 2014 brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio aka My Cat Is An Alien recorded a long studio session in Brussels with Belgian electronic composer and recent Fennesz collaborator Cédric Stevens (aka Acid Kirk). The entire session is being released by Opax Records as a triple LP set titled Abstract Expressionism For The Ears, with artwork by Roberto Opalio.

At the same time, Roberto Opalio is releasing his forth solo album Aurōra Coelestis, with extended liner notes by Byron Coley. The release is "a tribute to the spirit of early minimalism", and uses only the source sound of a glockenspiel, filtered through Opalio's electronics.

Both records have been released via Bandcamp, where physical and digital editions are available. Listen to extracts below.

Ákos Rózmann's six hour work Tolv Stationer (12 Stations) is being released in its entirety by Editions Mego in a 7CD set. Mego released part of the work by the Hungarian-Swedish electroacoustic composer in 2012 as a 2LP set, and this collects the entire work, which he began work on in 1978 and completed in 2001.

The first phase, made between 1978–1980 was composed using traditional musique concrète techniques: speed variations and tape cutting and splicing. The last four stations, which were made between 1998–2001 use some digital technology such as processing and keyboard. The final part of the piece is called "The Celebrators", a title which – according to a conversation with the composer related by musician and studio director of Stockholm's EMS, Mats Lindström – Rózmann intended to communicate that "the merriment you hear is false, it is not genuine, it is empty.” Rózmann also suggested that 12 Stations was a sonic interpretation of the Tibetan wheel of life.

The box set will be released via Editions Mego on 24 November.

Light In The Attic are releasing a compilation of music from Sly Stone's short lived Stone Flower label, bringing together the label's four 45s with unreleased material. I’m Just Like You: Sly’s Stone Flower 1969–70 contains tracks by the group Little Sister (fronted by Stone's little sister Vaetta Stewart), six piece group 6IX (who recorded a version of The Family Stone's "Dynamite"), and Joe Hicks, along with ten previously unreleased cuts.

A CD and digital version are out now, and a vinyl version will be available from 4 November. More information here.

The second volume of Revenant and Third Man's gargantuan Paramount records project arrives in November. The Rise And Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two covers the years 1928–32, and includes recordings by Skip James, Charley Patton, Son House and hundreds more, across six LPs pressed to white vinyl, and a USB stick which contains 800 songs.

Also in the box is a hardcover book and a collection of ads for the label taken from the Chicago Defender, plus a book containing bios and catalogue information for each artist. Whereas the previous case, the 'Wonder Cabinet', was housed in a velvet lined oak box, the second volume comes in an aluminium case, modelled after a 1930s art deco portable phonograph player.

The second volume of the Paramount box set will be out on 18 November. More details here.

Field recordist and musician Letha Melchior, who we previously reported on, has died from cancer. Melchior released various cassettes and CD-Rs, including Handbook For Mortals, a vinyl and digital album on Siltbreeze. She was married to artist Dan Melchior, who released an album on Northern Spy last year in order to raise money to pay for Letha's medical costs. The album included tracks by musicians C Spencer Yeh, Ela Orleans, Zs’s Sam Hillmer and others.

Ralph Cumbers is stepping up the output of his Magic + Dreams label with a new series of cassette releases called 12,000 Seconds. The first four releases in the split series will be Punch Drunk label head Peverelist, saxophonist and improvisor Ashley Paul, Cube Microplex co-founder Graeme Hogg as Vi, and Hacker Farm.

Cumbers gave each artist a brief of 12,000 second. He writes: "All the artists were given the same set of eight track times: 0:06, 0:23, 1:11, 2:37, 3:03, 3:14, 4:20 and 6:06. They could do what they want, as long as they stuck to these exact times. I always thought I was good at maths, but to my chagrin I later noticed that the times actually add up to 12,060 seconds. But hey, nobody's perfect. I left the series title as a reminder of my fallibility."

The first four installments will be released as a series of split cassettes, with letter pressed artwork, on 10 November. Cumbers says the second batch in the series will be released next year.

Swedish sax man Mats Gustafsson is holding a three day festival in Vienna next month to mark his 50th birthday. From 26–28 October, Gustafsson and his associates will descend on the Porgy & Bess venue to perform in a variety of line ups. Porgy & Bess will also host a poster and photo exhibition, with Gustafsson also promising some vinyl releases around the weekend.

"It will be rather intense," he says. "I'm booking it all, trying to find a balance, to show a spectrum of the music that I'm interested in and that kicks my ass and mind."

On the bill are Gustafsson's groups Fire! Orchestra, The Thing with Ken Vandermark (who also recently celebrated his 50th birthday), Swedish Azz, and Fake The Facts. Also performing will be the Austrian chamber orchestra Klangforum Wien, Christof Kurzmann, pianist Agustí Fernández, bagpipe player Erwan Keravec, Wildbirds & Peacedrums's Mariam Wallentin, Sofia Jernberg, Paul Lovens and others.

A full schedule for the weekend is up on Gustafsson's site here, with more musicians to be announced in the coming months.