Submissions are open for the third Power/Field compilation of field recordings. Recordings of ambient sound using microphones with no manipulation, bar trims, on site overdubbing, or post-processing are wanted. The recordings must have been made outside of traditional performance spaces, can be between three and 15 minutes long and must not have been previously released.

The first two compilations can be downloaded here and here. The third will be produced as a digital edition, and in a run of 200 CD-Rs packaged in screen printed sleeves due for release in March 2012. Tracks and information (including title, location, equipment list and images) should be sent via email to bob[at]halfnormal[dot]com. If possible recordists are asked to upload tracks to their own sites, although FTP transfer is also available. Deadline for submissions 1 January 2012. More info here.

Sublime Frequencies collaborator Mark Gergis has started his own label, Sham Palace. The first release on Sham Palace will be a double LP by Omar Souleyman, titled Leh Jani, a 30 minute version of Souleyman's signature track originally released on cassette in Syria.

Gergis says: "I've started the label in order to be able to share more of this mountain of sounds and images I've been accumulating from around the world for almost two decades." As well as vintage releases, Sham Palace will include "later-period music, long-form pieces harvested from international cassettes, electronic folk pop and even some contemporary artists", primarily from the Middle East and South East Asia.

Gergis has worked on Cambodian Cassette Archives, Choubi Choubi! Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq, plus Omar Souleyman releases, and will continue to work with Sublime Frequencies as well as on Sham Palace. Leh Jani will be released on 22 November, and Souleyman tours Europe in December.

John Butcher has been announced as a recipient of the 2011 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award, receiving £45,000 over the next three years. The award is given to five visual artists and three composers, who are put forward by 20 nominators, the final recipients chosen by a panel of judges.

Also awarded this year are composers Larry Goves and Matt Rogers, and visual artists Janice Kerbel, Amalia Pica, John Smith, Sue Tompkins and Rose Wylie. More info here.

Online TV station Network Awesome is hosting a Heavy Metal week, broadcasting documentaries, live shows and films, starting on 7 November (today). The programme will include six shows a day, with all videos curated via YouTube.

The schedule features Mario Brava's Black Sabbath, the film that Ozzie and his cohorts took their name from, animated series Metalocalypse, documentary Black Metal Satanica, which looks at the origins of Black Metal belief systems, a 1988 Slayer documentary, a film on the Christian 'unblack' Metal movement titled Light In Darkness Nemesis Divina: Christian Black Metal, and more. Tune in, and find full listings here. Watch an interview included in Network Awesome's Ronnie James Dio Collection below, on the origin of the devil horns.

Manuel Göttsching is reissuing all five 1970s Ash Ra Tempel albums plus Inventions For Electric Guitar, remastered and on CD. Göttsching is releasing Ash Ra Tempel's self titled album (1971), Schwingungen (1972), Join Inn (1973), Seven Up (1973), and Starring Rosi (1973), plus Göttsching's first solo album, all through his own label MG.ART.

The records have been remastered by Manuel Göttsching, and for the moment they're solely available through the Ash Ra Tempel site. Order all six remasters from Göttsching and he's promising to also send a copy of Postcards From Japan, a film by Kinga Kielczynska, or a copy of Wroclaw Live or Ash Ra Live At Herzberg. More info on the Ash Ra Tempel site.

New releases are on the way from Leyland Kirby, Ekoplekz, Vindicatrix, Dennis Greenidge and others, via new Dutch label Snug Life. Everything planned so far will be printed in runs of 50–100 copies, with inaugural releases arriving on 1 December.

The series of 7" releases planned features Ekoplekz in a rework swap with Drvg Cvltvre (released 1 December), and Leyland Kirby with a flipside by Cosmic Dennis Greenidge (February 2012). Also planned is a CD release from Dutch psychedelic group Teen Radiation packaged in a magazine, plus cassette reworks of US Crunk tracks by Coco Bryce with flip by Herr Müller. Further down the line there'll also be a split DVD release from Leyland Kirby and Vindicatrix.

Snug Life (named after Thug Life and Snuggies) was started by Vincent Koreman, artistic director and co-founder of Incubate festival, who says: "I used to run Angelmaker and Vatican Analog labels, but got so fed up with the boundaries those labels created for themselves and the restrictions I created for the labels, that I ceased activity in both. Snug Life is an 'anything goes' label."

In the name of transparency, Koreman says that he won't be booking artists from the label for Incubate: "The artists that I release have no direct link to the festival, and I do solemnly swear to not book any acts from my own label for my own festival to avoid cross contamination."

Listen to the forthcoming Leyland Kirby 7" "We Have At Last Come Home" below.

SNUG 04: Leyland Kirby - We Have At Last Come Home by snugliferecords

Mutek festival has an open call for artists and musicians to apply to be included in the line up for the 2012 edition of the festival. The festival is accepting applications from live acts, multimedia projects and A/V performances. Applications can be sent by post, although packages will not be accepted. The online application form accepts images, videos, audio and other documents, plus web links.

Mutek 2012 takes place 30 May–3 June 2012. The deadline for submissions is 9 December. The application form can be found here.

Eleh's next release will be a 3CD release titled Floating Frequencies/Intuitive
Synthesis. The release is mastered by Eleh specifically for digital formats, with Important stating that it "takes full advantage of the low noise floor".

Each disc contains two to three tracks, and the packaging is a silver print on matt black jacket. Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis is released by Important Records in an edition of 1000. More info here.

The vinyl reissue industry keeps on trucking with re-releases of Tony Allen's solo work announced, covering four solo albums from the 70s. The Tony Allen releases being revamped are Jealousy, Progress, No Accomodation For Lagos, and No Discrimination, all four with remastered tracks and carrying artwork from the original releases.

The albums are vinyl only, and are being released via Amsterdam-based label Kindred Spirits, distributed via Rush Hour. More info here and here.

Brian Eno has been announced as the artistic director for next year's Punkt festival. Punkt festival takes place in Kristiansand in Norway, and for the first time will be held at the newly completed Kilden Performing Arts Centre. Brian Eno will curate all 18 concerts and live remixes across the three day festival, although no acts have been announced yet.

This year the Punkt line up included David Sylvian, Sacred Harp, Marilyn Mazur, Arve Henriksen, and more. Punkt 2012 is scheduled for 30 August–1 September next year. For more info head here.