You can now pre-order the new Anna Högberg Attack LP from @cafeotodalston.bsky.social www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/anna-ho...

Coming up on Sunday! Radical long-form large-group free improvisation from ONe_Orchestra New! Guaranteed to induce gender euphoria AND musical joy: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/one_o... Scroll through to read some highlights from our chat with ONe_Orchestra New's co-founder Caroline Kraabel..

Coming up at the end of the month! The Berlin-based, aesthetically agnostic record label and loose collective, SACRED REALISM, celebrate 14 years of activity with three nights of incredible music: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sacre...

Out this week on Otoroku, an invigorating, deeply interwoven recording from the pairing of Glasgow-born, London-based musician, Conal Blake and percussionist, improviser and sound artist, Regan Bowering! www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/conal-b...

Out this week on Otoroku, a live recording of the debut OTO performance from Basque guitarist, Joseba Irazoki! Dense slabs of distorted tones and hissing static rub shoulders with featherlight arpeggios and beautiful, crystalline chords: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/joseba-...

Thrilled to share my latest "oral history" for Time Out, exploring the history and legacy of Dalston's inimitable outsider arts hub @cafeotodalston.bsky.social with Thurston Moore, Suzanne Ciani, Brady Corbet, Stewart Lee, @hotchipofficial.bsky.social & many more... www.timeout.com/london/music...

Out this week on Otoroku, a gloriously psychoactive set from Joke Lanz and Ute Wassermann! The sonic landscape keeps flashing by in an ever-brilliant sugar-rush of kaleidoscopic colour, and it's no hardship at all to just give yourself over to it: www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/ute-was...

Atonal Kat returns to @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on 22 July! Featuring Seaming To, Tom Challenger and yours truly playing #AnneaLockwood to celebrate our new release on Unsounds label. Get your meow now! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/atona... Cappuccino the Cat photographed by @vanessawhy.bsky.social

Coming this Monday & Tuesday night! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

Tonight! 'Mute Teachers' played by Distractfold @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Coming this Monday & Tuesday night! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

Tonight and tomorrow (2 & 3 July) we welcome the brilliant Marek Pospieszalski Octet to OTO. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/marek... "A stalwart of Polish contemporary jazz,” – Antonio Poscic, The Quietus

Coming up this week! The great contemporary music ensemble DISTRACTFOLD celebrate their 15th anniversary with a 2-day festival exploring the acoustic ecology of geology/rocks, marine biomes, and human-machine interactions. Don't miss! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/distr...

Maggie Nicols launches her new album of jazz standards with Geoff Eales this Wednesday. Highly recommended! Opening the night will be a solo set by Ashley Paul - her first here in over 5 years. www.freejazzblog.org/2025/06/magg...

Coming up in a couple of weeks! The Messthetics - featuring Fugazi members Joe Lally and Brendan Canty plus guitarist Anthony Pirog - join forces with the great American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis to absolutely barnstorming effect. Don't miss! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

More tickets just released for Late Works: Preparations iii tonight! With Gentle Stranger, otta & Stanley Welch – www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/late-...

The final Salon in our AI and music series is on Tues 24 June @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. Featuring Lore Lixenberg, Elaine Mitchener, Mattie Colqhoun (Xenogothic), Vicki Bennett/People Like Us (pictured). More info/tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... 📷 by Polly Brown

On the 7 & 8 of July we welcome Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis to OTO for a set of intimate performances. Not to be missed! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/messt...

This Sunday at 5pm we present a special all-ages community event with food, KANTINE MUSIK. Featuring music and storytelling from: Peter Zummo Zoot Lynam Caroline Kraabel Flora Curzon Beanie Bhebhe Bex Burch www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/kanti...

At the Wire Salon @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on 24 June, Lore Lixenberg and Elaine Mitchener will perform Fluxus works by Alison Knowles, Emmet Williams, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Patterson and Dick Higgins. More info and tickets: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... 📷 by Tara Darby

On Saturday, a very special summer edition of MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food with the87press: tinyurl.com/u874ux46 Four phenomenal poets: Sarah Ghazal Ali, Saba Keramati, Susan Nguyen, and Rushika Wick, DJs Jimmy Two Shoes + Dr Aditi, plus Sri Lankan food.

Out today! Otoroku is delighted to present a remarkable, one-of-a-kind release from Swedish-Belgian sound composer, non-musician and cloud researcher, Valerie Mol, aka eurodyke (a play on the mythical Eurydice): www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/eurodyk...

Out today on Otoroku, a vital, discombobulating set from London-based, Scottish artist, Jackson Burton! www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/jackson-burton-8525 A heady, compellingly disorientating mix of live-performance, pre-recorded elements and spoken word to create a potent atmosphere all its own.

In one week @cafeotodalston.bsky.social we start of 30 years 3 night residency - come and listen www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/apart...

Now on sale for OTO Members! An extended 4-day residency with أحمد [Ahmed] - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/ahmed... - don't miss! Tickets on general sale on Wednesday.

We have a packed month this June at OTO Join us - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

We have a packed month this June at OTO Join us - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

It's our great pleasure to welcome back our dear friend and incredible artist, the one and only Joe McPhee, to OTO next week. He'll be playing 3 shows. Two with his new group 'MONSTER', a duo with John Edwards and a discussion. Details & tickets at www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Marek Pospieszalski Octet live in London @cafeotodalston.bsky.social

Pleased to announce a large set of new shows today. Including: Zoh Amba - Three Day Residency Jan Jelinek Dudù Kouate Space 21 Festival Marek Pospieszalski Octet Thomas Bush Elvin Brandhi Mikolaj Trzaska & many more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

One week until the deadline! Full details and how to apply 👉 www.cafeoto.co.uk/job-vacancy-...

Tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social: the Wire Salon explores AI's effect on music with @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Zubin Kanga, Cyborg Soloists & @saving-throw.bsky.social. Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... Read our review of Walshe's book on AI: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Tomorrow at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social! We look forward to seeing you there. Tickets at the link below.

The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social @cafeotodalston.bsky.social www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

A handful of returned tickets just put back on sale for our shows with The Necks this weekend - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-n... - when they're gone they're gone!

Coming up next Tuesday at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. Tickets from £8 at the link below. We look forward to seeing you there.

JOB VACANCY - SENIOR PRODUCER We’re looking for a new Senior Producer to help plan our programme and make it happen: www.cafeoto.co.uk/job-vacancy-...

The sun is out in London. A perfect opportunity to spin Sachiko Kanenobu's remarkable 'Misora' album from 1972. An all time favorite of ours. We're very pleased to welcome Sachiko Kanenobu to Cafe OTO for her long awaited UK performance on the 14th of May. www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sachi...

Don't forget to book ahead for our second Salon event exploring the impact of AI on music, with composer @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social. 13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social. Tickets below: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... 📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift

Tonight at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social, The Wire Salon returns to look at the effects of AI on music making with Sam Salem, Patten, and @saving-throw.bsky.social. The event begins at 7:30pm. Tickets from £8, plus more information, here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w... 📷 Patten, by Yu Fujiwara

Two phenomenal new Otoroku releases announced today! On digital, a mesmerising, chimerical set from Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist, Patrick Shiroishi - www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/patrick... Plus a live LP of the first ever duo of Evan Parker and Bill Nace - www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/evan-pa...

The Loraine James residency this week is sold out! We have some amazing residencies coming soon. Including: - Reading Group / Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez - Dali de Saint Paul - Charlemagne Palestine - Marc Ribot & many more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

On Sunday Cafe OTO turns 17! To mark the occasion we've selected a release from each of those years from our in-house digital label, Otoroku, all recorded in the venue. Dig in! www.cafeoto.co.uk/archive/2025...

Free release out today on Otoroku! To celebrate our 17th birthday, we're delighted to offer a free recording of the phenomenal first meeting between Theodora Laird (voice), John McGrath (guitar) and Douglas Benford (harmonium): www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/theodor...

On the 13th of April Cafe OTO will turn 17. For us to be able to celebrate our 20th Birthday and beyond we need your help. 👉 www.cafeoto.co.uk/cafe-oto-nee...

Tonight: A very rare chance to catch the legendary Amina Claudine Myers live. Just a handful of tickets left: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/amina...

Massive month ahead this April at OTO Come see some amazing music! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events

Bringing a Scottish set tonight to @cafeotodalston.bsky.social for eavesdropping london! Music by Erin Thomson, Lisa Robertson and @ambleskuse.bsky.social and excited to perform w Yuki Neoh and Megan McArthur! The set will be accessible for D/deaf audiences via BSL, visual vernacular & signed mime.