Lala Belu will be released on 23 February on Awesome Tapes From Africa

The French avant-garde music festival runs from 26 January – 17 February

The 27 track compilation features tracks from the New York label's roster including Bonaventure, Eaves, Celestial Trax, and more

The 7 December 2017 edition of The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM features cutting edge electronic music chosen by Derek Walmsley

The epic scale and contrived angles of many archival box sets threaten to distort the narrative of the music itself

Drummer Sunny Murray died on 7 December 2017 in Paris. He was 81 years old and had lived in the city since the mid-1990s. Obituary by Phil Freeman

The 2017 Le Guess Who? festival invited The Wire's deputy editor Joseph Stannard to host talks with two acts from the line up

Thrill Jockey will release a live album by the trio in February 2018

The East London music venue hosts the saxophonist and composer’s three day run including his ZIM Sextet

I: project space, China Residencies and underground Beijing party crew The Neighbourhood are looking for artists to lead “the discourses on and fusion of visual art and nightclub culture" in the Chinese capital in 2018

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This show took place on 30 November 2017 and featured tracks by Anenon, Ka Baird, Wilted Woman, and more

French pianist, field recordist and musicologist died on 29 November in Paris

The veteran minimalist records a new release on what would have been Conrad's 77th birthday

Over three shows Freies Radio Kassel will broadcast a countdown of our Top 50 of 2017

This month, readers of The Wire can download a custom built app to transform the cover of the new January issue into a unique audiovisual experience

The Psychic TV founder and ex-Throbbing Gristle member, who was diagnosed with cancer in October, requires money for medical equipment and rent

Listen to an exclusive recording of the free jazz vocalist's performance ahead of her residency at Cafe Oto

The Wire cover stars present an exclusive mix featuring unreleased material

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 23 November and featured music from Cultural Apparati, 外神田deepspace, Ikonika, and more

London producer collaborates with Matthew Allum on a new Eurorack filter with “intentionally aggressive self oscillating resonance”

Film about Platonos and her impact on Greek electronic music scene needs funding to complete project

The London festival shares an exclusive recording of an extended solo performance by the late Deep Listening pioneer

To celebrate 140 years of recording, the archive looks at who gets to select the sounds we keep

US label Eremite reissue the 1972 live recording Drum Dance To The Motherland. Listen to two tracks from the release

The publication features essays, reviews, two DVDs and more

Published by Faber, pre-orders go on sale from 15 December

The New York composer shares some pieces from her 1990s discography with The Wire

Built in Kyotango city in Japan, the work was victim to disputes with cattle farm employees

The vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and improvisor releases Lost In Shadows in February. Listen to “Night Howl” from the album

Chu-Li Shewring receives film world recognition for her contributions as a female creative technician, while Oreet Ashery bags the Jarman Award

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 16 November 2017 and featured music by Ornette Coleman, Gaika, JK Flesh and more

The American drummer who worked with Alice Coltrane and Thelonious Monk was 84 years old

Listen to tracks played at Wire HQ while we made our December 2017 issue

“The world's most advanced spatial sound system” opens in Funkhaus on 1 December

The Wire contributor compiles tracks to accompany his article chronicling the first major independent label movement in Brazilian music

The independent label started life as a left wing book publisher in 1967

Watch the premiere of the video by Sophia Al-Maria that pays homage to belly dancing with a femme and masc dance-off

Recordings that took place at the Faust Studio over two weeks are to be released on a new 10"

Wire contributor Phil Freeman will be covering artists working within jazz, modern composition, metal and noise

After 50 LP releases, the label that’s released that likes of Joe McPhee, Call Back The Giants and Moniek Darge says it is time to “pull down the blinds”

The label’s first release is a remix of an Algiers track

Dylan Carlson is also on the bill performing a version of English folk song “Reynardine”

“His smile said: do the unthinkable, the unpredictable. Bring the world with you to a place of peaceful coexistence that celebrates the diversity of ideas and experiences," writes a former president of the AACM

Betty – They Say I Am Different profiles the groundbreaking funk musician described by Miles Davis as “Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince”

Refined Productions described as a “slow label” intended to encourage listeners to stop and think

The Final Night In Paradise features footage taken from the club's closing party, where Larry Levan, Keith Haring and ESG were all present

German producer Erik Wiegand talks about his new album and shares a live excerpt from Turin

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition was hosted by staff member Astrud Steehouder and featured music from Christoph de Babalon, Cybe, Terrence Dixon and more. The show took place on 9 November 2017

Daniel Weintraub started working with the US composer on his feature length film three years before she died

German vocalist, producer, e-poet and digital media artist Antye Greie-Ripatti previews her tenth solo album

Taking place at Berlin's Jewish Museum until 2019, the exhibition invites artists to contribute 60 seconds of sound

The Swedish label will be throwing itself a series of anniversary parties around the world in 2018

Following Hedley Jones's death in September 2017, and the publication of his last interview in The Wire 406, writer David Katz chooses five seminal tracks with links to the Jamaican audio engineer

The Sound System Outernational #4: Strictly Vinyl presentation will be happening in London in January 2018

The UK musician, composer and arranger was 71 years old

In advance of a major Hyperdub compilation Diggin' In The Carts: A Collection Of Pioneering Japanese Video Game Music, Sara Drake talks to co-compiler Nick Dwyer about a project that sets to give credit where credit's due

The South London soul savant presents his Some Nu Old Afro Blue mixtape exclusively for The Wire

The veteran saxophonist talks to legendary record collectors including Henry Rollins, Robert Crumb and various Wire contributors

The festival will feature the Laibach in Pyongyang documentary Liberation Day and new hip hop anthology Tales

Five unreleased tracks from a range of producers associated with the ongoing collaborative project

Adrian Tenney, the daughter of the late composer, is raising money to put Changes: 64 Studies for 6 Harps to record for the first time

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. For this edition Gustave Evrard is joined by Conor Walker of Obsolete Future. The show took place on 2 November 2017 and featured music by Pierre Bastien, Moebius, The Durutti Column and more

“Is it possible we’ve come full circle?” asks Clive Bell, as he observes more than a century of revolutions in recording technology, from Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph to pink vinyl in Sainsburys

“Blue Morning” will be released on a forthcoming Blackest Ever Black compilation

Listen to the globetrotting guitarist in conversation at Krakow's Unsound festival in October 2017

The film about the pioneering Zambian rock group needs a last financial push to reach the finishing line

Stream a selection of tracks listened to at Wire HQ during the making of the November issue 405

The 19th edition of CTM will take place from 26 January to 4 February 2018, with the first round of artists announced including Rashad Becker, Jana Rush and Nadah El Shazly

US pianist, composer and educator died on 29 October

This year's event will take place from 22–25 November in Berlin

Egyptian punk singer turned composer and producer presents Ahwar

On 27 October The Wire took over the Camp radio airwaves for a two hour show. The program was hosted by Shane Woolman and featured music by Bambooman, Philip Jeck, Xao Seffcheque, Shit & Shine, Mia Zabelka, and more

“His equally radical presence is often missed. This is a mistake.”

Alto saxophonist Seymour Wright pays homage to the lessons learned from the man who helped set the pace of what was to come

Writer Jacob Arnold compiles a selection of tracks featured in his article documenting the Midwest IDM scene of the late 1990s

The Wire's weekly show on Resonance FM. This edition took place on 26 October featuring music by AGF, Ceramic Hobs, Circuit Des Yeux and more

The Japanese punk pioneer turned analogue electronics improvisor pushes her vocal cords to extremes on Voice Hardcore

Finnish DJ, producer and Avantgardeyö radio show host Matti Nives remembers Helsinki's famed record shop owner

The Wire contributors Daniel Spicer, Tony Rettman, Philip Freeman and Rob Young all have new books in the pipeline