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Bottom rung of the showbiz ladder 4 lyf Cafe OTO // Counterflows
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Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon López (Tao Forms 2025) taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/revision

3 years with this total dafty ❤️

So way too many people chatted through Autechre's Manchester show at the weekend and kinda ruined it in bits. I've got a simple solution for them to this problem: play a month long residency in Cafe OTO and we'll shush anyone the tries to go there. C'mon lads.

It really takes some doing for the anger, disgust, and exhusation at these continued austerity pledges to be actually surpassed by sheer brutal embarrassment. But here we are.

Next Weds & Thurs it gives me great pleasure to welcome Sachiko M for a residency at OTO. I first heard Sachiko's sampler sine waves on Otomo Yoshihide's take on Out to Lunch, & have been fascinated by her since. Expect solos, collabs w/Pat Thomas, Li Song, & more! www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/sachi...

Sonic Bothy & John Wall complete the Counterflows 2025 line-up. Full day-by-day programme, individual passes & day passes are now on sale. See you all in April!

Fare thee well Scottish percussion legend Jamie Muir. Here's him talking about percussion and rubbish in Microphone Magazine 1972. Check it out and listen to Dart Drug and Larks' Tongues in Aspic today.

There's a new Taku Sugimoto album just out. This is him playing to his strengths I think: using space, timbre and resonance in way that holds form but doesn't overly pronounce and exaggerate the time between each gesture. takusugimoto.bandcamp.com/album/go-ove...

yip yip yip

Berwick Film Festival line-up is just up and looks ace. One of my favourite UK fests. Recommended! bfmaf.org

As someone who suffers a huge allergy to the current late 90s/early 00s aesthetic revival, I have to admit that i've fallen for the Oklou album. It's a psyop.

This Saturday coming:

The most striking cinema i saw last year was Human Surge 1 and Human Surge 3 by Eduardo Williams. There's a retrospective of his films in Glasgow & Edinburgh this month. Warmly recommended! cinemaattic.com/the-films-of...

We've got Jamaaladeen Tacuma in the house tonight. A peerless bass player, of course, but also the man with the fiercest threads in the game:

Susan Alcorn was one of those players that seemed to encapsulate so many styles and approaches to her instrument but still somehow make a sound - a delicate but purposeful, fiery sound - that was distinctly her. This video of her playing is just gorgeous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcT2...

We did it! After 13+ years of doing Counterflows we finally have got the resources & support to do it properly.

This is great: 8 works by Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments rather than voices by James Weeks. The accompanying conversation on the AT website is illuminating too, criticising religion, colonialism & chill-out aesthetics. anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-...

People go to the Prince Charles, i think, because they know they'll be in a place thats lovingly curated & run, & they know they'll be sitting a room with fellow enthusiastic film freaks. That's how I feel about it anyway. One of my favourite places in London. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Probably most o' the heads know this, but Hundred Years Gallery have quite a remarkable selection of British improv, jazz, classical music & ethnographic recordings atm. Ridiculously cheap prices & 50% of the sale goes to Medical Aid for Palestine. No brainer.

Turns out that 2025 celebrates 25 years of the Chicago unit Haptic. One of the very few electroacoustic units that have a chemistry that just works. I love their sensitive approach to space & time, their economic use of materials, and how they apply these to create a kind of tantric swell of sound.

Yes. + she's finally playing in Europe this year. 28 of April at OTO.

Jacques Rivette retrospective just announced at the ICA. Posting here mainly so I remember! ica.art/films/rivette

I've chatted to a few folks about this recently and how best to move forward. There's no easy answers, but I honestly really like mail-outs. Keep them personal, irregular (1-4 times a year ideally), direct & informative.

Meanwhile in the West Bank: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/...

Chocolate Monk artist and all round lovely guy Malcy Duff has a new strip over at MOMA. Imbibe. His work is a soothing salve. www.moma.org/magazine/art...

Listening to Julee Cruise and raising a glass to David Lynch. His work completely reorganised my teenage brain and was a huge catalyst for diving deeper into the worlds of film and sound. Thank you thank you thank you 🍸❤️