East Sussex's bi-annual music and arts festival returns to Newhaven Fort this year for one day on 22 September. Punters are promised new immersive artworks in underground tunnels, caverns and old armaments rooms, with musician set to perform on gun emplacements overlooking the sea. Talks and workshops will take place in rooms of the fort grounds.

This year the festival is part of a wider season called Fort Process Dispersion, which also features events in Brighton and London, with confirmed venues including De La Warr Pavilion, Cafe OTO and The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.

Artists on the line up for the Newhaven Fort event are Jez riley French & Pheobe riley Law, Tetsuya Umeda, Max Eastley, Alice Eldridge & Chris Kiefer, Jobina Tinnemans, Louise Mackenzie, Ana Gutieszca, Niko Karlsson, Ritual Extra, Tasos Stamou, Aja, Dirk Campbell, Kyoka, Grischa Lichtenberger, Semiconductor, David Thomas Broughton, New Interpretations Orchestra, Ukaea, Ursula Damm, Mark Anderson, Well Hung Game, Map 71, Bell Lungs, Isn'tses, Silence Blossoms, The Larsens, Adam Basanta, Jeph Vanger, Littoral Transmissions, and Copper Sounds, with more yet to be announced.

Fort Process takes place on 22 September, 12–11pm. Tickets are on sale now.

Artist and musician Lonnie Holley has announced a new album set for release via Jagjaguwar on 21 September. Titled MITH, the album was recorded over a five year period in various cities including Porto, Cottage Grove, New York and Atlanta. Contributions on the record come from Laraaji, Nelson Patton, the late producer Richard Swift, Sam Gendel, Shahzad Ismaily, Anna & Elizabeth, and Courtney Hartman.

In 2012 Holley released Just Before Music followed by 2013’s Keeping A Record Of It. MITH is described as a work of “concrete and tears; of dirt and blood; of injustice and hope” with a focus on American politics and movements such as Black Lives Matter. Watch the video for lead single, “I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America”.

MITH is available for pre-order now. Holley tours the US this July with Animal Collective.

Hacker Farm's Farmer Glitch has organised a one-day festival in Yeovil, Somerset, touting it as “deep darkest west country at its best!” The event will feature artists either residing or originating from the West Country and will include a pop up museum featuring fanzines and art from the 1970s punk scene – think The Mob and Chesterfields – along with fanzine workshops and various other installations that will be on display in the town throughout September.

Artists announced are Kemper Norton, Ekoplekz, Rainbow Unit, Normal Tea, CukoO, Ubiquitous Meh!, Invisible Eyes, 836, and REEL.

Wyrd Wild West will take place on 22 September with live music happen at RAOB Club from 4pm–12am. More information can be found on their website. A programme of films and talks is still to be announced.

The ninth edition of Wysing Arts Centre's music festival has been programmed in collaboration with their 2018 artist-in-residence Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother and long-term friend of the arts space Paul Purgas of Emptyset. The programme, they say, has been built around ideas of hidden energies and mysticism. This will be the second time Wysing director Donna Lynas has worked with an artist on the festival's programme. Last year she invited NON co-founder Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi to curate the event.

“When I started thinking about this year’s festival I kept coming back to Fetish Bones [Moor Mother's 2016 release] and thought it would be interesting to speak to Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) to see how her thinking might be made visible within a music festival format,” explains Lynas.

“The line-up was shared between us all with a collective sense of shaping a programme that could incorporate themes of empowerment, community, ancestry and futurity and consider a wide correlation of disciplines and approaches to the sonic and performative, addressing seen and unseen power and the transformative potential of sound” adds Purgas.

So far announced for the line-up is Aïsha Devi, AGF Poem Producer, DJ Haram, Caterina Barbieri, Ewa Justka, Harrga, Lafawndah, Laraaji, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Moor Mother, Mutamassik, Poulomi Desai, Phoebe Collings-James, Yatta, Charles-Mitchener (Neil Charles and Elaine Mitchener), Oretha, and Philomene Pirecki

Wysing Polyphonic takes place on 1 September. Tickets are on sale now.

Lafawndah, Midori Takada and Partel Oliva have collaborated on a new project Le Renard Bleu. Marking the first time in nearly twenty years that Takada has released new music, the project grew out of a preoccupation the Japanese percussionist had with the legend of the blue fox, with a new composition comprising of waterphone, bells, marimba and drums. Lafawndah bought the melody and lyrics to the table, with Partel Oliva imagining the cinematic frame for the myth.

Created in partnership with Kenzo, Le Renard Bleu was recorded and filmed in Tokyo in April 2018. The film's album version will be released in physical format on 10 August via !K7. You can watch the video below.

Midori Takada appeared in The Wire 399, with 1983's Through The Looking Glass reissued last year by WRWTFWW.

Portuguese festival OUT.FEST has announced the first set of artists to perform at this year's event across Barreiro in Lisbon's south bay. Happening on 5 and 6 October, this year will make for its 15th edition, with 100 early bird global passes available now for just 15€.

Artists announced are Fret aka Mick Harris, Group A, HHY & The Macumbas, João Pais Filipe, Lea Bertucci, Linn Da Quebrada, Lotic, and reclusive Portuguese guitar player Ricardo Rocha.

More artists are still to be announced.

NON Worldwide co-founder Chino Amobi and UNO NYC have shared the debut video for Amobi's 2017 LP Paradiso. Director and edited by album collaborator Rick Farin, with co-direction from Amobi, the 15 minute film comes ahead of Amobi's performance at New York's Elsewhere on 19 July.

"The film and its characters are inspired by The Global South, Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden Of Earthly Delights, Timothy Morton’s theories regarding hyperobjects and dark ecology after the end of the world, my experiences traveling and touring globally, Square Enix, Xanadu (Citizen Kane), and the poetry of Elysia Crampton,” says the artist.

“The spirit of Global freedom is to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to the Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sport, bells, bonfires, sacrament and illuminations, by Non Citizens from one end of this world to the other, from this time forward forever more.”

The film features a selection of tracks from Amobi's debut album Paradiso, which in order of appearance are: “Law I (The City In The Sea)” with Elysia Crampton, “White Mætal” with Johnny Utterback, “Gænova” with Dutch E Germ, “The Floating World Pt I” with Dutch E Germ, “Blood Of The Covenant”, “Paradiso” with Dutch E Germ, Faka, 1010 Benja Sl, Therochelle Moore, Rena Anakwe, and Aurel Haize Odogbo, “Kollaps” with Elysia Crampton, Flse Prpht, and Poozy, “Dixie Shrine” with Lee Jones, “Law V (City In The Sea)” with Faka, “Radical Zero” with Jesse Hlebo, “Law III (Adam)” with Dutch E Germ and Elysia Crampton.

You can stream the full album in The Wire's audio section.

Oakland based arts warehouse creative director Max Harris and leaseholder Derick Almena have been jailed for 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, reports Resident Advisor. One of the exits for the warehouse had been blocked, with the pair pleading no contest at the case brought by the Alameda County District Attorney. Almena faces 12 years, with nine in custody and three under supervision, while Harris is expected to serve six in custody and four under supervision.

But the Ghost Ship fire case isn’t over yet. As the San Francisco Chronicle reports, “The lawsuit filed by families of the victims contends that Pacific Gas and Electric Co, the warehouse landlord, the city of Oakland and numerous other entities also bear responsibility.”

The Bay Area warehouse caught fire on 2 December 2016. Three of the eight musicians in the line-up that night had released music on Britt Brown and Amanda Kramer's label 100% Silk, two of whom were killed in the blaze – Chelsea Faith Dolan aka Cherushii and Johnny Igaz aka Nackt.

UK MC Stormzy has announced the launch of a new publishing venture in partnership with Penguin Random House. Overseen by the artist, #Merky Books will focus on young writers, publishing new fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The first title will come from Stormzy himself in November – Rise Up: The #Merky Journey So Far promises an account of his rise to stardom, and it will be followed by a handful of new titles each year.

“Super proud to announce our new venture #Merky Books,” he announced on Instagram. “We will be using this as a platform for young writers to become published authors, I know too many talented writers that don’t always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen and hopefully #Merky Books can now be a reference point for them to say ‘I can be an author’ and for that to be a realistic and achievable goal.”

He continues, “We’ll be doing school competitions, taking entries and submissions and looking for writers as well but I’ll keep you posted! #Merky Books will also be offering a paid internship in 2019!” The imprint is set to issue a call for submissions in the coming months.

You can order Rise Up via Waterstones. More information on #Merky Books, including how to submit new work, is available at Penguin Random House.

As part of its fiftieth anniversary celebration, the British label Trojan Records has published a new book containing hundreds of photographs, record sleeves, labels and archive material, as well as features on some of the label's musicians, studio engineers, producers, and record company staff. It also features a forward by DJ and film director Don Letts, who worked with the label in the 1960s.

“Trojan’s place in the development of mainstream popular culture should never be underestimated,” says the book's author Laurence Cane–Honeysett. “Often hailed as the Motown or Blue Note of reggae, the company introduced the sound of Jamaica to a global audience and by so doing was instrumental in forever changing the sound of popular music.”

Founded in 1967 by Lee Gopthal and Chris Blackwell as a sublabel to Island Records, Trojan covered a host of music coming out of Jamaica, from ska and rocksteady to reggae, dancehall and dub. Some of the artists and producers to have worked with the label include Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, Dennis Brown, Desmond Dekker, John Holt, Duke Reid, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Bob Marley.

The Story Of Trojan Records is published as part of a wider celebration which includes a documentary about the label called Rudeboy, reissues and a host of live events. More details and dates can be found on the Trojan website.