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Rum Music and radio selector Jennifer Lucy Allen reflects on 18 months or so of doing jigsaws, drinking cocktails and listening to as many TakuRoku releases as time would allow. 

Musician and writer David Grubbs responds to Takuroku and AMPLIFY 2020 - two quarantine labels which helped to reconfigure his listening habits. 

Food People share a new video for 'Flank' - out now as part of their album 'Votive' on Takuroku. 

Astral Spirits' founder Nate Cross talks us through about what's been happening for the label through covid, what releases are up next and how he has got so much done in the seven years the label has been in existence.

Listen back to a two hour special guest mix from XT for Belgium's Kiosk Radio. Features tracks from Anne Gillis, Charlie Parker, XOR Gate and Milford Graves. 

Bassist Tom Wheatley performs 'open, fixed' - a composition and improvised performance for double bass and physically modelled strings, in three parts.

Rewatch a special show from ТЕПЛОТА, aka the London-based pairing of Grundik Kasyansky and Tom Wheatley, whose excellent debut, HEAT/WORK, was released on our in-house TakuRoku label earlier this year. 

XT (saxophone player Seymour Wright and percussionist Paul Abbott) share music, texts & images which influenced the sound of their new duo LP on OTOROKU - Deorlaf X

A special streamed performance from Josephine Foster, recorded in her Colorado home and drawing on her masterful self-honed songbook.

One hour of recordings from the archive of Belgian experimental music venue Les Ateliers Claus, including recordings from cellular psychedelic outfit Bitchin Bajas, G.R.M alum Beatriz Ferreya, and Mr Keiji Haino. 

A new video collaboration between @xcrswx and Lolina folded together, up, and over a series of exchanges of recordings, footage, pleats and frames from empty music spaces.

Footage of road movies and studio works from Japan's Mountain / Full Edition collective and Chinese band Absolute Purity.

A special dispatch from Akira Sakata, Rie Nakajima and some water fleas.

An interview and performance from bass player Farida Amadou, recorded at Les Ateliers Claus.

Filmmaker, musician, instrument builder, performer and visual artist Floris Vanhoof performs with his homemade circuits after a beer and a sit down chat with Les Ateliers Claus. 

Bluesman Bram Devens aka Ignatz treats us to a special set as part of our Live from Ateliers Claus evening. 

Our first live stream after lockdown - Seymour Wright rattling windows with 3 saxophones and a lot of feedback.

Friend and Les Ateliers Claus' artistic director Tommy De Nys is back with the second part of his TakuRoku mix - playing new music recorded in lockdown by Ikue Mori, Secluded Bronte, Rachel Musson & Corey Mwamba, David Toop & Avsluta and Cath & Phil Tyler.

Rewatch a special livestream show from Áine O'Dwyer, presenting a selection of work from the Tracker Action Mimes series in collaboration with Cafe OTO staff and camera crew.  

Filmed in a covid empty Cafe OTO, Steve Noble performs a special improvised percussion set as part of his residency with SHAPE 2020.

Free improvising drummer and visual artist Terry Day talks us through his archives, selecting cuts from his extensive performance history going back to 1965 to the present.

As part of his 70th birthday celebrations Steve Beresford chats to broadcaster, writer and sound artist Robert Worby about wet cardboard, Misha Mengleberg, the Melody Four and searching for sounds. 

We were very lucky to have flutist and saxophonist Lao Dan perform live from a cave tunnel in China as part of our fundraiser auction - watch it back here.

Listen back to all of the incredible mixes made by staff, supporters and friends of OTO as part of the 12th birthday fundraiser auction - including mixes by Beatrice Dillon, Angharad Davies and Tim Parkinson, Simon Reynell, Crys Cole and People Like Us.

We were delighted to connect with old friends Tenniscoats in Tokyo and join them for a very early set in aid of our fundraising auction!

Friend and Les Ateliers Claus' artistic director Tommy De Nys put together a super mix of music from artists who have donated to the Cafe OTO Covid-19 auction.

A week of live streams comes to a close with the wonderful Elaine Mitchener and a very special Messiaen performance from Kerry Yong. 

Yeah You's Sunday night Wild Pop performances from the motorway - a refreshing Tango Ice Blast from the M1. 

Heartstopping solo sets from bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble before they rip up a top flight duo. 

Fantastic improvising trio of composer and sound artist Matt Wright, cellist Hannah Marshall and pianist Alexander Hawkins preceeded by a customarily hypnotic solo set from Alex.

And on the fourth night the lord said 'bring us four solo sets from local London artists!' Merlin Nova, Charles Haywood, Rie Nakajima and Alexis Taylor each perform solo to an empty OTO. 

Very lucky to find Alastair Roberts in town on Wednesday, and really happy to welcome him to an empty Cafe OTO to deliver a gorgeous solo set.

For day two of our fundraising week, we were really pleased to have Daniel perform a very special pair of solo piano and guitar sets, joined up by drawing.

Watch our first live stream back in full - and look out for a special guest! 

A very special matinee performance from the great improvising guitarist John Russell, in support of John Edwards', Mark Sanders' and John Butcher's album release show, in very strange times.  

Old friends Steve Noble and Joe McPhee sit down to chat before performing as Decoy as part of Joe's residency in 2019. 

Musician, author, and educator Robyn Steward talks through February's program with our senior programmer, Fielding Hope. 

Listen back to our monthly hour on Resonance FM, this time playing tracks that we got hold of from the fantastic Old Heaven Books label.

Seymour Wright joins Fielding and Abby at Resonance FM to chat about the music of the late Ahmed Abdul-Malik.

Pianist Pat Thomas finds vital links between the musical traditions of muslim West Africa and the Jazz and Blues traditions of Afro-Americans, so far ignored by many Jazz historians. 

As part of Still House Plants' residency in February, the band invited good friends Bamya to play on the Sunday. We recovered a tiny bit of footage of a surpirse reading of 'henmcjonny'.

Luke Fowler chats to Dr Leon Redler - a practitioner who worked alongside R.D Laing at Kingsley Hall in London's East End - as part of Dee Sakar's 'R.D. Laing at 50' event.

Plus-Minus Ensemble perform the eighth work in Lamb's 'Interius' series.

After working together in 2014, we were excited to hear Nkisi was going to work on Coldwar, her project with John T Gast as part of her residency here in March. Jonathan Crabb caught some images of the two together on the night.

We're joined on the backseat of the 141 bus by Seymour Wright, Ute Kangeisser and Evie Ward - 3/5ths of the Creaking Breeze Ensemble to talk about their upcoming performances with writer Nathaniel Mackey. 

Abby Thomas & Fielding Hope are joined by Jen Allan in the studio to chat about Kammer Klang's recent Annea Lockwood residency, curated by Jen. 

Jen Allan joins composer Annea Lockwood and trumpeter Nate Wooley to chat about the process of composing Becoming Air and the mutual connections found in their individual practices during their collaboration. 

As we look forward to our 4 day Joe McPhee residency, we put together some of our favourite McPhee tunes, featuring blast heavy classics and lesser known experiments. 

In anticipation of our 10 day Luc Ferrari fest, Fielding Hope puts together some of his favourites from the French composer and musical pioneer.

A pleasure to be joined on Resonance FM by violin player Angharad Davies. We were treated to audio from her family's archive, sound sketches of lle celf Capel y Graig Artspace, and had a really good chat about the changes in Angharad's practice over the years. 

Listen to longtime collaborators Angharad Davies and Lina Lapelyte's 'Sound Matter' performace, recorded all the way back in 2014.  

O'Dwyer & Lambkin perform Luc Ferrari's one sentence composition 'Unheimlich Schön (Very Beautiful, 1971)' as part of our Ferrari festival, 'Stereo Spasms'. 

Composer Brunhild Ferrari talks about her own work, and the work of her late husband Luc Ferrari with writer, musician and teacher David Grubbs. 

Delighted to have Nkisi on the show ahead of her residency, playing Congolese rumba, chatting gabber, the UK rave scene, policed venues and clubs and ideas of a utopian future. 

Following his freshly self-produced solo record, Tom Wheatley continues his dissection of the double bass.

An hour of phone recordings from three piece Still House Plants, dating back to the day they started writing together.

Shots by Sarah White of Sounds of Sisso associates Bamba Pana & Makavelli sending up nearly two hours of singeli fire.

An hour of Chilean and Peruvian traditional music and field recordings put together by Tomás Salvatierra - one fifth of Chilean group Glorias Navalas. 

Listen back to new work from composer Laurie Tompkins and cellist Oliver Coates. 

Abby Thomas sits Penultimate Press' Mark Harwood down to chat about the huge year he and his label have had. Music from Francis Plagne, MP Hopkins, Arek Gulbenkoglu and Henning Christianson.

Watch the whole evening of music, language and mouth-harp from Swiss artist, poet and musician Anton Bruhin.

Stream two sets from acts on the Lisbon label Padre Himalaya - the label that brought us Mohammad Reza Mortazavi's 'Focus'.

Fielding Hope and Abby Thomas return to Resonance FM to play their favourite records from soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's late career.

Twenty years on from being a guest on his Berkley radio show, Vicki Bennett chats to Carl Stone about the impact that dramatic shifts in technology has had on their music making today. 

On the day after soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's birthday Evan Parker and Seymour Wright played and discussed his music on saxophones and discs, joined by very special and surprise guest Frederic Rzewski.

Fielding Hope and Abby Thomas play their favourite records from the late Steve Lacy's early career, ahead of a performance of his music at OTO presented by Evan Parker and Seymour Wright.

Ahead of the Alterations Festival 2018 edition, photographer Fabio Lugaro shares some of his images from the 2016 edition. Alterations are: Peter Cusack, David Toop, Terry Day and Steve Beresford. 

9 hours of agent-based exploration algorithms transfered into the context of sound, music, and performance.

Listen back to Tomaga go forth with their improvised, industrial minimalism and Krautrock-inspired motorik.

Nina Power and Seth Kim-Cohen sit down to discuss the under-heralded work of conceptual artist Christine Kozlov and hash out issues in cultural politics then and now. 

Russian / Israeli collective Staraya Derevnya project live animation behind their fusion of objects, percussion, homemade instruments, live animation and vocals - making for incomparable listening and an immersive psychedelic film. 

Longtime student and performer of Anthony Braxton's work, Alexander Hawkins initiaties a forty minute insight into the logic behind ZIM music. 

Daniel Blumberg, Billy Steiger and Tom Wheatley play material from their new record - Minus - joined by cellist and close collaborator Ute Kanngiesser.

London-based photographer Sarah White brought her camera along to Rev's two day funky bonanza and captured some of the madness on film. 

Heather Leigh performs solo in support of Keiji Haino and Steve Noble, back in 2012. 

Beautiful footage of Amy Dickson's performance as part of In House - an evening drawing a connection between practice, performer and OTO as a performance space.  

Xenia Pestova performs Alvin Curran's Inner Cities 2 as part of her LOOPS, DRONES AND LANDSCAPES series focusing on meditative and transformative works for piano and toy piano. 

Live set from London's Midnight Mines feat. 2-note riffs, fried dub, feedback, atonal harmonies, transistor organs and repetitive mantras.  

Listen to Joe McPhee performing a trumpet solo as part of John Corbett's Microgroove book launch. 

Listen back to Bent Fang (Patrick Dahn) perform in support of Pekka Airaksinen in early 2017. Somewhere between, dub, music concrete, french poetry & slow jams, Bent Fang plays OTO on 31st January 2018.

Read or listen to the whole conversation between Kevin Le Genre and the Art Ensemble of Chicago as they discuss making jingles for the juice company 'Odwalla', growing up in Chicago and taking control of their own music. 

Watch Japanese bluesman Kan Mikami perform 'Aoshi' with John Edwards and Alex Neilson. Part of the trio's new release on our own OTOROKU - "Live at Cafe OTO'. 

Kan Mikami played his first shows at OTO back in September 2008, and filmaker Gianmarco Del Re was here to capture his visceral sound on film. 

Film-maker Gianmarco Del Re talks to Cooper about his lap steel and live environmental recordings for the recently re-issued '99 record Kiribati.  

Watch composer and Fluxus founder Philip Corner and his wife Phoebe Neville improvise a piece called 'Understanding' as part of their debut OTO show. 

Listen back to Kevin Le Gendre discussing Pat's solo performance of Duke Ellington, Ellington's influence on Cecil Taylor, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis, and Pat's own move from classical training to free improvisation. 

Listen to a live set from HOOFUS and a 30 minute snare drum roll from Charles Hayward - performed as part of Laura Cannell's Modern Ritual series.

Beautiful footage of Tokyo legend Keiji Haino and Peter Brötzmann from back in 2011.

Ahead of his quartet with wizard noise unit FEN (Far East Network) Otomo lets rip on guitar for thirteen mins.

Repeat and repeat OTO radio shows, broadcast on London's Resonance Radio. Unreleased selections from the archive, recordings from around Ashwin Street, fresh and forthcoming OTOROKU releases and interviews with musicians.

Deeply unsettling audio from Benedict Drew's show here in January.

Photographer Pavel Legonkov sent us his contact scans for the Blurt show back in November and they're as chaotic the trio themselves. Be sure to use the scroll bar. 

On the bill with Benedict Drew, Tom White & Marc Matter and Rob Lye, Human Heads delivered wonky song, gristley spoken word and cheap analogue keyboards right up into everyone's personal space. 

Gerald Jenkins has been photographing the Sun Ra Arkestra at Cafe OTO since they began performing here. Dig in to some of his archive here. 

Watch Grimm Grimm perform "Kazega Fuitara Sayonara" with live visuals from Daisy Dickinson ahead of his return to OTO tonight. 

Filmmaker Gianmarco Del Re interviews Portuguese composer Tiago Sousa about his conceptual links to Thoreau, the difficulty of finding 'new' ground with the piano, and his new album ''Um Piano nas Barricada''. 

Filmmaker Arthur Le Fol captures delicate moments from Accident Du Travail's set here in December. 

Gianmarco Del Re interviews Rie Nakijama in the Project Space after her collaborative performance with Keiko Yamamoto as O Yama O. 

The East Warsaw Ensemble perform some of the most original music from Polish, Ukrainian and Russian traditions: archaic scales, harvest chants, old carols, polyphonic lyrical songs, as well as instrumental music. The perfect festive toaster. 

Simon Pomery spent seven chilly days in the Project Space developing his on-going audio/visual investigation into Performance Writing - SPEED READING. He managed to stay warm by drumming - so much so that he's made a new mixtape which you can stream here. Thanks Pom. 

Photographer Pavel Legonkov captures The Ex's live energy and with double exposures at their show here back in April. 

Chugging, dark, spacey blues - Akiyama's solo guitar is focused "on the tone and wildness of the instrument." Stream the closing solo from the last night of Akiyama's residency here in 2010. 

Normally we write "listen to the whole show here", but Watson mixed down our 17 track recording to fifty minutes, maintaining that "improvisation shouldn’t cease at any point in musical production." Whatever was heard on the night was most definitely not this...

Jogjakarta’s Senyawa go deep on previous projects, traditional Indonesian music, man vs nature and how to go into a trance.

Gorgeous photos, videos and sound from Rie Nakajima and David Toop's event series 'Sculpture'.

Sharing the bill with John Chantler and Eli Kezler, Jennifer Allum played a short solo set, resolutely free of flourish and mannerism. 

Evan Parker performs a rare solo piece as part of a fundraiser concert for Project Fukushima. 

Black Top join Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker to chat first instruments, film, playing with Don Cherry and why bending genres is always best. 

Paul Abbott's 'Tender Interval' was a series of monthly solo performances in our Project Space. Each performance formed part of an ongoing investigation into questions of politics and aesthetics through rhythms, sounds and words -- and each is documented in depth here. 

Fresh Bullen - get it here! 

Simon Finn chats to Gianmarco Del Re about the making of his seminal 1969 album Pass the Distance, travelling North America in the 70's and how he got onto organic farming. "Such is life." 

Tokyo based guitarist Junzo Suzuki's stripped down form of 'ghost' blues and improvisation recalls Loren Connors and his fellow countryman Hisato Higuchi.  

Tomokawa Kazuki performing 'Waltz' from his debut UK show in 2012. 

South Korean cellist, improviser, and composer meets artist Christian Marclay, and were caught on camera by film-maker Helen Petts. 

Hear Guthrie's solo set from back in 2013, when he supported Mika Vainio and Lee Gamble.

Bartender, big time Brotz-fan and sneaky snapper. Dawid Laskowski chats about how he gets his best shots. 

Listen to the onkyo guitarist's solo set from his first show at OTO.

Paint still wet on the walls, Saya stopped off in London to play OTO's first ever show. A magical set, heard by an attentive crowd of just 70. 

Malcy Duff and Ali Robertson's June 2015 show gets a Giant Tank release, and is availiable to stream right here. 

One of the most unique pianists in ages, Pat Thomas also has one of the best laughs in music. His solo set from 2013 was properly wild, and you can listen to it here.  

Gianmarco Del Re presents a documentary about the collagist and musician Adam Bohman. 

Back in 2008, Japanese underground aficiondo Alan Cummings introduced Kan Mikami's first show at OTO. We recorded it, and Alan tracked down the images we couldn't show on the evening. Now it's a delighfully detailed illustrated talk. 

Long time OTO photographer Fabio Lugaro to shows us the best of his archive. He talks about OTO's leaks and low lighting - what he politely calls 'the venue's idiosyncracies'. 

Polish filmmaker Bart Dzidowski captures the huge ensemble's last visit to OTO.

Listen to an archival recording of the two drum legends, recorded back in 2011 when the pair supported Adam Linson.  

Ghédalia Tazartès and Penultimate Press' bossman Mark Harwood talk about not making music, Michel Chion, fathers, the Sex Pistols and more. 

Rewatch Dhanveer Singh Brar, Edward George and Steve Goodman (Kode9) in discussion for the launch Teklife, Ghettoville Eski: The Sonic Ecologies of Black Music in the Early Twenty-First Century (Goldsmiths Press / MIT Press)