Japanese avant rock outfit Boris have collaborated with Masami Akita aka Merzbow on a new collaborative album called Gensho (Japanese for phenomenon). Gensho features over 150 minutes of new music spread across two discs. The Boris tracks are re-recordings of their own favourites, while Merzbow’s are new compositions. Boris’s and Merzbow’s contributions are of equal duration, so the two discs can be played at the same time at varying volumes.

Gensho is slated for February 2016 release by Relapse Records. Boris and Merzbow have also announced a one-off show in support of the album at Shindaita Fever, Tokyo, on 27 November.

David Sylvian has announced the publication of a new book, Hypergraphia: The Writings Of David Sylvian 1980–2014, which brings together lyrics and poetry spanning his 35 year career, along with interviews and artwork either created or chosen by Sylvian, who is also the art director of the book. Published by his imprint Samadhisound in a limited edition of 3000, the full-colour hardback will also be available in a signed edition. Sylvian has also just released a new CD, Playing The Schoolhouse, on Mark Wastell’s Confront label. Recorded in Norway, it consists of an EP-length composition by Sylvian and Jan Bang, with contributions from Otomo Yoshihide and Toshimaru Nakamura. More information on the book and EP can be found on Sylvian's website.

Bo Diddley’s rhythm guitarist Peggy Jones (aka Lady Bo) has died aged 75. Jones was born in Eden, Maryland and grew up in New York. By the time she was ten, she was studying opera and playing the ukulele. Jones attended the High School for the Performing Arts as a teenager, specialising in tap, ballet, drama, music theory and several instruments. Two years after buying her first guitar at the age of 15, she joined local group The Bop-Chords. As a member of that group she met Bo Diddley, which led to her becoming the first female guitarist to be hired by a major rock artist. She formed her own side-group The Jewels, later known as Lady Bo And The Family Jewel, while still in Diddley’s band. Her group, which stayed active into the 1990s, recorded the northern soul classic “We Got Togetherness” for MGM Records in 1966. Lady Bo also worked as a session performer on hits including Les Cooper’s “Wiggle Wibble” (featuring her guitar work) and Eric Burdon And The Animals’ “San Francisco Nights” (to which she contributed percussion). Later, Jones performed as Lady Bo And The DC Horns.

Her husband Wally Malone announced his wife’s passing via Facebook, saying, “Today is one of the saddest days of my life. My wife and partner of 47 years has been called up to that great rock & roll band in the heavens to be reunited with Bo Diddley, Jerome Green and Clifton James. The last hour and a quarter I spent by her side and the last thing I said to her was the quote above regarding Diddley and band. The other thing I added at the end of it is that band doesn’t have a bass player and for them to please hold that seat until it is my time to join them. The incredible part of this is immediately after saying this to her there was a quick sound that came from her and right then her heart stopped beating. Many of you know about the Bo Diddley connection but in case not my wife’s professional stage name is Lady Bo.”

Flying Lotus, Thundercat and Shabazz Palaces have formed a new collaborative project named WOKE. Their debut single “The Lavishments Of Light Looking” features Parliament-Funkadelic’s George Clinton and it’s available to download for free from the Adult Swim website as part of the animation channel’s 2015 singles series. The project has its origins in an unproduced FlyLo film script called The Lavishments Of Light Looking. You can download the the single, and all the rest in the series, here.

The illustrated scores of jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith go on display in Chicago this month. Mounted by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, the exhibition will feature 45 of Smith’s scores, including his first to use non-standard visual directions. Called The Bell, the latter received its debut performance on Anthony Braxton's 1968 recording Three Compositions Of New Jazz. The exhibition, Ankhrasmation: The Language Scores 1967–2015, reveals the systematic musical language developed by Smith over a period of 50 years. He coined the neologism Ankhrasmation by combining the terms Ankh, the Egyptian symbol for life, Ras, the Ethiopian word for leader, and Ma meaning mother. Other events related to the exhibition include a panel discussion with Smith, Anthony Davis, John Corbett, and Hamza Walker, and a concert with The Golden Quartet, featuring Smith, Davis, John Lindberg and Mike Reed, with live visuals by Jesse Gilbert (both on 24 October); and a Smith solo performance (25). Ankhrasmation runs in parallel to MCA Chicago’s ongoing exhibition The Freedom Principle: Experiments In Art And Music, 1965 To Now, which features one of Smith’s four-panel scores (until 22 November).

Ankhrasmation: The Language Scores 1967–2015 runs between 11–29 October. More information can be found here.

Wadada Leo Smith score - The Dream, a panel from Kosmic Music (2009)

Einstürzende Neubauten will give four last performances of their First World War project Lament this Christmas in Berlin. Also released as a studio album in 2014, Lament was originally conceived in response to a commission from Flanders, Belgium, for a performance work marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The final live performances of the piece will take place at Berlin's Radialsystem V arts space between 25–28 December.

During the summer of 2015 Einstürzende Neubauten celebrated their 35th anniversary with a series of Greatest Hits concerts. They will be closing the year in a similar style with a Greatest Hits show at Radialsystem V on New Year's Eve. They promise to perform a selection of favourite tracks drawn from their 35 year old back catalogue, including albums like Perpetuum Mobile, Ende Neu, Tabula Rasa, Silence Is Sexy, and more. More information can be found here

Some more Neubauten related news: guitarist Alexander Hacke’s autobiography cum memoir Krach: Verzerrte Erinnerungen is published by Metrolit on 12 October. At the moment it’s in German only, but we can tell you that the title translates as Noise: Distorted Recollections.

Sleaford Mods’ Invisible Britain docu-film will screen for the first time this October in Nottingham and London. Directed by Nathan Hannawin and Paul Sng, the film was shot during the group’s UK tour earlier this year. The documentary combines performance footage of band members Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, as well as conversations and interviews with Sleaford fans about resistance efforts and campaigns against government austerity measures. Invisible Britain was crowdfunded via Indiegogo. The project exceeded its target back in February, raising 165 percent of their desired funds.

The film will screen 3 October at London Picturehouse as part of the Doc ’N’ Roll Film Fesitival, followed by a live Q&A with the directors. The Nottingham screening, at Broadway Cinema on 10 October, will be followed by a Q&A with Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn. Find more information at the Sleaford Mods facebook page.

This year’s Le Guess Who? festival has announced the full line-up for its 2015 edition. Happening across 15 venues in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the programme consists of a series of specially curated line-ups from artists and labels, including Sunn O))) and Constellation Records. Just added to Sunn O)))’s line-up are the Icelandic cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, Norwegian metal band Virus and death metal duo Bölzer. They’ll join previously announced acts including Annette Peacock, Magma, Goatsnake and Julia Holter. Other people playing this year’s Le Guess Who? include The Notwist, Islam Chipsy, Prefuse 73, Kamasi Washington, Destroyer, Faust, Huerco S, and more.

Le Guess Who? takes place between 19–22 November. Tickets are still available. More information can be found on the Le Guess Who? website.

After 17 years of transmitting over the London airwaves, this autumn will see the launch of a new 24/7 broadcast platform in Brighton. Called Resonance Extra, the station will be available to DAB listeners in Brighton and elsewhere via a stream at extra.resonance.fm. Resonance 104.4FM is staying put in its South London home but it will also be broadcasting on DAB digital radio. To celebrate, the community arts station will be hosting a series of events over three Fridays this month. Called DABoriginals, the events will feature Hidden Orchestra, Tokyo’s Group A, RKSS, HOLOVR, Kelly Lee Owens and sound sculptor John Lemke.

DABoriginals will take place on 2, 9 and 16 October at Platform Southwark, London, as part of London’s Merge Festival. More information can be found here.

Wire contributor Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar's The Otolith Collective will present The Chimurenga Library at London’s The Showroom this autumn. Working with the Cape Town based collective Chimurenga, the first week of the exhibition will host a live broadcast from Chimurenga's online radio station, Pan African Space Station (PASS), with a programme of music, interviews and events. Shabaka Hutchings, Christine Eyene, Hansi Momodu-Gordon & Amanprit Sandhu and Audrey Brown will be among the musicians, journalists, writers, curators and film makers involved in the project. Material from this broadcast will be on display as part of a cartographic installation happening both on and offsite in the weeks following.

Chimurenga (a Shona word that loosely translates as ‘struggle for freedom’) was founded by Ntone Edjabe in 2002 as a multidisciplinary project manifesting itself as a print magazine, publisher, broadcaster, workspace and platform for editorial and curatorial activities, as well as an online resource. The Chimurenga Library will take place at The Showroom, London, between 8 October–21 November, with a preview happening on 7 October. More information can be found here.