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THE WORKSHOP SERIES: PHILIP SOMERVELL / PAUL ABBOTT / ROSS LAMBERT / JAMIE COLEMAN / UTE KANNGIESSER / JENNY ALLUM / YUKI OKAMOTO / DAVID O'CONNOR / SEBASTIAN LEXER / TARA STUCKEY
MON 26 JULY '10 • 8PM • £5 / £4 cocns Ticket on the door Only
The Workshop Series — a monthly concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop..... MORE>
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OIB PRESENTS: CROOK AND FLAIL / FOG
SAT 31 JULY '10 • 8PM • £10 adv.
Crook and Flail are Andy Broder of FOG and Adam DOSEONE Drucker. In the UK for a very rare live show to promote their soundtrack to Unearthing, the new audiobook by Alan Moore .... MORE>
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THE LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
SUN 1 AUG '10 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs Tickets on the door Only
The members of the Orchestra are a small percentage of the remarkable pool of improvising musicians based in London, which Evan Parker rightly calls "the richest music scene in the world"..... MORE>
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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW / THE FAMILY ELAN
TUE 3 AUG '10 • 8PM • £12.50 adv. / £14 on the door
A Hawk and a Hacksaw (often abbreviated to AHAAH) is a folk band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, currently signed to The Leaf Label. The band consists of percussionist Jeremy Barnes, who was previously the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel and Bablicon, and violinist Heather Trost...... MORE>
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THE WIRE SALON: ELECTRIC EDEN: UNEARTHING BRITAIN’S VISIONARY MUSIC
THUR 5 AUG '10 • 8PM • £4 Ticket on the door only
The series continues in August with an illustrated talk by The Wire’s editor-at-large Rob Young based on his forthcoming book Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music. The book, which is published this month by Faber And Faber, tells the story of folk, folk-rock, psychedelia and the British imagination spanning the past century..... MORE>
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PENULTIMATE PRESS PRESENTS: GRAHAM LAMBKIN / HELM / CALL BACK THE GIANTS
FRI 6 AUG '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Graham Lambkin has been a unique presence in underground culture for the past twenty years. As a musician he first came to attention through the work of his band The Shadow Ring, blending DIY folk, noise, abstract electronics and surreal poetry into strikingly original forms..... MORE>
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BO NINGEN / N.E.W.
SAT 7 AUG '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Two of the heaviest bands in London right now! What a great double bill. Too good to miss..... MORE>
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IKUE MORI 3 DAY RESIDENCY – DAY 1 WITH JOHN EDWARDS/ EVAN PARKER / JOHN RUSSELL
THUR 12 AUG ‘10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Ikue Mori has been a leading figure in New York's experimental music scene for over 30 years. Her unique mix of free improvisation, echoes of popular song, contemporary composition, noise, film music, experimental electronics, and influences from the visual arts and literature has established her as one of the world's most interesting and sought after musicians..... MORE>
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IKUE MORI 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2 WITH STEVE BERESFORD / MARK NAUSEEF / PAT THOMAS
FRI 13 AUG ‘10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Ikue Mori has been a leading figure in New York's experimental music scene for over 30 years. Her unique mix of free improvisation, echoes of popular song, contemporary composition, noise, film music, experimental electronics, and influences from the visual arts and literature has established her as one of the world's most interesting and sought after musicians..... MORE>
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IKUE MORI 3 DAY RESIDENCY – DAY 3 WITH JOHN BUTCHER + CHRIS CUTLER
SAT 14 AUG ‘10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Ikue Mori has been a leading figure in New York's experimental music scene for over 30 years. Her unique mix of free improvisation, echoes of popular song, contemporary composition, noise, film music, experimental electronics, and influences from the visual arts and literature has established her as one of the world's most interesting and sought after musicians..... MORE>
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SIMON ROSE + PASCAL NICHOLS / MICK BECK + MARCIO MATTOS / ALAN TOMLINSON
SUN 15 AUG '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Berlin based saxophonist Simon Rose’s interest as a free improviser developed exploring the possibilities created by purposefully limiting himself to the alto saxophone ..... MORE>
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STEPHEN O’MALLEY & STEVE NOBLE - 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1
WED 18 AUG '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2-day pass
O’Malley and Noble have been playing in the group AETHENOR for the last few years- this will be their first duo concerts. O'Malley is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, Khanate...... MORE>
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STEPHEN O’MALLEY & STEVE NOBLE - 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2
THUR 19 AUG '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2-day pass
O’Malley and Noble have been playing in the group AETHENOR for the last few years- this will be their first duo concerts. O'Malley is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, Khanate...... MORE>
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SUNNY MURRAY / JOHN EDWARDS / TONY BEVAN 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1
FRI 20 AUG '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on th door / £18 for a 2-day pass
Sunny Murray was one of the early avant-garde's most inventive and influential drummers, doing a great deal to establish the role of the drums in free improvisation. Although Murray could swing as hard as anyone, he often abandoned the drums' traditional timekeeping role
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SUNNY MURRAY / JOHN EDWARDS / TONY BEVAN 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2
SAT 21 AUG '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on th door / £18 for a 2-day pass
“Murray is the magic ingredient that makes this trio so magnificent. Anyone who can take to the stage with Bevan and Edwards on an equal footing deserves respect; Murray has a lot of additional weight to carry: it can’t be easy being a Jazz legend ...... MORE>
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MAYA DUNIETZ / JOHN BUTCHER / EDDIE PREVOST /
GUILLAUME VILTARD
SUN 22 AUG '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Israeli pianist and composer Maya Dunietz was born in Tel Aviv and is the founder of the Givol Choir will be joined by London’s leading improvisers..... MORE>
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CLANG SAYNE / JAMES O’SULLIVAN / HYPERPOTAMUS
SAT 28 AUG '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Songscapes and soundscapes from Clang Sayne; A Capella orchestrations from Spanish artist, Jorge R Escudero, aka 'Hyperpotamus'; Solo improvisation on prepared electric guitar from James O Sullivan...... MORE>
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MV&EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD FEAT. JOHN MOLONEY & MICK FLOWER
MON 30 AUG '10 • 8PM • £6 adv. / £8 on the door
For the past decade Matt “MV” Valentine and Erika “EE” Elder have been formulating an ancient-modern universe of sound from their base deep in the Vermont woods, via their own Child of Microtones imprint as well as prolific activity on some of the most respected boutique labels in the world..... MORE>
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ARBOREA / JEANNE MADIC / TWO WINGS
WED 1 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
"Husband and wife team, Buck and Shanti Curran, construct a fragile, resonant world with a lingering Americana after-taste, shimmering with the same wide-open spaces Ry Cooder’s captured so well on Paris, Texas."..... MORE>
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THE LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
FRI 3 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs Tickets on the door Only
"The kind of intensity, excitement, and invention that this ensemble creates via spontaneous means is unique in New Music circles."..... MORE>
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KATH BLOOM
SAT 4 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
Kath is a folk, country, and avant-garde legend and has been making records since the late 70s. “One of the most beautiful singers ever. Heartbreaking.”—Devendra Banhart .... MORE>
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Ross Bolleter
TUE 7 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Ross Bolleter is an Australian avantgarde composer and improviser notable for his experimentation on ruined pianos. He has been a member of The Blackeyed Susans and he is a co-founder of the WARPS Music label..... MORE>
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The Compass Series™ Presents: Nord Rute. Part 1 in The Valkeapää Narratives Featuring: Plaid / Ross Adams
WED 8 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £10 Ticket on the door Only
Plaid and Ross Adams will perform a sonic evocation of the migration, poem and contemporary interpretation of the spiritual realm of the Sámi people, bringing otherworldly timbres, dextrous rhythms and raw field recordings to the urban ..... MORE>
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DAVID THOMAS + TWO PALE BOYS
SAT 11 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
"A gloriously garrulous, diffidently divine, pumping, wheezy, melodeon-driven, contemporised avant-folk... Twisted and inspired, it is like everything and nothing you've ever heard, [they] are now creating a whole new kind of strange and affecting beauty." ....MORE>
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SLOWFOOT RECORDS PRESENTS: MONKEY PUZZLE TRIO FEAT. CHARLES HAYWARD, VIV CORRINGHAM + NICK DOYNE-DITMAS / SNORKEL / SCULPTURE / DJ LASCELLE LASCELLES
THUR 16 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £7 on the door
A long term slowly evolving music project featuring This Heat drummer/lynchpin Charles Hayward, bassist Nick Doyne-Ditmas and the words, voice and textures of avant-vocalist Viv Corringham, whose music walks a tightrope between song, improvisation and sound-as-sound..... MORE>
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ERIC CHENAUX / DEAD RAT ORCHESTRA / BRAINDEAD COLLECTIVE
WED 22 SEPT ' 10 • 8PM • £6 adv. / £7 on the door
Eric Chenauxis one of Toronto's most prolific and respected musical iconoclasts, an experimental guitar virtuoso with over two decades of dedicated and diverse service to an artistic community that encompasses postpunk, lo-fi,.... MORE>
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MAGNITUDE MUSIC PRESENTS...THE UK DEBUT OF CHRIS NEWMAN'S BERIN BASED BAND: MISS MOTH
THUR 23 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £7 on the door
MISS MOTH is informed by New Wave & Post Punk, but also classical music such as Schubert, Hugo Wolf and literary issues
Rather than eclectic, the songs are a meltdown of material and loves, using personal, but not private, existential words that extend the every day, pushing into the surreal..... MORE>
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ALPENGLOW INTERNATIONAL IMPROVISED MUSIC SUMMIT
FRI 24, SAT 25 + SUN 26 SEPT '10 • Cafe Oto 9PM onwards • £12 Festival Pass
Alpenglow is an international improvised music summit mixing leading players from Styria in Austria with a wide range of top-draw musicians from the UK. Embracing a true spirit of experimentation, this extended weekend of performance will mix many artists who, until now, have never shared a stage together to create unexpected and .... MORE>
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JOHN TCHICAI 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1 - JOHN TCHICAI / JOHN EDWARDS / TONY MARSH
MON 27 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door / £14 for a 2-day pass
This is a rare UK show for John Tchicai. Tchicai has played with everyone from John Coltrane to Albert Ayler. Tonight he will be playing in a trio with bass legend John Edwards and Tony Marsh on drums..... MORE>
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JOHN TCHICAI 2 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2 -
JOHN TCHICAI / JOHN EDWARDS / TONY MARSH
TUE 28 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door / £14 for a 2-day pass
This is a rare UK show for John Tchicai. Tchicai has played with everyone from John Coltrane to Albert Ayler. Tonight he will be playing in a trio with bass legend John Edwards and Tony Marsh on drums..... MORE>
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PETER BROTZMANN’S FULL BLAST TRIO 2 DAY RESIDENCY: DAY 1 WITH MARINO PLIAKAS / MICHAEL WERTMUELLER + VERY SPECIAL GUEST!
WED 29 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £12 adv. / £14 on the door / £22 for a 2-day pass
After an extraordinary three-day residency at Café Oto earlier in the year Peter Brotzmann is back with his trio Full Blast. If that wasn't enough we have got one very special secret guest to be revealed nearer the time!..........MORE>
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PETER BROTZMANN’S FULL BLAST TRIO 2 DAY RESIDENCY: DAY 2 WITH MARINO PLIAKAS / MICHAEL WERTMUELLER + VERY SPECIAL GUEST!
THUR 30 SEPT '10 • 8PM • £12 adv. / £14 on the door / £22 for a 2-day pass
After an extraordinary three-day residency at Café Oto earlier in the year Peter Brotzmann is back with his trio Full Blast. If that wasn't enough we have got one very special secret guest to be revealed nearer the time!..........MORE>
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THE AMES ROOM ( JEAN-LUC GUIONNET / WILL GUTHRIE / CLAYTON THOMAS)
FRI 1 OCT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
The three members of THE AMES ROOM are involved in a multitude of musical activities: free improvisation, electro-acoustic composition, jazz, installations, noise, rock, however all three share a passion for free jazz at it's most energetic and brutal heights...... MORE>
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THE LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
SUN 3 OCT '10 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs Ticket on the door Only
" The LIO has in a short time become one of the most formidable large groups working in music. ... they have created a remarkable thing: a contemporary big band capable of free improvisation as well as compositions and conductions"..... MORE>
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JOSEPHINE FOSTER AND THE VICTOR HERRERO BAND
MON 4 OCT '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
One of the most enigmatic, luminious and enlightening American singers of her time sings Federico Garcia Lorca’s popular folk song collection “Las Canciones Populares Espanolas” with guitarist Victor Herroro and live band..... MORE>
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KERRY LAITALA (USA) / SALLY GOLDING (AUSTRALIA) / LYNN LOO (UK) :: LIGHT BLEEDING
FRI 8 OCT '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Rare embodied beams from mistresses of alchemical projection performance. Laitala, Loo and Golding deconstruct cinematic materials and apparatus, slipping between materialist investigation, sculptural forms, and bodily intervention...... MORE>
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OLAF RUPP AND SHOJI HANO
WED 13 OCT '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
Olaf Rupp and Shoji Hano met for the fist time on their concert at the MOERS FESTIVAL in 2007 and have played several tours together since then. Both of them see their musical roots outside of traditional Jazz..... MORE>
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CARLA BOZULICH (EVANGELISTA) WITH MASSIMO PUPILLO
THUR 14 OCT '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
Carla Bozulich's Evangelista project has steadily been gaining recognition for its complex beauty and fierce, raging appeals. Carla Bozulich returns to Cafe Oto playing a duo with basist Massimo Pupillo..... MORE>
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PORT ROYAL / MANDELBROT
FRI 15 OCT '10 • 8PM • £6 adv. / £8 on the door
Port-Royal is a band formed in Genoa, Italy, in 2000. The founding members were Attilio Bruzzone and, life-long friend, Ettore Di Roberto. They decided to start a band after they realized that they shared similar taste in music and bands like Joy Division and Mogwai..... MORE>
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Miles of Smiles presents: LICHENS (Kranky) + supports tbc
THUR 21 0CT '10 • 8PM • £7 adv.
Chicago-based musician Rob Lowe (90 Day Men, Om, Singer, Matteah Baim) demonstrates the startling, spectral grip of his mesmerising solo vehicle, LICHENS ..... MORE>
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SIX DAYS IN DOWN: AN EVENING OF AMERICAN ROOTS AND IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC FEATURING BOB BROZMAN / DONAL O’CONNOR / JOHN MCSHERRY
TUES 26 OCT '10 • 8PM • £ 10 adv. / £12 on the door
This unique show celebrates the release of Six Days In Down, a new album (from World Music Network) featuring globe-trotting slide-guitarist Bob Brozman and two cutting edge talents of the Irish music scene - the masterful uilleann piper John McSherry and fiddle virtuoso Dónal O'Connor...... MORE>
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ROOM40 presents OPENFRAME DAY 1: CHRIS ABRAHAMS / I/O3 + DAVID TOOP + SCANNER / ANDREA BELFI
THUR 4 NOV '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
Technically formidable and conceptually refined, Chris Abrahams pays homage to the piano by drawing it into tightly articulated and highly personalized forms...... MORE>
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ROOM40 presents OPENFRAME DAY 2: GROUPER / LAWRENCE ENGLISH / RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI
FRI 5 NOV '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
The musical project of Portland's Liz Harris. Using delicate song structures which are at once both familiar and alien somehow we hear words cry out hauntingly over stripped down guitar lines and looped environmental recordings..... MORE>
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JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010: RUINS AND ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
SUN 14 NOV '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
JAPANESE NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010 is a group of Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins), Atsushi Tsuyama (Acid Mothers Temple) and Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple). Tonight they will be playing in 7 different combinations. Can’t be missed..... MORE>
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