At Cafe OTO

Amongst the shows over the next week, poet, novelist, musician and lecturer Anthony Joseph curates Frequency of Magic. Echoing the free and politically engaged jazz and poetic experiments of the Black Arts Movement, Archie Shepp and Sun Ra, and bringing it fearlessly into the now. This is a night of innovative poetics and free jazz with a live band featuring saxophones, electronics, two bassists, and drums, with the band improvising and poets improvising around each other.

This week we’re pleased to add seven new titles to the digital shop from the great Fataka label, including releases from Steve NobleEvan ParkerPat ThomasSeymour Wright and Phil Minton.

New show announcements this week include a two-day residency for Norwegian label, SOFA, plus updates for forthcoming Kammer Klang shows.

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

Cafe OTO

WED 31 JANUARY
IN HOUSE – BENT FANG / AMY DICKSON / ADAM MATSCHULAT / BILLY STEIGER

£5 adv (£4 members) /
£6 door

THU 1 FEBRUARY
OTO BAR

FREE ENTRY

FRI 2 FEBRUARY
GAVIN BRYARS – A MAN IN A ROOM, GAMBLING

£18 adv / £20 door

SAT 3 FEBRUARY
THE EXPERIMENTAL LIBRARY: OCTAVIA E. BUTLER

£6 adv (£5 members) /
£10 door

SUN 4 FEBRUARY
ANTHONY JOSEPH PRESENTS FREQUENCY OF MAGIC

£10 adv (£8 members) /
£12 door

MON 5 FEBRUARY
BLACK CHAMA + ILAN VOLKOV / LIA MAZZARI / CRYSTABEL RILEY (TRIO)

£6 adv (£4 members) /
£8 door

TUES 6 FEBRUARY
KAMMER KLANG:
JENNIFER WALSHE + DISTRACTFOLD PERFORM TAKASUGI & HARTMAN + BARBLINA MEIERHANS

£7 adv (£6 members) /
£9 door

WED 7 FEBRUARY
SHOWCASE NEW MUSIC::NEW IRELAND

£7 adv (£6 members) /
£8 door

THU 8 FEBRUARY
ZOMBIE NITE FOR DEAD ROMERO – AMM ALL-STARS WITH CRIS X / SLAPPER / MINT DOUCHE

£6 adv (£4 members) /
£8 door

COMING UP:

– 9 FEBRUARY: RESONANCE FM PRESENTS PETER BLEGVAD TRIO FEATURING CHRIS CUTLER & JOHN GREAVES WITH BOB DRAKE
– 10 FEBRUARY –  
OTO PROJECT SPACE: WORKSHOP – THE SCHOOL OF NOISE (7–12 YEAR OLDS)
– 10 FEBRUARY – OTO PROJECT SPACE: WORKSHOP – THE SCHOOL OF NOISE (ADULTS)
– 10 FEBRUARY: RESONANCE FM IN ASSOCIATION WITH I-D.A PROJECTS PRESENTS THIS IS NOT THIS HEAT (SOLD OUT)
– 11 FEBRUARY: RESONANCE FM PRESENTS :ZOVIET*FRANCE: + RON GEESIN + LANGHAM RESEARCH CENTRE
– 12 FEBRUARY: CYPRIEN BUSOLINI / DEBORAH WALKER / YANNICK GUEDON: L’INSISTANCE DES POSSIBLES
– 13 FEBRUARY: BLACK TOP: PAT THOMAS & ORPHY ROBINSON WITH SPECIAL GUEST PETER EVANS

JUST ANNOUNCED:

– 22 FEBRUARY – OTO PROJECT SPACE: SOLO:DUO:TRIO #9 – JOE WRIGHT / FRANCESCA TER-BERG / EDWARD LUCAS (TRIO) + ADAM BOHMAN / BENEDICT TAYLOR (DUO) + LOUIE RICE (SOLO)
– 6 MARCH: 
KAMMER KLANG: PLUS-MINUS ENSEMBLE PERFORM CATHERINE LAMB & NEWTON ARMSTRONG + CLARA LEVY PERFORMS CLARA IANNOTTA & ERIKA VEGA
– 26 + 27 MARCH: SOFA – TWO-DAY RESIDENCY W/ INGAR ZACH + TILBURY / ROWE / BJØRGEENGEN (MON) + VILDE&INGA + MUDDERSTEN (TUES)
– 3 APRIL: KAMMER KLANG: ZWERM ENSEMBLE PERFORM JOANNA BAILIE & EARLE BROWN & JOHN DOWLAND + CATERINA BARBIERI (LIVE)
– 1 MAY: KAMMER KLANG: LORE LIXENBERG PERFORMS CONLON NANCARROW + NAOMI SATO + HEN OGLEDD
– 5 JUNE: KAMMER KLANG: NEIL LUCK + OLIVER COATES & FRIENDS PERFORM CHAMBER MUSIC BY LAURIE SPIEGEL

DIGITAL RELEASE

FATAKA

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

Fataka is an improvised music label started in October 2012 by Trevor Brent who aims “to present on Fataka improvised music, in all its radical plainness and complexity”.

“High quality recordings by some of the best improvisers around” – All About Jazz

Available as 320k MP3 or 24 bit FLAC

NEW IN THE SHOP

DIRTY SONGS – DIRTY SONGS PLAY DIRTY SONGS (LP/CD)

SUN RA ARKESTRA – UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARSHALL ALLEN RESIDENCY (A2 POSTER)

VINYL FREAK: LOVE LETTERS TO A DYING MEDIUM (BOOK)

HENNING CHRISTIANSEN – UMWÄLZUNG (2CD)

HENNING CHRISTIANSEN – RØDHÆTTE / RUINMUSIK (7″)

GUO – GUO1 (CD)

JOHN BUTCHER / RHODRI DAVIES – CARLIOL (CD)

AKIO SUZUKI & JOHN BUTCHER – IMMEDIATE LANDSCAPES (CD)

TONY CONRAD – TEN YEARS ALIVE ON THE INFINITE PLAIN (2CD)

YEAH YOU – KRUTCH (LP)

MAX EASTLEY / DEREK BAILEY / COUM / FEMINIST IMPROVISING GROUP – ANOTHER EVENING AT LOGOS 1974 79 81: RECORD ONE (LP)

[AHMED] NEW JAZZ IMAGINATION (LP)


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