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20 Mar 2020

Matt Wright / Hannah Marshall / Alexander Hawkins (trio) + Alexander Hawkins (solo)

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.

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19 Mar 2020

CHARLES HAYWARD + RIE NAKAJIMA + MERLIN NOVA + ALEXIS TAYLOR

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. 

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18 Mar 2020

Alastair Roberts Solo

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.

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17 Mar 2020

Daniel Blumberg Solo

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.

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16 Mar 2020

Steve Beresford / Thurston Moore (duo) + Crystabel Riley / Seymour Wright / Ute Kanngiesser (trio)

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

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15 Mar 2020

John Russell Solo

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.  

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13 Mar 2020

Steve Noble in Conversation with Joe McPhee

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

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13 Feb 2020

Inclusive Listings February 2020

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

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3 Feb 2020

OTO Radio - Old Heaven Special

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.

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3 Dec 2019

OTO Radio - Ahmed

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

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18 Nov 2019

The Trouble With Jazz History - Pat Thomas

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. 

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20 Jun 2019

EXERCISE 3: WEAK KNEES – BAMYA

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'.

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6 Jun 2019

Luke Fowler in Conversation with Leon Redler

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.

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5 Jun 2019

Plus-Minus Ensemble perform Catherine Lamb's 'Prisma Interius VIII'

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

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31 May 2019

NKISI & John T Gast - Coldwar

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.

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29 May 2019

OTO Radio - Nathaniel Mackey & the Creaking Breeze Ensemble

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.