Experimental Frequencies

Ghedalia Tazartes…

Ghedalia Tazartes...

Ghedalia Tazartes is a nomad. He wanders through music from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. He paves the way for the electric ...

SoundFjord Session At Cafe OTO

SoundFjord Session A...

On the 16th of January, SoundFjord curated an evening of music and sonic arts at Cafe Oto where Daniel Thomas Freeman, Attila Faravelli and Mem1 ...

Daniel Thomas Freeman: Live Session

Daniel Thomas Freema...

Here's a wonderful sneak preview of Daniel Thomas Freeman performing live at Cafe OTO presented by Soundfjord on 16 January 2012. A full review of ...

Tony Conrad: Live Session At Cafe OTO

Tony Conrad: Live Se...

Tony Conrad is considered one of the first "minimal" composer/performers, associated in his early period with La Monte Young, John Cale, Henry Flynt and legendary ...

Cafe OTO Session: A.I.R / Jozef van Wissem / Higuma

Cafe OTO Session: A....

An odd night at Cafe OTO, which kicked off later than usual after a chemical spillage from next door brought the whole street to a ...

Simon Finn – Pass the Distance

Simon Finn – P...

Hidden by the night, hold up your dream And be free - take flight No one may watch you in... ...Dreams don't be frightened by what you might ...

Aki Onda / Alan Licht / Michael Snow: Cafe OTO Session

Aki Onda / Alan Lich...

Back in November, Aki Onda (cassettes) and Alan Licht (guitar) played a two day residency at Cafe OTO as part of the London International Festival ...

Sharron Kraus, Fursaxa & Meg Baird live at Cafe OTO

Sharron Kraus, Fursa...

In the male dominated world of electroacoustic music, one often has to venture into alternative folk territory to enjoy the voice of female musicians and ...

Rembetronika: Cafe OTO Session

Rembetronika: Cafe O...

Widely loved and widely misappropriated in Greece, Rebetika (or Rembetika) is music often referred to as the Greek blues and commonly associated to Fado from ...

Lawrence English’s Lonely Women’s Club

Lawrence EnglishR...

"Shimmering like faint lights reflected in the ice of a cocktail, floating tones taken from the world loneliest bar-room organ and slowed 'til static. Harmony ...

Ghedalia Tazartes: Troisieme mouvement

Ghedalia Tazartes: T...

Back in March, Ghédalia Tazartès played a stunning set at Cafe OTO. Here's another all too rare chance to catch him live on December 11, ...

Nicola Ratti Live At Cafe Oto

Nicola Ratti Live At...

Nicola Ratti opened proceedings at Cafe OTO on 26.10.11 with a brief but highly calibrated set just over 15 minutes long. Having to forgo his ...

Julia Kent Interview

Julia Kent Interview...

Gianmarco Del Re caught up with Julia Kent at the recent Cafe OTO gig...

Archive Trails – live at Cafe OTO

Archive Trails ̵...

In Spring 2011, Tracer Trails invited three contemporary musicians to spend three months in residence in the Archive of the School of Scottish Studies. Aileen ...

Julia Kent, (r), Cindytalk – Live at Cafe Oto

Julia Kent, (r), Cin...

“I am happy to be in Europe where people can understand my jokes, the trouble is I don’t have any”. In typical self-deprecatory style, Julia ...

TSU live at Cafe Oto

TSU live at Cafe Oto...

Back in May, Robert Curgenven performed an intriguing set at Cafe Oto together with Jörg-Maria Zeger as TSU. There's another chance of catching him live ...

Petrels Live At Cafe Oto

Petrels Live At Cafe...

Here's another great film from Gianmarco Del Re taken from last weeks Aidan Baker / Plurals / Petrels gig at Cafe Oto. This session sees ...

Aidan Baker / Plurals / Petrels: Last Stop – Cafe Oto

Aidan Baker / Plural...

On Wednesday, Aidan Baker and Plurals finished off their UK-tour at Cafe Oto and were joined for the matter by Petrels and Leah Buckareff for ...

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Live At Cafe OTO

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ...

Seems like only yesterday when we went to see Jefre play live at The Cube, Bristol alongside Barn Owl. Here is a new excerpt from ...

Simon Scott live at Cafe OTO

Simon Scott live at ...

Here's another great piece of film footage from our recent coverage of last weeks Cafe Oto gig that featured Mountains, John Chantler and Simon Scott.

John Chantler Live At Cafe Oto

John Chantler Live A...

Another super short film from our good friend Gianmarco Del Re. This time round it's Mr Chantler doing what he does best from the recent ...

Mountains, John Chantler and Simon Scott at Cafe Oto (Review)

Mountains, John Chan...

Opening their mini UK tour, Chicago-based Mountains played a superb set at Cafe Oto on Wednesday, May 25th, alongside Simon Scott and John Chantler for ...

Not To Be Missed: Mountains At Cafe Oto / The Arnolfini

Not To Be Missed: Mo...

'Air Museum', the recent offering from Chicago's Mountains has been a firm favourite on the channel 1 playlist of late and will without doubt be ...

Live Session: Stephan Mathieu

Live Session: Stepha...

Our recent Stephan Mathieu series covered the live performance at Cafe Oto along with a back stage interview with Pascal Savy discussing the intricate process ...

Mathieu / TSU / Nilsen / Live At Cafe Oto (Review)

Mathieu / TSU / Nils...

On Sunday, May 8th, Cafe Oto welcomed Stephan Mathieu for the penultimate concert of his UK tour, an event organised by Room40 and hosted by ...

Arborea And A Hand Held Camera

Arborea And A Hand H...

Second post of the week featuring the fabulous Arborea kind of lets you know just how good we think these guys are. This time round ...

Arborea Live At Cafe OTO

Arborea Live At Cafe...

One for the diary this coming September has to be a live performance from alt folk husband and wife duo Arborea at Cafe OTO, London. ...

Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall Live at Cafe OTO

Chris Corsano &...

If you are in the London area this coming Friday make sure to check Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall at Cafe OTO performing a rare ...

Digitonal Live At Cafe OTO

Digitonal Live At Ca...

Well worth checking out this wonderful live performance that Digitonal recently did at Cafe OTO...

MARIEE SIOUX / DALE BERNING at Cafe OTO

MARIEE SIOUX / DALE ...

If you are in and around the London area next weekend then Cafe OTO should be on your hit list to catch a live performance ...