Monday 23 September 2024, 7.30pm
We are very sad to announce that due to visa issues HUUUM have had to pull out of tonight's show.
Bristol imprint Accidental Meetings arrive at Cafe Oto to highlight some of their roster. A UK debut for ienna-based, Tehran-born sound artist, Rojin Sharafi, performer, and composer, 'Penumbra' - Maxwell Sterling's collaboration with Dali de Saint Paul, and French-Egyptian artist Susu Laroche will also be playing live. Not to forget the mythical Elijah Minnelli who will be on the buttons.
Maxwell met with a Bristol based vocalist to create an improvised session for the famous experimental music radio show Late Junction on BBC Radio 3. Their encounter was so prolific that day that a lot of their music was not played on the show, they developed it into a piece called 'Penumbra', which was released on Accidental Meetings.
Susu Laroche is a multidisciplinary artist of Egyptian/French descent whose stunning LP arrived on Bristol label Accidental Meetings as a loose homage to Ursula L Guin's Earthsea. Her film work has been screened internationally including London Short Film Festival (UK), Samawah Cinema (Iraq) and Nihilist Film Festival (USA). In Spring 2021, she released her first photobook Chaos Rule Us via Wrong Eye Books, and in December 2021 her first album ‘Paridaiza’ via Xquisite Releases. She also releases music with collaborator Oxhy as the The Fertile Crescent.
As the ongoing artist-in-residence and de facto Night Czar of Breadminster, Elijah Minnelli has done much to broaden the districts cultural-standing with an ever-growing stable of sonic exports. Borne of an equal love of outsider folk, and the interwoven musical lineages of both South America and the West Indies, Minnelli’s output stands out by balancing its influences with a unique irreverence.
The physical fruits of his labour first appeared as a successful run of self-released 7 inch singles, each handmade and ferried across the record shops of London. The releases honour the Jamaican tradition of featuring a dub on the b-side, stripping away the myriad theatrics of the a-side in favour of a focus on bass, space and rhythm. Across the tracks, you’ll find a blend of rickety, ragtag percussion and radiator-warm bass, topped with melodies that hark back to the forlorn folk of bygone eras; a wheezy melancholia that elevates the tracks beyond pure sound system functionality.
His Creamed Horn release came out on Accidental Meetings in 2022 and is in homage to the Breadminster Bovine Welfare.
Rojin Sharafi is a Vienna-based, Tehran-born sound artist, performer, and composer of acoustic and electronic music, freely crossing the borders between genres. She creates entirely unique musical textures through the use of analogue, acoustic, and augmented instruments, as well as digital tools of her own devising. She is also 1/3 of the band HUUUM.
