Featured Live Music


Sunday 5 May 2024:
Baba Yaga´s Hut: Selvhenter + Sonja LaBianca + frk. jacobsen - IN THE GARDEN (video) Sunday 5 May 2024

Sun 5 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Going past musical genres and instead straight towards something more elemental - Selvhenter’s music creates a strikingly direct, physical experience of sound composed of polyrhythms, acoustic and electric melodies, heavy music and improvised beauty.
Since forming in Copenhagen in 2010, drummers Jaleh Negari and Anja Jacobsen, saxophonist Sonja LaBianca and trombonist Maria Bertel have forged

Monday 6 May 2024:
Eugene Chadbourne + Koichi Makigami - performing Christian Marclay´s

Mon 6 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
abbreviation for "drop-out?"
"My very first live music performances took place in and around Boulder
... board of the local jazz society and became involved in presenting concerts by artists such as Rahsaan... amount of touring and in the fall of 2023 did 28 concerts throughout Australia. My mentors always

Tuesday 7 May 2024:
Chinabot presents: MEMESHIFT + AYANKOKO + KEPLA + OISHI Tuesday 7 May 2024

Tue 7 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Another excellent bill from Chinabot, a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music, established in 2017.
https://www.chinabot.co/


Wednesday 8 May 2024:
Elaine Mitchener - with Neil Charles + Roy Claire Potter + Mark Sanders + Xhosa Cole + Pat Thomas + Dam Van Huynh + Jay Bernard (w/ Femi Oriogun-Williams) Wednesday 8 May 2024

Wed 8 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Thrilled to host a two-day residency with experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, Elaine Mitchener, to mark the release of her first ever solo LP, Solo Throat , released on Otoroku.
Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy. Dra

Thursday 9 May 2024:
Elaine Mitchener - with Petals + Shamica Ruddock + Neil Charles + Mark Sanders + Xhosa Cole + Pat Thomas + Gaika Thursday 9 May 2024

Thu 9 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Thrilled to host a two-day residency with experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, Elaine Mitchener, to mark the release of her first ever solo LP, Solo Throat , released on Otoroku.
Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy. Dra

Friday 10 May 2024:
Bird on the Wire and Cafe OTO present Joe Rainey Friday 10 May 2024

Fri 10 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Rainey grew up a Red Lake Ojibwe in Minneapolis, a city with one of the largest and proudest Native American populations in the country. The Red Lake Reservation sits five hours to the North, a sovereign state unto itself, but Rainey grew up down in what Northerners call "The Cities," in his mom’s house on historic Milwaukee Avenue on Minneapolis’ South Side. He was raised less than a mile away fr

Saturday 11 May 2024:
Beyond 1932 Residency: Hardi Kurda + Archive Khanah ?????? ???? Saturday 11 May 2024

Sat 11 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
What is the role of citizens and local communities in preserving the sound of their region? Who decided what music and sounds are 'worth’ being archived? And how should we engage with archives as sites of both remembering and forgetting? 
As part of the ERC’s Beyond 1932 Research Project at King’s College London, sound artist and composer Hardi Kurda will launch his new project, Archive Khanah

Sunday 12 May 2024:
Archive of Listening Sunday 12 May 2024

Sun 12 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
The night will begin with a panel discussion about the concept of the Archive of Listening, aiming to exchange listening experiences and practices with other archive platforms. The panel will feature Mark Gergis, Yamen Mekdad (Syrian Cassette Archives), Christina Hazboun (Christina Hazboun, Founder of The Sonic Agent from Palestine) and Hardi Kurda (Archive Khanah founder from Kurdistan), moderate

Monday 13 May 2024:
Lori Goldston / Jem Finer (duo) + Sasha Elina Monday 13 May 2024

Mon 13 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Excellent cello and hurdy-gurdy pairing of Lori Goldston and Jem Finer!


Tuesday 14 May 2024:
Seijiro Murayama / Jean-Luc Guionnet (duo) + Lucien Rapilly (solo) + Structure Couple (Christophe Macé / Lotus Edde Khouri / Jean-Luc Guionnet) Tuesday 14 May 2024

Tue 14 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
played in Oto.
So, a knotwork of différent stories : from Stevie I first saw with Machine for Making
... Seijiro... which will be the first concert of all.
There will probably happen dancing on the spot






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