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SUMMARY:Music for Contra Bass Clarinet\, Electric Guitar & Electronics
DESCRIPTION:A contra bass clarinet\, an electric guitar\, a female voice as well as electronics in new and contemporary pieces by Morton Feldman\, David Ryan\, Toru Takemitsu\, Christina Oorebeek\, Christian Carey\, Christian Wolff\, Mark Dyer as well as “Magnetic River” for solo electric guitar and “Translucent Ikon ” for contra bass clarinet and electric guitar by Thanos Chrysakis and a new ensemble work by Tim Hodgkinson.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/music-for-contra-bass-clarinet-electric-guitar-electronics/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
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SUMMARY:From the Lips to the Moon: NOISE COMPLAINT
DESCRIPTION:From the Lips to the Moon returns to Cafe OTO for an electrifying long-form improvisation of music and words led by live-electronic music wizard Pouya Ehsaei and voice-shifting performer-writer Tara Fatehi. \nEach From the Lips to the Moon show features a fresh lineup of guest musicians and poets\, creating an intimate yet expansive space of playfulness and transformation. For this Cafe OTO edition Pouya and Tara are joined by the spellbinding percussionist Mauritzio Ravalico\, poet and national slam winner Maureen Onwunali and more TBA. \nThis event marks the launch of a new poetry publication featuring writings by Tim Etchells\, Nisha Ramayya\, Tara Fatehi\, Belinda Zhawi\, Maureen Onwunali\, and more. \nWeaving together live electronics\, unearthly melodies\, noise\, twisted beats\, performative poetry\, heavy subs\, and non-stories told in goosebumps and half-familiar languages\, the night invites audiences into a space where dark fantasy\, experimentation\, and unexpected encounters unfold. Since 2022\, From the Lips to the Moon has become a driving force in London’s experimental performance scene\, with past shows at Southbank Centre\, V&A Museum\, Cafe OTO\, 180 Studios\, Sophiensaele\, Teatro Lucido\, NTS and Soho Radio. www.lipstomoon.com \n‘Futuristic\, colourfully surreal and fantastical—like looking through a kaleidoscope.’ Worms
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/from-the-lips-to-the-moon-noise-complaint/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Literature,Live Music,Performing Arts,Poetry,Shows
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SUMMARY:Upset The Rhythm - Cafe OTO showcase w/ Rattle\, Me Lost Me\, Quinie\, Es\, Dog Chocolate\, Mary Currie
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nRATTLE\nQUINIE\nES\nSHAKE CHAIN (DJ set)\nTuesday 25 November\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/U19e86228aea \nRATTLE released their third album ‘Encircle’ on Upset The Rhythm at the start of the 2025. ‘Encircle’ sees the drumming duo expand their unique experiments in rhythm\, metre and tension. Rattle have honed the four songs that make up ‘Encircle’ by playing them live over the last few years\, adapting and stretching them into endlessly inventive new shapes\, playing with the concept of time and expectation. With ‘Encircle’ Rattle have grown\, writing songs alive with elemental power. They build-up and disintegrate\, existing in two places at once\, embracing the nuance\, tracing the circle’s edge. These are modes of song as pure gesture and eternal imagination\, refined in mirrors after midnight. Rattle have toured the UK with Animal Collective and Thurston Moore and toured Europe with The Julie Ruin and Protomartyr\, and have also performed with Hot Snakes\, Bill Orcutt Quartet and Codeine. \nhttps://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/encircle \nQUINIE released her her third album ‘Forefowk\, Mind Me’ with Upset The Rhythm back in May this year. The record is largely sung in Scots language\, one of Scotland’s three official languages along with Gaelic and English. “Scots gives me a way of expressing myself which is connected directly with the landscapes I love. It brings the songs alive and it is a fascinating language. The name of the record is in Scots – Forefowk means the people who came before\, or ancestors. When we say ‘mind me\,’ we can mean a few things- remind\, remember\, watch over or care for me. The record explores how tradition needs to be constantly reconnected with\, built upon\, looked after\, and shared.” To develop this record\, Quinie travelled across Argyll with her horse. They went on a pilgrimage of sorts through the ancient landscapes of the West of Scotland to explore the interconnected relationships between people\, ancestors\, animals\, and place. \nhttps://www.quinie.co.uk/ \nES released an incredible EP titled ‘Fantasy’ in 2023 (on Upset The Rhythm). Echoing the legendary Pylon or the later\, disco-inspired releases from PIL\, tracks like ‘Emergency’ and ‘Unreal’ blend the band’s established disjunctive style of gothic restlessness with brighter\, poppy\, and danceable tones. These stylistically unwind in transition with the increasingly claustrophobic pieces like ‘Too Late’ and ‘Swallowed Whole’\, syncopating a parallel design of the frantic and the fashionable. Es deconstruct our modern wreckage of personhood and self-deceit\, granting a sense of solidarity inside alienation. This show represents Es’ final show for Upset The Rhythm\, as the musical project winds up this December. \nhttps://esband.bandcamp.com/ \n  \nUpset The Rhythm presents… \nME LOST ME\nMARY CURRIE & THE PGs – FLAMING TUNES set\nDOG CHOCOLATE\nNORMIL HAWAIIANS (DJ set)\nWednesday 26 November\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/S8d66c1f896c \nME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling\, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully weave together disparate genres\, drawing influence from folk\, art pop\, noise\, ambient and improvised music. In 2023 Me Lost Me released the critically regarded album ‘RPG’ and toured extensively in support of the release. On Me Lost Me’s fourth full-length\, This Material Moment – released this June through Upset the Rhythm – she has created an “emotionally raw” album\, her most honest and vulnerable yet. Me Lost Me presents sound reaching in opposite directions\, straddling time towards the archaic and timeless traditions of folktales\, and towards the possible and potential futures of pastoral Britain and the world at large. This is an album which uses words as a material\, a playful tool for experimentation\, full of metaphor\, abstraction and analogies. Jayne affirms\, “it has softness and anger\, humour\, hope and despair\, intensity of feeling in all directions expressed as textures\, objects\, places.” \nhttps://www.melostme.com/ \nMARY CURRIE released a collaborative 7” with Robert Sotelo last October on Upset The Rhythm entitled ‘Dream Songs’. Not only did the title capture the hazy\, reflective nature of the music it also expounds on the mysterious origin of the tracks. Mary Currie is best known as half of touchstone DIY experimentalists Flaming Tunes\, alongside Gareth Williams (of This Heat). Currie also performed in Officer! with Mick Hobbs amongst others. For this performance Mary appears alongside her bandmates Alison Craig\, Marcus Holdaway\, Nick Haeffner and William Hayter\, as The PGs performing songs from their Flaming Tunes repertoire. \nhttps://flamingtunes.bandcamp.com/album/flaming-tunes \nDOG CHOCOLATE sound like a crowded room but are actually four individuals. Abandoning notions of elegance\, cred and professionalism they embrace the ramshackle\, instant and fun\, capturing a vivid spontaneity with their music. Their sound is a shabby\, fast\, over-excited ball of wet fur falling down the stairs\, knocking over plant pots along the way and staining the carpet. With an average song time of 2 minutes\, Dog Chocolate are on to the next treat before fully digesting the last. Chewing up bits of punk\, post-punk\, noise and pop\, Matthew and Robert’s guitars race around each other like wasps\, pitch-shifting and phasing all over the place while Jono’s rolled-up-newspaper drums chase them round the room. The band have released a split LP with Ravioli Me Away and two full length albums on Upset The Rhythm. Dog Chocolate’s new album is due out early 2026. \nhttps://dogchocolate.bandcamp.com \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/upset-the-rhythm-cafe-oto-showcase-w-rattle-me-lost-me-quinie-es-dog-chocolate-mary-currie/2025-11-25/2/
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CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:WALT McCLEMENTS + JACKEN ELSWYTH
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nWALT McCLEMENTS\nJACKEN ELSWYTH\nWednesday 27 August\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q090a15c33bd \nWALT McCLEMENTS is an accordionist\, multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles. His solo compositions focus on processed accordion\, creating patient and emotional meditations that nod to drone and ambient music. His debut record\, “A Hole in the Fence” was released in 2021 on American Dreams\, and utilized a minimal palette of accordions treated through guitar pedals to create glacial soundscapes and odes to hidden worlds. On his latest record and first for Western Vinyl\, “On a Painted Ocean”\, he expands his sonic tools to include lush synths\, droning pipe organs\, and spirited horns\, creating a vibrant journey from solitary stillness to community exuberance. The record also follows last year’s “Rain on the Road”\, a collaborative album with harpist Mary Lattimore\, released on Thrill Jockey. \nPrior to releasing music under his own name\, McClements has been a touring member of Weyes Blood\, Hurray for the Riff Raff\, and Dark Dark Dark\, as well as leading New Orleans art-punk brass ensemble Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? and one man band Lonesome Leash.\nhttps://www.waltmcclements.com/ \nJACKEN ELSWYTH is a London-based folk musician\, banjo player\, and instrument builder. In her music making she is focused on exploring traditional tunes\, developing extrapolations on folk styles and techniques\, and investigating drone\, ambience\, and improvisation within and beyond folk music. Her debut album At Fargrounds (Wrong speed Records\, 2024) was described as a ‘folk-thesis for our times’ by The Quietus. Jacken also organises the Betwixt & Between split tape series\, and plays in Shovel Dance Collective too.\nhttps://jackenelswyth.bandcamp.com/ \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/walt-mcclements-jacken-elswyth/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Entertainment,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:Dirar Kalash's Sonic Front With Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Jaar\, Max Hallett & John Edwards + Dj Set By Karagoz \nJoin Palestinian improv and jazz musician and sound artist Dirar Kalash and his friends on this Sonic Front night. Dirar Kalash\, whose work spans a wide range of musical and sonic practices within a variety of instrumental\, compositional and improvisational contexts\, is mostly known for his politically driven soundscape / electro-acoustic project “The Sonic Front”\, \n  \nSurprise guests will join Dirar to form an electric-free jazz ensemble\, performing electro-acoustic pieces with recent sounds from Palestine and Lebanon. These include esteemed composer and musician Jaar\, Max Hallett\, best known for drumming in the trio The Comet Is Coming\, bandmates Shabaka Hutchings on saxophone\, virtuoso John Edwards on bass\, and Karagoz (Yamen Makdad and Tasos Stamou).  \nThe Sonic Front is a sonic get-together to protest the ongoing massacres\, encompassing all of Palestine\, Yemen\, Syria and Lebanon. 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/dirar-kalashs-sonic-front-with-special-guests/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
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SUMMARY:SCREENSAVER + ME LOST ME + MARCEL WAVE
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm label showcase featuring… \nSCREENSAVER\nME LOST ME\nMARCEL WAVE\nWednesday 14 August\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £11 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q72f781acc64 \nSCREENSAVER is finally making its way to Europe and the UK this August. The Melbourne synth-punks blend the dark and moody elements of post-punk and new wave with synth sounds\, both caustic and cosmic\, to create a sound that is tense\, direct\, and often undeniably danceable. Their sophomore album ‘Decent Shapes’ was released in late 2023 on Upset The Rhythm to critical acclaim\, with praise from Rolling Stone\, Post-Trash and Maximum Rock’n’Roll. With extensive US and Aussie tours already under their belt\, the band is excited to make it to the UK and EU for the first time.\nhttps://screensaver.bandcamp.com/ \nME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling\, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent\, who takes influence from folk\, art pop\, noise\, ambient and improvised music\, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavour to an expanded group\, regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as “stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out”\, and by BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson as a “brilliant peculiar noise”. Me Lost Me’s latest RPG album was released last summer on Upset The Rhythm.\nhttps://www.melostme.com/ \nMarcel Waves writes eulogies for tragic actresses\, ancient riverbeds\, and concrete obscenity. Their inaugural sonic instalment\, ‘Something Looming’ (Upset The Rhythm)\, is part of a trades club symphony\, itchy serenade\, and wistful lament. As their heady concoction of ‘Meades meets Pat-E-Smith meets Kirklees Borough Council’ gets prepped to be formally baptised on a dank stage near you. Formed when Lindsay Corstorphine and Christopher Murphy of Sauna Youth and brethren Oliver and Patrick Fisher of Cold Pumas were summoned by northern ink-slinger Maike Hale-Jones\, Marcel Wave’s debut offering is a walk through a smoke-filled pub with yellowing wallpaper and all eyes on you. It’s a chronicle of the death of the docklands\, the decline of industry\, the high street\, civic pride\, civilisations\, hopes and dreams.\nhttps://marcel-wave.bandcamp.com
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/screensaver-me-lost-me-marcel-wave/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
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SUMMARY:EARTH BALL - ‘It’s Yours’ album launch + CHRIS CORSANO + TERRINE
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents…\nEARTH BALL – ‘It’s Yours’ album launch\nCHRIS CORSANO\nTERRINE\nMonday 20 May\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £14 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Q5215784e354 \nEARTH BALL are a wild ensemble from Canada\, mainly based on Vancouver Island. Their inception was serendipitous\, emerging out of necessity when Isabel Ford\, John Brennan\, and Jeremy Van Wyck needed a name for a gig. What began as a pragmatic solution blossomed into an artistically conceived project. Embracing complete improvisation\, free expression and a truly psychedelic sound\, the group’s lineup expands for different projects and now features Kellen Maclaughlin on Guitar and Liam Murphy on Saxophone. Each member brings a diverse musical background\, having been part of various bands such as Shearing Pinx\, Plan Your Future\, Kamikaze Nurse\, Eschatons and Psychedelic Dirt. Their individual collaborations with artists like Deerhoof\, Raven Chacon\, Chris Corsano\, William Hooker\, and others enrich their collective experience\, forging a powerful musical force. \nEarth Ball’s first cassette ‘Fruiting Bodies’\, released in 2021 under Misophonia Records\, was followed by the self-released album ‘Go to Earth.’ The creative momentum continued with the digital and cassette release of ‘Have One’ in 2023. Earth Ball’s dynamic presence has reverberated across the west coast of Canada.  The group’s live shows are ecstatic and spontaneous\, offering audiences a unique experience at every performance. Notably\, their appearance alongside legendary experimental duo Wolf Eyes in August 2023 underscored their standing in the experimental scene. As Earth Ball continues to push the boundaries of improvisation and sonic exploration\, it remains a guiding light for those seeking a transcendental musical experience. The group’s upcoming album ‘It’s Yours’ will be released on LP / digital by Upset The Rhythm this May and marks another significant leap forward.\nhttps://earthball.bandcamp.com/ \nCHRIS CORSANO is an upstate NY-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation\, free jazz\, avant-rock\, and noise music since the late 1990s. Corsano is one of the greatest drummers working today\, developing a percussive language of extraordinary amplitude and infinite resources. His collaborations stretch from free jazz greats (Joe McPhee\, Evan Parker\, Paul Flaherty & more) to noise mavens (Jandek\, Bill Nace\, C Spencer Yeh etc) and pop superstars (Björk). Capable of generating narrative out of permanent ecstasy\, Corsano never ceases to be profoundly affirmative and imposing of his language. Being an absolute and charismatic virtuoso\, he simultaneously is one of the most noble and generous improvisers of the few last decades. \nA move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music – a dynamic\, spontaneously-composed amalgam of extended techniques for drum set and non-percussive instruments of his own making\, e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads\, modified reed instruments\, and stockpiles of resonant metal. In February 2006\, Corsano released his first solo recording\, The Young Cricketer\, and toured extensively throughout Europe\, USA\, Australia\, and Japan. In 2009\, Corsano returned focus to his own projects\, including a duo with Michael Flower\, Vampire Belt (with Bill Nace)\, Rangda (with Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny) and his solo work\, further expanded in its use of contact microphones and synthesizers. In 2017\, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award. \nCorsano’s dedication to collective improvisation has led to collaborations with many kindred spirits and his appearance on over 150 records and 1000 live performances. He’s worked with\, among others\, Paul Dunmall (released by ESP-Disk)\, Joe McPhee (Roaratorio)\, Okkyung Lee (Open Mouth)\, Earth Ball (Upset The Rhythm)\, Nate Wooley (No Business & Astral Spirits)\, Jim O’Rourke & Akira Sakata (Drag City)\, Merzbow (Family Vineyard)\, Jessica Rylan (Load Records)\, John Edwards\, Nels Cline\, Heather Leigh\, Ghédalia Tazartès and Sunburned Hand Of Man.\nhttps://chriscorsano.bandcamp.com/music \nTERRINE is Claire Gapenne\, an artist and musician from Amiens in the north of France. She has been part of the experimental scene since 2012\, notably in the industrial rock band Headwar\, with whom she discovered other ways of performing music. Begun in 2013\, her solo project Terrine develops spontaneous and immediate music. In 2014\, she also formed Me Donner alongside Romain Simon\, a band at the fringes of no-wave\, no-techno and improvised music. In 2017\, Me Donner and Les Conférences Bunker founded the group Les Conférences Donner\, where Claire plays free guitar. Finally\, in 2021\, she started an electronic project with Amédée de Murcia called Jazzoux during a residency at Paris’ Instants Chavirés. Claire Gapenne’s music is hosted on many different labels\, from No Lagos to Tanzprocesz\, Bruit Direct\, and Third Type Tape.\nhttps://terrine.bandcamp.com/ \n  \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/earth-ball-its-yours-album-launch-chris-corsano-terrine/
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SUMMARY:THE PHEROMOANS - ‘Wyrd Psearch’ album launch
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nTHE PHEROMOANS – ‘Wyrd Psearch’ album launch\nAPOSTILLE\nDEAN RODNEY JR. & THE COWBOYS\nFLEX DJs (HP Sorcery & The Plague)\nTuesday 5 March\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £10 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/ed1d116c8c37 \nTHE PHEROMOANS are tenants of an unruly domain. Over the last 18 years the group have evolved from garage rock primitivists to auteurs of their own curious sound; a frothy brew of loose electronics\, refractory rock and humdrum musing. Their songs are mutable\, capricious\, unreliable narrations\, often withholding as much as they reveal. Russell Walker’s understated vocal has always been the band’s unifying focus\, it is wry\, unsparing and wilfully honest. Walker’s lyrics are an observational tour de force\, sometimes droll\, yet often tipping over into unlikely pathos. With previous releases on Upset The Rhythm\, Convulsive and Alter\, 2024 will witness The Pheromoans return with lucky album number 13\, entitled ‘Wyrd Psearch’ (out March 1st on Upset The Rhythm). \n‘Wyrd Psearch’ was recorded in Lewes throughout 2023. This was undertaken by founding member James Tranmer\, his keen instinct for how the band should sound shaping many of the creative decisions. Joined by new guitarist Henry Holmes\, the five piece doubled down on a decidedly breezy\, melodic approach. Scott Reeve’s drumming is ever brisk\, whilst Daniel Bolger explores AOR peripheries on keyboard and bass. “Wyrd Psearch finds us on relatively zestful form” affirms Walker “whether it be merrily recalling the Jason Williamson / Tim Lovejoy Covid summit\, or mentally bathing in the pleasures of lunch hours spent strapped to a listening post in Borders.” With The Pheromoans there is always a familiarity at play\, only broken and reassembled\, like a bygone sitcom gone rogue in your memory. This contributes to the group’s peculiarly British outsider perspective\, one that shouts from the sidelines\, but never goes unnoticed.\nhttps://upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com/album/wyrd-psearch \nAPOSTILLE is a man who’s torn through enough soundsystems to know the difference between gesture and meaning. Alongside running his own DIY record label Night School Records\, Glasgow native Michael Kasparis has previously made forays into the realm of hardcore punk with his groups Anxiety and The Lowest Form. Throughout all this\, his solo electronic venture Apostille has continued to evolve with each twist and turn of the world. What started off as a quest to whip up a mood and force that into a song has steadily become more of a mission in communication. The third Apostille album\, ‘Prisoners Of Love And Hate’\, is released on Night School on September 22nd.\nhttps://apostille.bandcamp.com/album/prisoners-of-love-and-hate \nDEAN RODNEY JR. is an artist and the lead singer of Dean Rodney Jr. & The Cowboys. In this latest project he puts on the golden suit and riffs about food\, jiggling body parts and more over tight disco pop. Backed by Rosie Ridgeway\, Jack Barraclough\, Tom Hirst and Robyn Steward\, you better watch out as there’s a new sheriff in town! Their debut album ‘The Yeehaw Moment’ is out now. Dean was also the frontman of The Fish Police\, has collaborated with Ravioli Me Away and during lockdown\, Dean wrote and recorded 54 albums\, describing a fictional alternative version of the present day\, Dean TV World.\nhttps://deanrodneyjrandthecowboys.bandcamp.com
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-pheromoans-wyrd-psearch-album-launch/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:LINDA SMITH & NANCY ANDREWS + RATTLE + RUSSELL WALKER
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm present their 20th birthday party with… \n\n\n\nLINDA SMITH & NANCY ANDREWSRATTLERUSSELL WALKERSaturday 9 DecemberCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y1c88667d259 \n\n\n\nLINDA SMITH & NANCY ANDREWS shared a big house in Baltimore in 1983 with a continuously revolving cast of artists and musicians. It was there the like-minded artists formed their first band\, Ceramic Madonna Head\, a short-lived project which included housemates Elizabeth Downing and Peggy Bitzer. By the time the lease was up\, Linda and Peggy had decided to move to New York where they would form a new band called The Woods while Nancy and Elizabeth remained in Baltimore and formed a performance art band called Lambs Eat Ivy. \n\n\n\nWhile playing guitar in The Woods in the mid-80’s Linda purchased her first 4-track cassette recorder and embarked on a pioneering decade of solo\, DIY home recording with a series of cassettes and 7” records of smart and moody singer-songwriter bedroom pop music. This trailblazing period was recently documented on jewel-box compilation ‘Sky Girl’ and Captured Tracks’ retrospective compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996.’ During this same period Nancy pursued art\, animation and filmmaking. The friends stayed in touch but hadn’t worked on a project together in nearly thirty years. \n\n\n\nIn 2020\, Linda rediscovered in the back of a drawer some old tapes of Nancy’s songs she had recorded for her in the 90’s. In the process of digitizing the old recordings she was inspired to reach out and float the idea of a new collaborative recording project with her old friend. ‘A Passing Cloud’ (Grapefruit/Gertrude Records) is the fruit of their rekindled long-distance musical conversation. All the songs were composed incrementally by passing tracks back and forth between Maine and Maryland\, making for some beguiling pop music that draws us in with a carefully rendered intimacy.https://lindasmith2.bandcamp.com/album/a-passing-cloud \n\n\n\nRATTLE are a UK-based duo\, Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums\, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley\, Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk\, minimalism and experimental rock\, through off-kilter rhythms\, patterns and counter melodies. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats\, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new – a pretty rare feat these days when we’re saturated with so much music. Rattle’s immense ‘Sequence’ album came out recently through Upset The Rhythm.https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\nRUSSELL WALKER is a 43 year old resident of Hitchin\, Hertfordshire who dislikes Piers Morgan’s son. He  writes / performs on his own as well as in various projects – his most recent releases are Soothers with Malvern Brume (Are You Before\, 2023) and I Can’t Remember as the Lloyd Pack (Digital Regress\, 2023).https://on.soundcloud.com/aACG9
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/linda-smith-nancy-andrews-rattle-russell-walker/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:Phew - Cafe OTO residency
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \n\n\n\nPHEWALISON COTTONME LOST METuesday 17 OctoberCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Ne228acb66c8 \n\n\n\n+ \n\n\n\nPHEWANA DA SILVASUNROOFWednesday 18 OctoberCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL7.30pm | £16 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/t6505dd3f0dc \n\n\n\nPHEW is an avant-garde vocalist\, electronics innovator and post-punk artist. Phew was a founding member of the legendary Japanese punk band Aunt Sally. After the band’s breakup in 1979\, she continued her career as a solo artist\, releasing a collaborative single with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 1980 and her first solo album\, ‘Phew’\, with Conny Plank\, Holger Czukay of CAN\, and Jaki Liebezeit in 1981. In 1992\, her third album\, ‘Our Likeness’\, was released on MUTE (recently reissued)\, again at Conny’s studio\, with Jaki Liebezeit of CAN\, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten\, and Chrislo Haas of DAF. Since the beginning of the 2010s\, she has released a series of works that combine voice and electronic music and has gained international recognition as a forward-facing electronic artist. She has also released collaborative works with Ana da Silva (Raincoats)\, Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms) and others. Phew’s expansive ‘Vertical Jamming’ was released on vinyl for the first time via Disciples last year\, whilst Mute recently released her stunning record ‘New Decade’; a stark\, haunted album populated by voices that intone empty pleasantries in English and Japanese\, against a backdrop of fractured\, dubbed-out electronics.https://phewjapan.bandcamp.com/music \n\n\n\nALISON COTTON is a viola player based in London working in composition and improvisation. Her debut album ’All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre’ was released in 2018\, firstly on cassette on Bloxham Tapes\, followed by a vinyl release on Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube (USA). In July 2019\, her long-form piece\, ‘Behind the Spiderweb Gates\,’ was released on the Australian label Longform Editions. As well as the viola\, she uses an array of other instruments (her voice\, harmonium\, percussion\, recorder\, omnichord\, shruti box and piano) to create long\, haunting folk drones. Cotton’s new album\, ‘The Portrait You Painted of Me’\, is a 6-track record – her first for Rocket Recordings. ‘Mumurations Over the Moor’ is a wordless piece of layered vocals drifting like fog towards a sunset over the green undulations of North East England. ‘The Last Wooden Ship’ evokes the shipyards of Sunderland\, laced with piano and percussion events\, while her voice calls out like a siren urging listeners to a rocky demise.https://alisoncotton-uk.bandcamp.com \n\n\n\nME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling\, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk\, art pop\, noise\, ambient and improvised music\, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavour to an expanded group\, regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as “stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out” and by BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson as a “brilliant peculiar noise”. Me Lost Me’s incredible new album ‘RPG’ is due for release on July 7th via Upset The Rhythm.https://www.melostme.com/ \n\n\n\nANA DA SILVA is a founding member and songwriter of the pioneering post-punk band The Raincoats. Across four daring full-length records\, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it – an act of raw expression\, not any one sound. The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists. They set a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY punk context\, marked all the while by Ana’s poetic lyrical style and innovative noise guitar playing. After The Raincoats’ hiatus in 1984\, Ana collaborated with The Go-Betweens\, This Heat’s Charles Hayward and choreographer/dancer Gaby Agis. In 2005\, Ana released her solo debut\, ‘The Lighthouse’ – a self-recorded collection of spare\, elegant experiments in electronic indie-pop. Ana has also collaborated with Phew on an extraordinary album ‘Island’ released by Newhere Music in 2018.http://www.anadasilva.net/ \n\n\n\nSUNROOF is the pairing of Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones. Their new album\, ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is available via the Parallel Series of Mute. ‘Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2’ is a set of eight improvised modular electronic music instrument pieces recorded at the duo’s respective home studios. The recording sessions followed release of their debut from 2021 but where Vol. 1 was the result of four decades of friendship and collaboration\, this new album came together in a relatively short space of time. Recorded in the same spirit as their previous sessions – with no pre-planning and no rehearsal – they met up with “unpatched” modular systems\, and began improvising. Without any of the parameters they followed in the first sessions\, the duo allowed the pieces to expand naturally\, keeping editing to a minimum.https://mute.ffm.to/sunroof-emivol2
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/phew-cafe-oto-residency/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:BARBARA MANNING + JOWE HEAD
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm & Cafe OTO present… \n\n\n\nBARBARA MANNINGJOWE HEADMonday 24 JulyCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/28th-day-barbara-manning/ \n\n\n\nBARBARA MANNING is an American indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. In addition to her solo career\, Manning has been active in a number of bands\, including 28th Day (with Cole Marquis)\, World of Pooh\, S.F. Seals and The Go-Luckys! She has also distinguished herself as an interpreter of other writers’ songs. Artists she has covered include The Bats (“Smoking Her Wings”)\, Richard Thompson (“The End of the Rainbow”)\, Jackson Browne (“These Days”)\, Portastatic (“Through With People”)\, and Amon Düül (“Marcus Leid”). The idiosyncratic but rewarding Barbara Manning is a little too spiky and odd to fit comfortably in the Lilith Fair crowd\, but her best work outshines those of her bigger-selling peers. Manning’s artistic restlessness and her tendency to jump in and out of bands and recording situations make it difficult to follow her career — her discography must be one of the most confusing in all of the ’90s indie scene — but it also makes her one of the most vital and interesting singer/songwriters of her era.https://barbaramanning.bandcamp.com \n\n\n\nJOWE HEAD is a musician and artist from the Midlands of England\, now living in Hackney\, in east London. He started his musical career in his home town of Solihull with various school friends in 1972\, a project that came to be known as Swell Maps. This group emerged in the late 1970s\, are now known as a pioneer of what is now referred to as the Alternative Rock or Post-Punk scene. They set up their own independent record label and mixed Punk Rock with experimental and psychedelic sounds. Swell Maps released four singles and two albums in a brief but dramatic career\, that led to them topping the UK independent charts and influencing bands such as Sonic Youth\, Nirvana\, and Blur. When they broke up\, Jowe joined Television Personalities. Ten years with the TVPs saw Jowe making more influential records\, touring Europe regularly\, and playing in Japan and the USA.https://jowe-head.com/bio
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/barbara-manning-jowe-head/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:Wendy Eisenberg + Gg
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm & Cafe OTO presents… WENDY EISENBERG Gg Monday 5 June Cafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL \n\n\n\n WENDY EISENBERG is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar\, pedals\, the tenor banjo\, the computer\, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres\, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues\, from international festivals to intimate basements. Though often working solo as a songwriter and improviser\, with acclaimed releases on Tzadik\, Ba Da Bing\, VDSQ\, Out of your Head\, and Dear Life. They also perform in the rock band Editrix and endless other combinations of their heroes and peers\, including Allison Miller\, Carla Kihlstedt\, John Zorn\, Billy Martin\, and Caroline Davis. They are also a writer on music and other things\, with published essays on music in Sound American\, Arcana\, and the Contemporary Music Review. https://www.wendyeisenberg.com/ \n\n\n\nGg improvises with guitar\, drums and cello. Featuring members of Caroline. \n\n\n\n8pm | £12 | Tickets: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/oto-and-upset-the-rhythm-present-wendy-eisenberghttps://link.dice.fm/j7e7e795e1fb
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/wendy-eisenberg-gg/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,Music
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SUMMARY:ME LOST ME + BULBILS + LUKI
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \n\n\n\nME LOST MEBULBILSLUKISunday 5 MarchCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/jfe003fa3a38 \n\n\n\nME LOST ME delights in experimenting with songwriting and storytelling\, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. Led by Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk\, art pop\, noise\, ambient and improvised music\, the project has transformed since 2017 from a solo endeavor to an expanded group; regularly collaborating with acclaimed North-East jazz musicians Faye MacCalman and John Pope. Me Lost Me’s music has been described in The Guardian as “stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out”\, and by BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson as a “brilliant peculiar noise”. \n\n\n\nA prolific writer\, Me Lost Me has released two crowdfunded albums: ‘Arcana’ (2018) and ‘The Good Noise’ (2020)\, which was included in Electronic Sound Magazine’s Album of the Year list. These\, in addition to her latest EP ‘The Circle Dance’ (2021)\, which was described as “her most textural and sonically adventurous music to date” by NARC Magazine\, and an extensive touring schedule around the UK DIY scene\, has won her unique sound much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3’s After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs\, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She recently received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead.https://www.melostme.com/ \n\n\n\nBULBILS is Sally Pilkington and Richard Dawson\, a duo from the Tyne & Wear valley channeling the infinite with their burgeoning\, beguiling homespun music. Their vast catalogue stands at 71 titles (at time of writing) and runs the full gamut with mesmeric\, drifting\, inventive freedom occupying the heart of the group. Resolutely lo-fi\, spontaneous and often unruly\, Bulbils started out as a lockdown coping strategy based around the idea of providing comfort and employing synths\, bass\, drum machines\, vocoder etc. but has sparkily propagated into something truly expansive\, unhurried and horizon-chasing. You can check out all the duo’s recordings on their band camp page linked below. Pilkington and Dawson also perform together in another of our favourite bands\, Hen Ogledd.https://bulbils.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\nLUKI is the music project of singer and pianist Lucy Duncan and producer Misha Rivers. Using voice\, piano\, synths and electronics\, they create atmospheric pop that blends everyday and the imaginary with theatrical and emotive force. Indebted to folk\, post-punk\, art pop and the odd edges of musical theatre\, their music is immersive\, narrative driven and direct. Following the release of ‘Wisps’ on Glasgow’s label GLARC in 2018\, LUKI released a single ‘The Parts’ on lathe-cut label Sonido Polifonico. Their debut EP ‘Half True’\, was self-released recently too.https://glarc.bandcamp.com/album/wisps
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/me-lost-me-bulbils-luki/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Live Music
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SUMMARY:IT IS PEAK
DESCRIPTION:Following the successful series of poetry readings and sonic encounters\, The 87 Press is proud to invite you to the pinnacle of its events this year presenting readings of 7 poets/writers in the company of 2 esteemed DJs. \nCelebrating the launch of Kristine Ong Muslim’s translation of Filipino writer Rogelio Braga’s collection of short stories Is There Rush hour In A Third World Country? The book is the first-ever publication from Filipino to English of a single author short story collection as well as the first translation of a Muslim Filipino writer into English. \nThe event is set to bring together a carefully curated group of outspoken\, radical and grassroots writers Rogelio Braga\, Jesse Darling\, Emma Gomis\, Gareth Farmer. Luke Williams and Natasha Soobramanien will be reading from their Goldsmiths prize winning book “Diego Garcia”. \nWe will also be joined by musical mood-setters\, DJ Sueuga sharing their indigenous Mexican sounds alongside daytimers regular Nadi with her electronic club music and bouncy bass to ensure the night moves the body and the soul through word and sound.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/it-is-peak/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Cheap Tickets,Events in London,Live Music
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221207T233000
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SUMMARY:Naviar Haiku Fest
DESCRIPTION:NAVIAR HAIKU FEST: 7th December\, Café Oto in LondonA unique blend of electronic music and Japanese poetry \n\n\n\nNext December 7th\, at Café Oto in London\, the 4th edition of the Naviar Haiku Fest will take place. A special occasion to share the passion for art by putting together experimental electronic music and the minimalistic Japanese art of Haiku.  \n\n\n\nAfter 2 years\, the event returns featuring performances by members and friends of Naviar Records\, working in ambient\, electronic\, and contemporary classical music fields\, including SIMON MCCORRY\, MANJA RISTIĆ\, AUDIO OBSCURA\, LEON CLOWES\, ENCYM & GEORGE CROWLEY\, and DANIEL GREEN.  \n\n\n\nEach performance will be introduced by haiku poems written and recited by members of the British Haiku Society\, the event’s official partner. All on the iconic stage of Café Oto\, one of the UK’s most representative venues for experimental music.  \n\n\n\nNaviar Records is a music community and label. We explore the connection between experimental electronic music and traditional Japanese poetry through regular publications\, open projects\, and events. \n\n\n\nThis special cultural encounter will be a spectacular occasion to appreciate talented composers playing and learn more about the mastery of combining two different forms of art. 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/naviar-haiku-fest/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Arts,Literature,Live Music,London Musicals,Music
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SUMMARY:THE UN/POSSESSED
DESCRIPTION:You are warmly invited to join the87press for the launch of five new books\, three collections of poetry\, one translated collection of poetry\, and a novel. \nFeaturing poets and writers: Fran Lock\, Gareth Farmer\, Danny Hayward\, Jessica Widner\, and Laura Doyle Péan (who will join us via a virtual reading)\, the event will be blended together with the warm Latinx sounds of Manuka Honey. \nThe five new titles launched on this evening of festivity will bring together topics such as struggles with mental health\, break-up love songs\, autism and woodwork\, Gypsy-Roma Traveller rights\, reflections on work during the Covid-19 Pandemic and post-pandemic recession\, alongside a novel in which a poet dies and haunts two protagonists\, a ballet dancer and a mortician. Expect sauciness\, sassiness\, and sincerity. Two of these titles are Poetry Book Society recommendations for Winter 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver the last four years\, the87press’ bold and daring challenge to the failure of diversity and inclusion initiatives has been well received by a growing international grassroots readership. the87press focuses attention across spectrums of underrepresentation\, featuring regular work from racialised\, LGBTQ+\, Neurodiverse\, and working-class writers across genres\, forms\, and contexts. This event marks the beginning of the fifth year of operations against an increasingly hostile climate for the arts and humanities; your support for the growing partnership between Café Oto and the87press is much appreciated! \nFor more about the87press\, please visit www.the87press.co.uk \nThis event is brought to you in partnership with The Sonic Agent.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/the-un-possessed/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Music,Performing Arts,Writers
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SUMMARY:RACHEL AGGS + ELECTRIC FIRE
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nRACHEL AGGSELECTRIC FIREMonday 11 JulyCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL7.30pm | £8 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/H8123dbd413f \nRACHEL AGGS is a multi instrumentalist and songwriter based in Glasgow. Aggs\, a prolific specialist in euphoric post-punk\, has achieved international acclaim with collaborative touring projects Trash Kit\, Shopping and Sacred Paws. Creating zines and co-ordinating workshops that encourage women\, non-binary people\, and people of colour to form bands\, Aggs has galvanised the DIY scene in the UK. Aggs released a solo album on Lost Map records as part of their Visitations residency in 2019 and self released //Tape 1// in 2020. Both releases showcase Aggs’ signature hybrid post-punk/highlife inspirations stripped down to new minimal extremes. Pulsating\, electronic beats\, coolly-recited lyrical mantras and spindly guitar lines abound in this life affirming music that speaks directly to your heart.https://r4ggs.bandcamp.com \nELECTRIC FIRE is made up of Alicia (vocals)\, Ehima (drums\, percussion and vocals)\, Sam (synths and vocals) and William (laptop\, production and vocals). Their unique sound was developed through Heart n Soul’s digital music project SoundLab. It has evolved into an incredible live act\, and the band have performed on stages from Hong Kong to Amsterdam\, London to Paris. Their heart lifting\, feel good second EP Buzzin’ is all about having fun. Opening with a song about the feeling you get when everything is going your way\, from having rice or sausage rolls for lunch to touring Hong Kong\, this is a band who are all relentlessly positive! Buzzin’ contains four incredible ‘egg funk’ bangers that could only be made by one of the best bands on the planet. 
https://electricfire.bandcamp.com/
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/rachel-aggs-electric-fire/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Arts,Cheap Tickets,Concerts,Gigs,Live Music
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SUMMARY:MODEL HOME - Two day residency w/ HORACIO POLLARD + GAUTE GRANLI (June 10) w/ ROBIN STEWART + DEE BYRNE (June 11)
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nMODEL HOME – Two day residency\nw/ HORACIO POLLARD + GAUTE GRANLI (June 10)\nw/ ROBIN STEWART + DEE BYRNE (June 11)\nFriday 10 & Saturday 11 June\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, Dalston\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/D89677f3b3be \nMODEL HOME is a hyperprolific experimental hip-hop formation from Washington D.C.\, instigated by rapper NappyNappa and producer Pat Cain. The duo recruits an ever-changing cast of collaborators to give each record a new feel: Model Home can sound like post-modern take on old school hip-hop\, glitchy noise or even improvised exploration. The gist of Model Home is that the music pours out like from a faucet\, faithfully channeling the chaos of the everyday thought. Model Home’s music would blend right in with a dystopia. The deteriorating sounds of Patrick Cain’s electronics would be impossible to distinguish from the constant construction that is the score of any contemporary city; NappyNappa’s enigmatic missives would be lost in the roar of public service announcements\, personalized advertisements\, and omnipresent sirens. Built on the edifice of dub sound systems and DIY basement clatter\, their sound is made up of slabs of textured noise and decayed vocals. Releases on Disciples\, Don Giovanni Records and Future Times.\nhttps://modelhomedc.bandcamp.com/ \nHORACIO POLLARD as ever manages to be absurd\, entertaining and challenging all at the same time – it’s frequently hard to position yourself as a listener in the face of this much great / ridiculous music\, and you won’t know whether to guffaw or groan. Who can resist the fun-charged pull of these primitive patterns and primitive\, near-ugly sounds? Pollard is one of the few creative people on the globe (Romain Perrot is another) who understands that “good taste” is the very death of art\, and as such he needs to be cherished like a Siberian Tiger\, albeit one whose pelt is made from artificial dayglo blue fur.\nhttps://bandcamp.com/tag/horacio-pollard \nGAUTE GRANLI channels the churning and grating of unknown presences in a field of indeterminacy into the bulk of his disorienting one-man choir\, where moans distorted by their own reverberation are sustained by the trickling and pounding of unseen forces. A new state of presence\, welcoming heightened sensory lashings that leave a strange\, indelible mark.\nhttps://soundcloud.com/verletzte-kreature \nROBIN STEWART is one half of energetic techno-noise duo Giant Swan with Harry Wright. Recent solo EPs ‘Time Travel’ (Trilogy Tapes)\, ‘Marsupial’ (No Corner) and ‘Albatross’ (ipaadai) showcase Stewart stepping out on his own with bursts of mutated techno\, cavernous dub\, industrial pulses and echoed vocals.\nhttps://soundcloud.com/djmag/premiere-robin-stewart-triffid \nDEE BYRNE is a London-based saxophonist\, composer and improviser. Dee collaborates with artists from the UK and Europe who occupy the area of contemporary jazz\, avant-garde and free improvisation. Fuelled by a love of improvisation and a growing obsession for effects pedals\, Dee’s solo project blends acoustic sounds with interweaving electronic textures and moody soundscapes. WIRE magazine described Byrne’s music as a collection of  “smudged\, sultry alto lines that conjure a Fourth World ambience.”\nhttps://deebyrnemusic.com/ \n 
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/model-home-two-day-residency-w-horacio-pollard-gaute-granli-june-10-w-robin-stewart-dee-byrne-june-11/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Live Music
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SUMMARY:ERIC CHENAUX + ASHLEY PAUL & YONI SILVER
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents \nERIC CHENAUX\nASHLEY PAUL & YONI SILVER\nFriday 4th March\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £12 | https://link.dice.fm/V5e79467840a \nERIC CHENAUX lives in Paris but was a fixture of DIY and experimental music in Toronto throughout the 1990s and 2000s\, progressing from local postpunk legends Phleg Camp and Lifelikeweeds towards a highly distinctive technical and gestural mastery of the amplified acoustic guitar. Eric Chenaux operates among various musical ‘traditions’ but perhaps most broadly\, his records grapple with the relationship between improvisation and structure in particular\, unique\, distinctive ways – and entirely without irony or cynicism\, through love. Because fundamentally\, Chenaux writes love songs\, which he sings in a voice honeyed and precise\, while his guitar gently bends\, frazzles\, chortles\, diverges and decomposes. This juxtaposition of his mellow\, dexterous crooning and his highly experimental (and equally dexterous) guitar explorations explodes even unconventional notions of singing and accompaniment\, of the tonal and timbral interplay between guitar and voice. \nConstellation has been home to Eric’s “solo” records since 2006 – a brilliant discography of adventurous\, sumptuous\, mostly languorous deconstructed folk\, jazz and pop-influenced balladry rooted in the juxtaposition of Chenaux’s fried guitar playing and his gorgeously clear and lyrical singing voice. Eric’s new album comes out this February and is his most immaculate and pristine. ‘Say Laura’ perfectly incarnates the counter-intuitive interplay of instrument and voice that Chenaux has been revealing and revelling in throughout the past decade: his gently unhinged juxtaposition of resplendently smooth\, seductively assured singing and puckish\, thoroughly destabilized guitar could come from no other musician. The five wanderings\, wondering ballads on ‘Say Laura’ bring Chenaux’s semi-improvised but keenly intentional songwriting to its fullest\, most precise\, warmest and coolest articulation; uncompromising and generous\, hyper-specific and loose\, spartan and luxurious\, elemental and ornate.\nhttp://ericchenaux.com/ \nASHLEY PAUL & YONI SILVER will be performing music from Paul’s album ‘RAY’ released in late 2020 on Slip Imprint. Together they explore the fringes of song form and free improvisation\, dissecting melodies and slowly piecing them back\, alluding to shape but only occasionally binding together. It is as if Ashley Paul’s spaciously experimental\, playfully contrasting aesthetics have been eerily anticipating our strange times\, finally locking into the larger zeitgeist with her spellbinding album ‘RAY’.\nhttps://ashleypaul.bandcamp.com/album/ray-2
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/eric-chenaux-ashley-paul-yoni-silver/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
CATEGORIES:Entertainment,Events in London,Gigs,Live Music,London Musicals,Music,Performing Arts
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SUMMARY:BUFFET LUNCH + ME LOST ME + SHAKE CHAIN - Live Concert in London at Cafe Oto
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents… \nBUFFET LUNCH\nME LOST ME\nSHAKE CHAIN\nSaturday 6 November\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £7 | https://link.dice.fm/v9oNFWFE7hb \nBUFFET LUNCH is a Scottish group whose mission is to craft satisfyingly imperfect pop songs filled with imagery and humour. The group’s elementary parts are Perry O’Bray (Vocals/Keys/Guitar)\, Neil Robinson (Bass)\, John Muir (Lead Guitar) & Luke Moran (Drums)\, united by a shared love of music on the ABBA-to-Beefheart axis. This four ricochet between Glasgow and Edinburgh create music that bristles with a DIY spirit and upbeat wonkiness. Their tracks are active excursions\, meandering into clatter some terrain as often as hiking up into the breezy\, melodious foothills. The desire to lead the listener along a curious tale helps tie things together\, showcasing a lyrical playfulness that pins down their sound puzzle. Following their excellent ‘The Power of Rocks’ album (Upset The Rhythm)\, the band returns this November with a vigorous new 7″ EP featuring the tracks’ Mild Weather’ and ‘Cheeks’.\nhttps://buffetlunchband.tumblr.com/ \nME LOST ME is the electronic music project of Newcastle based musician Jayne Dent. Described by BBC Radio 6’s Tom Robinson as a “brilliant peculiar noise”\, Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with genre\, taking influence from folk\, electronica\, art pop\, ambient and noise music to create a beguiling mix of soaring vocals\, synth\, field recordings and hypnotic rhythms. Her live shows are atmospheric\, dark and playful\, with a repertoire that explores storytelling through original songs\, improvisations and reworkings of traditional ballads. She recently released her second album\, ‘The Good Noise’\, out November 2020\, which was described as ‘stunning’ and ‘remarkable’ by NARC Magazine\, demonstrates a maturing of her sound and a deepening of her exploration of site and experiments with the genre.\nhttps://www.melostme.com/ \nSHAKE CHAIN is a 4-piece experimental group formed of Artists Kate Mahony (Vocals)\, Jenna Finch (Drums)\, Robert Eyres (Guitar/Synth) and Chris Hopkins (Bass Synth) hailing from Goldsmiths College\, Nottingham Trent and Wimbledon\, University of the Arts. Formed through a love of thought-provoking performance art and a yearning for disruption\, they recorded their debut EP ‘Neil Yonge and Bob Dylan Live at Hyde Park’ in 2019 with sound artist David Carugo at Oxford Brookes University released by Permanent Slump. Shake Chain provide a fusion of post-punk experimental sampled noise grooves and chaotic lamenting on the current state of things.\nhttps://katemahony.com/Shake-Chain
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/buffet-lunch-me-lost-me-shake-chain-live-concert-in-london-at-cafe-oto/
LOCATION:cafe oto\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL
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SUMMARY:BERTIE MARSHALL - ‘Exhibit’ album launch
DESCRIPTION:Upset The Rhythm presents \nBERTIE MARSHALL – ‘Exhibit’ album launch\nLUVIA\nSaturday\, October 30th\nCafe OTO\, 18-22 Ashwin St\, London\, E8 3DL\n7.30pm | £10 | https://link.dice.fm/xRG9evauYgb \nBERTIE MARSHALL is a writer/ performer. He is also an acclaimed memoirist\, most well known for his book ‘Berlin Bromley’ (2006) about his transformation from Bertie\, an anxious\, androgynous\, depressed teenager\, into Berlin\, a teenager who would reject suburban values and become a founding member of punk’s ‘Bromley Contingent. Alongside Siouxsie Sioux\, Steven Severin and Billy Idol\, He is currently working on ‘Looking: Backwards To Go Forwards’\, picking up from ‘Berlin Bromley’ left off. \nHis other books include the debut novel ‘Psychoboys’ (1997)\, ‘Nowhere Slow’ (2014)\, ‘From Sleepwalking to Sleepwalking’ (2016)\, ‘Wild – re write’ (2017)\, ‘The Peeler’ (2018) and ‘Pete’s Underpants’ (2019). In 2015 the British Library purchased his writing archive.\nFrom 1980-83\, Bertie was the frontman for post-punk boundary-pushers Behaviour Red – they released one single (favourably played by John Peel)\, did a mini-tour and broke up. At various times Behaviour Red featured Noel Blanden of Normil Hawaiians and fine artist Nicola Tyson. Their sound was characterised by looseness and freedom\, boasting tribal drumming\, streams of vocals\, dazed guitars and feedback. Bertie continued sketching out atmospheric compositions afterwards\, too\, walking a tightrope between bewildered pop and gothic folk. Bertie’s commanding voice; heartfelt\, passionate and masterfully leading you through the story. \nBertie became interested in spoken word and performance poetry in the 90s\, which led him to write and perform in his plays and devised theatre pieces. He did regular readings and performances in NYC and began writing books inspired by the visceral talents of Acker & Burroughs. Having lived in Berlin\, San Francisco\, and Brittany\, Bertie now lives in London.\nOctober 29th sees Upset The Rhythm release ‘Exhibit’ by Bertie Marshall\, collecting for the first time his songs and spoken word tracks from this fertile period of the 80s-90s. This show will be its timely album launch featuring Bertie reunited with many original musical collaborators.\n \nLUVIA\, aka Maddie Vincent\, makes ethereal\, melancholic pop. Luvia’s haunting vocals and honest\, passionate storytelling are based upon a dissociative state. Inspired by cinematography and film\, her music has been described as an escape\, finding a muse in bold characters and dreamscape visuals.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/bertie-marshall-exhibit-album-launch/
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