Ustad Noor Bakhsh + Muslim Shaggan + DJ Chris Menist (Paradise Bangkok) Monday 1 July 2024

Mon 1 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Ustad Noor Bakhsh, from near Pasni, Balochistan, is a maestro of the Balochi Benju (a keyed Zither), which he has played since he was a child. Noor Bakhsh is well known as a legendary instrumentalist throughout the Makran Coast, but only garnered wider attention after his most recent recordings and videos. The Benju, was once a Japanese children’s toy called the taish?koto before it was adopted by

Tuesday 2 July 2024:
Ustad Noor Bakhsh + Zayn Mohammed Tuesday 2 July 2024

Tue 2 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Ustad Noor Bakhsh, from near Pasni, Balochistan, is a maestro of the Balochi Benju (a keyed Zither), which he has played since he was a child. Noor Bakhsh is well known as a legendary instrumentalist throughout the Makran Coast, but only garnered wider attention after his most recent recordings and videos. The Benju, was once a Japanese children’s toy called the taish?koto before it was adopted by

Wednesday 3 July 2024:
Atonal Kat presents: STRUM (Leon Michener, Rrose, Charlemagne Palestine) Wednesday 3 July 2024

Wed 3 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Atonal Kat is a sporadic series of sonic soirees curated by Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett. Join us for intense listening as we walk with our ears.
Virtuoso keyboardist Leon Michener (Klavikon) presents rhythmically complex and intoxicating grooves for prepared amplified clavichord, turning our expectations upside down and inside out. Radical experimentalist and club floor shaker Rrose (Seth Hor

Thursday 4 July 2024:
Anthony Moore trio OBTRAM3 + FRIENDS -

Thu 4 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Anthony Moore´s Obtrama3 - Olie Brice (dbl bass),  Anthony Moore (noise),  Tullis Rennie (trombone & electronics) - are joined by Richard Moore (no rel.) (violin), John Butcher (saxophones), and Matthias Muche (trombone) for a 90 minute set in two parts. Expect improvised music, noise, text and more.


Sunday 7 July 2024:
LAST DREAM OF THE MORNING (John Butcher / Mark Sanders / John Edwards) Sunday 7 July 2024

Sun 7 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
"Between Sander’s nest of metallic percussion sounds, Edwards’ pulsing undercurrent and Butcher’s industrial-strength tenor sound, the three resemble some of Sun Ra and the Arkestra’s more inspired adventures, an astonishing achievement for a trio." - Freejazzblog
Last Dream of the Morning solidifies a triangle of involvements. The three musicians have worked together in an enormous number of

Monday 15 July 2024:
Paralaxe Editions presents: Rosso Polare + Felisha Ledesma + Dania + Not Waving (DJ) Monday 15 July 2024

Mon 15 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Barcelona label and publishing house Paralaxe Editions returns to Cafe OTO with another excellent

Wednesday 17 July 2024:
Daniel O´Sullivan + The No Show + Elephant House + DJ sets by Rose Keeler Schaffeler and Panni Simai Wednesday 17 July 2024

Wed 17 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
DOS celebrates the release of two new artefacts 'The Shell Is A Cell' - a book of visual ephemera published by Timeless Editions conflating collages, paintings, photographs, automatic drawings, poems and journals, and new LP 'The Pastoral Machine' composed for the Sonoton Music Library and released on vinyl by VHF. Playing mostly new and unpublished material, DOS will be joined by friends Caius Wi

Saturday 20 July 2024:
Moritz von Oswald (presents Silencio) Saturday 20 July 2024

Sat 20 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
The great electronic music pioneer, Moritz von Oswald, presents his choral-music-inspired album,  Silencio , which draws on the ensemble works of long-standing inspirations Edgard Varèse, György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, to create a deeply textured collection that shifts between light & ethereal and dark & dissonant to stunning effect.
As masterfully demonstrated in early works of von Oswald

Tuesday 30 July 2024:
DARK ENERGY PRESENTS... SHAMICA RUDDOCK + BANTU + DUSHUME + DHANGSHA Tuesday 30 July 2024

Tue 30 Jul 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Celebrating label Dark Energy´s inaugural release, Bantu´s debut album "Instability," four protagonists explore the juxtaposition of heavy bass with noise. Bantu himself presents deep modulations that simmer with a quiet rage, exploding unexpectedly into bit-crushed stutter and then abrupt silences. Shamica Ruddock posits disjointed and chaotic loops, broken and sometimes beyond repair, subby and

Sunday 18 August 2024:
Dave Smith - 75th birthday residency - Day One Sunday 18 August 2024

Sun 18 Aug 2024, 19:00 - Café Oto, London
Two concerts marking Dave Smith’s 75th birthday. A member of the Scratch Orchestra in the 1970´s and a contemporary and collaborator of Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars and John White amongst others, Smith has amassed an extensive body of work that draws on a wide range of influences from contemporary composition to Javanese classical and Albanian folk musics.
Both concerts feature Albanian Summ






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