Friday 6 March 2026, 7.30pm
"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.
https://valentinamagaletti.com/Releases
https://valentinamagaletti.bandcamp.com/
Hania Rani’s music grabs you — its gravitational pull sucks you into a hypnotic trance, regardless of your will. Pianist, composer, and vocalist, she has emerged as a genre-blending nonconformist who nevertheless has made a name for herself interweaving classical, jazz, and electronic influences.
Born in 1990 in Gdańsk, Poland—a city renowned for the Solidarity resistance movement, the first independent labor union in the Eastern Bloc active throughout the 1980s — Hania began playing the piano at age seven. She eventually trained as a classical pianist in Warsaw and later pursued studies in Berlin, where she began to explore electronic music. Recently, she has settled in London.
Jack Wyllie is a Multi instrumentalist and composer. He has released on labels such as Babel, Realworld, Ninja Tune and Buffalo Temple. He is member of Portico Quartet and Szun waves as well having released several EP’s of improvisations with Luke abbott and Adrian Corker. Jack plays a heavily effected saxophone using guitar pedals to add atmospheric washes of delay and reverb. Portico Quartet have always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group have created their own singular sound. They have been nominated for the mercury music prize as well as topping several end of year lists in the likes of time out and crack magazine. Szun waves is a partly generative improvised trio with Luke abbott and Lawrence Pike, they have their second album out on leaf later this year.
Whether in duo with saxophonist Johs Lund, in solo or with the band Selvhenter, Maria Bertel has been pushing the trombone in its physical limits while uncovering new territories for the instrument. Playing her horn through a stack of amps and developing distinctive extended techniques, she delivers ecstatic walls of textures redefining the trombone for the 21st century.
Dali de Saint Paul is a raw experimental vocalist, a performer, a composer, a producer and cultural actor of the Bristol experimental music scene.
In her music, Dali’s particular use of vocals through fx blurs sonic borders, questions gender stereotypes and destabilizes spatial and linguistic borders; as lyricist, she mixes poetics and politics, bringing intensity to her performances. Dali refreshed conceptions of improvisation, bringing back the focus on community in music culture. She has collaborated with Moor Mother, Valentina Magaletti, Mariam Rezaei, Ossia and Maxwell Sterling to name a few.
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://linktr.ee/dalidesaintpaul
