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Guide at Café Oto, january 2025

Colin Webster Large Ensemble Friday 3 January 2025

Fri 3 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Very pleased to welcome back London based saxophonist Colin Webster´s Large Ensemble, which comprises many of the leading players in the current generation of improvising musicians. 
Colin Webster / alto saxophone
Rachel Musson / tenor saxophone
Cath Roberts / baritone saxophone
Charlotte Keeffe / trumpet / flugelhorn
Dirk Serries / electric guitar...

Saturday 4 January 2025:
Simon Finn + The Sprigs Saturday 4 January 2025

Sat 4 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
A very welcome return to OTO for mercurial singer-songwriter Simon Finn. A lone wolf troubadour

Tuesday 7 January 2025:
Film screeening: 'Burning Bridges' - The explosive story of an artist who knew no limits with performances from Evan Parker, Sylvia Hallett and David Toop Tuesday 7 January 2025

Tue 7 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
"All I knew was an ice body on a sidewalk - can you fill me in?"
Burning Bridges tells the explosive story of an artist who challenged boundaries and pushed to the most extreme edges of creativity.
From the 1960s to the early 2000s, Paul Burwell was at the forefront of avant garde music and art in the UK. A founder member of the London Musician’s Collective and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, B

Wednesday 8 January 2025:
Surfeit presented by Thames Submarine and Contact Wednesday 8 January 2025

Wed 8 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Lynn Loo
Rie Nakajima
Illia & Laura Rogatchevski (Mute Frequencies)
Miranda Penell
Jenny Baines
Andrew Vallance ...

Friday 10 January 2025:
Dirty Electronics & Oliver Torr - collapse + Gwilly Edmondez & Lategirl feat. Odie Ji Ghast Friday 10 January 2025

Fri 10 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Wild Wiring ... an evening of the unreasonable, impractical and unrealistic.
Two duo sets collapse.
John Richards is known for his work as Dirty Electronics and the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics. It is mainly a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. As Dirty Electronics, he has created sound d

Saturday 11 January 2025:
Alexander von Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Paul Lytton / Axel Dorner (quartet) + Alexander von Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Paul Lytton (trio) Saturday 11 January 2025

Sat 11 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Delighted to host the phenomenal improvising trio of Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (saxophone) and Paul Lytton (percussion)! For this two-day residency they'll also be joined for special quartet and quintert sets by Axel Dörner (trumpet) and John Edwards (bass).
Axel Dorner´s appearance made possible by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation


Sunday 12 January 2025:
Alexander von Schlippenbach / Evan Parker / Paul Lytton / Axel Dorner / John Edwards (quintet) - two sets Sunday 12 January 2025

Sun 12 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Delighted to host the phenomenal improvising trio of Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano), Evan Parker (saxophone) and Paul Lytton (percussion)! For this two-day residency they'll also be joined for special quartet and quintert sets by Axel Dörner (trumpet) and John Edwards (bass).
Axel Dorner´s appearance made possible by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation


Monday 13 January 2025:
PHIL DURRANT’S 'COMBINATIONS’ - FEATURING MAGGIE NICOLS, SYLVIA HALLETT, JOHN JASNOCH, JOHN BISSET, ET AL Monday 13 January 2025

Mon 13 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Throughout my career as an improvising musician, I have had an affinity with the UK/Irish folk music scene both musically and politically. Both scenes seemingly 'kick against the systems’ and have healthy DIY aesthetics combined with a very supportive, caring, non-hierarchical approach to music making and organisation.
The chosen musicians for this performance not only all play 'folk instrumen

Tuesday 14 January 2025:
'4 Compositions for Septet' - A Tribute to Tony Oxley Tuesday 14 January 2025

Tue 14 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Pleased to bring this stellar group of musicians together to pay tribute to the late, great Tony Oxley, by performing the pieces that comprise his landmark 1970 album, '4 Compositions for Sextet'. Rather than replicating the exact sound of the original recordings, the performance will explore Oxley´s legacy in the music and honour his commitment to always moving the music forward.
Raph Clarkso

Wednesday 15 January 2025:
Will Guthrie / Koshiro Hino (GOAT) + Breathing Heavy + Lucia H Chung Wednesday 15 January 2025

Wed 15 Jan 2025, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Excited to present a first time duo set from ace Australian drummer / percussionist, Will Guthrie, and Koshihiro Hino of cult Japanese group, goat, YP and ANTIBODIES Collective!






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