Saturday 27 June 2026, 7.30pm
To celebrate their new release ‘Fusion’ on Sagome, Nuke Watch perform at Cafe Oto for the first time ever. Plus, a live blending sampling, voice, and electronics from Finnish multimedia artist Heta Bilaletdin, and a DJ set from Testing the Water honcho, Mag.
Andrea Campisi is supported by the Early Career Promoter Fund which is managed by PRS Foundation and funded by Arts Council England using Supporting Grassroots Music funding from DCMS.
Nuke Watch is a New York based collective that specializes in a mix of free-jazz fusion and textured polyrhythmic Fourth World propulsion. The long running friendship and psychic connection of its founders Chris Hontos & Aaron Anderson (aka Beat Detectives) enhance their signature ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, vibrant sampling and unidentified skronk.
They have released records on The Trilogy Tapes, Post Present Medium, Patience/Impatience, Commend/RVNG and Moon Glyph. They will be touring the UK in support of their new album “Fusion” out this summer on the London based label Sagome
“[Nuke Watch] could be called world music in the sense that if you folded up the world into a funnel and shook it and made everybody slide down onto a plate full of people they didn’t grow up with, they might end up making this.” - Sasha Frere-Jones, 2025.
Heta Bilaletdin is a multidisciplinary artist from Finland, who works with sound, experimental music, and moving image. Her sonic compositions blend home and field recordings, singing, electronic and acoustic instruments, samples, found objects and tapes to create collages, dusty beats, deconstructed pop and musique concrète. In addition to live performance, she works with sound through exhibitions, sonic sculptures, radio pieces, and workshops. Her visual work consists of films and installations, gravitating toward poetic forms of resistance, subtle connections, rituals, patterns, power structures and hidden choreographies in our coexistence.
She says: “My practice with sound and film is fragmentary and resembles collecting. For a few years I have been living half-time in Helsinki, half-time in the woods of Hattula. I record and film in my surroundings, on walks, canoe trips, and with an underwater camera in forest lakes and rivers. I capture splashing and rustling sounds, woodpeckers, water and ice, fire, the cry of a lynx, water lilies, algae, metamorphoses in plants, blooming and withering. The ongoing collection of field material is later mixed with other elements, mutated into rhythms, melodies, murmuring songs, loops, landscapes, dances and secret passages. At Cafe Oto, I will present a piece that came together, among other things, like this.”
https://hetabilaletdin.weebly.com/
Mag is a London-based DJ and sometime promoter, running experimental-leaning gig/club nights as Testing the Water. Behind the decks she works with off-centre rhythm, piecing together sound in a way that favours tension, negative space and the edges of club form.
