The next release from London label Blackest Ever Black is a vinyl edition of This Heat's Gareth Williams and Mary Currie's 1985 Flaming Tunes cassette. The cassette – originally released in 1985 and misleadingly bootlegged in the late 90s as This Heat's final demos After The Heat – was reissued on CD in 2009 (featured in The Wire 304) by Life And Living records.

Blackest Ever Black label head Kiran Sande says: "It's happening! A labour of love to say the least. It's almost a year ago that I first began talking to Mick [Hobbs], Mary [Currie], Andrew [Jacques] and Martin [Harrison] about doing the release."

Flaming Tunes is a collection of tracks made by Gareth Williams (who died on Christmas Eve 2001) with singer Mary Currie, recorded at the This Heat member's house on a basic Casio keyboard and a Roland drum machine on loan from Scritti Politti's Tom Morley. Tony Herrington's original transcripts from the article in issue 309 (where Sande said he first heard of the cassette) are online here.

The remastered and repackaged record is expected to be ready for June–July. More details on the Blackest Ever Black site here, and more details on the record here.

Mira Calix is performing a live score to Alfred Hitchcock's film Champagne as part of the BFI's Genius Of Hitchcock season, which runs from June to October this year. Calix was commissioned by the BFI to write a score to the 1928 silent film, which she says is currently in the writing stages and is for six instrumentalists and three vocalists. It will be performed by Calix and the other vocalists, with multi-tracked instrumentation.

Mira Calix will perform her score for Champagne on 27 September at the BFI in London. Another of Hitchcock's silent films, Blackmail, will be scored by Neil Brand, and performed outside the British Museum on 6 July. More details here.

In 2010 Annette Peacock quietly reissued her 1972 album I'm The One on CD via her own Ironic label. It was only available via her site or CDBaby, but now I'm The One is being given a full reissue shakedown by Light In The Attic.

Peacock collaborated with Salvador Dali, bought a Moog direct from Robert Moog, was confidant to Timothy Leary, and turned down an offer to tour with David Bowie, telling him to buy his own synthesizer.

This latest reissue (it was also reissued once in the 80s) will be released on CD and LP, the latter in a hand numbered run of 1,000. The difference between this and Peacock's own recent reissue is that Peacock's version comes in a signed hard cover, and the Light In The Attic CD (which Ironic records says has not been sanctioned by Peacock) comes in a digipack.

Light In The Attic's reissue is due out on 29 May, remastered from original tapes and bundled with archive photos, liner notes and a poster. More details here.

Josh Rosenthal's Tompkins Square label is releasing a Michael Chapman tribute album, titled Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman. Contributing covers is a roster of finger pickers and folk singers: Two Wings play "You Say", Meg Baird covers "No Song To Sing", Black Twig Pickers cover "Lie On The Ceiling", and Thurston Moore plays "It Didn't Work Out". Other covers are by Hiss Golden Messenger, Rick Kemp, Maddy Prior, William Tyler, D Charles Speer, Lucinda Williams, Nick Jonah Davis and Bridget St John.

The album is due out on 29 May. Listen to Meg Baird's cover below.

An enormous 12CD box set of Pauline Oliveros's early electronic work will be released by Important Records next month. Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music compiles mostly unreleased material from the period 1961–1970, and includes her first piece made for tape in 1961.

The box set comes with liner notes detailing Pauline Oliveros's tape delay setup, plus essays by the artist, Cory Arcangel, David Bernstein, Ramon Sender and Alex Chechile. The 12 discs are organised chronologically by studio, beginning with early work made at home and at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, through to recordings from the Mills Tape Music Center and the University Of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio.

Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music is scheduled for release on 22 May. Oliveros is performing on 3 May at the Her Noise symposium on feminist discourses in sound and music at Tate Modern. A full tracklisting for the box set can be found in the YouTube description of the promo video below.

The Aum Fidelity jazz label celebrates its 15th anniversary in June, and is celebrating via a series of shows in Montreal at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, and in New York at Brooklyn's Vision Festival.

The first night takes place on 8 June in Montreal, with the inaugural performance by William Parker's Essence Of Ellington. Parker's Quartet and Raining On The Moon Sextet play on 9 June, Darius Jones Quartet play on 10 June. The celebrations continue at Roulette in Brooklyn on 12 June with David S Ware's Planetary Unknown, Eri Yamamoto, Darius Jones Quartet, and William Parker's In Order To Survive.

More details on the shows here.

A couple of weeks ago we noted a Giuseppe Logan Kickstarter project, which aimed to raise $6,000 to fund the release of a recording made by Ed Pettersen, of Logan playing with Cooper Moore and Larry Roland last year. The project has now been funded, and is currently over target by more than $5,000, with two weeks to go.

The album is due to be released in August, and the only way to buy one is to fund the Kickstarter (or pick one up from Logan in Tompkins Square Park). The album will be pressed in a run of 500 vinyl, and on CD. The extra money raised will also pay for the repair and upkeep of Logan's instrument.

More details here, a feature on Logan here, and a video of him performing below.

Chicago's Numero Group label are setting up a temporary record store and radio station again this year for Record Store Day (21 April), and pressing up two limited 45s and a radio station compilation on CD and LP.

Numero has pressed the two 45s of Chicago soul jingles in runs of 100 each, which will only be available in store. One is a Richard Pegue production made for Ember Furniture and featuring Rotary Connection's Sidney Barnes, the other includes two tracks from a 7" recorded at the Tel-Fi Studios for Greyhound in 1969.

Also released by Numero for Record Store Day is a radio station compilation, WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze. WTNG broadcast temporarily from the pop up shop last year, and will be on the airwaves around the Empty Bottle in Chicago again this year.

All Numero RSD records will be on sale at the shop at 1035 North Western Avenue, Chicago, 9am–6pm. More details on the 45s, radio station compilation, and record store.

Sub Rosa are releasing a compilation of previously unreleased tracks by Frank Zappa's keyboard player Don Preston, who made Robert Moog say "That's impossible. You can't do that on a Moog" of his "Waka/Jawaka" solo.

Preston played with Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention from 1966 to 1974, and became close friends with Robert Moog in 1969. This nine track album, titled Filters, Oscillators & Envelopes 1967–82 includes a collection of tracks made on the instrument Preston developed himself, a home made synthesizer with a series of oscillators and filters. It includes Preston's first piece made on this instrument, titled Electronic Music from 1967.

The compilation will be released on CD and LP, with the first 150 records available on marbled white vinyl. More details here.

Juke producers Spinn and Rashad are starting a record label with fellow Footwork artist J-Cush. The label, Lit City Trax, will release music that is "making the Footworkers move and evolving the scene". J-Cush told FACT in an interview that the label would be covering Chicago producers, "the innovators, and the up-and-coming new guys, who’ve been pushing the scene from the beginning".

The first release from the label will be an album by Rashad titled Welcome To The Chi, and Lit City Trax will also be releasing productions by Rashad with DJ Manny, plus Spinn and Traxman.

Listen to a Spinn & Rashad Lit City Trax mix below, and follow the label on Twitter here.

[Hat tip FACT]