Saturday 20 June 2026, 7.30pm
diy x Cafe OTO presents Cairo-based project, Postdrone, British-Czech-Ghanian artists Poison Anna, and multidisciplinary Paris-based artist, Helen Island.
A sign of the times, ghastly and hallucinatory – Helen Island creates alternative pop music that echoes late capitalism and the saccharine gaze of the digital world. The Paris-based cross-disciplinary artist – exploring painting, poetry, and other forms of conceptual art next to music – has a characteristic bedroom style of production, featuring filtered high notes, ripped samples, cut-up genres, and processed vocals.
After self-releasing several cassettes and digital editions, with the ethos of the Simple Music Experience collective, 2024 marked the year of Helen Island’s debut album on Knekelhuis.
2025 was the year of the new album, “silence is priceless” and "silence extended EP"
The British- Czech-Ghanian musician, dancer, and singular young soul draws on themes of spirituality, abuse of power, and social constructs. Her sound is defined by its shapeshifting and intoxicating fusion that encompasses brooding trip-hop, swaggering dub and poised experimentalism. An intoxicating, unique blend of dub, trip-hop and Guitar delivered with poise and personality, POiSON ANNA is one of the most singular and uncompromising British voices to emerge as of late. Debut mixtape 'EXCELSiA' was written as reactionary music to all of societies’ mishaps, from the abuse of power to the emergence of fake news; the project is ultimately a meditation on a very personal journey of self-discovery, reflection and the pursuit of truth in a broken and misguided society. The mixtape was produced alongside regular collaborator Mobbs, and has collaborated with fellow artistic visionaries A$AP Rocky and Dean Blunt.
A Cairo-based project exploring experimental, ambient, and dub soundscapes. Blending digital production with tape manipulation, the work draws from the textures of Cairo and personal moments to create introspective soundtracks shaped through rhythm and space, producing multiple independent releases and hosting “Fak Agza2” bi-monthly on NTS Radio.
