Tom Carter has left intensive care today, after spending over a month and a half in hospital in Germany for complications resulting from pneumonia. He will now be transferred to a rehabilitation facility on the Baltic Sea for recovery until the end of July.

Christina Carter writes: "All of the help that everyone is providing will most definitely make a huge difference in Tom's ability to get back on his feet when the time comes, and also has made a huge difference in Tom and his family's peace of mind (especially with the projected length of recovery time and additional medical care needed.)"

Carter will not be able to return to normal levels of work until 2013, and the recovery will also be costly. As such the fund will remain open.

Carter tweeted today: "Walked out of the hospital today after 40 days in ICU. Never so happy to leave a place. Next, 21 days of rehab by the Baltic."

More details here.

Mika Vainio's next solo album is on the way via Touch music, titled Magnetite it's due for release on 3 September. The seven track album will be his 5th for Touch, and was recorded in Berlin between 2011 and 2012. Touch say the album moves "between the two poles of silence and noise".

Vainio also currently has a collaborative album out on Bill Kouligas's Pan label, recorded with Kevin Drumm and Axel Dörner and Lucio Capece, and titled Vanexia. Listen to an extract from that record below.

Artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have directed two new videos for tracks from Can's Lost Tapes, a 3CD box set of unreleased material on Mute.

Forsyth and Pollard have directed music videos for Grinderman, and also created 14 short films for a Nick Cave project titled Do You Love Me Like I Love You. Can's Lost Tapes is compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore. Watch the videos for "Dead Pigeon Suite" and "Messer, Scissors, Fork And Light" below. More details on the box set here.

Lightning Bolt are releasing a vinyl album of tracks from 2008. Drummer/vocalist from the duo, Brian Chippendale, had been working through old material to post on Bandcamp (Lightning Bolt recently released a 20 minute track from 1997), and found he came up with 40 minutes of material. The two Brians (Chippendale and Gibson) then decided to release the material on LP instead of Bandcamp.

Chippendale writes: "This LP is a collection of cassette four track stuff that was mostly mixed back when it was played. I mix and take notes on maybe one out of every three or five practices as we go, if we have a good session. Occasionally a day is just amazing. Those recordings are just bookmarked in my brain forever... I think maybe Gibson had some fried equipment that gave ["King Candy"] a special sound in this specific recording. From there I mixed a few previously unmixed tapes from the same time period and found even cooler stuff."

There's no release date yet, but the record is being mastered this week. More details on the way here, and Chippendale's forum posts here.

The Haxan Cloak, aka Bobby Krlic, will be the next artist in Southern Records's Latitudes series. The record is largely recorded live, and will be released in August.

The series asks artists on the label's roster to record in the Southern studio, and releases short run albums. The artwork is designed by Stephen O'Malley, and each group or artist is also asked to add something to the sleeve. In the past the Latitudes series has released recordings by Ariel Pink, Alexander Tucker, Gang Gang Dance, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Sir Richard Bishop and others.

Computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel's 1980 album The Expanding Universe is being reissued and (appropriately enough) expanded, by Unseen Worlds. This new version is due out in September, retransferred from the original tapes and remastered by Spiegel herself.

The Expanding Universe was composed by Spiegel in the late 70s, on the GROOVE system at Bell Labs, and for this release 15 mostly unreleased tracks have been added to the original four.

Spiegel factoid: Her "Music Of The Spheres" (an interpretation of astronomer Johannes Kepler's Harmony Of The Worlds) was included on the golden record that was launched onboard the voyager spacecraft.

Unseen Worlds will release the record on double CD and on vinyl on 25 September. More details here.

The entire recorded output from the Laub collaboration between AGF (aka Antye Greie-Fuchs) and Jotka (Jürgen Kühn) has been posted online. The duo's first release was in 1997 on the Kitty-Yo label, and they released five albums in total, plus EPs and 12"s. The last album, Deinetwegen, was released in 2007.

All releases are now available to stream, complete with remixes, at laubmusic.com

The entire archive of Alan Lomax's collection of East Caribbean recordings is being repatriated to Trinidad's University of the West Indies. Lomax visited twelve islands in 1962 with folklorist JD Elder, and recorded dances, religious songs, Christmas celebrations, Shango ritual performances, carnival and calypso songs, and took around 1100 photos.

The collection will now be held (and is accessible) at the Alma Jordan Library. All the files, which include photos and sound files, are also available to stream online at the Association For Cultural Equity archive.

Last week we reported on Volcanic Tongue's appeal for donations to help Tom Carter as he recovers in Berlin, from complications resulting from pneumonia. A site has now been launched to accept donations at helptomcarter.org. The organisation dealing with donations, Jump Arts, will not retain any portion of the money it processes.

Volcanic Tongue are still donating all proceeds from sales of Tom Carter, Charalambides and related releases to Carter. More details here.

A six disc box set of early William Parker recordings is being released, covering roughly the first decade of his career. The box set, Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976–1987, is released on Lithuanian label NoBusiness recordings.

The box set includes recordings of Parker's Centering Dance Music Ensemble, Big Moon, and Centering Big Band, and include Parker playing with Charles Gayle, Daniel Carter, David S Ware, Malik Baraka, Billy Bang, Rashid Backr and others.

Centering is released in a limited edition of 1000 numbered boxes. More details and audio samples here.