Sunday 3 May 2026, 7.30pm
Eric Chenaux is one of the great contemporary guitarists and experimental songsmiths. His work balances masterful improvisation and classic composition, at once giving nods to avant-garde noiseniks, folk songwriters and the great jazz singers. A former Wire Magazine cover star and described by The Guardian as having "one of the all-time great singing voices in popular music", Chenaux is a bonafide legend making a timely return to Cafe Oto on the back of 2024's extraordinary 'Delights Of My Life'.
In an age where traditional musics are dug up, polished and sold in increasingly banal forms, Harry Gorski-Brown’s melange of studio and live recordings, text-to-speech voices, deep drones and an oddball sense of humour feels truly radical. This comes as no surprise, given his latest album found a home on Scotland’s GLARC label, home also to Dig That Treasure! alum Max Syedtollan and Able Noise. His recordings are largely of Scottish-Gaelic folk songs, arranged for pipes, voice, bouzouki, fiddle and electronics. They bubble and drone, with screeches of harsh noise interlocking with beautiful traditional melodies; neither anachronistic nor passé. He was recently an artist-in-residency at Nonclassical and has performed at the likes of Counterflows and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Ensemble Irsahm is a Belgian group formed of musicians from Créahmbxl (Création et Handicap Mental) and IRSA (Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind). Together, the group reinterprets the music of Saint-Saens, Hildegard von Bingen, Bach and more with arrangements built around each of the musicians’ strengths including, but not limited to, clarinet, guitar, keyboard, and voice. Their debut EP Spaghetti Subilitor is named after a harmonically and rhythmically complex Medieval music and the favourite dish of the group’s vocalist, Lou, alluding to both the complexity of the music and the playfulness with which the group approaches it. This is the group’s first performance outside of Belgium, a rare and special treat for the audience at Dig That Treasure!.
