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Be Prepared presents: A Whisper In The Noise + Max Bondi + Quinta
WED 16 MAY '12 • 8PM • £8 adv / £10 on the door
Be Prepared presents West Thordson's 'A Whisper In The Noise' project combining unusual instrumentation to create washes of haze and prettiness, reminiscent of early 4AD or the Kramer produced Low records. Their's was one of the stand out performances when picked by Shellac's Steve Albini to play ATP back in 2004. The BBC says of the new album 'To Forget' "[there] is an intrinsic beauty shot through each and every piece. There are moments on All My and Your Hand, and the delicate piano instrumental Maya’s Song, where time around the listener just… stops.".....MORE>
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Zbigniew Karkowski + Anton Lukoszevieze + Ryan Jordan
THURS 17 MAY '12 • 8PM • £10 on the door only
A special concert to celebrate the launch of Nerve Cell_0, a collaboration between Zbigniew Karkowski and Anton Lukoszevieze on the Subrosa label. Nerve Cell_0 was commissioned by Sound and Music and EMS......MORE>
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OTO BAR • FRI 18 MAY '12 • FREE ENTRY
Come on in and enjoy an OTO Ale or something else from the bar. We stock organic juices, Devon cider, wines, Japanese snacks, Sake, Shochu, Plum Wine, and Japanese Whisky plus beers from Pitfield, and The Kernel's Porter, Pale Ale and IPA.
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Charalambides + The Michael Flower Band + Dean McPhee + Hitodama
SAT 19 MAY '12 • 8PM • £8 adv / £10 on the door
Dedicated to a vision of spiritual music (in all its forms) as transformative force, Charalambides sound is uniquely personal and consistent, even through some outwardly extreme shifts in tactics - song-as-mantra, interstellar voids full of silence, or howling, ecstatically-received gnosis. For this first day of our Charalambides' weekend residency, Tom and Christina Carter will perform as Charalambides with special guests The Michael Flower Band, Dean McPhee and Hitodama.....MORE>
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Christina Carter + Tom Carter + Padang Food Tigers
SUN 20 MAY '12 • 8PM • £8 adv / £10 on the door
Second day of our Charalambides weekend with solo sets from Tom and Christina Carter and support from Padang Food Tigers. Tom Carter's solo electric guitar work sculpts a richly varied landscape of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, weaving interlocking strands of visceral melody into towering (and often high-volume) long-form drones whereas Christina Carter's solo work oftern sees her re-contextualising certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group's music.....MORE>
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THE WORKSHOP SERIES
MON 21 MAY '12 • 8PM • £5/£4 concs
May's concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop. This month's musicians are Jennifer Allum, Ute Kanngiesser, Grundik Kasyansky, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Eddie Prevost and Daichi Yoshikawa....MORE>
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A Tribute to Tony Marsh
TUES 22 MAY '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
Sadly, Tony Marsh died on the 9th of April. He was originally scheduled to appear on this date in his trio with Shabaka Hutchings and Guillaume Viltard. The evening will now run as a tribute to him with performances from many of Tony's regular musical collaborators with three smaller group sets and a big band with Shabaka Hutchings, Guillaume Viltard, Steve Noble, Hannah Marshall , Alison Blunt, Neil Metcalfe, Orphy Robinson, Evan Parker, John Edward and Mark Sanders.....MORE>
Tony Marsh obituary in the Guardian
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OTO BAR + OTOBAHN DJs • WED 23 MAY '12 • FREE ENTRY
Come on in and enjoy an OTO Ale or something else from the bar and enjoy a free evening of music with DJs Mandrew B, Mapsadaisical, Mike Modular & Radioolio, playing ambient, kosmiche, jazz, dub, radiophonics and more...
"An adventurous collage of raw and intoxicating sounds from the last century and beyond..."
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An Evening with Chris Abrahams
THURS 24 MAY '12 • 8PM • £8 advance / £10 on the door
Chris Abrahams is a Sydney based pianist best known for his work in the uncategorisable improvising trio The Necks. For this 'Evening with Chris Abrahams' he will perform two sets - one exploring his interest in electronics, using a deftly reprogrammed DX7 - and the other featuring is customarily idiosyncratic approach to the piano.....MORE>
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OTO BAR • FRI 25 MAY '12 • FREE ENTRY
Come on in and enjoy an OTO Ale or something else from the bar. We stock organic juices, Devon cider, wines, Japanese snacks, Sake, Shochu, Plum Wine, and Japanese Whisky plus beers from Pitfield, and The Kernel's Porter, Pale Ale and IPA.
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The Centrifuge presents: Orcas + Rafael Anton Irisarri + Benoît Pioulard
SAT 26 MAY '12 • 8PM • £8.50 adv / £10 on the door
The Centrifuge Agency is delighted to be welcoming the critically-acclaimed Orcas for their first ever London show, fresh from the release of their widely praised debut album on Morr Music. This will be a very special evening with both band members, each respected and established in their own right, also performing solo sets. Seattle’s post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri plays his only solo UK show this year and Michigan's Benoît Pioulard returns to London after recently enchanting a full house at Cafe OTO with his unique guitar and vocal explorations. Be prepared for an evening of Pacific Northwestern experimental guitar music, avant-folk songcraft and symphonic neo-classical ambience. ......MORE>
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Tons + Chora + An Infinity Room (A.I.R.)
SUN 27 MAY '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
An evening of radical approaches to improvisation and collective sound making with Tons - a group of musicians of the highest creative calibre with national and international reputations in the fields of improvisation, jazz and sound generation and London's trash gamelan ensemble Chora. The evening will now open with the subtle psycho-active space transformations of A.I.R.'s sustained multiple organs......MORE>
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Caroline Kraabel / John Edwards / Richard Harrison (Trio) + Charles Hayward's V4Victory
MON 28 MAY '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
Trio set from saxophonist Caroline Kraabel with John Edwards and Richard Harrison on bass/drums followed by V4victory - a group with legendary This Heat/Camberwell Now drummer and musical iconoclast Charles Hayward.......MORE>
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Clorinde + Orchestra Elastique + Daichi Yoshikawa
TUES 29 MAY '12 • 8PM • £5 on the door
Fractal Waves present Clorinde + Orchestra Elastique + Daichi Yoshikawa for a night of beautiful instrumental music, free form experimentations & various permutations in between......MORE>
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Daniele Martini + Dom LAsh + Mark Sanders + Gail Brand
WED 30 MAY '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
Trio of Dominic Lash (double bass), Mark Sanders (drums) and Daniele Martini (saxophones) reconvene at OTO, this time with Gail Brand (trombone) joining to form a wide-ranging free improvisation quartet capable of high energy blasts, searching textural invention and melodic ruminations.......MORE>
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Electronic Voice Phenomena // New Language Mediums
THURS 31 MAY '12 • 8PM • £5 advance / £7 on the door
Performance event showcasing 4 innovative commissions in voice, glitch and noise as part of an exploration of a new poetic. featuring Anat Ben David, Steven Fowler and Ben Morris, Ross Sutherland, and Nathan Jones.....MORE>
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Julia Holter
FRI 1 JUNE '12 • 8PM • SOLD OUT
NB: This concert is SOLD OUT. There will be no tickets available on the door.
Field Day and Eat Your Own Ears present an intimate concert at Cafe OTO for Julia Holter ahead of her appearance at Field Day the following day. Julia's second album, Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California and stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful.....MORE>
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OTO BAR • SAT 2 JUN '12 • FREE ENTRY
Come on in and enjoy an OTO Ale or something else from the bar. We stock organic juices, Devon cider, wines, Japanese snacks, Sake, Shochu, Plum Wine, and Japanese Whisky plus beers from Pitfield, and The Kernel's Porter, Pale Ale and IPA.
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The London Improvisers Orchestra
SUN 3 JUN '12 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs
Regular meeting of The London Improvisers Orchestra. The LIO draws on London's rich pool of improvising musicians and is part of a long and varied heritage that stretches back to the free-jazz big bands of Chris McGregor and Mike Westbrook, the intuitive ensembles of John Stevens and purely improvising groups such as the Continuous Music Ensemble....MORE>
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Steve Noble / Alex Ward / Oren Marshall
TUES 5 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
Different solo/duo and then trio configurations with Steve Noble super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed drumming, Alex Ward's heady leaps of logic and frenzied bacchic ritual on Clarinet and the ever inventive Oren Marshall on Tuba....MORE>
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Black Top #3 // Orphy Robinson, Pat Thomas with special guest: Cleveland Watkiss
WED 6 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
The ad hoc 'Black Top' series is dedicated to exploring the intersection of live instruments and technology such as the looping and sampling used in dub, reggae and other worldly noises. The Black Top project will use improvisation to explore these black influences but not necessarily from an African American perspective. This is the third show in the new series and will feature special guest Cleveland Watkiss, the “Sonny Rollins of the human voice” (Time Out) alongside series founders Pat Thomas and Orphy Robinson......MORE>
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Ideologic Organ #2 // Phurpa + Colin Potter + Slomo
SAT 9 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £12 adv / £14 on the door
For the first event in Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ series at Cafe OTO Elodie played the quietest set we've ever hosted as the snow fell outside and Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney took us on a trip through the resonant possibilities of ancient harmony. Properly magical!
The second concert in the series promises something very special, too. This time we're bringing over Phurpa from Russia to present their own slowed-down, extra-heavy take on the rgyud-skad tradition of Tantric overtone chanting alongside a rare solo performance by Colin Potter of Nurse with Wound and the bass heavy organ pedal/synth/guitar drone of Slomo (Chris McGrail / Howard Marsden)......MORE>
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Martin Küchen / Steve Beresford / Ståle Liavik Solberg
SUN 10 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
Scandanavian Sax/Drums pairing of Martin Küchen and Ståle Liavik Solberg with the renegade multi-instrumentalist-master-improvisor Steve Beresford......MORE>
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Jennifer Allum, Marjolaine Charbin, Ute Kanngiesser, Eddie Prevost
MON 11 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
In April 2011 Eddie Prévost and Jennifer Allum released Penumbrae on Matchless Recordings. Penumbrae 'interrogates, employs and deploys a common system - the bow and its range of purchase'. Eddie Prévost is the percussionist who co-founded the seminal improvising music ensemble AMM in the 1960s. Jennifer Allum is a London-based violinist who focusses almost exclusively on improvised and experimental music. For this concert they will come together as part of a quartet with cellist Ute Kanngiesser and French pianist Marjolaine Charbin......MORE>
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THE WIRE SALON: NO REGRETS: THE ENIGMA OF SCOTT WALKER
TUES 12 JUN '12 • 8PM • £4 on the door only
A talk and panel discussion based on No Regrets: Writings On Scott Walker, a new collection of essays on the music, life and cultural importance of one of the most mercurial and enigmatic figures in contemporary music.....MORE>
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Anne James Chaton & Andy Moor + Jackdaw With Crowbar
WED 13 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £7 adv / £8 on the door
Invigorating sounclash between Chaton's poetry fragments and destinctive, deadpan delivery and depth charge electronics and Andy Moor's radical guitar work. The duo is joined on the night by Jackdaw with Crowbar -Long running multi-media ensemble from Leamington Spa combining film projections with a scratchy punk jazz stomp......MORE>
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Duane Pitre presents 'Feel Free' + These Feathers Have Plumes
THURS 14 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £8 adv / £10 on the door
An evening of infinitely variable harmonic and melodic recombination with American composer Duane Pitre presenting a sextet performance of 'Feel Free' with players drawn from London's vibrant free improvisation community and fellow composer/performers James Blackshaw, Oliver Barrett and Jesse Sparhawk. The evening will open with a set from These Feathers Have Plumes who forges resonating strings and glass and into a soundscape of exacting stillness......MORE>
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SHOEB AHMAD + LEVERTON FOX + FLIGHTS OF HELIOS
SAT 16 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £7 advance / £8 on the door
Mystery Plays Records presents the debut UK performance from Australian electronics and guitar pop experimentalist Shoeb Ahmad to celebrate the launch of his new album “Watch/Illuminate”. Ably supported by electronic-jazz-improv trio Leverton Fox who also launch their new album “The Human Arm”, plus space rock excursions from Oxford ensemble Flights of Helios.....MORE>
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Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel + Temperatures + Bolide
SUN 17 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
Outer limits free improvisation, ecstatic free rock moves and psychedelic excess from this triple header of sympatico sound units - Brighton electro-acoustic sextet Bolide, the radical collapse and rhythmic propulsion of London's Temperatures and the deeply psychedelic guitar/vox NY-via-Italy combo on Ninni Morgia and Silvia Kastel.....MORE>
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Masaki Batoh - Brain Pulse Music
TUES 19 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door
Maskai Batoh - perhaps best known as the singer and guitarist for legendary Japanese psych folk ensemble GHOST - presents a live performance of his Brain Pulse Music in Octaphonic sound... BRAIN PULSE MUSIC is the result of years of research into the bioelectric functions of the human brain combined with the traumatic aftermath of Japan’s Great East Earthquake. .....MORE>
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DJ Sniff / Evan Parker / Joel Ryan / Adam Linson
WED 20 JUN '12 • 8PM • £7 adv / £8 on the door
Solo and collaborative sets from experimental turntablist DJ Sniff (Takuro Lippit) with Evan Parker (saxophones), Joel Ryan (Electronics) and Adam Linson (Bass, Electronics).......MORE>
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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS
THURS 21 JUN '12 • 8PM • £9.50 advance
Bird on The Wire presents a London concert for German experimental, ambient and electronic musician Hans-Joachim Roedelius - best known as a co-founder of the krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia.....MORE>
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Upset The Rhythm presents: XXL (Xiu Xiu / Larsen)
FRI 22 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £10 advance
XIU XIU / LARSEN, also known as XXL, is a billowing collaborative project formed by American avant-pop band XIU XIU and Italian experimentalists LARSEN. Xiu Xiu and Larsen, each aware and vaguely admiring of the other, met at a Jarboe show, exchanged records, vowed to stay in touch, and become so mutually enthralled that they record an album together. They met up in Torino without much of a plan and immerse themselves in the studio with trad rock instruments plus a bunch of theremins and glockenspiels. They jam intensely around sketched-out song structures and sequence the most realized bits as an album, an ephemeral and fractured thing that mirrors its mode of creation. Since then, XXL have released two albums on Important Records, called “¡Ciaütistico!”, “¿Spicchiology?”, whilst July see Tin Angel release the group's third album “Düde.....MORE>
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Clang Sayne + Blue-Eyed Hawk + Laura Hyland/Lauren Kinsella Duo
SUN 24 JUN '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
Irish musicians/composers, Laura Hyland (Clang Sayne) and Lauren Kinsella (Blue-Eyed-Hawk) bring their respective projects to Cafe Oto, as well as making their debut performance as a duo.......MORE>
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THE WORKSHOP SERIES
MON 25 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £5/£4 concs
June's concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop. This month's musicians are Anat Ben-David (voice, electronics, objects), Philip Clark (piano), Sue Lynch (saxophone), Andre Pinto (saxophone, objects), Romuald Wadych (guitar, objects) and Tim Yates (objects)...MORE>
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Thomas Lehn : Two Day Residency
TUES 26 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £7 advance / £8 on the door
with Tim Hodgkinson, Hannah Marshall, Philipp Wachsmann
WED 27 JUNE '12 • 8PM • £7 advance / £8 on the door
with John Butcher, Roger Turner
Two day residency with EMS synthi maestro Thomas Lehn joined a 'string' trio the first night featuring Tim Hodgkinson on lapsteel guitar/clarinet, Hannah Marshall on cello and Philipp Wachsmann on violin/electronics and on the second night by saxophonist John Butcher and percussionist Roger Turner......MORE>
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Zaimph + Astral Social Club + Dale Cornish
THURS 28 JUN '12 • 8PM • £7 advance / £8 on the door
Zaimph is the solo project of ambient noise artist Marcia Bassett. Although legendary for white-hot guitar and vocal brutality, Zaimph's recent recordings and performances infuse cracked-raga song structures with dense electronic and synthesiser drones to create soundscapes where a lurking apocalypse is eclipsed by shimmering, meditative beauty. She'll perform alongside Neil Campbell's Astral Social Club - a potent trip of shattered technoid psychedelia.....MORE>
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Wooden Wand + Duke Garwood + Dead Rat Orchestra
FRI 29 JUN '12 • 8PM • £8 advance / £9 on the door
James Jackson Toth, known to the world as Wooden Wand, is a maverick, good-hearted troubadour whose blend of smoky Americana has been garnering plaudits for the last decade. Unafraid to mix psychedelic workouts with sweet and soulful country, his varied and prolific output has resulted in a wealth of lyrically rich songs; the kind whose lines stick in your head for a lifetimes. With almost 30 albums to his name, for labels like Ecstatic Peace, Young God, Blackest Rainbow and most recently Fire, Wooden Wand is a remarkable and individual talent....MORE>
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The London Improvisers Orchestra
SUN 1 JULY '12 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs
Regular meeting of The London Improvisers Orchestra. The LIO draws on London's rich pool of improvising musicians and is part of a long and varied heritage that stretches back to the free-jazz big bands of Chris McGregor and Mike Westbrook, the intuitive ensembles of John Stevens and purely improvising groups such as the Continuous Music Ensemble....MORE>
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Fred Frith / Christian Marclay / John Edwards / Mark Sanders
FRI 6 JULY '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
Fred Frith / John Edwards / Mark Sanders
SAT 7 JULY '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
Fred Frith & Christian Marclay
One of the most inventive and eclectic figures in contemporary music, guitarist and composer Fred Frith takes up residency in Café Oto again for two days of improvised encounters with three of London's most dynamic musicians - Christian Marclay on turntables, John Edwards on double bass and Mark Sanders on drums.....MORE>
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Dead Rat Orchestra - ‘The Guga Hunters Of Ness’
MON 9 JULY '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
In July 2012, London label Critical Heights will be releasing the new album from Dead Rat Orchestra. It was originally recorded as the soundtrack to Intrepid Cinema's critically acclaimed BBC Documentary The Guga Hunters of Ness, which follows the journey of ten men from the community of Ness on the Isle of Lewis as they embark on a traditional hunt for gannets. Utilising their customarily unconventional instrumentation to create precarious and powerful abstract-folk, the trio of Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann have come up with a powerful score, with compositions seeded in hours of study of Hebridean folk song......MORE>
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Upset The Rhythm presents: Talk Normal
TUES 10 JULY '12 • 8PM • £7 advance
Talk Normal was born with rigorous beats, post-punk dissonance, and darkly evocative vocals from the friendship of Sarah Register and Andrya Ambro in 2007. Forming in Brooklyn their lightning-strike first guitar-n-drums appearance followed quickly whilst their sound stormed upward and outward, referencing few and relating to many, a jarringly songful gale of rhythm and noise supporting pleas and plaints, signal-calls and marching orders......MORE>
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Touch Invites... Maia Urstad / Jiyeon Kim / Sandra Jasper / Dawn Scarfe
TUES 17 JULY '12 • 8PM • £5 adv / £6 on the door
Touch invites Norwegian sound installation artist Maia Urstad, Korean musician Jiyeon Kim, urban geographer Sandra Jasper and London-based artist Dawn Scarfe for an evening of presentations, talks & performances......MORE>
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Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano
WED 25 JULY '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
McPhee/Corsano duo back at Cafe OTO for one night only!
"...two of Fire Music’s most formidable flame bearers. This pairing makes a lot of sense. Both Corsano and McPhee share an autodidactic approach to jazz, using anything from thriftstore miscellany to customised electronics to explain the white heat of their creativity. Both have almost unquantifiable discographies that extend well beyond the confines of ‘jazz’; McPhee studied Deep Listening techniques with Pauline Oliveros and Corsano has sparred with everyone from Jim O’Rourke to Björk.' - Alex Neilson, The WIRE...MORE>
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Golden Fur Perform Morton Feldman's Patterns in a Chromatic Field
THURS 26 JULY '12 • 8PM • £7 adv / £8 on the door
Composed at the outset of his 'late period', Patterns In A Chromatic Field is widely recognised as Feldman's most uncharacteristic and virtuosic piece. It is kaleidoscopic in colour, complex and playful in rhythm, and devastating in expressive scope. Unlike many of his other works that are pre-occupied with stasis and augmented durations, Patterns... shifts abruptly, often at breakneck speed, between elaborate chromatic, microtonal, polyphonic, static and dynamic passages. Though Feldman uses repetition as a key compositional tool and formal building block, his music is completely at odds with the additive, process-based Minimalist language that has dominated much of America's musical profile. A performance of Patterns... is a very rare opportunity to experience a transformative and potent masterwork of American music.....MORE>
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Eugene Chadbourne
TUES 21 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £7 advance / £8 on the door
Eugene Chadbourne - eclectic and unconventional improvisor/guitarist/banjo player - returns to Cafe OTO for another evening of music and song, drawing on a range of forms - from free jazz, country and blue grass and all out noise. His idosyncratic and uncomprising approach to music has made him a living legend......MORE>
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John Dikeman / Steve Noble / Dominic Lash
TUES 28 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £6 adv / £7 on the door
John Dikeman is an American saxophonist currently residing in Amsterdam. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, John’s playing runs the gamut of improvised music and technique, ranging from reductionist extended technique based improvisation to full throttle free jazz. he teams up with London's rolling powerhouse Steve Noble and one of the UK's most adventurous young bass players Dominic Lash....MORE>
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John Butcher / Eddie Prévost / Guillaume Viltard
WED 29 AUGUST '12 • 8PM • £6 advance / £7 on the door
Butcher/Prevost/Viltard trio launch their new CD at Cafe OTO. John Butcher is a saxophonist of rare grace and power, who has expanded the vocabulary of the saxophone far beyond the conventions of jazz and other musics - an approach that Eddie Prévost laid the groundwork for as co-founder of the seminal improvising music ensemble AMM in the 1960s. The trio is completed by the fearlessly unamplified double bass of Guillaume Viltard - one of the rising stars of the UK's free music scene....MORE>
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Alan Silva : Two Day Residency
TUES 11 SEPTEMBER '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with Evan Parker, Roger Turner
WED 12 SEPTEMBER '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
with Roger Turner, Pat Thomas, Steve Williamson
Alan Silva is perhaps best known for his inventive contributions to seminal free jazz recordings by Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray and his two LPs as a leader of the Celestrial Communication Orchestra for BYG/Actuel. Resident in Paris since 1970, Silva has remained a key player in the European Free Music scene. Since the early nineties he has primarily played electronic keyboards notably in the Tradition Trio with Johannes Bauer and British drummer Roger Turner who joins Silva for both nights of this residency. On the first night Silva will play both Bass and Keyboards in a trio with Evan Parker and Turner and on the second night the two will form a quartet with Pat Thomas on Piano and Electronics and Steve Williamson on saxophones......MORE>
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Meg Baird
SAT 15 SEPT '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
Meg Baird returns to Cafe OTO after a wonderful sold out concert last december. There’s a rare intimacy in Meg Baird’s music. She shares secrets, she breaks your heart, she tells you how to fix it. Her second album Seasons On Earth is a beautiful, moody masterpiece of understatement—part wanderer, part flower, part assassin—moving stealthily from light to shadow and back again.....MORE>
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Lean Left // Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love, Andy Moor, Terrie Hessells
WED 19 SEPT '12 • 8PM • £12 advance / £14 on the door
Lean Left return to OTO for a one-off night following their storming two day residency here in 2011.
"Lean Left are a lethal combination of radical commitment, sonic intensity and breathtaking fluency from four musicians who, between them, have rarely strayed from the outermost borders of jazz and punk... The density, clarity and balance maintained throughout the two sets was a breathtaking reminder that this stormy, industrial territory is where many of the most pressing questions are asked of the structure and content of jazz today." - Geoff Winston, LondonJazz....MORE>
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MURMURATION PLAY PISARO, CAGE, SAUNDERS, WERDER & SFIRRI
SAT 13 OCT '12 • 8PM • £6 / £5 (concs) advance/on the door
An evening of deep listening, featuring five works by composers in or around the Wandelweiser collective, performed by the 40-strong ensemble murmuration. All of the pieces in the programme leave the choice of sounds to the musicians, who will be dispersed throughout the Cafe, with no physical separation between players and audience.....MORE>
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Andrew Pekler & Jan Jelinek play Ursula Bogner: Sonne = Blackbox + Natural Habitats + Jonny Trunk (DJ)
SAT 20 OCT '12 • 8PM • £10 / £12 on the door
Mystery Plays Records presents a very special night of retro-futuristic electronics. Andrew Pekler and Jan Jelinek perform works by German electronic music pioneer Ursula Bogner. Support from Natural Habitats plus DJ Jonny Trunk.....MORE>
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Acid Mothers Temple & the melting paraiso U.F.O.
TUES 23 OCT '12 • 8PM • £12 advance / £14 on the door
Acid Mothers Temple have rapidly become acclaimed as the greatest, the most extreme trip psychedelic group in the world. Releases have appeared on labels around the world at an amazing pace, and the magnificence of their live performances is already being whispered of as legendary. They return to OTO for a full on all out electric set after last year's acoustic performance.....MORE>
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Diane Cluck // Two Day Residency
SAT 27 OCT '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
SUN 28 OCT '12 • 8PM • £10 advance / £12 on the door
Diane Cluck is a New York-based singer-songwriter of intuitive folk music. She has been influential in the development of the Anti-folk scene and has collaborated with Jeffrey Lewis, and Hermane Dune. She plays an intimate two day residency OTO following sell-out shows in London in September ’09......MORE>
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