It's a real honour to share this music performed by three of OTO's most treasured musicians - John Tchicai, Tony Marsh and John Edwards. This was the first set of the trio's residency at Cafe OTO in 2010, returning on blistering form after an initial two-day stint in 2009. --- John Tchicai / saxophones, fluteJohn Edwards / double bassTony Marsh / drums --- Recorded live at Cafe OTO on 27 September 2010 by James Dunn. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. Photograph by Nicholas Lativy. Special thanks to John Coxon for his assistance in making this recording possible.

Available as 320k MP3 Tracklisting: 1. To Do First 2. Marui Hito (Everyone) 3. My Car is Burning 4. Oide no Umi 5. Ending Theme 6. Donna Donna 7. Oetsu to Kanki no Nanoriuta (Given Song by Sob and Joy) 8. Hareruhi 9. Melt Horn 10. Baibaba Bimba 11. Greensleeves   To celebrate being open for 10 years we thought we'd share the very first show we hosted as a download. John Chantler organised Saya's first show outside of the UK and remembers it like this: Saya was in the UK for a short stint to work on the mix for the Pastels/Tenniscoats LP 'Two Sunsets' - travelling to Glasgow from Japan via London. I'd heard word of a new venue opening up in town with the Japanese name and got in touch to see if they'd be interested in having Saya play. Turned out they'd be (fingers crossed) open just in time, and as big fans of Tenniscoats would love to have play the venue's first show.   The paint was still fresh on the walls. There was no proper mixing desk (I brought my own and got a bit heavy-handed with the echo). The PA was far from the best and the sound meter that they'd had to install wasn't set up right. It tripped not once, but twice during 'Baibaba Bimba' (you'll hear the silence as the power cuts out on the recording) - leaving Saya to switch from keyboard to guitar to finish it off. Despite all that it was a magical early sunday evening. Saya was nervous playing her first solo show outside Japan, but the attentive crowd of 70 odd stuck with her and sat in rapt attention. No one show is going to capture the essence of cafe OTO, but if they say you should start as you mean to go on and that's what happened here. It's nice to finally be able to share this little slice of the venue's history. Enjoy. - John Chantler

Available as 320k MP3 or 24 bit FLAC. 1. #1  12:342. #2  23:283. #3  11:10A recording of a rare duo performance by percussionist / composer Michael Zerang and guitarist / vocalist / banjo player Daniel Higgs conjuring densely interwoven improvisations that draw on traditional forms but take them in defiantly unexpected directions. Both musicians will be familiar to OTO regulars - Zerang as a member of Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III alongside Fred Lonberg-Holm, and his gracefully rolling approach to the drums has provided a welcome, beatific contrast to PNLs full-on assaults in Peter Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet. Daniel A.I.U Higgs has also been responsible for some singularly memorable performances here alongside the likes of Maya Dunietz and Jennifer Walshe and his transcendental ragas here reach an even higher level of hypnotism. --- Michael Zerang / percussionDaniel Higgs / voice, banjo --- Recorded live at Cafe OTO on 28 June 2014 by James Dunn. Mixed by James Dunn.  Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. Photograph by Andrej Chudy.