TRIM is an improvising quartet brought together by Dominic Lash (guitar) with Phil Durrant (modular synth), Steve Noble (percussion) and Rachel Musson (saxophones). After Musson was unable to make this show, Colin Webster was recruited on saxophone duties, resulting in two absolutely barnstorming sets under the freshly coined banner of TROM. You know how it is. Times are hard, things get stressful. Sometimes you’ve just got to blow off steam by blasting the doors off an unassuming Hackney music venue and sending the audience barreling down the street. Such was the case at OTO on 5th April this year, when Lash, Durrant, Noble and Webster summoned up the kind of utterly cathartic sonic scree that made a wonderful irrelevance of this having been their first ever performance as a quartet. Make no mistake, this is no one-note performance - the group cover a hugely varied amount of terrain over the two sets' combined near-80 minute run-time - but the sheer sense of exuberance on display here is hard to ignore. A rapidly rotating interplay sees all four musicians trading shapes that mutate and evolve with an almost breathless momentum. There's an exhilarating sense of new forms being created in realtime, forms that seem to blur and shift depending on your vantage point. Whatever angle you come at it, however, this one doesn't let up for a second. On this basis we look forward to welcoming back both TRIM and TROM here, with hopes for TRAM, TREM and TRUM too at some point in the future. -- Recorded by Billy SteigerMixed and mastered by Oli Barrett

The first duo release of Anne Guthrie and Seymour Wright - made back and forth across the Atlantic between 2014 and 2016, of a duo that has existed since 2003. recordings and assemblings, 2014 new york, ny, 2014 limehouse, london, 2016, elephant and castle to chelsea bridge, london and 2016 brooklyn, ny.  anne guthrie: french horn + ny recordingsseymour wright: alto saxophone + london recordings listen to an excerpt letterpress sleevedesign and print by ben owen edition: 300cd

Double Mini CD, one recording on each, stacked inside a 3 inch CD case with printed artwork by Luciano Maggiore Composed and performed by Li Song 03.10.21 (black disc) two snare drums, sine tones, suspended bluetooth speaker, drumsticks Recorded live at Café OTO, London by Shaun Crook on the 3rd of October, 2021 09.10.21 (white disc) two snare drums, metronomes, drumsticks, masking tape, bluetooth speaker, microphone Recorded live at Hundred Years Gallery, London by Graham Mackeachan on the 9th of October, 2021

Silk screened softcover, 206 pages, 11 x 17 cm, Print run: 1000 Rab-Rab, May 2026The first English language translation of Varlam Shalamov’s memoires of the twenties,originally written in 1962. Translated, edited and introduced by Cathy Porter.

We Jazz Magazine, Issue 20 / Fall 2026 128 pp, 170 x 240 mm in size and printed on 140g Edixion paper with laminated 300g Invercote covers.  “Brilliant Corners” for Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk By Francis Gooding, Mats Gustafsson, Fielding Hope, Patrick Preziosi, Andy Thomas, Arttu Tolonen, Bret Sjerven, Daniel Spicer & Wif Stenger, Miles Okazaki by Andrew Scott, Kiri Ra! by Wif Stenger, Jazz Is Dead By Tina Edwards, Dirar Kalash by Henry Boon, Dewey Redman on Impulse by Andy Beta, Water Damage by Matt Sonzala, Mikel Patrick Avery by Patrick Romanowski, The Torched Torch Singers by Alex Coles & more.

Original, 1975 Japan only pressing on Offbeat Recods. NM/VG+ Prestige copy. Vinyl looks unplayed and new. Includes OBI. Sleeve is closer to NM, but has very minor corner dings and OBI has a light creasing toward top.  Image of actual record for sale. Any questions, or if you're local, want to check condition or colect in person, please email bradford@cafeoto.co.uk (please note: Bradford only works on Tuesdays and Thursday)