Featured Events


Wednesday 1 May 2024:
TRIO SOWARI + MAGGIE NICOLS / KHABAT ABAS / MARK WASTELL (TRIO) Wednesday 1 May 2024

Wed 1 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
musicians who have developed a very personal approach to their instrument. Respectively based in London

Thursday 2 May 2024:
JJJJJEROME ELLIS Thursday 2 May 2024

Thu 2 May 2024, 19:30 - Café Oto, London
Please note that this show is reschedule from 6th November 2023. All tickets booked for the original date remain valid.
JJJJJerome Ellis is a blk disabled animal, artist, and proud stutterer. He prays, reads, gardens, cycles, surfs, and plays. Through music, literature, performance, and video he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born

Friday 3 May 2024:
Baba Yaga´s Hut: Selvhenter + Jaleh Negari visual sound works + Maria Bertel + SOLW (video) Friday 3 May 2024

Fri 3 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

Saturday 4 May 2024:
Baba Yaga´s Hut: Selvhenter + Anja Jacobsen + Eget Værelse (video) Saturday 4 May 2024

Sat 4 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

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
, which continues into 2024 as I celebrate my 70th birthday. I am still doing what I consider a reasonable
... then have them resurface in unexpected guises is part of what made his performance so engaging... ."  - London Jazz News

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
state unto itself, but Rainey grew up down in what Northerners call "The Cities," in his mom’s house on
... didn’t know what I could add to Joe’s incredible recordings," Broder says. "But eventually I came to






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