Earlier this year the campaign to reissue a heap of Stereolab albums got underway when 1993’s Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements and 1994’s Mars Audiac Quintet were released via Warp Records and Duophonic UHF Disks on 3 May.

Now they’ve just announced the second batch is due out on 13 September. These are: 1996's Emperor Tomato Ketchup, 1997’s Dots And Loops and 1999’s Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night. As with the first batch, these extended editions have been remastered from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Stereolab’s Tim Gane. They also come with bonus material featuring unreleased mixes, a poster, sleevenotes by Gane and a scratchcard offering a prize of an exclusive Stereolab record.

To mark the news, the group have also shared the track “Freestyle Dumpling”, an outtake from the Emperor Tomato Ketchup sessions that until now has only been released on a Japanese edition of the Aluminum Tunes rarities double LP.

The reissue campaign will be completed in November with Sound-Dust and Margerine Eclipse.

Stereolab’s 2019 world tour dates are listed on their website.

Full of Noises festival will be bringing new music and sound art to the Furness Peninsula between 9–11 August 2019. The tenth anniversary event offers a weekend programme of freshly commissioned works, talks, installations and workshops from local and international composers, musicians and sound artists.

Taking place in Barrow-in-Furness, special events include Tim Shaw and Lee Patterson presenting work related to a residency at the South Walney Nature Reserve, and Kelly Jayne Jones premiering a new work inspired by Cumbria’s musical stones alongside artists Ola Szmidt, Sarah Kenchington, ORE and Ringmind. The sound art golf course returns to Barrow Park with new pieces from Domestic Science, Furness Model Railway Club, Sam Underwood, Sarah Kenchington, Chiz Turnross, Nicki McCubbing, and John Hall & Chris Dennett. There will also be a chance to print your own special tenth anniversary Full of Noises shirt.

More artists are still to be announced. Tickets start from £7. Installations are free.

London septet Nérija mark the release of their debut album Blume with an appearance at End of the Road Festival at Larmer Tree Gardens between 29 August–1 September.

The collective consists of Nubya Garcia on tenor saxophone, Sheila Maurice-Grey on trumpet, Cassie Kinoshi on alto saxophone, Rosie Turton on trombone, Shirley Tetteh on guitar, Lizy Exell on drums and Rio Kai on bass. Recorded at London’s Soup Studios with producer Kwes, Blume aims to “channel the feel of Teo Macero and Stanley Tonkel’s records with Miles Davis during his Columbia years”.

Blume will be released by Domino on 2 August. Last month Nérija shared its opening track “Riverfest”. And you can listen to their earlier Nérija EP on Bandcamp.

Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak has scored the soundtrack for the new Ari Aster horror film Midsommar. Set in a remote village in Sweden, the film follows an American couple and their friends on a trip to a midsummer festival.

Midsommar goes public in the UK on 5 July, and its soundtrack is released the same day by Milan Records. It'll be followed later this summer by an 180g black vinyl pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring imagery from the film.

Listen to the nine minute track “Fire Temple”.

In 2018 Pram released their first album in 11 years. Called Across The Meridian, the music came out of an improv session at Foel studios in Wales. Now the group – Matt Eaton, Sam Owen, Max Simpson and Harry Dawes – are about to embark on a UK tour opening at Cardiff The Moon on 8 August. Other dates include Hull Adelphi (13), Hebden Bridge Trades (14), Birmingham Hare and Hounds (15), London Sebright Arms (16), and Manchester Soup Kitchen (17).

Here Pram share their self-directed video for Across The Meridian track “Shadow In Twilight”. Premiered at this year’s Flatpack Film festival, it features choreography from the dance troupe Danzia.

Semibreve has revealed the complete line-up for its 2019 edition, running from 25–27 October. New artists confirmed include Morton Subotnick & Lillevan, Suzanne Ciani, a world premiere from Oren Ambarchi & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Kode9, Felicia Atkinson, Drew McDowall & Florence To, and Clothilde. Previously announced participants include Alessandro Cortini, Scanner & Miguel C Tavares, Avalon Emerson, Nik Void, Ipek Gorgun, Rian Treanor and Deaf Center.

The festival has yet to confirm its series of workshops, talks and exhibitions at Capela da Imaculada Conceição church, Theatro Circo, the contemporary arts complex GNRation, Centésima Página and a medieval saloon.

Festival sponsors Edigma will be presenting the Edigma Semibreve Award, set up to “celebrate and promote the creation of works that explore the interactivity, sound and image supported through the use of digital technologies”. Previous winners include Junya Oikawa (2016), Adam Basanta & Gil Delindro (2017) and Elias Merino e Tadej Droljc (2018). This year they are offering a €2500 prize. Deadline for applications is 15 July.

Following its year-long hiatus in 2018 to give its organisers “the time needed to explore strategies for ensuring Supernormal can be a financially sustainable organisation in the future”, Supernormal is back up and running between 2–4 August.

The Wire Editor Derek Walmsley will be conducting a live Invisible Jukebox session with Hen Ogledd featuring Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington. The festival line-up, meanwhile, includes Ain Bailey, Cocaine Piss, Copper Coims, Dälek, Ewa Justka, Loraine James, Mark Vernon, Tomoko Sauvage and more. Unfortunately tickets have already sold out.

Morphine Records will be presenting a two day showcase of four new albums at Berlin’s Berghain on 10–11 October. These include debuts from the Berlin based trio Contagious and Japanese artist MA; the third instalment of Stefan Fraunberger's Quellgeister, this time recorded on an organ in a Saxon church in Transylvania, and a new set from Upperground Orchestra, Morphine founder Rabih Beaini’s hybrid Jazz band with Tommaso Cappellato, Piero Bittolo Bon and Alvise Seggi.

You can listen to one track from each new album below.

Upperground Orchestra's Euganea is released on 7 October, Stefan Fraunberger's Quellgeister#3 Bussd (21 October), MA's AMA (4 November) Contagious’s debut (title still TBC, 18 November).

Duets 1992 marks one of the rare occasions Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor actually recorded together in the studio – Dixon's appearance on Taylor's 1966 Blue Note LP being another. In 1992 they undertook a brief tour of Italy and France and spent two days in the studio where these recordings were made.

The planned album, however, was shelved for more than 25 years until the idea for its posthumous release was mooted by Bill Dixon Trust – the trumpeter died in 2010 – and approved by Taylor before his death in 2018.

Mastered from the original tapes and featuring an essay by historian Ben Young, Duets 1992 is released in a limited edition of 665 copies by Triple Point Records and costs $94.

Described as a “picture novel study of the human spirit in the fantastic/magical and the human soul in the metaphorical and physical in Five Chapters – being Oppression, Rainbows, Mythology, Cosmology, Salvation”, the book presents Jenkins’s fine art photography alongside poems and quotes by Sun Ra, lyrics by KAINTHEPOET aka Gylan Kain of The Last Poets, and essays by Wire contributor Michael Gonzales, singer Little Annie, US author and artist Darius James, US actor, writer/director Jake-Ann Jones, and others.

The book is titled after the 1970 Sun Ra song and live album, and is published by Art Yard, the UK label that was formed in the mid-2000s specifically to reissue music by Sun Ra. Over the years, Gerald Jenkins himself has been photographing members of Sun Ra’s Arkestra on their frequent visits to the UK, examples of which can be seen on his website.

It’s After The End Of The World is published in three separate editions and is available to purchase now from Art Yard.

Daniel Spicer interviewed Art Yard founder Peter Dennett in The Wire 380. Subscribers can read the article now on Exact Editions.