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Nigerian music documentary Elder's Corner seeks crowdfunding

Elder's Corner, a documentary project tracking Nigeria's musical history has started a campaign on Kickstarter to crowdfund the final six months of filming. The film's creator Siji is seeking to raise $20,000 in donations to complete the project, which aims to record Nigeria's history through a series of interviews and live sessions with legendary Afrobeat, Juju, Apala, Highlife, and Fuji musicians.

Siji has spent a year in Nigeria so far, and has over 30 hours of interview footage with Orlando 'OJ' Julius, Emperor Dele Ojo, Tony Benson, Jimi Solanke Chris Ajilo, pianist Randy Weston, Yoruba records founder Osunlade, Roy Ayers, and others.

Donations to the project are rewarded according to amount pledged, starting from a download of the finished documentary and a thanks in the credits, up to VIP tickets to the premier and a credit as Executive Producer. For further details on the project head to the Kickstarter page here. Watch Siji's video for the project below.

Exotic Pylon record label launches with Misty Roses 7"

Jonny Mugwump's Exotic Pylon project officially expands next week with the launch of the Exotic Pylon record label. The first release is a 7" and download by London/New York based duo Misty Roses, which arrives on 25 September (this Monday). Downloads of the two tracks also include two Misty Roses Dub versions.

Exotic Pylon will also be curating a stage at this year's Unsound festival in collaboration with Public Information records, hosting The Haxan Cloak, Ekoplekz, and Stellar Om Source. For more info on Exotic Pylon records head here.

Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso UFO announce new album The Ripper At The Heaven's Gates Of Dark

As promised when they announced a UK tour last month, Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso UFO will be releasing a new album in late October. The five track album is titled The Ripper At The Heaven's Gates Of Dark, and includes a 22 minute jam titled "Shine On You Crazy Dynamite".

The album was recorded in their mountaintop retreat in the period following the Japan earthquake, and will be released on CD and 2xLP by Riot Season records on 31 October. For more info head here.

Dates are as follows: Cambridge The Portland (4 November), Birmingham Hare & Hounds (5), Nottingham Bodega (6), Manchester Ruby Lounge (7), Hebden Bridge Trades Club (8), Glasgow Nice N Sleazy (9), Bristol Thekla (15), Oxford Jericho (16), London Corsica Studios (17), Brighton Hectors House (18).

LFO's Frequencies reissued on double vinyl

More Boomerang news today, as LFO's Frequencies gets the vinyl reissue treatment. Originally released in 1991 (catalogue number WARP3), Frequencies was originally released on CD and single vinyl. The double vinyl reissue has been re-cut at Dubplates and Mastering, with "Groovy Distortion" and "Track 14" included on the vinyl (previously left off the single vinyl edition).

Frequencies is available on vinyl from 7 November. Full track listing and more info here.

Emeralds's Steve Hauschildt to release solo album on Kranky

Emeralds member Steve Hauschildt releases a solo album on Kranky in November, titled Tragedy & Geometry. In the last few years Hauschildt has released solo work on limited edition cassettes and CD-Rs, on Gneiss Things and other labels. He's also released under the moniker Celestial Sprinkle. 14 track album Tragedy & Geometry is based on the idea "that technology is becoming more disposable as it's becoming more accessible", and will be released on 14 November.

For more information on the release stay tuned to the Kranky site.

Arthur Russell's 24→24 gets 4xLP box set reissue

Arthur Russell's Dinosaur L album 24→24 is being reissued (for the second time) as an expanded 4xLP silk screened box set. A CD version of the album will also be released along with the vinyl, both due to arrive in late October on Traffic Entertainment.

24→24 was originally reissued in 2007. This version is expanded with related projects from Sleeping Bag Records and a 48 page booklet with photos by Janette Beckman, and an essay by Wire contributor and Arthur Russell biographer Tim Lawrence. Watch a video of the screen prints being made below.

Throbbing Gristle reissue dates pushed back

Throbbing Gristle have announced that their reissue schedule has been delayed by the knock on effects of the recent SonyDADC warehouse fire. Throbbing Gristle previously announced that they would be reactivating Industrial Records and reissuing five albums (A Second Annual Report, DOA The Third & Final Report, Heathen Earth, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, and Throbbing Gristle's Greatest Hits) as deluxe vinyl editions, digital downloads and on CD on 26 September this year.

The SonyDADC warehouse fire has resulted in a general backlog of production and distribution for many artists and labels, and means that the Throbbing Gristle downloads will now be released a couple of weeks late on 12 October, with CD and vinyl editions available on 31 October. Fore more detailed information on the reissues head here.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry tracks reworked by Kode9, Digital Mystikz and more

On 7 November On-U Sound will release Lee Scratch Perry Nu Sound And Version, an 11 track collection of Lee 'Scratch' Perry tracks remixed and reworked by Kode9, Digital Mystikz, Moody Boyz and more.

The originals are all taken from Lee 'Scratch' Perry's work with On-U Sound, produced by Adrian Sherwood and others. On 24 October, On-U Sound also release a new album by Little Axe, titled If You Want Loyalty Buy A Dog. Sherwood will be at London's Rough Trade East on 27 October for a Q&A with Steve Barker and a head to head DJ set with Dennis Bovell.

Centrum Berlin announces Sonic Lectures programme

After an open call for submissions, Centrum Berlin has announced the programme for its Sunday evening series of Sonic Lectures, which will run from October this year through until September 2012. Sonic Lectures intends to give individuals a chance to give a personal talk on a particular area of music. The series is opened by Leo Zhao, who will look at the connections between ancestral sound and contemporary music. It is followed by Jonny Mugwump talking about the many pronged project that is Exotic Pylon, Rachel O'Dwyer on the Spectres Of Sound Reproduction - a look at how the past continues to haunt contemporary listening, and Wire contributor Philip Freeman talking on German Thrash Metal bands Destruction, Sodom and Kreator.

Also lecturing are Laurent Fintoni, Audiolise, Norman Neubauer, Mike Brooks, Paul Sullivan, Daren Pickles, Nathalie Gravanor, Alex Prestele, Jim Barnett, plus Carl Schilde and Anselm Venezian. For more detailed information on each of the Sonic Lectures at Centrum, head here.

Bruce Gilbert contributes to Murmurations story anthology

Two Ravens Press publishes an anthology titled Murmurations: Uncanny Stories About Birds next month, which includes a short text by Bruce Gilbert called Sliding Off The World.

The anthology is edited by author Nicholas Royle (who also runs Nightjar Press), and also includes work by Daphne du Maurier, Anna Kavan, Russell Hoban, Bill Broady, and more. All author royalties and the editor's fee will be donated to the RSPB. For more info head here.