Saturday 3 May 2025, 7.30pm
For her residency at Cafe OTO, Dali is curating 3 nights for experimentalists, avant-gardistes and dancefloor destroyers. Inviting a big crew from Bristol, where she’s based, and beyond, as many guests are international artists. Some of them are returning to OTO, many are coming for the first time, they all have crossed her path over the years and as music is made of connections, they have been creating music together. This line-up is made of great musicians and DJs widely engaged in culture; some are DIY promoters, part of various collectives, labels, in different countries and contexts. They've been working not only to produce their music but also to spread music from other musicians around them, in their communities thus resisting the shrinking political climate. The 3 days are a celebration of activism in music.
Harrga (‘a burn’ in the Moroccan Darija dialect) is a duo formed by producer and philosopher Miguel Prado (Nzumbe) and experimental vocalist, composer and producer Dali de Saint Paul (Penumbra, Ondata Rossa, EP/64, Viridian Ensemble,Content Provider).
Harrga have been exploring new sonic territories with Dali de Saint Paul mixing poetics and politics, using multiple languages and Miguel Prado creating singular, amorphous noise-design, they conjure a thoroughly anomalous vision of contemporary industrial music.
Their first album 'Héroïques Animaux de la Misère' (2019, Avon Terror Corps) was a critically acclaimed meditation on the horror of that which crevasses borders, with Moor Mother as guest vocalist. Since this release, the 3 artists have collaborated again; Dali appearing on 'Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes' (2019) and Moor Mother releasing Harrga’s track 'Urban Blues' on her own label BlackMas5 Records (2022).
In the midst of the pandemic, Harrga were among the first artists released on Takuroku (Cafe Oto inhouse Label). Pushing boundaries to deliver an unusual cinematic musical drama exploring violence towards women, 'Femmes d’Intérieur' expresses the duo's fears for those trapped behind closed doors. Harrga appeared on several international compilations, the latest one being 'Future Chorus' (2023, Hypermedium) where human and non-human voices were mixed.
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://www.instagram.com/miguelprad0/
https://harrga.bandcamp.com/album/h-ro-ques-animaux-de-la-mis-re
https://blkmas5.bandcamp.com/album/great-mas5-one
https://hypermedium.bandcamp.com/album/future-chorus#
https://avonterrorcorps.bandcamp.com/track/alkisah-ii-3
Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul (aka Abdel Ja7eem Hafez) takes the stage for the first and final time, joined by friends old and new, to bid farewell to a decade-long musical journey. From his Amman-rooted collective Drowned By Locals, collaborators Shereen (Cheree True) and Omar (Omar Habedo) bring their haunting vocals and raw emotional grit, while longtime Bristol allies Hamish (Kinlaw) and Miles (of Kinlaw’s WELD and Whores of Babel’s It's My Birthday and I'll Die If I Want To) return to reignite past fires.
Laith (Al-Mutreb Abul-Loul): The enigmatic singer whose decade-long journey of sonic experimentation and emotional turmoil culminates in this farewell performance.
Shereen (Cheree True): A key collaborator, Shereen lends her vocals and co-reinterprets lyrics across Al-Mutreb’s work.
Omar (Omar Habedo): A former cyber security expert turned musician, Omar channels raw emotion into his performances, drawing from a life of heartbreak.
https://www.instagram.com/drownedbylocals/
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eed-b-eed-ma3-el-shaytan-ft-sheekie-sheekie
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/track/mujtama3ku-be7azzinni-ft-abdel-ja7eem-hafeth
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/track/its-my-birthday-and-ill-die-if-i-want-to-feat-baritone-hussein
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/--2
Clíona Ní Laoi, known under her alias Mama Matrix, is an Irish experimental musician, producer, performer, and selector. Focusing on the evocative, primitive and archaic; she explores tripped-out worlds blurring piano, spoken-word, music ritual industrial and dub. Much of her work involves collaboration and live improvisation with a diverse range of artists, MCs, poets and performers. She is one half of the feminist industrial noise duo Dreamgirls, one half of the industrial-bass duo Salac, one half of the experimental duo All Times Now Nothing and a member of Bristol-based collective Avon Terror Corps.
https://www.instagram.com/mama__matrix/
https://linktr.ee/clionanilaoi
https://clionanilaoi.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/mamamatrix
Bokeh Versions was an experimental platform from 2015 - 2025 for VR dub, non-existent psychobilly re-issues and cosmic shoegaze drum circles. It exists now only in the mind of former employee BKV Industrial who will occasionally make public appearances to confirm things once seen and heard.
https://bokehversions.bandcamp.com/
https://www.nts.live/shows/bokeh-versions
https://noodsradio.com/residents/bokeh-versions
Schwet is operating at the intersection of concrète, punk, and avant-garde, Adam Reid has been curating the vital aspects of Bristol’s experimental scene, from cacophonous sarcophagus, to schwet, and avon terror corps.
https://www.instagram.com/schwetnoise/
https://noodsradio.com/residents/schwet
