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1 Feb 2018

Midnight Mines - 20.5.17

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

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23 Jan 2018

Joe McPhee Solo

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

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14 Dec 2017

Bent Fang - 20.01.17

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.

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24 Nov 2017

Art Ensemble in Conversation with Kevin Le Gendre

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. 

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8 Nov 2017

Kan Mikami / Alex Neilson / John Edwards - AOSHI

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'. 

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26 Oct 2017

Kan Mikami's debut OTO show

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. 

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6 Oct 2017

Mike Cooper - Sonic Close Up

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

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2 Oct 2017

Philip Corner & Phoebe Neville 'Understanding'

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

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14 Sep 2017

Pat Thomas in conversation

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. 

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26 Jun 2017

Laura Cannell - Modern Ritual

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.

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8 Jun 2017

Keiji Haino and Peter Brötzmann

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

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20 Apr 2017

Stream Otomo Yoshihide solo

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

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20 Mar 2017

OTO Radio 2017

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.

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1 Mar 2017

Benedict Drew - The Start of A Bad Week

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

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28 Feb 2017

Blurt by Pavel Lagonkov

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. 

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8 Feb 2017

Human Heads - 16.1.17

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.