Friday 2 May 2025, 7.30pm
For her residency at Cafe OTO, Dali is curating 3 nights for experimentalists, avant-gardistes and dancefloor destroyers. Inviting a big crew from Bristol, where she’s based, and beyond, as many guests are international artists. Some of them are returning to OTO, many are coming for the first time, they all have crossed her path over the years and as music is made of connections, they have been creating music together. This line-up is made of great musicians and DJs widely engaged in culture; some are DIY promoters, part of various collectives, labels, in different countries and contexts. They've been working not only to produce their music but also to spread music from other musicians around them, in their communities thus resisting the shrinking political climate. The 3 days are a celebration of activism in music.
Ardor or Entropy is Nzʉmbe’s first album in nine years, following 2015's Titubeo.
During this period, philosopher and artist Miguel Prado’s sonic output has included synthesizing a sonic Gernika with his band HARRGA alongside Dali de Saint Paul, and crafting a hallucinatory sci-fi mythology for Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album, ¡Ay!."
Rewiring the conventions of chamber electronics and postmodern songwriting.
Here it is presented: A Spanish’ song cycle on love and cosmological redshift. The distant echo of Tristan‐and‐Iseult’s smoking gun where lovemaking becomes an enactment of entropy, a transformation between the dynamic and the static, the human and the fetish, illustrating the inevitable decline into chaos and stillness.
A beached singing voice against electro-acoustic backdrops ranging from the caustic, viscous to the bone crushingly dense worldbuilding shared by HR Giger, Ballard and Pynchon. Transcendental and psychotic vistas that boldly examine human fragility and the surrounding abyss of godlessness.
https://www.instagram.com/miguelprad0/
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-or-entropy
Adrián de Alfonso (formerly known as Don The Tiger) is a Spanish performing musician based in Berlin opening a dialogue between places and the collective FM transmission possible in them. His performances transfigure flamenco, copla, bolero, tango and sardana through unhinged sampling/midi techniques, stripped-down chanting, musique concrète outbursts, and outlandish operatic procedures.
De Alfonso has collaborated with Lucrecia Dalt, Carla Bozulich, Valerio Tricoli, Lydia Lunch, Aksak Maboul, Francesco Cavaliere, Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero, Robert Forster, GY!BE, Arnau Sala, Sam Ashley, Macromassa, etc.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their own functioning FM radios, so they can actively participate in the act of sounding / listening.
https://www.instagram.com/adriandealfonso/
https://mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/viator
Talking about Dali’s performances, Fanny Chiarello wrote :
“She picks up any music genre on the fly, catches words like a cat does a cotton swab, she throws words, throws notes into the fire of her anger or her joy and it crackles and it ignites; sometimes she'll start singing a fragile melody that makes you weep.“
— Fanny Chiarello in Basta Now (Permanent Draft, 2024)
https://www.instagram.com/dalidesaintpaul/
https://dalidesaintpaul.bandcamp.com/
Noods Radio favourite and celebrated Bristol head Lionel Lamadon fearlessly quests along the boundaries of experimental music, from spoken word, sound poetry, concrete music to noise, industrial, electronica.
