El-P and Killer Mike have solidified their ongoing collaboration and are releasing a record together as Run The Jewels. There's a free download here and US tour dates run through July and August. All the merch you can imagine has been made available in numerous box sets and deluxe bundles of coloured vinyl here. Run The Jewels is released by Fool's Gold. Listen below.

Cecil Taylor has been awarded the Kyoto Prize for Arts And Philosophy by Japanese organisation the Inamori Foundation, for being "an innovative jazz musician who has fully explored the possibilities of piano improvisation". Taylor will receive a diploma, a 20 carat gold Kyoto Prize medal, and prize money of 50 million yen (around £330,000). He will be presented with the award in Japan in November.

Long standing New Music and Improv label Emanem is moving to Spain. The label will continue, but Martin Davidson says he will be slowing down the pace of releases, and in the longer term intends to start offering downloads. The label relocates this month, and sales will be offline until the end of the month. Latest releases include two reissues by the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, and the final recording of Lol Coxhill and Michel Doneda performing live together in Paris in 2011.

JG Thirlwell has transposed songs by Zola Jesus (aka Nika Roza Danilova) for a string quartet. The scores were originally developed for Danilova's performance at the Guggenheim in New York, for which she ditched electronics and replaced them with a string section. The tracks will be released this month by NY based label Sacred Bones as an album titled Versions.

Polish festival Unsound has announced its programme for the first London edition of the festival, which runs 26–29 September. A London edition makes sense for the festival's organisers: they note that 30% of punters were from the UK in 2012. The opening night hosts Demdike Stare with visual artist Michael England, and Polish sound artist Anna Zaradny. The closing night hosts Napalm Death founder Nick Bullen, with Polish acts BNNT, Stara Rzeka, the Mego-released Innode, and Lustmord performs along Polish pianist Pianohooligan. Also appearing are Forest Swords, The Durian Brothers and Robert Piotrowicz. Full line up and more details here.

After over 20 years of operation, prolific Finnish group Circle have announced that they'll be changing their name to Falcon, leasing the name Circle to a new group of musicians (although all scheduled live shows will be performed by the group's long standing line up). The new Circle are currently working on the next album.

Circle founder Jussi Lehtisalo says: "The need for the sudden name change arises from the Circle brand becoming somewhat of a burden due to the expectations of Ektro Records and audiences. Making music was turning into work and an obligation."

The group's plan is to effectively lease the name to another group of musicians until the end of 2013, at which point the contract expires and Falcon (ex-Circle) will decide whether they want to continue to operate as Falcon or return to their original moniker. Jussi notes jokingly: "If Falcon will be very famous by the end of the year, it'll be very easy to come back to the brand Circle!"

The first Falcon release will be titled "Beer And Ribs", released on 2 August via Ektro, and full length albums by both Falcon (ex-Circle) and the new Circle are pencilled in for release in Autumn. More on the Circle site and Ektro.

Theo Parrish has recorded a mix of tracks originally released on the Black Jazz label to be released as a double LP, CD and digitally. The mix was recorded on two turntables (vinyl only), and includes tracks by jazz guitarist Calvin Keys, label head Gene Russell, hard bop pianist Walter Bishop Jr, and four tracks by Chicago instrumental group The Awakening, among others. The mix, titled Black Jazz Signature is out on 20 August via Snow Dog Records.

The Bold Tendencies temporary arts space sets up shop in Peckham, South East London again this summer. The car park will be hosting London Contemporary Music Festival, which runs until 24 July – 4 August and includes compositions by Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Gyorgy Ligeti and Bernard Parmegiani, plus live performances by snd, Anthony Pateras, Steve Noble and Russell Haswell, among others. The car park also hosts Paul Purgas's annual We Can Elude Control event on 16 August, this year featuring Miles Whittaker from Demdike Stare, a collaboration between John Wall and Lee Gamble, Polish artist Anna Zaradny and Peder Mannerfelt.

Austrian public broadcaster ORF has pulled funding from the Musikprotokoll festival. The Austrian experimental music and art festival was founded in 1968 by Emil Breisach, and in its 45 year history has commissioned over 1400 works from Austrian artists, driving new music and avant-garde music in Austria and Europe. The festival functions as a laboratory, having fitted all visitors with sound transmitting heart monitors at one edition. Musikprotokoll have started a petition to keep the festival going, which you can find here.

Numero Group has joined Secretly Canadian's family of labels, which also includes Dead Oceans and Jagjaguwar. The four labels will now be known as the Secretly label group. Listeners won't notice much difference, as Numero retains its own staff.

[Hat tip: MusicWeek]