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Alan Wilkinson / John Edwards / Steve Noble
WED 10 FEB '10 • 8PM • £6
This trio has become one of the hottest bands on the London scene, reaching a new and enthusiastic young audience for the music..... MORE>
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Alan Courtis & Aaron Moore - 'Argentine Home Movie Cavalcade'
THUR 11 FEB '10 • 8PM • £6
Following their appearance in The Wire's and other 2009 end-of-year polls for their 'Brokebox Juke' lp, Courtis/Moore return to the UK to perform live improvised soundtracks to this Argentine found-film collage.... MORE>
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MATTHEW SHIPP 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1 - MATTHEW SHIPP / PAUL DUNMALL / JOHN EDWARDS / MARK SANDERS
FRI 12 FEB '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Matthew Shipp is one of the most distinctive and inventive jazz pianists working today, a player whose compositional and improvisational brilliance have established him as
perhaps the most original pianist since Cecil Taylor...... MORE>
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MATTHEW SHIPP 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2 - MATTHEW SHIPP / j spaceman / john coxon / steve noble
SAT 13 FEB '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Matthew Shipp is one of the most distinctive and inventive jazz pianists working today, a player whose compositional and improvisational brilliance have established him as
perhaps the most original pianist since Cecil Taylor...... MORE>
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MATTHEW SHIPP 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 3 - MATTHEW SHIPP + JOHN BUTCHER
SUN 14 FEB '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £28 for a 3-day pass
Matthew Shipp is one of the most distinctive and inventive jazz pianists working today, a player whose compositional and improvisational brilliance have established him as
perhaps the most original pianist since Cecil Taylor...... MORE>
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THE WORKSHOP SERIES : ROMUALD WADYCH / NOAM ENBAR / DAVID PAPAPOSTOLOU / ARTHUR SWINDELLS / TOM MILLS / GUILLAUME VILTARD / CHRIS HYDE-HARRISON
MON 15 FEB '10 • 8PM • £6 / £4 (concs) Tickets on the door only
A monthly concert of experimental improvised music drawn from participants of Eddie Prévost's weekly workshop... MORE>
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A REQUIEM FOR JACK ROSE featuring HUSH ARBORS / HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY / VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS / MICHAEL FOLWER BAND / C JOYNES
TUES 16 FEB '10 • 8PM • Adv. £10 + 50p Paypal fee
Jack Rose passed away suddenly at home in Philadelphia on December 5.
He was widely regarded as the most profound exponent of acoustic guitar playing of his generation.... MORE>
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Chino Shuichi / Phil Wachsmann / Alex Ward / John Russell / Roger Turner
WED 17 FEB '10 • 8PM • £5 adv / £6 on the door
Born in Tokyo, Chino has been active in the popular music scene since 1970s, and has been involved in pop-music, jazz and rock groups as a keyboard player, a pianist, and a producer..... MORE>
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CLUB INTEGRAL PRESENTS - HEXA / NOBODIES / SOUND OF THE SUN
THUR 18 FEB '10 • 8PM •
£7 / £5 concs (Tickets on the door only)
Passionate punk, doo wop and soul with a surrealist twist from New Yorkers HEXA.... MORE>
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Kath Bloom 2 Day Residency – Day 1 – Kath Bloom + ARTUR DYJECINSKI
FRI 19 FEB '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2day pass
Kath is a folk, country, and avant-garde legend and has been making records since the late 70s...... MORE>
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Kath Bloom 2 Day Residency – Day 2 – Kath Bloom + The Fujii
SAT 20 FEB '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2day pass
Kath is a folk, country, and avant-garde legend and has been making records since the late 70s...... MORE>
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TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA / HAVARD VOLDEN - 2DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1 + JOHN BUTCHER / RHODRI DAVIES
SUN 21 FEB '10 • 8PM • £7 adv. / £9 on the door / £12 for a 2-day pass
Håvard Volden and Toshi Nakamura are releasing their first CD together this fall on the British Record label, Another Timbre..... MORE>
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TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA / HAVARD VOLDEN - 2DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2 + SEBASTIAN LEXER + PAUL ABBOTT
MON 22 FEB '10 • 8PM • £7 adv. / £9 on the door / £12 for a 2-day pass
Håvard Volden and Toshi Nakamura are releasing their first CD together this fall on the British Record label, Another Timbre..... MORE>
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LUX PRESENTS - MESSAGES: GUY SHERWIN / ALAN WILKINSON / JOHN EDWARDS / STEVE NOBLE
TUE 23 FEB '10 • 8PM • £5
A night of film and music to celebrate the publication of a new LUX book / DVD MESSAGES: GUY SHERWIN.... MORE>
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TRISTRAM / THE MARINER'S CHILDREN / LULU AND THE LAMPSHADES
WED 24 FEB '10 • 8PM • £5 adv.
I find life mildly and yet constantly overwhelming. I would like to write songs about tragic and ill-fated love affairs or about notorious outlaws, and sing them from the tops of windswept cliffs, but..... MORE>
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FORTUNA POP!, WIAWYA & SPIRAL SCRATCH PRESENT LONDON POPFEST - ROSE MELBERG / WITHERED HAND / THE PINES / ROB PRICE (AIRPORT GIRL) + DJ CAMILA
THUR 25 FEB '10 • 8PM • £7 Limited tickets on the door Only
The second ever London Popfest is a gathering of indiepop fans, bands, clubs and labels from around the world. Over the weekend more than twenty international bands will be playing in four venues.... MORE>
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Alessi's Ark / Rachael Dadd / The Mariner's Children
FRI 26 FEB '10 • 8PM • £6 Adv
Alessi’s Ark is 19 year old Alessi Laurent-Marke. Her beautiful debut album, Notes From The Treehouse, was released in May 2009..... MORE>
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UPSET THE RHYTHM PRESENTS U.S. GIRLS / TIME / HEATSICK
MON 1 MAR '10 • 8PM • £6 adv.
U.S. GIRLS is the moniker used by Philadelphia's Megan Remy. Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail on an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes ...... MORE>
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THE ASIAN MUSIC CIRCUIT AND JEWISH MUSIC INSTITUTE PRESENTS… INDIAN TRADITIONAL MUSIC
/ KLEZMER MUSIC / CAMILO TIRADO /
DAN HAYWARD /
FRANCESCA TER-BERG
WED 3 MAR '10 • 8PM • £5 / £4 concs
The third night of a series run by the Asian Music Circuit. This time they collaborate with the Jewish Music Institute to look at the connections between Indian traditional and Klezmer Music...... MORE>
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- JAZZ IS THE TEACHER, FUNK IS THE PREACHER -
VIBRATION BLACK FINGER / ROCKET NUMBER NINE / PHIL MINTON / MAGGIE NICOLS / DJ JEAN YOUNG
FRI 5 MAR '10 • 8PM • £6 adv. / £7 on the door
Veteran avant garde vocalists Phil Minton and Maggie Nicols start off with an improvised vocal set. Rocket Number Nine brothers Ben and Tom Paige provide us with an intense, emotional sonic assault. Vibration Black Finger is
a deep spiritual jazz collective fronted by Campag Velocet/ 7 Hurtz Lascelles Lascelle..... MORE>
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SONG EAST PRESENTS ALASDAIR ROBERTS / ANNI ROSSI / MUNTU VALDO
SAT 6 MAR '10 • 3PM - 4:30PM • FREE
Song East presents three exceptional singers who will tour forthe EAST festival -Alasdair Roberts, Anni Rossi and Muntu Valdo will be performing FREE gigs together in a string of intimate venues around the EastEnd..... MORE>
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STEVE BERESFORD'S BIRTHDAY - CHRISTIAN MARCLAY /
VERYAN WESTON / TANIA CHEN / LOL
COXHILL / JOHN BUTCHER / SATOKO FUKUDA / UTE
KANNGIESSER / GUILLAUME VILTARD AND STEVE
BERESFORD
SAT 6 MAR '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door • JAPAS available!
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the London improvised music scene for almost
four decades. To celebrate his 60th birthday he brings together some of the most important figures..... MORE>
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THE LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
SUN 7 MAR '10 • 8PM • £6 / £4 concs (Tickets on the door Only)
"The kind of intensity, excitement, and invention that this ensemble creates via spontaneous means is unique in New Music circles.".... MORE>
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Shogun Kunitoki
MON 8 MAR '10 • 8PM • £6 Advance / £7 on the door
Shogun Kunitoki is a quartet from Helsinki with a love of vintage synths and keyboards, oscillators and ring modulators..... MORE>
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JOE MCPHEE + CHRIS CORSANO + GUESTS: 2 DAY RESIDENCY DAY 1
TUE 9 MAR '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2day pass
Born in Miami in 1939, Joe McPhee was playing the trumpet by the time he was eight years old.
From the late 1960's onward, he worked a variety of instruments..... MORE>
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JOE MCPHEE + CHRIS CORSANO + GUESTS: 2 DAY RESIDENCY DAY 2
WED 10 MAR '10 • 8PM • £10 adv / £12 on the door / £18 for a 2day pass
Born in Miami in 1939, Joe McPhee was playing the trumpet by the time he was eight years old.
From the late 1960's onward, he worked a variety of instruments..... MORE>
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JOHN BUTCHER / DOMINIC LASH / JOHN RUSSELL
THUR 11 MAR '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
This completely acoustic free improvising trio includes, in John Butcher and John Russell, two of the UK's most internationally respected and innovative improvising musicians, along with the increasingly in-demand bassist Dominic Lash..... MORE>
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ATSUHIRO ITO
FRI 12 MAR '10 • 8PM • £7 adv. / £8 on the door
Japan’s Atsuhiro Ito performs using his device the Optron, essentially fluorescent light tubes with integrated guitar pick-ups sent through guitar amp stacks. ..... MORE>
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SVARTE GREINER / SIMON SCOTT / WILLIAM FOWLER COLLINS / HOME NORMAL DJ’S
SUN 14 MAR '10 • 8PM • £ 7.50 adv. / £9 on the door
Svarte Greiner is the one man project of Erik K. Skodvin (one half of the duo Deaf Center). While Deaf Centre create dusty grey soundscapes in a surrealistic world of sounds not far from that of David Lynch ..... MORE>
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CAFE CARBON AT CAFE OTO, PRESENTED BY THE GLUTS - GINA BIRCH / KAFFE MATTHEWS / HAYLEY NEWMAN
FRI 19 MAR '10 • 8PM • £5 / £3 concs
Café Carbon is a musical performance that considers the consumption and production of food from pre-historic times to the present day. Gina Birch, Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman, aka The Gluts, performed Café Carbon in the streets, bars and restaurants of Copenhagen during the 2009 Climate Summit...... MORE>
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ROLAND RAMANAN TENTET
TUE 23 MAR '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Wailing, whispering; sighing, roaring; this Tentet comprises some of the most exciting musicians to emerge from the UK, Madrid.... MORE>
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GRAVID HANDS PRESENTS – PICASTRO / WILD DOGS IN WINTER / SHOES AND SOCKS OFF
WED 24 MAR '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Canadian group Picastro craft beautiful, ethereal songs which escape their own structures to develop and soar through passages of unusual instrumentation and..... MORE>
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SPRAWL PRESENTS: JAMES BLACKSHAW / ENSEMBLE + TBC
FRI 26 MAR '10 • 8PM • £9 adv. / £ 11 on the door
Amazing 12-string guitarist James Blackshaw has been noted for his faultless playing and songwriting techniques and despite still being in his 20s has already been compared to the likes of Bert Jansch, Robbie Basho,..... MORE>
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THE SUN RA ARKESTRA - UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARSHALL ALLEN - 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 1
MON 12 APR '10 • 8PM • £22 adv / £25 on the door / (no more 3-day passes available)
Sun Ra Arkestra returns to Café Oto for three exclusive UK shows. This is an extremely rare chance to see one of the most influential big-bands of all time play in a small intimate setting.......MORE>
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THE SUN RA ARKESTRA - UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARSHALL ALLEN - 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 2
TUE 13 APR '10 • 8PM • £22 adv / £25 on the door /(no more 3-day passes available)
Sun Ra Arkestra returns to Café Oto for three exclusive UK shows. This is an extremely rare chance to see one of the most influential big-bands of all time play in a small intimate setting.......MORE>
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THE SUN RA ARKESTRA - UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MARSHALL ALLEN - 3 DAY RESIDENCY - DAY 3
WED 14 APR '10 • 8PM • £22 adv / £25 on the door /(no more 3-day passes available)
Sun Ra Arkestra returns to Café Oto for three exclusive UK shows. This is an extremely rare chance to see one of the most influential big-bands of all time play in a small intimate setting.......MORE>
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ALASDAIR ROBERTS / CATH & PHIL TYLER
WED 21 APR '10 • 8PM • £8 adv. / £10 on the door
Glasgow-based Alasdair Roberts has now released 5 albums of tender yet driving folk music, since his ‘discovery’ via Will ‘Bonnie Prince Billy’ Oldham’s advocacy on hearing a demo tape
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HEDDY BOUBAKER / SEYMOUR WRIGHT / EDDIE PREVOST / PHILIP
SOMERVELL / GUILLAUME VILTARD
THUR 22 APR '10 • 8PM • £5 adv. / £6 on the door
Boubaker sounds like a host of seals, like water bouncing in a pan left in the sink, like the consequences of asthma..... MORE>
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INCIDENTAL MUSIC - JULIA ECKHARDT / NORMISA PEREIRA DA SILVA / STEFAN THUT / MANFRED WERDER / ANGHARAD DAVIES / TIM PARKINSON
SUN 25 APR '10 • 8PM • TBC
incidental music explores experimental music where there are no other categories other than allowing the phenomena of sound to emerge. incidental music places something, or performs a selection of activities, in space and time..... MORE>
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ROOM 40 PRESENTS TIM HECKER + CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA
WED 19 MAY '10 • 8PM • £10 adv. / £12 on the door
Tim Hecker's music is focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft which is both physical and emotive..... MORE>
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