The new benefit album Total Solidarity is released this week. Compiled by the Oramics collective and New York Haunted label, all proceeds from digital sales will be donated to two Polish organisations: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii and Miłość Nie Wyklucza. Both charities monitor homophobia and offer support services to the queer community in Poland. They will redistribute any money received to LGBTQIA+ organisations in smaller cities and towns throughout Poland.

The compilation has been put together as a response to the homophobic campaigns and anti-LGBT sentiment fuelled by Poland’s Law And Justice Party, far right media and the Catholic church. “We have heard that the LGBTQIA+ community is a plague, a dangerous ideology, a threat to morality and Polish culture and should be fought with fire. These words caused an eruption of violence,” reads the statement from Oramics. At the first ever Pride march in the city of Bialystok on 20 July, the LGBTQI+ community and their allies were met with physical violence and homophobic slurs from anti-Pride counter-marchers. “This atmosphere of disrespect, violence and hate leads many Polish queer people to depression, migration or even suicide.”

The compilation only took a week to compile, with over 100 tracks sent in support of the queer community in Poland. “Once again we want to pay respect to the roots of club culture in queer, people of colour, anti-gentrification, anti-state oppression struggle. We want to say sing and bang it out loud: queer rights are human rights. We’re in this together.”

Released on 17 August, pre-orders receive 20 tracks immediately and are available now on Bandcamp.

Laurel Halo and 33-33 have collaborated on a concert series happening in London throughout September. Called Mode, the line up includes Julia Holter, Eli Keszler and Tashi Wada Ensemble at The Round Chapel (18 September); Yosuke Fujita presents NOISEEM & Joachim Koester at Camden Arts Centre (19); and Rashad Becker, Parris, DEBONAIR, Steven Julien, DJ BONE, Laurel Halo and group A with Kat Day will perform at a secret location (21). Also at a venue yet to be revealed is GAS, Kali Malone, John Also Bennett, Ellen Arkbro and Beatrice Dillon (28). Plus Eliane Radigue has chosen Carol Robinson, Julia Eckhardt, Yannick Guedon and Bertrand Gauguet to perform new works from her OCCAM river series (24).

All events are listed on Facebook.

Update: Secret venue announced as 55-57 Great Marlborough Street, Soho London. On 21 September Group A, DJ Bone and Rashad Becker will perform on a line-up with Parris, DEBONAIR and Funkineven, and on 28 September a specially curated 10-hour ambient programme will feature GAS, Oliver Coates, Suso Saiz, Tomoko Sauvage and AmoSphere.

Dominique Ponty and Stefan Lakatos have recorded a new Moondog album containing known and previously unpublished miniatures spanning the composer’s lifetime.

Called Piano Trimba, a number of pieces included on this recording were originally dedicated to French pianist Ponty, who with Lakatos on trimba – a percussion instrument invented by Moondog in the late 1940s – had known and collaborated with Moondog before his death in 1999. “Stefan Lakatos is the leading exponent of the Moondog method of drum playing,” wrote Louis Hardin aka Moondog about the Swedish artist and musician he got to know and work with in the 1980s.

Piano Trimba is released on 27 September by Shiiin.

US musician Joe Rigby died on 16 July. Primarily a saxophonist, Rigby worked with Milford Graves on and off since the 1960s.

Born in 1940 in Harlem, New York, he became a fan of R&B and played the piano for pop group The Chantels. He turned to improvisation after hearing John Coltrane with The Miles Davis Sextet. An early job with Graves saw him play alongside Don Pullen, Arthur Williams, Hugh Glover and Arthur Doyle. In 1969 Rigby became president of the Black Students’ Union of Bronx Community College. He played with Steve Reid’s The Master Brotherhood, Ted Daniel’s Third World Energy Ensemble, Charles Tyler’s New World Ensemble, and others. In 1978 he led his own group Dynasty. In 1997, Graves, Glover and Rigby performed at New York’s Vision Festival. To finance his music career and support his family he undertook many jobs, from postal worker to taxi driver, and for 14 years taught music for the New York Board of Education until he retired in 2004.

Called Washed By The Moon, director Dan Shutt’s new film about Albanian polyphonic singing delves into the lives of three generations of musicians who still perform the folk style today. Its main protagonists include former Artist of the People Golik Jaupi, police commissioner Vullnet Silaj and the younger singer Endri Hodaj, who is also a barber.

“I was working in London in 2016, running a record label and recording music in my free time, when I heard a song called “Janinës ç'i Panë Sytë”,” says director Shutt, recalling his first encounter with the music. “This is a very famous song in southern Albania, with heartbreaking harmonies. It immediately made me quit my job and fly straight to Albania. With a chain of ridiculously good luck, me and my childhood friend Isaac, who is a great cinematographer, ended up in the building in which Albania declared independence in 1912 with a group of legendary polyphonic singers from the region. They vowed to give us their all simply in order to share their music with us, who were now their guests.”

With no funding to speak of, it took Shutt more than two years to complete his 55 minute film. “Albanian arts generally received state support during the communist times, as they helped contribute to the handy nationalist narrative that dictator Enver Hoxha used to support his regime, but since the country transitioned to democracy in the 1990s its population have been less isolated and the younger generations look away from their culture a little,” explains Shutt. “However, this music is still very much alive; we filmed with a group of 20 year olds who sing purely because the structure of the music is inherently community building. The drone can be sung by anyone, and the more people involved in a song, the stronger its emotional force. When these groups sing, windows rattle in their frames – the earth literally shakes.”

Premiered last year at Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo, Washed By The Moon will be released via the Lush player streaming platform in October 2019. There will also be international screenings throughout September in London, Bristol, Copenhagen and Tbilisi.

Finally, the sextet Grupi Lab will tour the UK this autumn. Led by Jaupi, Grupi Lab are Vullnet Silaj, Virjon Lacaj, Engjell Tairaj, Robert Memaj and Sadush Kamaj. Their dates include an NTS Radio live broadcast and a performance at London Cafe Oto (10 October), Bristol The Cube (11), Gateshead Tusk (13), London House of Commons (14), Shetland Islands Shetland Arts (16), London SOAS (18).

Philadelphia DJ and producer King Britt’s Mural Arts And Blue Design collaboration with American artist and muralist Joshua Mays has won the Best of Philly: Best Public Art award. Called Dreams, Diaspora And Destiny, their prizewinning piece is a large scale augmented reality mural in the Conestoga neighbourhood of Philadelphia. It’s designed to be experienced in conjunction with a smartphone app that brings life to the piece through image recognition and a score made up of recordings and interviews with the local community.

A previously unreleased work by the late electronics composer Roland Kayn (1933–2011) is about to be made public. Described as “a fully realised consolidation of cybernetic music” made between 1982–83, it’s called Scanning and spans ten CDs of a new box set. Running to just over ten hours long, it completes his series of extended electronic works stretching from the late 1970s to the early 80s including Simultan and Elektroakustische Projekte (both released 1977), Makro I–III and Infra (both 1981), and Tektra (1984).

Last year Die Schachtel reissued Simultan as a three LP box set, and in 2017 the 14 hour composition A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound was released by Frozen Reeds as a 16 CD set.

Aside from a festival presentation and a radio broadcast in 2004, Scanning remains largely unheard until now. Remastered by Jim O’Rourke, the box set will be released in September by Kayn’s Reiger Records Reeks, now run by his daughter Ilse.

Here are the current top 10 best selling books in our online shop. Click on the links to read more about each title. Don’t forget: subscribers to the magazine get automatic discounts on all the books and other merchandise in the shop.

1. David Toop, Flutter Echo

2. Teruto Soejima, Free Jazz In Japan

3. Tony Herrington (ed), Invisible Jukebox

4. Fermont & della Faile, Not Your World Music

5. Rob Young (ed), No Regrets

6. Lane & Carlyle, In The Field

7. Emma Warren, Make Some Space

8. Damo Suzuki & Paul Woods, I Am Damo Suzuki

9. Adrian Whittaker, Fitting Pieces To The Jigsaw

10. The Ex (eds), Getachew Mekuria

Liz Harris as Nivhek opens Berlin Atonal’s five night festival on 28 August, with UCC Harlo and Pavel Milyakov making up the bill. Other Atonal specials include a rare live set from Australian group HTRK, dBridge debuting new project Black Electric, and the mina collective taking over Tresor club.

Also confirmed are Mixmaster Morris, Marshstepper, Shapednoise with Pedro Maia, Shackleton, Vladislav Delay and AGF as Rakka, Félicia Atkinson, Roly Porter & MFO, SHYBOI, Sybil, Helm, JK Flesh, Nkisi presents Initiation, Félicia Atkinson presents Music for Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Gamble, Huerco S, Ziúr and many more.

Tickets are on sale now, costing from €37 per day.

The death of Los Angeles based DJ and producer Gregory Shorter Jr aka Ras G was announced by Brainfeeder record label, which, along with Ramp and Leaving, had been releasing his hiphop instrumental productions as Ras G or Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program, since the mid-2000s.

Brainfeeder announced on Twitter, “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to one of our brothers, Gregory Shorter, aka RAS G. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends & fans worldwide. One of the founders of BRAINFEEDER & LA Beat Scene. Rest In Peace G. We love you. (Ohhh Rass! • Airhornn!).”

Ras G was the co-founder of Poo-Bah Record label alongside Ron Stivers and Black Monk, which started life as a record shop in Pasadena. His discography was vast, up to and including Dance Of The Cosmos, which was released earlier this year by Akashik.