North Morocco's Sufi trance festival hosted by The Master Musicians Of Joujouka will take place next year between 21–23 June. Now in its 12th edition, the festival caps ticket numbers at 50, with guests staying with the master musicians and their families in the village of Joujouka.

Next year this incarnation of the Master Musicians – an altogether different group to The Master Musicians Of Jajouka led by Bachir Attir – will also release Live In Paris, their first album since 2006. The album was recored at Centre Georges Pompidou Paris as part of the 2016 Beat Generation exhibition and was produced by Frank Rynne. It will also mark their first release recorded outside of Joujouka, and will be released as CD and LP.

Update: due to high demand, a second 2019 edition has been organised and will take place between 5–7 July.

Daniel Spicer is compiling a new book on Eleusinian Press. Called Lost In The Vaults – Rare Collectables And Forgotten Gems From The Jazzwise Archives, the collection will gather a series of essays written on a monthly basis by Spicer over the course of 13 years.

“At the end of 2005, Jon Newey, then Editor of Jazzwise, put out a call for proposed contributions to a new column he was launching in the magazine”, explains Spicer. “Called ‘Lost In The Vaults’, the column was to feature, each month, a different jazz recording that was out of print and languishing in the doldrums of unavailability. Around a year into my burgeoning career as a music writer, and keen to write as much as possible, I immediately suggested something from Sun Ra’s legendarily extensive and abstruse back catalogue. Jon went for it. I got the gig, with my first attempt being published in February 2006.”

He continues. “From then on, for almost 13 years, I contributed a column each month – apart from a few occasions when there wasn’t room to run one, and two months fairly early on when fellow scribe Brian Priestley did the honours. It was a pretty simple brief: all I had to provide was 150 words on a recording of my choice, details of how much it was selling for and a thumbnail of the cover art. Piece of cake."

It’s set for release as a paperback coffee table book for mid-2019. However, a Kickstarter has also been launched, where those interested can make a pledge for a limited edition hardback version.

Now in its second decade, Asian performing arts platform TPAM has set the dates for its 2019 edition. It will take place from 9–17 February at venues across Yokohama, and this year once again is directed by Aki Onda who has organised a special project restaging three compositions of Filipino composer Jose Maceda (1917–2004). Those include Cassettes 100 choreographed and directed by Yoko Higashino and Toshio Kajiwara, and Music For Five Pianos and Two Pianos And Four Winds, both featuring pianists Aki Takahashi and Yuji Takahashi, and conductor Josefino Chino Toledo, all three of which previously collaborated with Maceda.

Also on the line up is Kyoto-based three-piece band Kukangendai who are due to release their debut on Ideologic Organ in 2019, plus performances from Lin Chi-Wei, Wang Hong-Kai, Gerard Lebik & Ryoko Akama, and Terre Thaemlitz with Deproduction.

More information can be found on their website.

A new two day anti-fascist extreme music festival called Black Flags Over Brooklyn goes live on 25 & 26 January, 2019. Happening at Brooklyn Bazaar in Greenpoint, New York, the event will kick off with an evening show on Friday, followed by a full day of performances on Saturday, along with a market selling merch, records, radical publications, local art, and more.

“This event is for those of us who reject and push back against that poison – who adhere by the mantra that ‘metal is for everyone (except Nazis)’, and who are committed to cleaning up our own backyard,” declare Black Flags Over Brooklyn’s organisers on the festival’s Facebook page. “The artists on the line-up all have different identities and come from different backgrounds, but are all united under the same ethos: FUCK NSBM [National Socialist black metal].”

“Unfortunately,” they continue, there is a “vocal contingent in our midst who care more about gatekeeping and upholding toxic ideologies like white supremacy, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia and bigotry in general than in seeing the genre thrive. The worldwide rise of violent white supremacy and fascism has put every one of us – but especially those in marginalized communities – at risk, and metal should not be allowed to remain a breeding ground for right wing extremism.

“Metal is too good for Nazis,” the festival’s declaration concludes.

Musicians so far confirmed include Dawn Ray’d, Ragana, Woe, Vile Creature, Chepang and Whitephosphorous. More acts will be announced soon. Tickets for Friday, Saturday and for the whole weekend are available now.

Sub-Rosa is to reissue Romanian electronic composer Octavian Nemescu’s 1984 album Gradeatia/Natural 1973–83 on 14 December.

“For the last couple of years I’ve been researching and planning to release a compilation of Romanian experimental music made prior to the fall of communism,” explains Andrei Tanasescu, who's working on the project with the Belgium based label. Although that compilation isn’t due until the autumn of 2019, he has, in the meantime, worked with Sub Rosa on “issuing a somewhat obscure but equally important album of electronic music” by Nemescu.

Gradeatia-Natural 1973–83 was originally released in 1984 by Electrecord, the one state-run label to serve in communist Romania. “Its A side Gradeatia was recorded at the IPEM institute in Ghent, Belgium, and was conceived as an ode to one of Romania’s oldest monasteries, as a subversive protest against Ceausescu’s nationwide project of demolishing (or relocating) churches,” he continues. “It has also never been released in its entirety on vinyl, as the initial Electrecord release edited the piece without Nemescu’s knowledge. The B side Natural bears a similar avant garde musicality – particularly within the Romanian context – to its flipside.”

There were few electronic composers in Romania pre-1989, adds Tanasescu, concluding that he hopes to shed some light on this period in musical history. Now aged 78, Nemescu is the father of the film director Cristian Nemescu (1979–2006).

Gradeatia/Natural 1973–83 is available for pre-order now.

Ohio’s Smog Veil has confirmed that it is still going ahead with Peter Laughner, a five disc set of Pere Ubu co-founder Laughner’s music. Label owner Frank Mauceri said: “I want to be certain that this box set, the definitive statement of the life and work of Peter Laughner, is as perfect as it can be. If it takes a little extra time to get this released, just be assured that it is for the better.

“We spared no expense,” continues Mauceri. “Fans will notice the care we put into this. Test pressings have been approved and final layouts are in process. We appreciate the patience that everyone has shown and want you to know the reward will be worth the wait."

Focusing on the period between 1972–77, the five LP/CD set Peter Laughner will include previously unreleased performances by Laughner’s groups Rocket From The Tombs, Cinderella Backstreet, Cinderella’s Revenge, Fins, Friction and The Original Wolverines, as well as solo and collaborative works. The set is completed by a 100 page book featuring Laughner’s writings, reviews and poetry published in Creem, Exit, Zeppelin and Star.

The Pere Ubu co-founder died in 1977, aged 24.

Tompkins Square has released a soundtrack to Christopher C King's recent publication Lament From Epirus: An Odyssey Into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music, published on Norton this year. The book traces the history of the genre back to its roots, with recordings collected during the author's explorations in North Western Greece, while asking what these songs mean for the history of humanity.

Reviewed in The Wire 415, Frances Gooding explains, “Lament From Epirus is a feverish memoir of the ecstasies and traumas of a music obsessive, and a gonzo account of the deep, transporting meaning of music itself. Our guide through the labyrinth of his own foibles and into the underworld of the musical past is Christopher C King, a sort of grumpy Henri Michaux of shellac.”. In August, King compiled a playlist for The Wire, which featured tracks from the book (the majority of which are featured in the Tompkins Square release), and with explanations as to what each track is.

You can buy Lament from Epirus Soundtrack on Bandcamp.

Award winning London arts station Resonance FM has announced a major expansion of its DAB sister station into four new cities in the UK. Resonance EXTRA, which began as a digital station in Brighton, is now broadcasting in city centres in London, Bristol, Cambridge, and Norwich.

Resonance EXTRA, the “more radical alternative to the radical alternative on Resonance FM,” is programmed by Peter Lanceley, and presents a parallel channel of shows, experimental sounds, radio art and sound collage, with regular shows by Dylan Nyoukis, female:pressure, First Terrace records, and many more. You can pick it up on DAB digital radio devices, as well as via the Resonance FM website.

The new reach of the station gives listeners a new way to hear our weekly Resonance broadcast, Adventures In Sound And Music. Each show, which goes out at Thursdays at 9pm, is simulcast on Resonance and Resonance EXTRA, giving you another way to keep track of the hot sounds of your favourite underground music magazine, if you’re out and about, driving around, or next to a DAB radio somewhere in the cities that are part of the new project.

You can read and hear more about Resonance EXTRA on the Resonance website.

Mumdance aka Jack Adams has released a major mix project featuring 32 exclusive tracks selected with the idea of a 'shared dance floor experience' in mind, ones that, we're told, transcend both location and language to unite people. The project is an extension of the ideas and inspirations he took from his Radio Mumdance project, that over the course of 40 shows had Adams DJ with Nina Kraviz, DJ Stingray, DJ Storm, Surgeon, Ben UFO, Josey Rebelle and others.

Among those on the release you'll find SØS Gunver Ryberg, Space Afrika, Caterina Barbieri, Chevel, Szare, JK Flesh, Abyss X, Sleeparchive, Peder Mannerfelt, Nkisi, D Carbon, and ZULI. Also included is Mumdance & Logos’s “Teachers”, a riff on the Daft Punk classic that pays tribute to musicians before them.

Shared Meanings is out today as a free digital download. Individual track download, a cassette edition, and a vinyl release (featuring five of the tracks) is released on 23 November.

A new work commissioned by Borealis from composer Jennifer Walshe and philosopher Timothy Morton will make its debut in Norway next year. The opera TIME TIME TIME has Walshe perform onstage with MC Schmidt, Lee Patterson, Áine O'Dwyer, and Norwegian ensembles Streifenjunko and Vilde & Inga. Not much has been revealed about the piece, although festival director Peter Meanwell describes it as a “non-opera art-museum opera about time,” explaining that it's an attempt to “dig into our obsession about time, dying, technology, the anthropocene etc”.

It was commissioned in collaboration with Sonic Acts in the Netherlands, MaerzMuzik in Germany, London Contemporary Music Festival/Serpentine Galleries in the UK and Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival in Norway. It will premiere in the Netherlands at Sonic Acts on 24 February 2019, followed by a Norwegian premiere on 9 March at Borealis in Bergen, which runs between 6–10 March. Artists on the line-up are yet to be confirmed.