"Another year at Cafe OTO, another portal. A queer room to dance, cry and laugh with the musicians I love. This year I slip into Dyke Dub, into shifting sounds and strange weather, with the UK debut from the incredible Violence Gratuite, a duo with Xexa, Damsel Elysium, Maria Bertel and much more. New records, new forms. Come celebrate life with us." – Valentina Magaletti

Valentina Magaletti moves where rhythm is both pulse and possibility, a drummer and composer tracing lines between experimental shadowlands and open-stage light. She has played with Jandek, Thurston Moore, Mica Levi, Sampha, Upsammy, Nídia, Nicolas Jaar, Steve Shelley, Malcolm Mooney, Marta Salogni, Phew, Hania Rani, Cate Me Bin, Alpha Maid, Fred Frith, Maria Chavez, and Mariam Rezaei, and alongside underground visionaries such as Marlene Ribeiro (Gnod), Graham Lewis (Wire) and Thighpaulsandra (Coil). At London’s Barbican, she stood in for the late Jaki Liebezeit in The Can Project, letting rhythm inhabit absence, and has shaped countless orchestral and improvised performances.

One third of MOIN, and a vital presence in constellations like YPY (Goat), Shackleton, and Vanishing Twin, she sculpts music that drifts between dub, electronics, and free improvisation. In projects such as Tomaga (with Tom Relleen), Holy Tongue (with Al Wootton) and CZN (with João Pais Filipe), her rhythms become landscapes, narratives, and reveries—spaces where sound itself learns to breathe

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