Originally published in 2009 by Zero Books, Wire contributor Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? analyses capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Translators Sebastian Breu and Ruri Kawanami spoke to Mark about its Japanese translation before his passing on 13 January 2017. The outcome of their work will be published next month by Tokyo publishing house Horinouchi Shuppan.

Meanwhile, back in the UK, Repeater Books (formally Zero Books) will be publishing a collection of writings from Mark’s online persona K-Punk; on 19 January, artist and theorist Kodwo Eshun is hosting a Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture at London Goldsmiths University, where he and Mark both taught Aural and Visual Cultures.

Glasgow based composer Drew Mulholland – aka Mount Vernon Arts Lab – will upload his entire discography to Bandcamp for streaming and purchase. Among the first releases to be digitised is a previously unreleased collaboration with Coil, the 23 minute “A Spectre Calls”.

The Bandcamp page will eventually make accessible several out of print items such as 1999's One Minute Blasts Rising To Three And Then Diminishing EP (released by Ochre in 2000) and Musick That Destroys Itself (released in 2003 under the name Mount Vernon Astral Temple), plus a host of live tracks, sessions and rarities.

Along with Birmingham groups Broadcast and Pram, Mulholland is cited as a significant influence on the hauntological sounds purveyed by labels such as Ghost Box (who acknowledged the influence with their 2007 reissue of MVAL’s 2001 album The Seance At Hobs Lane). Another notable release is his 1999 collaboration with Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Warminster.

In 2014 Mulholland released The Norwood Variations under his own name. Writing in The Wire 368 Sukhdev Sandhu described the album as “his richest, most resonant record to date”. Variations was followed in 2016 by The Making Of Landscape on Eighth Climate/English Heritage, a collection of VLF recordings that struck Stewart Smith as “intensely beautiful” in The Wire 394.

Percussionist Andrew Cyrille, publisher and broadcaster Margaret Busby, writers Paul Gilroy and Richard Williams (who worked with Val at Melody Maker in 1969), and her brother, the poet Clive Wilmer, are among the contributors to BBC Radio 3’s Sunday Feature: A Portrait Of Val Wilmer, produced by Steve Urquhart. Scheduled to go out on 4 March at 6:45pm (and available via iPlayer after), the broadcast coincides with the republication of As Serious As Your Life, Val's 1977 landmark study of free jazz, featuring a new foreword by Richard Williams.

Val Wilmer has interviewed and photographed some of the most influential figures in jazz, blues and R&B. Just some of the names she has covered since the early 1960s include Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, among many others.

In 2017 Val appeared in conversation with The Wire Publisher Tony Herrington at London’s Cafe Oto. You can listen to a recording of their talk in our audio section.

On 2 March bassist Dave Holland and saxophonist Evan Parker unite for a special benefit concert at London's Vortex Jazz. The pair have been performing together since the 1960s, with many of their gigs taking place at London's The Little Theatre Club. They also participated in the recording of Spontaneous Music Ensemble’s 1968 album Karyobin. Back in the here and now, Parker and Holland have made a new album with two US musicians – Craig Taborn on piano and Ches Smith on drums – called Uncharted Territories, which will be released by Holland’s Dare 2 Records in May.

Parker, who plays regularly at the club, has described The Vortex as “my haven from the demands of the road… The Vortex is for me, a space to play ‘free jazz’. I cannot imagine life without it.” At the gig, he and Holland will perform two sets: one at 8:15pm, the other at 10pm. Anyone who can't make it but would still like to donate can buy the track “Bass And Tenor Duet” via Bandcamp for £1.

The Resonance FM fundraiser kicks off this February with a host of special gigs, shows and an auction, all in aid of another year of independent radio. This year sees an extra push from the station to raise £100,000 to fund its imminent relocation. “We need urgently to relocate our studios and broadcasting gear (the site is being redeveloped) – at considerable cost,” they state on their fundraising website. “Hence our target this year of £100,000.

“This move will also allow us to expand our facilities and to become a central hub for expressive and discursive mass communication,” they continue. “We want to make this fascinating and successful experiment a sustainable, ongoing concern – one which grows in proportion to its seemingly unlimited potential. And we want to build a vital legacy which informs, entertains, inspires and encourages more people of all backgrounds and ages to create, experience and enjoy the best possible radio.”

Live events include Near Jazz Experience, Bob Parks, Daniel Wilson & Toby Clarkson at Iklectik on 7 February, Peter Blegvad Trio with Bob Drake at Cafe Oto on 9 February, and :zoviet*france: and Ron Geesin at Cafe Oto on 11 February. You can also bid for items via their Ebay auction, or you can set up a regular donation.

German label Grönland has announced the release of Cinema, a retrospective box set commemorating the work of the late bassist and Can founder member Holger Czukay. Cinema will explore Czukay’s extensive solo catalogue, as well as his most significant collaborations with the likes of Brian Eno, Jah Wobble and Karlheinz Stockhausen, among others. It will also include previously unreleased music.

Cinema’s release coincides with what would have been Czukay's 80th birthday (he was born on 24 March 1938 in the then free city of Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland). It also coincides with the 50th anniversary of the founding of Can. Running over five discs, of either CD or vinyl, it covers five decades of Czukay's career in chronological order. The vinyl set includes a previously unreleased 7" vinyl video for Czukay's “Cool In The Pool”, taken from his 1979 album Movies. And completing the package of both sets are a photo booklet, a biography penned by Ian Harrison, and a DVD of the slapstick comedy Krieg Der Töne featuring Czukay.

Cinema will be released on 23 March by Herbert Grönemeyer’s label Grönland. This year will also see the publication of All Gates Open: The Biography Of Can by Can's Irmin Schmidt and The Wire's Rob Young, by Faber And Faber. Recently, Rob wrote about the private and public face of Czukay in The Wire 405. Subscribers can read that via Exact Editions.

Watch “Cool In The Pool”:

London Short Film Festival kicks off today, marking their 15th edition with a host of music related screenings and events. Adrena Adrena, an audiovisual project of London based film maker Daisy Dickinson and ex-Boredoms drummer E-da Kazuhisa, will open the festival with Movements Of A Nebulous Dawn, a one-off collaboration at the ICA. The event features Kazuhisa, Geraldine Swayne of Faust, Colin Newman of Wire, Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact, and Kenichi Iwasa, founder of Krautrock Karaoke, and, recently announced, Can's Damo Suzuki – all of the above perform in various combinations under a 360 degree nebulous orb.

On 16 January, London’s Moth Club will host the 2009 documentary Taqwacore: The Birth Of Punk Islam, directed by Omar Majeed and produced by EyeSteelFilm, followed by a panel discussion hosted by film maker Hammad Khan asking what happened to the taqwacore underground scene, and how class, race and gender are tied to Muslim resistance, Trump and Brexit. Also at Moth Club, on 19 January It’s All Good! celebrates the 15 year collaboration between LSFF and UK label Domino with videos and music. The ICA will hold the closing party on 20 February with Home Girls: From Cookie Crew To Now, a screening and panel discussion looking at the representation of female hiphop artists, also featuring a performance celebrating women in British rap with Hackney MC Paigey Cakey.

London Short Film Festival will run between 12–22 January. For a full list of what's on you can visit their website.

Following her coming of age script staged at last year's London's New Music Biennial, Klein has written a new musical called Care. “Care is a fantasy musical set in a care home,” reads the synopsis. “After a magical turn of events, the kids are transported into a world that will change their lives forever.”

Inspired by Nigerian B-movies, Andrew Lloyd-Webber musicals, Disney films and TV show Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Klein constructed Care from earworm loops, piano refrains, murky electronic, gospel and distorted vocals. Her 13-strong cast includes Lord Tusk, Jacob Samuel and BBC AZN Network members Manara and Sweyn J.

“Musicals can be intimidating and inaccessible and I want to open them up,” she declares. “It can be free and it doesn’t have to be intimidating, cheesy or plain old weird and dated. My musical brings a level of diversity not only in the way people look, but also in the mentality. There is a need for multidimensional roles to be played by people of colour and making this visible is important.”

To accompany her musical Klein has written a book illustrated by Evie O'Connor. Care will be performed at London’s ICA on 3–4 February.

Klein's 2017 Hyperdub release Tommy came third in The Wire's top 50 releases of 2017.

The Association for Electronic Music (AFEM) has launched a confidential sexual harassment support service for those working in the electronic music industry. Delivered by Health Assured, it will offer advice and guidance by trained individuals to those affected.

The Association for Electronic Music is not for profit trade association representing the interests of record labels, managers, promoters, publishers, clubs and other companies who work within electronic music. This current drive aims to promote positive change in the industry.

AFEM directs anyone who has been affected by abuse or harassment to an industry-specific confidential service operated by Health Assured at 0800 030 5182 or, for callers outside the UK, +44 800 030 5182.

Pinch's Tectonic record label will reach the 100 mark in March. To mark the occasion, the 100th Tectonic record will be Hard Food, an EP by Riko Dan featuring contributions from label boss Pinch himself, plus Mumdance, Joker, Walton and Ziro.

“It’s great to be reaching the 100th release on the label, 13 years on from when it all started,” remarks Pinch aka Rob Ellis. “For this release we’re focusing on Riko Dan – one of my all-time favorite MCs – who controls six deadly rhythms here in fine style.”

For his part, Riko Dan adds: “I’ve enjoyed working with Tectonic on releases with Pinch and Mumdance and now it’s nice to be the main artist with producers making beats for my EP.”

Hard Food will be released in vinyl and digital formats on 2 March.

In other news, Pinch will return to Swamp 81 Records this year. His first music on the label since 2011's Retribution/Get Out Of Here will be a new EP called Ahh Fff Sss, released on 16 February.

Listen to Riko Dan & Pinch’s “Vibration” from Hard Food: