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Amongst the shows over the next week or so, we host a special preview screening of The Goodiepal Equation – the first feature length by the founder of Fonal Records, musician and artist Sami Sänpäkkilä. Having premiered at the Helsinki International Film Festival in September, we’re delighted to present it at OTO.

We’re pleased to make our three latest OTOROKU releases available to download this week. Three truly special shows featuring some of our favourite artists – Kan Mikami / John Edwards / Alex Neilson ‘Live at Cafe OTO’, Keiji Haino / John Butcher ‘Light Never Bright Enough’ and Pat Thomas ‘The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari. Thank you for your continued support of the label, and we look forward to sharing more from the venue next year.

A load of new show announcements this week, including poet, novelist, musician and lecturer Anthony Joseph, pianist and composer Roger Eno, and an album launch show for Ashley Paul.

Full listings and all new shows below. We look forward to seeing you here.

Cafe OTO

CAFE OTO NYE PARTY W/ THE SCORPIOS (LIVE) + IF MUSIC (DJ)

£16 adv (£12 members) / £20 door

Seeing in the new year in style with the irresistible stylings of The Scorpios – who’ve provided some our favourite moments of 2017 – and a DJ set from Soho’s excellent IF Music record store!

Hailing from Central Sudan and now based in London after fleeing the fundamentalist takeover in that region, the Scorpios are a septet that melds Arabic rhythms and guitar chops (and a kind of swooning cyclical ecstasy) with a raw Eastern funk feel, properly dismantling cultural barriers in pursuit of a unifying rhythmic bliss. Heavy bass, synths, horns and percussions drive through traditional Sudanese forms to create a sound that owes as much to Detroit as it do to Khartoum.

– 5 JANUARY: MIGUEL PRADO
– 8 JANUARY: EDDIE PRÉVOST / KEN IKEDA (DUO) + JENNIFER ALLUM (SOLO)
– 14 JANUARY: COLOURING THE INDUSTRIAL SOUNDSCAPES – IAIN CHAMBERS / BELLE CHEN / BEIBEI WANG / CLEVELAND WATKISS
– 25 JANUARY: ROGER ENO W/ DOM THEOBALD
– 28 JANUARY: CLAUDIA ROBLES-ANGEL & JAVIER A. GARAVAGLIA
– 30 JANUARY: GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO – INSALATA STATICA
– 31 JANUARY: IN HOUSE – PATRICK DAHN / AMY DICKSON / ADAM MATSCHULAT / BILLY STEIGER
– 4 FEBRUARY: ANTHONY JOSEPH PRESENTS FREQUENCY OF MAGIC
– 8 FEBRUARY: ZOMBIE NITE FOR DEAD ROMERO – AMM ALL-STARS WITH CRIS X / SLAPPER / MINT DOUCHE
– 13 FEBRUARY: BLACK TOP: PAT THOMAS & ORPHY ROBINSON WITH SPECIAL GUEST PETER EVANS
– 14 FEBRUARY: DAMON & NAOMI + THALIA ZEDEK + RED RIVER DIALECT
– 15 FEBRUARY: ASHLEY PAUL – ‘LOST IN SHADOWS’ ALBUM LAUNCH
– 18 FEBRUARY: FRODE GJERSTAD TRIO + STEVE SWELL
– 22 MARCH: JOHN CHANTLER / SEYMOUR WRIGHT / STEVE NOBLE (TRIO)
– 2 APRIL: SUGAI KEN

£6 (£5 Venue Members) / Digital Members: Download with credits

Available as 320k MP3 or 24 bit FLAC