In 2011 we were lucky enough to welcome Loren Connors to OTO for a sold out show. With the room suitably hushed, Connors' elongated washes build and then evaporate - leaving behind fragile notes which sit and linger in soltude. Dreamy and ethereal, abstract and atmospheric, it's like reading Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse' and waiting for the sun to come up. One to shut your eyes to. "These were Connors 'Airs', played with a softness that meant they floated in the breeze, merging into the night. It was so fragile, barely even there in fact: the notes only just made it above the level of the amp hiss. Like a selection of old photographs, you had to study hard to pick out the detail of those memories being lost amongst paper grain and colour fade. These ghosts of songs felt as much about the passing of time, about loss and heartbreak, as Langille’s vocal set did earlier." - Scott McMillan --- Loren Connors / electric guitar --- Recorded on Saturday 14th of May by John Chantler. Mixed by John Chantler. Mastered by James Dunn. Photo by Andy Newcombe. ---

Selvhenter draw their influence from everywhere they've been - free jazz, noise, punk, heavy metal, field recordings from the local recycling centre - it's all there to see. Their live performance at OTO sloshes in New Age and drone jazz in too, creating hypnotic rhythms you don't even realise you've started dancing to. In your face and a bit bonkey-tonks, make sure to turn this one up. --- Anja Jacobsen / drums Jaleh Negari / drums, vocals Maria Bertel / trombone Maria Diekmann / violin Sonja Labianca / saxophone --- Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Friday 12th June 2015 by James Dunn. Mixed by John Chantler. Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.

First meeting of guitarist Tashi Dorji and drummer Steve Noble, recorded at OTO in June 2023. The set begins with a deceptive sparseness, Dorji picking out jagged clusters of guitar notes as Noble’s cymbals swirl around them like a deep inhalation. You might want to take that breath too, you’re going to need it. Dorji soon ratchets up the distortion as Noble circles around the kit with an unflagging momentum and the pair of them are soon hurtling along in a whirling, tumbling barrage of sound and fury. But cathartic as it is, this is no aimless blowout. For all the rapturous chaos, there are moments of delicate beauty that ring out all the clearer amidst the surrounding storm. Aside from anything else it’s the sheer amount of ground covered here. Two masters of their respective instruments seemingly bringing all of their skills to bear across the set’s 35-minute running time. Dorji has a way of playing the guitar that is all his own; coruscating jabs of distortion giving way to skittering, stop-start harmonics, muted strings that clip and yammer, yearning single notes escalating into a bewitching, howling maelstrom. Needless to say, Noble matches him every step of the way, expanding upon the intricacies of Dorji’s playing to reveal new and unexpected shapes in the cataclysm. Rhythms and textures emerge, evolve, and fracture with a ceaselessly propulsive drive. With such synergetic complexity, it’s hard to believe that this was their first time playing together. We can only hope it won’t be the last. And breathe. -- Recorded by Billy Steiger
Mixed by Tashi Dorji
Mastered by Oli Barrett
Cover design by Oli Barrett

Evan Parker and Matthew Wright’s Trance Map project has included improvised live events across Europe and the US, involving other invited guest performers, with various Trance Map+ recordings released on psi, Intakt and FMR Records. Since 2020, Trance Map+ have undertaken ambitious streamed and networked performances, connecting with musicians around the world from The Hot Tin venue in Faversham, Kent, UK. In 2022, this resulted in Transatlantic Trance Map, a simultaneous performance between seven musicians in Kent and six musicians in Roulette, New York City, which is profiled on this album release. Transatlantic Trance Map helps to mark Evan Parker’s 80th birthday in 2024. It is the second Evan Parker release on False Walls, following THEN THROUGH NOW by Evan and Henry Dagg (2022). In November 2024, False Walls will also release THE HERACLITEAN TWO-STEP, etc., a 4 CD set of solo, improvised recordings by Evan Parker, along with a 128 page book, including writing by John Corbett, Richard Leigh and Stephen C. Middleton; an extended interview with Evan Parker by Martin Davidson; along with writing and visual artwork by Evan Parker. --- THE HOT TIN
Faversham, UK, 8pm GMT:
Evan Parker: soprano saxophone

Matthew Wright: turntable, live sampling and processing

Peter Evans: trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Robert Jarvis: trombone

Hannah Marshall: cello
Pat Thomas: live electronics
Alex Ward: clarinet

ROULETTE
Brooklyn, USA, 3pm EST:
Sylvie Courvoisier: piano, keyboard
Mat Maneri: viola
Ikue Mori: laptop live electronics
Sam Pluta: laptop live electronics
Ned Rothenberg: clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi
Craig Taborn: piano, keyboard, live electronics

"马木尔 Mamer meets Ruins Alone (Tatsuya Yoshida) 吉田" for an improvisation after a solo set from Tatsuya Yoshida at the first Tomorrow Festival, 2014." --- 吉田达也 Tatsuya Yoshida / 人声 vocals, 鼓 drums, 采样器 sampler
马木尔 Mamer - 贝斯 bass, 人声 vocals / 口弦 mouth harp --- Tracklisting:
1. Hyderomastgroningem 01:28
2. Schvostess 01:46
3. DAGDAD 00:51
4. Korromda Peimm 01:19
5. Jallamjikko 01:17
6. Obthecklomtz 02:21
7. Pallaschtom 01:58
8. Skhanddravisa 04:03
9. Shofetim 02:50
10. Nivaftopoftz 01:11
11. Zurna Taksim 00:33
12. Snare 01:16
13. Classical Music Medley 01:17
14. Progressive Music Medley 02:16
15. Lockssomblez 01:16
16. Glaschzenck 03:03
17. Equesspaldho 01:43
18. Komnigriss 01:44
19. Becttem Pollt 02:42
20. Laiptchig 01:57
21. Improvisation 1 (Tatsuya Yoshida × Mamer) 10:32
22. Improvisation 2 (Tatsuya Yoshida × Mamer 06:46 --- Recorded May 10, 2014 at the 1st Tomorrow Festival, Shenzhen. Released April 10, 2017

Wind Tide is a multidisciplinary art presence inhabiting the sonic, visual, and conceptual realms of Gretchen Korsmo and Andrew Weathers. Wind Tide also functions as their recording space in Texas, while extending to off-site locations in the field, as both artists have a relationship with nature and landscapes. “Blue Breaking Brown” is both sprawling and focused, with mysterious drifting vocals emerging and receding along swathes of resonant guitar drones. Room tone, bells, synthesizer, lap steel, and percussion elements drift over one another like transparent textiles, or variants of light and shadow on distant surfaces. Gretchen and Andrew are both involved in the Full Spectrum Records collective, whose supportive energy is present here: sounds exist as singular entities, yet coalesce to create two beautiful, intense, and engaging side-long documents of performance. Andrew Weathers / synthesizer, lap steel, recorder, electronics
Gretchen Korsmo / voice, electric piano, synthesizer, percussion Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Wind Tide, Littlefield TX
Some components recorded live at Chapter, Denver CO