Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies are back with a new Earth release. Full Upon Her Burning Lips follows 2014's Primitive and Deadly, and has the core duo take up their usual positions of Carlson on guitar and bass and Adrienne Davies on drums and percussion.

The album, Carlson says, was developed “organically”, stating, “I limited the number of effects I used. I always like the limiting of materials to force oneself to employ them more creatively. Previous Earth records were quite lush sounding, and I wanted a more upfront and drier sound, using very few studio effects.”

Talking of Davies's input, he notes, “I really wanted the drums to be present. I felt with previous Earth records that other instrumentation took up so much of the sonic space that the drums were kind of pushed to the side.”

Songs like “Cats On The Briar” and “Mandrake’s Hymn” were part-written during downtime on their 2017 tour, while “Descending Belladonna” came from a live soundtrack project.

“I feel like this is the fullest expression and purest distillation of what Earth does since I re-started the band,” Carlson confirms.

As well as news of the album, Carlson has announced he'll be launching a solo European tour.

Full Upon Her Burning Lips is released on 24 May via Sargent House. Listen to “Cats On The Briar” below.

In “commemoration of a half-century of magical music making”, Pi Recordings will be releasing a two disc set of new recordings by The Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Called We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration , the album consists of studio sessions and a live performance at Edgefest in Ann Arbor, MI. The Art Ensemble’s Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye are here joined by Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Camae Ayewa, Christina Wheeler, Silvia Bolognesi, Junius Paul, Jean Cook, Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron, Hugh Ragin, Fred Berry, Edward Yoon Kwon, Jaribu Shahid, Dudù Kouaté, Enoch Williamson, Titos Sompa and Stephen Rush.

We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration is released by Pi on 26 April.

Happening at various venues across The Hague’s city centre, the ninth edition of the Dutch experimental music festival Rewire runs from 29–31 March. Rian Treanor, CCL, Justin Bennett, Animistic Beliefs, Annelies Monsoré, Mark IJzerman, RAFF, Stekkerdoos, Zoe Reddy and De Methode are among the artists who have been added to the already announced line-up of Nicolás Jaar, Low, Jlin & Company Wayne McGregor, Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble and Tanya Tagaq.

In addition Rewire has published its discussion programme, which addresses the themes of Instrumental Shifts and Staging Sound. Festival participants include Rebecca Fiebrink, Mark Fell, Mick Grierson, Jesse Kanda, Federico Campagna, Nicolás Jaar, Actress, Lotic & Emmanuel Biard, Jennifer Walshe & Memo Akten, Elaine Mitchener, Sega Bodega, Bob Sturm, Ash Koosha, Róisín Loughran, Thor Magnusson, Laura Agnusdei, Anna Mikkola, Dianne Verdonk, Folgert Karsdorp, Dick Rijken, Anja Volk, Mailin Chen, Hibiki Mukai and Aimee Cliff. And The Wire's Deputy Editor Joseph Stannard will be talking to Low about their 25 year career.

The full Rewire line-up can be found on their website. Tickets are on sale now.

Lowlands underground music linchpin Dennis Tyfus has created a brand new outdoor music venue in a sculpture garden in the centre of Antwerp. De Nor is a pavilion conceived in collaboration with FVWW architects which is set to host weekly gigs over the summer.

“I basically made the pavilion next to the main entrance of Middelheim Museum with a fence around it so I can open it also when the musuem is closed,” the artist and musician emails. “I’m planning a weekly mixtape this summer for it too and a zine to anounce the acts.”

The pavilion is set to play host to Eiko Ishibashi & Joe Talia for its first gig on 23 May, and then will be open each Friday for performances with a schedule that includes Hanne De Backer, Chris Corsano/Richard Youngs/David Maranha, Drew McDowall, Miaux, Kuunatic, Lieven Martens Moana, Celine Gillain, Helm, Cuntst, Mark Harwood, Dave Bixby, Cylène (duo of Stephen O’Malley and Kassel Jaeger), and more.

De Nor is located in Nachtegalenpark in Central Antwerp, a space whose Middelheim Museum sculpture area includes works by numerous renowned artists including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Dan Graham and Alexander Calder. The museum is currently showing the first solo art show by Tyfus himself, an exhibition titled My Niece’s Pierced Knees which runs until 17 March.

You can read more about De Nor on its Facebook page.

Craig Leon will release his first album of brand new material in nearly four decades this May. Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol 2: The Canon has the American composer and one-time Blondie and Suicide producer return to New York label RVNG.

The Canon continues on from the concepts found in Nommos (Takoma, 1981) and Visiting (Arbitor, 1982), acting as “building blocks for morality and philosophy intended as means for inner exploration,” as Leon puts it. The music of those albums was previously compiled as the RVNG collection Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol 1 back in 2014. On the following year Leon released the electronic classical album Bach To Moog for Sony Classical.

On the new album he's joined once again by Nommos/Visiting collaborator and partner Cassell Webb on vocals and album production.

Watch the video for “Standing Crosswise In The Square”.

They’ll be touring throughout 2019 and 2020 with an expanded ensemble featuring musicians who work with Dogon and Mediterranean musical traditions.

Craig Leon’s Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol 2: The Canon is released on May 10 in LP, CD, and digital formats.

Over three days in April various locations in Philadelphia will be dedicating their spaces to the life and work of the late US composer and installation artist Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009). Featuring Supreme Connections, a working group of Amacher's friends, students and collaborators and initiated by Bowerbird and Blank Form, Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies insists on a holistic approach to the composer's work that spans over 40 years. Visitors can experience instrumental and electronic pieces, a large-scale interpretive architectural installation, and an in-depth seminar examining her musical and artistic theories.

Happening on 9, 12 & 13 April, events include Maryanne Amacher: An Introduction by Bill Dietz; presentations of Amacher pieces Adjacencies and Petra, and Ways Of Hearing workshop.

Full information can be found on Blank Forms website.

Tusk festival returns to Sage Gateshead in October for its ninth edition. Its programme of music, film screenings, exhibitions, talks and installations includes Magma celebrating their 50th anniversary with a performance at Sage One, and Moor Mother and London Contemporary Orchestra premiering their new collaboration. Also announced is a performance from the Ceylon Mange trio of Karen Constance, Dylan Nyoukis & Bill Nace, Sunn Trio, Acrid Lactations and Mir8.

Tickets go on sale at midday on 25 February. 50 early bird tickets are available at £60, after which full weekend tickets will cost £70. Day tickets will go on sale later in the year. A single ticket to Magma costs £21.80.

Tusk takes place between 11–13 October at Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays.

David Toop will host Flutter Echo Festival at London’s Cafe Oto in May. Celebrating the musician and longtime Wire contributor's 70th birthday, the event also marks the publication of his autobiography Flutter Echo: Living Within Sound by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace Library. As we reported last year, Flutter Echo was first published in Japanese.

The festival line-up includes David himself, Steve Beresford, David Cunningham, Keiko Yamamoto, Thurston Moore, Mandhira de Saram, Mark Sanders, Phil Minton, Akio Suzuki, Aki Onda, DT, Elaine Mitchener, John Butcher, Terry Day, Tania Chen, Lucie Stepankova and Daniela Cascella. Plus an afternoon conversation between the birthday boy, The Wire Publisher Tony Herrington and Rozemin Keshvani, and a performance by the Toop-directed LCC student improvisation group Unknown Devices, featuring Yifeat Ziv, Doran Edwards, Kyrin Chen and Joe Johnson.

Flutter Echo Festival takes place between 4 & 6 May at London's Cafe Oto.

Brighton's Colour Out Of Space festival has revealed plans for its 2019 edition. Core to the event is the long weekend from 26–28 April featuring Bill Nace & Twig Harper, Chie Mukai, Richard Youngs, Pat Thomas/Adam Bohman/Sami Pekkola/Yoni Silver, Tom White & Stuart Chalmers, Elaine Mitchener & Neil Charles, Ezio Piermattei, Ryoko Akama, Graham Lambkin & Áine O'Dwyer and Tomutonttu. In addition, organiser Dylan Nyoukis tells us, the festival will be also programming a selection of gigs throughout April and May, full details of which are still to be confirmed. There's also talk of a sonic arts trail, events from The Free University of Resonance FM and a film programme.

The full Colour Out Of Space line-up and ticket information will be announced soon.

Camp, the not-for-profit project run by registered UK charity Fuse Art Space will again be presenting workshops with board and accommodation in the Pyrenees. Just announced is the five day residential workshop run by Laurel Halo from 17 July. The class will focus on electronic composition and production, with attendees studying writing, mixing, production approaches and development. Participants will work towards making a new piece of music by scoring silent films, among various other exercises.

Workshops so far announced are: Why Do Stuff? Approaching Sound & Music From The Outside with Eli Keszler & Rashad Becker (from 3 April); Deep Listening, Improvisation & Spatial Sound with Phill Niblock, Kara-Lis Coverdale, Lea Bertucci, Jorge Boehringer & Tim Shaw (from 10 April); Modern Composition with Gavin Bryars (from 15 May); Let Your Lone Ranger Ride with Bill Drummond (from 10 July); Art & Activism with Adbusters, Brandalism And Center For Political Beauty (from 31 July), and a few sessions on playwriting with John Burgess. Other workshops include Comedy Writing & Performance with Josie Long, Jonny Donahoe And John-Luke Roberts (from 4 September); and Video & Installation Art with Laure Prouvost (from 9 October).

Ecoacoustics with Annea Lockwood & Leah Barclay, as well as two Chris Watson sessions: Environmental Sound Recording and Field Recording: Red Deer Season have already sold out, although those still keen to attend are invited to put their names on a waiting list.

Full list of courses and more information can be found on campfr.com.