Wednesday 26 March 2025, 7.30pm
Glasgow’s favourite cassette label GLARC gather four steaming hot new acts from their roster for a night including hand-forged improvised bells, unpronounceable keyboard symbols, imaginary organ ensembles, and abolitionist sonic ethnography.
Lene Otis Finn - Lene de Montaigu, Otis Jordan and Finn Rosenbaum are a trio of musicians who met in Glasgow and performed throughout its outdoor spaces and with its scrapheap of found objects. They captured their improvisations and collaborative pieces on GLARC 0000000000000023 before parting ways and moving to different cities. The tape interweaves the sounds of Finn’s own bells, which he forged in Cessnock behind an abandoned swimming pool, with found objects and various instruments such as harmonium, french horn, clarinet and analogue synthesizer. They went quiescent for a bit, and are excited to re-emerge at Oto.
Louise and Romain - aka }Ï{ - met for the first time in 2019 through their common engagement in the french DIY scene, organizing various gigs and events in Paris. Sharing musical refs, and sparse listening sessions, they found themselves on a same musical approach, as a sensitive sculpted material, that would germ from the intimacy of a gesture more than a stylistic exercise.
}Ï{ was born this way, with the intention of using their daily dictaphone recordings by playing them like instruments to finally compose different musical paintings. This idea gives the name of their first album « Phone’s Paintings » (out on GLARC in 2025) that navigates freely between concrete music, poetic abstractions, and improvisations.
'Finton Coin is an autodidact organist and composer performing light music for toy instruments. His style combines the sounds of mid 20th century novelty records, cheap psychedelia, Shibuya-kei, and church music, completely discarding any sense of futurism and instead pursuing an ‘early music of the contemporary’. Finton Coin bears a passing resemblance to fellow composer and performer Max Syedtollan'
Listen : https://www.maxsyedtollan.net/
Masa Nazzal - Masa spent three months working in Bihać, Bosnia between October 2023 - January 2024 with a no-borders activist group where she collected testimonies of violence happening to people on the move to seek asylum in the European Union. It is in this space where Masa and Ilyas first met. Ilyas was staying at the transit camp and Masa was doing aid distribution work, when Ilyas spotted a guitar in Masa's hand, pointed at it, grabbed it and started playing. This is where their friendship and sonic journeys began. Her release on GLARC, Slovenia Inshallah, is an experiment in what borderless solidarities, borderless friendships, sounds like. It is an abolitionist sonic ethnography, through the contemporary violence of the EU border regime. She will bring a version of this mixtape to life at Cafe Oto
