Tuesday 22 October 2024, 7.30pm
Excited to welcome Vivien Goldman to OTO for a very special show featuring performances of her solo work, as well as Dancing Lizards, a group made of past members of the Flying Lizards, performing that group's work.
"No-One’s More Punk than Vivien Goldman,” pronounced Pitchfork Magazine. In that freewheeling spirit, the boundary-busting Vivien Goldman is a writer, educator, broadcaster -- and a musician who has contributed to The Slits, X-Ray Specs and of course Flying Lizards, too. A Londoner, she has lived in Paris and Jamaica and now resides in New York. She started out in the vigorous British rock press of the 1970s, often working with Bob Marley (whom she is accredited with discovering and is the subject of two of her books).
She considers Bob, Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman and The Slits her mentors and greatest personal influences. Known as a pioneer of music journalism, music television, modern musicology, experimental recording, and most recently for the first time in her long career - the stage, she has stunned New York and beyond with her new very Jamaican-influenced live band: Vivien Goldman at Elsewhere.
As of late, she has 2 LP's, a 7-inch and a re-press of her hit book & musical compilation 'Revenge of the She-Punks' out on vinyl and is currently working on a remix album that includes remixes of her songs from friends Denardo Coleman, Marius DeVries, Jordan Bovell, Joaquin Claussell and more. Her music was also recently used on HBO The Deuce and a song she co-wrote appears several times throughout the closing episode of the massively popular globally TV series Murder in Paradise
ANA DA SILVA is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Across four daring full-length records, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it - an act of raw expression, not any one sound. The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984, Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens, This Heat’s Charles Hayward and choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis. In 2005, Ana released her solo debut, ‘The Lighthouse’ - a self-recorded collection of spare, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop. Ana has also collaborated with Phew on an extraordinary album ‘Island’ released by Newhere Music in 2018.
http://www.anadasilva.net/
Naima Karlsson (b. 1982) is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician based in London. Her practice interweaves sonic and visual forms led by interests in repetition, improvisation, and the abstract relationships between language, symbol, image, and sound. Naima’s main instrument is the piano, as well as percussion, vibraphone, and organ. Improvisation is at the core of the artist's musical process, combined with minimalist uses of tone, arrangement, and an inherently organic approach to playing. Naima is part of the duo Exotic Sin with Kenichi Iwasa, and she is an archivist and coordinator for the Estate of Moki Cherry and Cherry Archive. She is currently presenting Moki Cherry: Here and Now at ICA London (Wed 31 May – Sun 3 September 2023)
