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Holy Other European Tour

Anonymous Mancunian producer and Tri-Angle signing Holy Other will be playing a string of festival slots across Europe over the next few months. Dates are as follows: Tillburg Incubate (16 September), Bergen Ekko Festival (30), Krakow Unsound (13 October), Riga Resonance Telpas (14), Munich Kong (15), Milan Club To Club (20), Graz Elevate Festival (21), Basel Shift festival (29), Madrid Primavera (24 November), Barcelona Primavera (25), Berlin Berghain/Leisure System (2 December), Vienna Soundframe (7).

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto resurrects his piano, cello and violin trio, joined by Jaques Morelenbaum, and a new violinist currently being auditioned (applications now closed). Paris Cite De La Musique (29 October), London Royal Festival Hall (1 November), Brussels Palais Dex Beaux-Arts De Bruxelles (5), Dortmund Konzerthaus (6), Hamburg Kapnagel (8), Firenze Teatro Verdi (10), Milan Conservatorio Sala Verdi (12), Padua Gran Teatro Geox (13), Madrid Teatro Arteria Coliseum (15), Cartagena Auditorio De Cartagena (16), Barcelona Voll-Damm International Barcelona Jazz Festival (18), Valladolid Centro Cultural Miguel Delibes (20), Lisbon Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (21).

Paradise Bangkok

Chris Menist (interviewed on Adventures In Modern Music, 1 September) and Maft Sai take their clubnight Paradise Bangkok to Europe. Geneva Walden Duplex (16 September), Lausanne Le Bourg (17), Geneva Cab/L'Usine (18), Munich Import/Export (23), Nuremberg Hemdendiest (24), Vienna The Roxy (1 October), Hamburg Golden Pudel (8), Hamburg Peacetanbul (9).

Laid To Rest: Final Procession Scored By Daniel O'Sullivan

The finale of Serena Korda's Laid To Rest project, where the artist has moulded bricks from dust donated by Londoners, takes place in the capital this weekend, with a procession and a burial of the bricks at Brunswick Square Gardens. Daniel O'Sullivan has scored a marching band 'opera' for the procession, which ends with a ritual dance around a pallet of bricks. The band includes Alex Ward, Steve Noble and Chloe Hoof, among others, and the composition will be pressed to vinyl in an edition of 300, which will be given away to those attending the event.

The 500 bricks, which are each printed with information about the contributor, have been on display at The Wellcome Collection as part of the exhibition Dirt: The Filthy Reality Of Everyday Life. The march takes place 18 September, 3pm, starting from the Wellcome Collection and walking along Tavistock Place to Brunswick Square Gardens. For more information and a map head here. Watch a video about the project below.

Peaking Lights's 936 Gets European Release, Sign To Mexican Summer In US

Previously released in the US on Not Not Fun, Peaking Lights's 936 will be getting a full European release on Domino imprint Weird World, followed by a string of tour dates in the UK and Amsterdam. 936 will be released on CD, LP, and as a digital download on 21 November. The LP will feature two fewer tracks than the CD and download releases, losing opener "Synthy" and closer "Summertime".

Across the pond, Peaking Lights have signed to Mexican Summer, who will be releasing a second album by the duo (which will also be released in Europe on Weird World) in spring next year. Tour dates are as follows: Amsterdam BitterZoet (3 December), London Plastic People (6), London Rough Trade east (9), Manchester Deaf Institute (10). Listen to a mix from the husband and wife duo below.

All The Sun That Shines by Peaking Lights

The Night Of The Unexpected

A traveling music theatre of performances from Thundercat featuring Austin Peralta, Hauschka, Kid Koala, Erik Bosgraaf, Lean Left, Lunapark, Sarah Nicolls and more. Utrecht Tivoli (8 September), Amsterdam Paradiso (9), Eindhoven Muziekcentrum (10).

Tinariwen

Tuareg desert rock from northern Mali. Belfast Festival (25 October), London Koko (with Débruit, 26)

Cam Deas & Jack Allett

European tour to mark the release of Cam Deas & Jack Allett's forthcoming LP on Blackest Rainbow. Copenhagen Festival Of Endless Gratitude (15–18 September), Gothenburg Gårdaskolan (20), Mainz Walpodenakademie (22), Stuttgart FFUS (23), Berlin Madame Claude (24), Brussels Le Chaff (26), Ghent Kinky Star (27), Tilburg Paradox (28), Antwerp Scheld'apen (29), Louvain La Neuve Ferme Du Biéreau (1 October), Liege L'An Vert (2).

Autechre & Hafler Trio Release 5.1 Surround Sound DVD

Autechre are releasing the next instalment from their collaboration with The Hafler Trio. ah3eo and ha3oe (ae3o3) is a double DVD release in 5.1 surround sound. It will be packaged in a custom die cut, printed envelope, and each DVD contains two hours of 5.1 surround sound material in Dolby and DTS soundtracks.

ah3eo and ha3oe (ae3o3) is released by Die Stadt and Simply Superior in a limited run of 1000. It was released on 29 August. Orders open here.