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Cafe OTO
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You’ll catch everyone from Tokyo’s Soil and Pimp Sessions to unknown musicians making experimental music, including free jazz, at this community venue. The industrial stripped-down room has no stage, so performances take place in the round, making it very intimate. If it’s a beer and background music you’re after, save Cafe Oto for another night. In the daytime, the cafe serves great coffee and Persian food.
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18-22 Ashwin Street
England
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Cafe Oto is a 150-capacity venue in Dalston: a single room that audiences and musicians enter into directly from the street. It has low ceilings, creaky old furniture, no green room for the musicians to hide in and no stage. Yet it has become one of the best known and loved spaces for experimental music in the world, attracting regular performers such as Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and the Sun Ra Arkestra, as well as the occasional superstar such as Anthony Braxton and Yoko Ono.
Cafe Oto is a 150-capacity venue in Dalston: a single room that audiences and musicians enter into directly from the street. It has low ceilings, creaky old furniture, no green room for the musicians to hide in and no stage. Yet it has become one of the best known and loved spaces for experimental m…