TUSK Festival celebrates its tenth edition in October. But this year they'll be adapting to current events with a live streamed extravaganza in partnership with its usual ally Sage Gateshead.In place of its three day programming schedule this year's TUSK will be a two-week online version. The event, they say, “falls somewhere between a virtual version of one of the most adventurous music festivals on the planet and the most raucous rollercoaster of an avant garde TV station you could ever imagine”. One of the main benefits to this new plan means previously unreachable international artists are now able to join in on the festivities.

So far announced, performances will come from: Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi, Roscoe Mitchell, OOIOO, Yeah You, Angel Bat Dawid, Nihiloxica, Blom, Deathprod, Horse Lords, Maja S K Ratkje, Sarah Hennies and Lump Hammer.

Tusk Virtual will also feature an enhanced version of their regular film programme, with nightly midnight movie selections and expanded weekend film feasts, plus talks and discussions, guest DJ mixes and recordings from the TUSK archive. Its team of guest presenters includes David Liebe Hart from Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job!, Jackie Stewart from Smegma, and Robert Ridley-Shackleton.

KORG Germany have published the The Pyjama Cookbook, a free digital collection of food and drink recipes by musicians and friends within the synth sphere.

“As our small team of Verena, Lydia, Max and I clamber to get KORG Germany off the ground, we occasionally swap cooking recipes,” explains CEO Tatsuya Takahashi. “The aim of The Pyjama Cookbook is to share the favourite concoctions from our friends from all parts of music, in the hope of instilling solidarity and encouraging friendship during these extraordinary times. Well. It’s also just for laughs. Have fun.”

The book's recipes include Alva Noto's Japanese Cucumber Salad, Afrorack's DIY Yet To Be Named Breakfast, Dorian Concept's Potato-Sterz With Oven-Roasted Radish, Gudrun Gut's Widerstandskräftebrei, Joan La Barbara's Available Ingredients With Morton Subotnick, Fumio Mieda's Raw Egg On Rice, Suzanne Ciani's Special Sunday Dinner – Pasta Alla Genovese, Takahashi's Cheese Toasty, Thomas Fehlmann's Swissy Spicy Pizza, Objekt’s Lightning Fast Soda Bread, and much more.

The Pyjama Cookbook is free to download as a PDF from korg-germany.de

Veteran dubstep producer and Subloaded co-founder Pinch will release his first solo album in 13 years via his own Tectonic label. Taking inspiration from author Robert Anton Wilson, more specifically Prometheus Rising (1983) and its concept of the subjective filter, the album’s lead track “Accelerated Culture” marks a lifting of boundaries for the producer as he follows an “anything goes ethos”, as inspired by his time working with Adrian Sherwood.

“Our beliefs, values, behaviours and so on, which we create and can therefore reshape, are the product of our individual reality tunnels,” explains Pinch aka Rob Ellis. “Every track on the album serves as its own reality tunnel and each tells a different part of my musical story.

“I first made the track “Back To Beyond” following a complicated experience with infinity,” he continues. “I decided it was going to be the cornerstone of my second solo LP and set about making more music with that purpose in mind. There were to be no boundaries placed on the music – it would just be for me.”

Reality Tunnels is released on 19 June.

The Wire contributor Russ Slater is celebrating ten years of his Sounds And Colours website, record label and print publication devoted to Latin American music and culture. Plans had been made for a party, now cancelled due to current circumstances, but the operation is going ahead with its fundraiser to make Sounds And Colours an “even better resource and ensure our survival as we battle with a severe drop in advertising revenue”, says Sound And Colours.

“One of the hardest things about this lockdown has been trying to figure out how life now works while also helping support as many projects as possible. It's been tough, but has made us realise how much Latin artists need media that they can trust and that fully supports their endeavours.”

As part of the celebrations two projects are on the go. Firstly, a downloadable compilation made up mostly of previously unreleased Latin American music “with a healthy dose of electronic, experimental and peripheral sounds”, and a brand new book of articles and photos documenting Latin culture, published in August 2020. They're also selling off music donations from friends and supporters, and material from the Sound And Colours archives.

Check out the full list of what's on offer – including music from Mr Bongo Records, Mais Um Discos, And Other Stories, Songlines, NYC Trust, ZZK Records, Peace & Rhythm, Discos Rolas, Movimientos and Soundway Records – via the fundraiser page. The compilation Sounds And Colours: 10 Years Anniversary Compilation, is available on Bandcamp.

Tresor has announced the publication of The Book Of Drexciya Vol 1, a graphic novel covering the first five chapters of the Drexciyan mythology. Authored by Detroit's lead techno visual artist and one of the mythology's original writers, Abdul Qadim Haqq, and Japanese screenwriter and musician Dai Satō, it also features art by Leo Rodrigues, Alan Oldham, Hector Rubilar, Leonardo Gondim, Daniel Oliviera and Milton Estevam.

In the legend, pregnant African women thrown off slave ships gave birth to amphibious creatures known as the Drexciyan wave jumpers: great warriors of the abyss. First noted in the inner sleevenotes of Drexciya's 1997 release The Quest, the story took on four phases: The Slave Trade (1655–1867); Migration Route Of Rural Blacks To Northern Cities (1930s–1940s); Techno Leaves Detroit, Spreads Worldwide (1988); and The Journey Home (Future).

This project comes with the full support of Drexciya's Gerald Donald and Helen Stinson, the mother of James Stinson (1969–2002).

The Book Of Drexciya Vol 1 is published on 22 May.

A new series from Bass Culture Research will feature eight interviews recorded between 2016–2019. Conducted by musician and academic Mykaell Riley and Caspar Melville, author of It’s A London Thing: How Rare Groove, Acid House And Jungle Remapped The City, the collection hosts conversations with key subjects as part of a wider academic research project exploring the history of Jamaican sound system culture in Britain.

Weekly shows will drop for the next two months. They include lovers rock legend Janet Kay reflecting on her experiences starting out in the industry, Don Letts on time as a DJ at The Roxy during the rise of punk, Dennis Bovell on running his Sufferer's sound system and tensions with the police during their dances, Linton Kwesi Johnson on his journey as a dub poet, Rodney P reminiscing on the emergence of genres from UK hiphop to jungle, broadcaster Ras Kwame on his experience of acid house, jungle, soul and hiphop raves, and Paul Gilroy in a two-part feature reflecting on his scholarly work as a translator, and the nuisances of black British identities.

Shows can be found on Mixcloud.

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Cafe Oto has set up a new in-house digital imprint called TakuRoku. Featuring works made in response to the current lockdown, the label will serve a dual function. “As well as providing an outlet for some incredible new work being created over the past few weeks, TakuRoku aims to provide a way to help sustain both Cafe Oto and the artists involved through these incredibly challenging times,” declares the East London venue.

Four releases have already been announced: Steve Gunn's Spring In Brooklyn offers up a selection of refrains from solo guitar; Ashley Paul's Window Flower features playtime daughter Cora and partner Ben on saxophone, keyboard and found objects; Malvern Brume's Gaps In The Persistent Hiss portrays his lockdown ambience with a mass of processed instructions and poems written while walking; and Dali De Saint Paul and Miguel Prado’s duo HARRGA dedicate their release Femmes D'Intérieur to “all sisters around”, offering thoughts to women who have experienced suffering during lockdown.

Oto promises that 50 per cent of the profits from standard downloads will go directly to the artist, concluding, “We've got some amazing recordings in the pipeline so stay tuned over the coming weeks!”

A new radio station in Dartmoor will offer 24/7 streams of sounds and stories sourced from its surroundings. Called Skylark FM, it sets to broadcast an ever-changing and continuous programme of oral histories, new music and live field recordings, tied together by jingles also recorded by the local community.

Without a central studio, mobile recording devices will allow content to be recorded in situ, and an FM signal (105.8 and 107.6) will enable local residents who don't have access to the internet to tune in.

They've already secured an Ofcom licence but the station still needs to purchase two transmitters and antennae ready for the launch this summer. A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help with that.

They are also calling for proposals of stories, jingles and sound recordings. More information can be found at skylark.fm.

A tribute to the late drummer Alvin Fielder will be released in June by Mahakala Music. Recorded live in 2019 at Brooklyn venue Roulette as part of New York's Vision Festival, the 45 minute session features pianist Joel Futterman, saxophonist Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan, bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake.

Futterman and Jordan were longtime friends and collaborators of Fielder, the American percussionist and founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), who died in January 2019.

A Tribute To Alvin Fielder, Live At Vision Festival XXIV is available for pre-order on Bandcamp, and you can listen to its introduction below.

In an online feature in memory of the drummer, Val Wilmer recalled her visit to Alvin Fielder’s hometown of Meridian, Mississippi, where he introduced her to leading Civil Rights activists for her project to photograph the lives of black women. Read it here.