Matchless Recordings

Quintessential moments in the new music

Since the mid-1960s there has been determined and persistent presence in music making that owes nothing to establishment preferences, fashionable nuances or market forces. Experimentalism and improvisation speak of enquiry, curiousity and adventure in music. And, albeit that these practices have had to exist within the corrosive slipstream of the aforementioned tendencies, the search for meaningful and fulfilling musical expression can only become real through and towards self-empowerment.

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Workshop Concert Series at Cafe OTO

Submitted by admin on 8 June 2009 - 8:26am.

Monday June 29 2009, 8pm. £6/4
Sebastian Lexer (piano),
Walter Cardew (guitar)

Matt Hammond (acoustic guitar),
Rodrigo Montoya (shamisen)

Jamie Coleman (trumpet),
Thomas Rohrer (rebeca),
Phil Somervell (piano)

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The Workshop Series — a monthly concert of experimental improvised music.

Submitted by admin on 12 February 2009 - 10:37am.

The Cafe Oto has afforded the participants from the weekly workshop that I convene a monthly performance opportunity. In a democratic way one of our number selects a programme of musicians drawn from the ranks of the workshop, past and present, to create an evening of music. The only provision is that the programmer cannot themselves be part of the particular programme that they formulate. The nature of each monthly concert will be varied and difficult to describe or define. Hence, this brief and historical introduction to the origins and aims of our workshop.

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