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Ahead of their return to OTO, we spoke to ONe_Orchestra New's co-founder Caroline Kraabel about the group's influences, practices and ambitions for their next show. 

On the 13th of April 2025, Cafe OTO turns 17. To mark the occasion we've selected a release from each of those years from our inhouse digital label. Dig in.

Ahead of his three day residency entitled 'SLIP', we spoke to musician and percussionist Paul Abbott about his practice, his work over the past few years and what to expect for the residency. 

Summer archive assistant Alex Rose Ader selects highlights from working on Maggie Nicols' early eighties cassette archive

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

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. 

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

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

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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.

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. 

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