Adam Curtis did an Adam Curtis on OTO 😂
June 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Adam Curtis did an Adam Curtis on OTO 😂
Incoming! 4 nights with one of the best live bands in the world, أحمد [Ahmed], at OTO on the 12/13/14/15 of November. Highest possible recommendation!
On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.
On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.
June 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Incoming! 4 nights with one of the best live bands in the world, أحمد [Ahmed], at OTO on the 12/13/14/15 of November. Highest possible recommendation!
On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.
On sale now for OTO members & publicly on Wednesday.
My fave place in the world turned 17 today. Here's Habib's billboard artwork for the occasion.
Gentrification, rising rent & costs is squeezing us harder than ever, so if you want us to keep going & remain independent grab a membership:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/membership/
Gentrification, rising rent & costs is squeezing us harder than ever, so if you want us to keep going & remain independent grab a membership:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/membership/
April 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
My fave place in the world turned 17 today. Here's Habib's billboard artwork for the occasion.
Gentrification, rising rent & costs is squeezing us harder than ever, so if you want us to keep going & remain independent grab a membership:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/membership/
Gentrification, rising rent & costs is squeezing us harder than ever, so if you want us to keep going & remain independent grab a membership:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/membership/
Ok by pure co-incidence (honestly!) it's Amina's birthday today. She's 83! Come see her solo at OTO or Counterflows in April, she's amazing.
March 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Ok by pure co-incidence (honestly!) it's Amina's birthday today. She's 83! Come see her solo at OTO or Counterflows in April, she's amazing.
Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies kicks off a 4 day solo run at OTO tonight. Can't recommend this enough: Rhodri has a stalwart of the underground & experimental scene(s) for 4 decades now. He's got 6 harps in toe with him. Time to go deep with those strings.
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
March 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies kicks off a 4 day solo run at OTO tonight. Can't recommend this enough: Rhodri has a stalwart of the underground & experimental scene(s) for 4 decades now. He's got 6 harps in toe with him. Time to go deep with those strings.
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
I guess it was inevitable:
March 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I guess it was inevitable:
3 years with this total dafty ❤️
February 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
3 years with this total dafty ❤️
On a more serious note... Glasgow rolecall?!
February 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
On a more serious note... Glasgow rolecall?!
Next Weds & Thurs it gives me great pleasure to welcome Sachiko M for a residency at OTO. I first heard Sachiko's sampler sine waves on Otomo Yoshihide's take on Out to Lunch, & have been fascinated by her since. Expect solos, collabs w/Pat Thomas, Li Song, & more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sachi...
February 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Next Weds & Thurs it gives me great pleasure to welcome Sachiko M for a residency at OTO. I first heard Sachiko's sampler sine waves on Otomo Yoshihide's take on Out to Lunch, & have been fascinated by her since. Expect solos, collabs w/Pat Thomas, Li Song, & more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sachi...
Fare thee well Scottish percussion legend Jamie Muir. Here's him talking about percussion and rubbish in Microphone Magazine 1972. Check it out and listen to Dart Drug and Larks' Tongues in Aspic today.
February 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Fare thee well Scottish percussion legend Jamie Muir. Here's him talking about percussion and rubbish in Microphone Magazine 1972. Check it out and listen to Dart Drug and Larks' Tongues in Aspic today.
Taku remains one of my favourite living guitarists. These 2 solo efforts in particular are essential:
February 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Taku remains one of my favourite living guitarists. These 2 solo efforts in particular are essential:
This Saturday coming:
February 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This Saturday coming:
You could easily do one of those derek guy style threads for well dressed bass players. Big shout out too to Ron Carter:
February 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
You could easily do one of those derek guy style threads for well dressed bass players. Big shout out too to Ron Carter:
We've got Jamaaladeen Tacuma in the house tonight. A peerless bass player, of course, but also the man with the fiercest threads in the game:
February 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We've got Jamaaladeen Tacuma in the house tonight. A peerless bass player, of course, but also the man with the fiercest threads in the game:
Picked up these 3 for the price of a few pints. Whirled Music is a 1st press too. Bit wild.
January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Picked up these 3 for the price of a few pints. Whirled Music is a 1st press too. Bit wild.
Turns out that 2025 celebrates 25 years of the Chicago unit Haptic. One of the very few electroacoustic units that have a chemistry that just works. I love their sensitive approach to space & time, their economic use of materials, and how they apply these to create a kind of tantric swell of sound.
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Turns out that 2025 celebrates 25 years of the Chicago unit Haptic. One of the very few electroacoustic units that have a chemistry that just works. I love their sensitive approach to space & time, their economic use of materials, and how they apply these to create a kind of tantric swell of sound.
I love most of Lynch's work, but Inland Empire one probably one of those formative "WTF!" cultural experiences that will still stick with me forever. What i'd do right now to grab a few cans and hide out in some cinema this weekend and do it all again.
January 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I love most of Lynch's work, but Inland Empire one probably one of those formative "WTF!" cultural experiences that will still stick with me forever. What i'd do right now to grab a few cans and hide out in some cinema this weekend and do it all again.
From Mazen Kerbaj:
January 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
From Mazen Kerbaj:
More announcementy things! It's a great pleasure to announce a 4 day solo OTO residency for Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies on the 17-20 of March 2025.
Featuring compositions written for him, his own compositions, works on early Welsh bray and horsehair harps and more.
cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
Featuring compositions written for him, his own compositions, works on early Welsh bray and horsehair harps and more.
cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
January 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
More announcementy things! It's a great pleasure to announce a 4 day solo OTO residency for Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies on the 17-20 of March 2025.
Featuring compositions written for him, his own compositions, works on early Welsh bray and horsehair harps and more.
cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
Featuring compositions written for him, his own compositions, works on early Welsh bray and horsehair harps and more.
cafeoto.co.uk/events/rhodr...
A handful of the heavy festive spins the last week or two:
January 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A handful of the heavy festive spins the last week or two:
'Tis the season for lists and all that🎄 Narrowed it down to 12 releases that got under my skin most:
December 19, 2024 at 1:32 PM
'Tis the season for lists and all that🎄 Narrowed it down to 12 releases that got under my skin most:
This new archive release is getting some hype atm, and its 100% justified. Knotted, hard, assured, beautiful music, with McCoy, Joe, Henry and Jack at the absolute peak of their powers.
December 3, 2024 at 10:48 AM
This new archive release is getting some hype atm, and its 100% justified. Knotted, hard, assured, beautiful music, with McCoy, Joe, Henry and Jack at the absolute peak of their powers.