Saturday 7 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/
A multidisciplinary artist and curator, Violaine Morgan Le Fur (aka Violence Gratuite) has spent the last few years sharpening her creative perspective, developing documentaries, producing exhibitions, and directing music videos and short films. 'Baleine à Boss' isn't just her debut album, but her first venture into music production; Le Fur had only begun to experiment with music software a few weeks before dubbing the record, a fact that makes this unique set only more bewildering. Singing and vocalizing candidly and producing each track alone, she sounds profoundly polished, invoking a beguiling haze of chanson, rap, no wave and experimental electronics that hovers around the margins of pop and the avant-garde.
Le Fur grew up in Paris's sprawling suburbs, and was provided with a diverse coterie of influences by her Breton mother and Cameroonian father. She's channeled her ancestry into her work before, splicing material from her mother's film archives with her own footage recorded in Bamiléké land to develop the autobiographical documentary 'À L'ouest' back in 2017. As Violence Gratuite, Le Fur thinks more cryptically, considering the vast forests of western Cameroon, lands ravaged by generations of bloodthirsty men and looping pulsing techno rhythms with fractured trap and the ghosts of French pop.
JASSS (Silvia Jiménez Alvarez) is a sound artist and producer raised on the Northern coast of Spain. Her parents were passionate about jazz, African and South American rhythms, which became some of the most formative influences in her life.
From an early age, her fascination with sound drove her pursuit of understanding the relationship between music and people. She left Spain to launch this endeavor, leaving behind a social and cultural landscape from which she felt increasingly alienated. Feeling fractured in focus, she began shaping a theme from the distractions, channeling it into new works.
The punk and hardcore roots of her youth evolved into a deep plunge in industrial, dub and experimental music—worlds of sound that were evocative in mystifying, inaccessible ways. After moving to the Netherlands in 2010, she began editing field recordings and probing the worlds of electronic music and soundscapes. She moved a year later to Berlin, where she scored several experimental films.
In 2015 she made her first appearance as a DJ with a distinct, eclectic style that would become her signature approach. After a few years of studio work, her first 12 inch, Caja Negra EP, was released on the American label Anunnaki Cartel. Her second record, Mother, was released that same year on the Italian label Mannequin Records, followed by Es Complicado, on the same label. These days, she is focused on the experimentation of sound and spaces, working on several projects including electroacoustic pieces, live, and audiovisual performances. Her first solo album, Weightless, was released in 2017 on the Swedish label iDEAL Recordings.
Through a stream of her conscious thoughts, Her Masters Noise reveals the life that shapes Valentina Maglaletti’s new album. Many sounds already lived within her personal music library, while the rest emerged from her simple desire to express herself. Valentina makes music that reflects who she is and uses it as a lens to understand her feelings and the world around her. The album and this film were both created no to be crowd-pleasers, but to resonate with those who move to their own beat and live to feel, too.
https://www.annadownie.com
DDD is an ode to our younger queer and weirdo selves. That calamitous spirit meets the sonic deviations of dub; a little guiding light!
DDD is (sometimes) Valentina Magaletti, Samra Mayanja, Regina Collage, Zongamin, and Mo Dafa.
