Josephine Foster's duo with Andy Bar, The Children's Hour, is being given the reissue treatment by Fire records. The Children's Hour only ever released one album titled SOS JFK after forming in 2000 off the back of a rock trio called Golden Egg. They were heard performing in a bar, and offered the chance to cut a record, and asked to open for Billy Corgan's ill fated supergroup Zwan before going their separate ways.

The Children's Hour's SOS JFK is released on 21 January next year, on CD, LP and as a download via Fire records.

Brief missive: News of a new Autechre release just dropped in our inboxes, titled Exai. The 17-track record comes on vinyl and double pack CD, the vinyl version as a 4LP boxed set pressed to 180g vinyl (with download code).

Exai is released on 4/5 March next year.

Conny Plank's work behind the desk for Kraftwerk, Neu!, Eno, Can and Cluster, among others, is being collected in a four disc set, titled Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank. The box set includes a two CD collection containing 21 tracks produced by Plank, from the likes of Arno Steffen, Möbius, Rödelius, Michael Rother, La Düsseldorf, DAF and NEU!, among others.

Also in the box is a live recording of a performance by Plank, Dieter Möbius and Arno Steffen as Trioformation. The show, from Mexico in 1986, is the final recorded performance by Plank before his death from cancer in 1987. There's also a compilation of remixes, of tracks produced by Plank, by Can collaborator Jens-Uwe Beyer, Walls and Justus Köhncke, among others.

Who's That Man - A Tribute To Conny Plank is released on 11 February via Gronland. More details incoming.

Ravi Shankar has died in San Diego at the age of 92. Shankar last performed five weeks ago with his daughter Anoushka, also a sitar player.

The sitar virtuoso was a central figure in exporting Indian classical music to the West, through working with The Beatles in the 1960s. Shankar was introduced to George Harrison by The Byrds's Roger McGuinn, but later regretted the exposure he gained, feeling it had turned him into a pop star.

He was born in 1920 and began his career as a dancer touring Europe in the 1930s, giving it up at the age of 18 to play the sitar. He trained under Allaudin Khan for seven years.

Shankar composed the score for for Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy and Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. He collaborated with Philip Glass in 1990, and won three Grammys. Shankar received a knighthood in 2001, and the Indian civilian award the Bharat Ratna in 1999.

A composition by David Toop based on British conceptual artist John Latham's idea of "Flat Time" is being performed tomorrow by John Butcher, Aleks Kolkowski, Elaine Mitchener and Toop at London's Raven Row gallery. The piece – a visual score – was originally commissioned as part of the soundtrack to the online John Latham archive. A performance of Flat Time Sounding first took place in 2010 at London's Whitechapel Gallery.

Flat Time/Sounding is a score of texts and images for improvisation, based on Latham's Time-Base Theory, which attempts to change our understanding of reality to focus on time and events rather than space and objects. It also draws on Toop's 1976 London Zoo placement which focused on human and animal communication.

The event is free but booking is required, via info@ravenrow.org. London Raven Row, 13 December, 7pm, free.

The Wire will be in attendance at Laika and AB's Belgian one nighter in January. David Keenan is giving a talk: a primer on Kosmische music, and we'll be behind a stall selling books and magazines.

Also playing on the night are Fennesz, William Basinski, pianist and composer Anthony Pateras, Andy Votel, Samara Lubelski, Mittland Och Leo, and Mauro Pawlowski's reunited Evil Superstars, who will be playing a cosmic synth set. There's also a short film series including work by Stellar Om Source, Laurie Spiegel, Eliane Radigue, James Ferraro, Harry Smith and others, plus a preview of a documentary on Julius Eastman. More details on the event here.

Brussels AB, 26 January, 4pm.

A brief respite from the winter weather: RVNG Intl is releasing a live EP of Sun Araw and The Congos, recorded in London earlier this year. The EP, Icon Give Life, was recorded on 22 June this year at London's Village Underground. It's released today via RVNG's Bandcamp and is free. Listen to "Open Up The Gate" below, and get it on Bandcamp here.

Founding members of Can, Irmin Schmidt and Jaki Liebezeit, are releasing an EP as Cyclopean, with regular collaborators Burnt Friedman and Jono Podmore (Kumo). The self titled record contains theremin, prepared piano and rubber band guitar.

All four members have worked regularly with one another in the past: Liebezeit and Friedman have released a number of records together, and Schmidt has recorded with Liverpool-born multi instrumentalist Kumo (who also worked on his opera Gormenghast).

The four track Cyclopean EP will be released as a 12" and download on 4 February next year, via Mute records and Can's Spoon imprint. More info here, and listen to a track above.

Attention French readers! An essay by John Butcher has been translated and published as a short fanzine. The essay, titled "Freedom And Sound – This Time It's Personal", was originally published in English in issue 35 of online music journal Point Of Departure (you can read it here), and has now been reproduced in Le Son Du Grisli. More details here.

Glasgow based record shop Volcanic Tongue has relocated to The Hidden Lane on Argyle Street in Glasgow. Following an opening party last week, the shop will also be holding a Christmas one-dayer on 15 December, with performances from guitarist Heather Leigh and Chicago-based Steve Kraków (aka Plastic Crimewave) who will also be drawing caricature portraits of visitors and doing signings.

Volcanic Tongue has expanded its stock for the new shop, and is open Monday–Thursday 12–6pm, and Friday–Saturday until 8pm. It can now be found at Unit 24, Argyle Court, on Argyle Street in Glasgow.

Volcanic Tongue Christmas Blowout takes place on 15 December, 12–8pm. More details here.