Monday 6 April 2020, 7.30pm
This show has unfortunately been postponed due to travel issues relating to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. We're working to reschedule this show and hope to have an update on that as soon as possible. Please see: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/coronavirus/
Pantayo is an all-women lo-fi R&B gong punk queer collective based in Toronto. They combine percussive metallophones and drums from kulintang traditions of Southern Philippines and synth-based electro grooves.
Past notable projects by Pantayo include performances at Vancouver New Music, Halifax Jazz Festival, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada150, X Avant Festival, Wavelength Festival; kulintang gong/percussion workshops with Girls Rock Camp Toronto in partnership with Toronto Public Library and at Tone Deaf Festival Kingston; and a collaboration with YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN for Severed video game soundtrack (Drinkbox Studios, 2016).
They have been featured in Noisey (2016), CBC Music for International Women’s Day 2017, a cover story in Musicworks Magazine in Summer/Fall 2017, Now Magazine‘s Toronto musicians to watch in 2018: Indie Edition, and Vancouver’s The Georgia Straight in 2019
Rie Nakajima is a sculptor living in London. She creates sounds using a combination of motorised devices and everyday objects in the context of installations and performances.
Her art exists on the borderline of sculpture and music, open to chance and the influence of others. Improvisation is at the heart of her work.
The first major solo exhibition was held at IKON Gallery in Birmingham in 2018. She has also worked with Museo Vostell Malpartida (Cáceres), Annely Juda Gallery (London), Association de Le Cyclop (Milly la Forêt), ShugoArts (Tokyo), Donaueschinger Music Festival (Donaueschinger), Festival Météo (Mulhouse), Music for the Eyes Festival (Varmlands), Deep Time Festival (Edinburgh), Punkt Festival (Kristiansand), All Ears Festival (Oslo), Festival Archipel (Geneva), Cafe OTO (London) and many others. Collaboration is an essential part of her practice with frequent collaborators, Pierre Berthet, Angharad Davies, David Cunningham, Keiko Yamamoto, Max Eastley, Miki Yui, hans.w.koch, Marie Roux, Billy Steiger, David Toop and Akira Sakata.
Akira Sakata (Sax, Clarinet,vo,composer)
Visiting prof. of Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences.
Visiting prof. Graduate SchooL of Biosphere Science Hiroshima Univ.
Born in Kure-city, Hiroshima in 1945. Studied marine biology at Hiroshima university. Formed a group Saibo-bunretsu (Cell fission) in Tokyo in 1969, Sakata's long lasting music quest has begun.
1972, he has Joined Yamashita Yosuke Trio. The trio performed at many jazz festivals including Maers New Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival and Newport Jazz Festival.etc.
He made many sessions such as Jimmy Lions, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Manfred Schoof. Han Bennik, Bill Laswell, Pete Cosy, Hamid Drake, John Zone, Ronald “Shanon”Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, Toshinori Kondo,DJ Krush,Jim O’Rourke, Chris Corsano, Darin Gray, Keiji Haino, Yoshihide Otomo ,Charles Hayward, Roger Turner, Andrea Centazzo, Matz Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Terry Ex, DJ Sniff ,Rie Nakajima, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and more....
Recent his band are “ARASHI” (w, Johan Berthling and Paal Nilsen-Love)
“Bonjintan” (w, Jim O’Rourke, Giovanni Di Domenico, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto), “Entasis” (w, Giotis Damianidis, Giovanni di Domenico, Aleksander Skoric) and “Akira Sakata SOS” (w, Nana Omori, Manabu Sakata).
He is going around many places in the world and doing many kind of work.
Till today he doesn’t stop moving and doing.
F*Choir is a collective endeavour led by Jenny Moore, based in London, which has become a place to gather in body and voice. F*Choir tries to practice intersectional feminism and provides a space for voices to be heard. They don’t assume anybody’s gender, origin, sexuality.
In the winter of 2017, a group of artists and activists (brought together by Keep it Complex) were burnt out, exhausted, and angry. They were overextended from self-organising, the shit show of the EU referendum and needed a place to heal, to explore being together differently. To start, they invited artist and musician Jenny Moore to lead a vocal workshop around her song We Want Our Bodies Back. From that moment, F*Choir was born and began meeting fortnightly to sing together. Led by Jenny’s exploration into choral arrangements, composition, and song-writing, they committed to showing up for each other and exploring what it could mean to see singing as a feminist practice.
