Adventures In Sound And Music this week is dedicated to Bo' Weavil Recordings. Based in London, Bo' Weavil has been instrumental in expanding the horizons of folk, Improv, free jazz and underground music over the last decade.

The label sprang to life in the mid-2000s with crucial vinyl reissues of music by Henry Flynt, Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, and in the years that followed released music from a wide span of contemporary players inspired by (and playing with) the forms of folk music, including Sir Richard Bishop, Born Heller, Meg Baird and Helena Espvall, and James Blackshaw. Bo' Weavil has also forged close links with the UK Improv and free jazz scenes with releases featuring the trio of Alan Wilkinson, Steve Noble and John Edwards, Simon H Fell, Paul Hession, and more, and is locked into the psychedelic underground in the US and UK and beyond through landmark releases by Harappian Night Recordings and Starving Weirdos.

For this show (16 August) Mark Morris of the label will join Derek Walmsley in the studio to play a host of music new, old and unreleased from Reines D'Angleterre, Oren Ambarchi, C Joynes & Stephanie Hladowski, Tom James Scott, unknown Yemenite music from the 1970s, new solo recordings from Alan Wilkinson and Simon H Fell, and more.

Tune in online at Resonance FM, or Londoners can tune in at 104.4FM. Adventures In Sound And Music is on 9pm–10:30pm every Thursday. All previous shows are archived online here.

San Francisco modern composition label New Albion is shutting down after 25 years in business. The label, run by Foster Reed, will still manage digital sales but there will be no more releases. All remaining physical stock will be sent to the individual artists, so fans looking to buy records can contact artists direct. The last release on the label was in 2008.

Reed will be moving on to work on a project to bring US composers to Cuba to perform, teach masterclasses and exchange ideas. Reed says: "In 1984 I did not foresee that the digital hardware manufacturers would use content as a loss leader to sell hardware upgrades, and therefore did not anticipate that content would no longer have a monetary value that justified the effort and expense of making it. I regret that I did not see that the record industry would collapse so irrevocably. I thought I was creating a catalogue that I would ultimately sell and thereby pay myself back minimum wage for the 25 years I gave to it.

"The last six records or so, by artists both established and up and coming, received our normal mailings of a few hundreds of copies to stores, stations, critics and friends, and sold less than the first few LPs in the mid-80s.

"The digital game has been good in the sense that it seems that many more people are exposed to the music. We get reports of streams in the tens and hundreds of thousands... In terms of purchased downloads the digital world is the only game in town, and it's much smaller than what can drive the economics of what we did."

All New Albion releases are available digitally, and download links for third parties will be added over the next few weeks here.

There's an enormous digital drop of out of print releases from Sun City Girls's Abduction label arriving this month: a batch of 34 albums by Alvarius B, Uncle Jim, Sun City Girls and others. They will be available from 28 August, although digital pre-orders open at the end of this week.

The Sun City Girls digital releases also come with PDF booklets, which carry liner notes and previously unseen images. The digital files will be released on MP3, plus FLAC and WAV for sites that stock those formats (FLAC for Boomkat, and FLAC and WAV for Bleep).

Also being reissued is Alan Bishop's self titled Alvarius B record from 1998, which will be available again on double LP, and CD, on 11 September. The CD version contains six extra tracks on top of the original 39, and the LP is printed in a run of 400. The packaging for both contains all song lyrics.

While there are no plans to reissue any of the digital releases in physical at present, Abduction says: "Right now the label is making the catalog available digitally. This doesn’t preclude the possibility of repressing vinyl or CDs in the future."

The Instant Composers Pool have hit the mark for reservations for the planned 50CD box set announced back at the beginning of this year. 300 copies have been reserved, which means the set (which will come in a box hand painted by Han Bennink) will definitely go into production, and is estimated to arrive around the end of September, although dates are sketchy.

The Instant Composers Pool report that they are currently in the process of putting the photo book together with Pieter Boersma, and the closing date for reservations has been moved to 31 August, so stragglers can still get an order in at the cheaper price (€399, instead of €499).

More details on the box set here, and pre-orders can be made here.

Numero Group are releasing a compilation titled Omnibus Vol.1, a collection of 45 7" funk and soul singles from across the United States. The collection is, as Numero puts it "a tangled mess of loose ends", which could not be drawn into other LP or CD projects. It includes disappearing acts like Pat Stallworth (who recorded one single with news anchor Bill Jacocks in 1974), lives cut short (Curtis Liggins, who died in a car crash in 1972), and sartorial disagreements (The Intentions disbanded soon after forming after a fight over outfits).

The idea for Omnibus started life almost ten years ago, a ramshackle collection of obscure and lost 45s imagined as the first Numero release. However, that morphed into the Eccentric Soul series and the original idea was shelved.

One single from the set will be upped to the Eccentric Soul site each day, which is hosting track samples, bios and label scans from all the 45s. Online already are tracks by Monterey Bay group Elements Of Peace, Texan high school vocal group The Volumes, Curtis Liggins Indications from Kansas City and others.

As per usual for Numero, it all comes in lush packaging – a carry case with metal handle, plus clothbound hardback book covering bios plus an early history of Numero. It's being produced in an edition of 1500 for the world, and pre-orders get an extra 46th single. Those buying the box set will also receive a free download of all the tracks. More dinked funk and soul here.

Swedish experimental arts and music society Fylkingen is opening a record shop in Stockholm on 8 September. The shop will be run by Joachim Nordwall (of iDEAL Records and the Skull Defekts) and Swedish artist Daniel Rozenhall.

Nordwall says: "Fylkingen is a place for the stage arts, but we wanted to broaden the horizons a little bit. As shops close down one by one we felt that something must be done. Also, on a personal level, we love record shops and need somewhere to hang out ourselves."

The shop will be open on Thursdays and Fridays, but Nordwall says they will open the doors at other times if you make an appointment. Along with iDEAL and Fylkingen releases, the shop will also be carrying records from Editions RZ, Touch, Tesco, Firework, Alga Marghen, Dekorder, Die Schachtel, Editions Mego, Dirter, Pogus, Soleilmoon, Elektron, Börft, and Release The Bats, among others. More details here.

Tompkins Square is releasing digital editions of musicologist Ian Nagoski's compilations from his Canary label, a vinyl only outfit which releases collections of non-English language 78s. Nagoski compiles records for Tompkins Square and Dust To Digital, among others, and these albums are all out of print, having originally appeared as limited pressings.

The six titles that are being released are: Brass Pins & Pearls: International 78s, Marika Papagika – The Further the Flame, the Worse it Burns Me: Greek Folk Music in New York City, 1919-28, Khansahib Ustad Abdul Karim Khan - 1934-1935, What Remains of Eden: Anatolian & Levantine Musics, 1928-1952, Bed of Pain: Rembetika 1931-1955 and To What Strange Place : The Music Of The Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, the latter of which was released as a 3CD set by Tompkins Square last year. More details and links in the mailout here.

A rare New York performance for Anthony Braxton, playing as part of two ensembles at Brooklyn's Roulette on 13 September. Braxton will be playing as part of the Anthony Braxton Quartet, with Dan Blacksberg, Ken Filiano, Mike Szekely, and also as the Diamond Curtain Wall Music Ensemble with Taylor Ho Bynum, Josh Sinton, Maura Valenti, Amy Crawford, Michael Douglas Jones, Kyoko Kitamura, Anne Rhodes, Vince Vincent. The latter ensemble perform with interactive electronics programmed via SuperCollider and the graphic scores of Braxton's Falling River Music series – large colour drawings and small writing with abstract notations.

New York Roulette, 13 September, 8pm, $30/$25. More details here.

A documentary titled Parameter on Techno musician Stefan Goldmann has been released. The documentary includes interview footage shot in derelict buildings and unidentified ruins, plus live sessions and 11 tracks of audio. It was filmed and developed by Thomas Kipke, Michael Schade, and Tobias Fischer. The 41 minute film also takes in legendary Berlin record shop Hard Wax, and the Dubplates and Mastering studio.

Watch a preview of the documentary below. More details here.

Kadima Collective's solo bass series Triptych continues with a book, CD and DVD on free improvising double bass player Barre Phillips, titled Traces. The CD included is a reissue of Phillips's 1968 record of solo bass improvisations Journal Violone (originally issued by Music Man in England as Unaccompannied Barre, and in France as Basse Barre). The DVD is titled Temparaneous, and includes solo performances and commentary, and the book contains images of record sleeves, a complete discography, plus personal photos and concert flyers from 1946 to the present day.

More details on Traces, fifth in the Triptych series, here. Future Triptychs are planned with Bert Turetzky, Irina-Kalina Goudeva, Robert Black, John Eckhardt and Stefano Scodanibbio.