23–24 January 2026
After seeing many of our artists perform at Cafe Oto over the past decade, we’re truly honored to host two nights in this iconic venue as part of our 10 Year Anniversary Tour. – Bongo Joe
Kwake Bass is from Lewisham South London. He’s been the musical director for both Sampha and Kae Tempest’s tours and has played with the likes of Lianne La Havas, Mica Levi, Joey Bada$$, MF Doom, Shabaka Hutchings and Novelist. As a producer he explores what lives between the cracks of structured programming with live electronic improvisation.
https://kingkwakebass.bandcamp.com/
Meril Wubslin blend blues and folk intimacy with post-rock, minimalism, dub and hip-hop influenced production, the trio embraces constant evolution. Working with producer Kwake Bass in London amplified their dub elements, while influences from avant-garde composers and trance-driven folk traditions shape their new album’s rhythmic and melodic experimentation.
https://merilwubslin.bandcamp.com/
Marysia Osu is a Polish-born, London-based harpist, producer and composer who blends classical, ambient, and electronic music. Vocalist Ayana’s unique style fuses her history in Tokyo’s jazz scene with her studies in North Indian classical voice. Anja Ngozi is a producer, DJ and composer who explores transience and feeling out the sonic connections to emotions. Together they form meditative sounds, evoking a deep sense of peace and introspection.
Cyril Cyril repeats itself as a reflection would in infinite mirrors. A vagabond rumour, borrowed from age old whispers, beyond Mounts Atlas and Ararat, to whomever is willing to hear the echo of thousands of places where melodies hummed by angels and drums are beaten continuously since the birth of mankind. With their ufo-banjo, strange drums, multiples voices and languages as their sole companions, Cyril Yeterian & Cyril Bondi cut a groove from the soul and transcends, for a few tracks a time, the good manners of damned souls. The tandem, disguised as an ghost-like fanfare, rises like a phoenix on the dance floor…
Born in 1968 in Tongobory, in southern Madagascar, Damily is one of the pioneers and most important ambassadors of tsapiky — the effervescent music that emerged in Toliara in the 1980s, at the crossroads of rock, traditional rituals, and collective trance. More than a style, tsapiky is a context: that of the mandriampototsy, village ceremonies lasting days and nights, blending healing, possession, and ancestral celebration. Musicians play without interruption, carried by the energy of the community. It is in this crucible that Damily forged his art: a handmade guitar, makeshift amplifiers, a saturated, tense, urgent sound — music born of dust, heat, and necessity. It is in this spirit that Fanjiry was born. After the ecstatic Fihisa sessions — recorded in the Malagasy bush under a cyclone — Damily returns to a more intimate approach: a one-to-one dialogue with his guitar. He composes, explores, rearranges, and seeks to “fill the sonic space” differently.
https://damilyband.bandcamp.com/
