Friday 11 August 2023, 7.30pm
A carefully curated night of bespoke solos, improvisation, art performance and possibilities from some of London’s most exciting artists, brought to you by Cafe Oto local Laila Sakini.
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and performer Laila Sakini is London based, but Melbourne born.
Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP) and her 2017 collaboration with poet Lucy Van, Figures (EP).
Laila has performed at: Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, Listen! festival, The White Hotel, Meakusma x Arkaoda, Kings Place, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho among others.
She has been featured thrice in The Wire Magazine, graced the cover of Switzerland’s cult Zweikommasiben music magazine, been featured on BBC1, in Frances’ Les Inrockuptibles, LA’s AQNB, Belgium’s Gonzo magazine, Italy’s Blow Up and in several specials on NTS Radio, LYL, Dublab, Red Light.
Working with piano, voice, guitar and silence Laila creates dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses.
“It’s like a dream where everything’s bright and gilded and beautiful but you keep remembering something is very, very wrong” - Low Company, 2020
"Laila Sakini is producing some of the most vital and brittle music of our time.” – Boomkat, 2020
“An enigma with a purpose” – The Wire Magazine, 2021
“With each listen, there's another line, another noise, that jumps out from Sakini's sonic coral reef, a reef that feels simultaneously uplifting and deeply distressing.“ - Resident Advisor, 2022.
https://lailasakini.bandcamp.com/
Kenichi Iwasa is a London based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan, also known for his legendary Krautrock Karaoke night, and collaborations with visual artists and musicians such as Beatrice Dillon, Maxwell Sterling and Linder Sterling.
He currently performs with Naima Karlsson under the name Exotic Sin and released LP on Blank Forms.
Most recent live & recording collaborations have been with Neneh Cherry, David Ornette Cherry, Tyson, Denardo Coleman, Rebecca Salvador, Alexander Tucker, Alexis Taylor, Visio, Heith, Finley Clark, Lutto Lento, Blood Music.
Leeway is an alias of London based Guy Gormley, whose solo and collaborative transmissions under the guises of Enchante, RAP, Special Occasion and Never have offered a consistent subversive undercurrent to London club activities. Recently rising above surface with two releases on Lost Domain.
With Leeway he has entered an exciting, rapidly fortifying phase. For this event he’ll be performing live, exploring the sonics and possibilities opened up in his Hypoxia LP.
“provocatively out of step with contemporary dance music”. (Pitchfork)
Luisa Amorim is a Portuguese performance maker based in London.
She devises her shows drawing upon her real-life and domesticity - interests her to dramatize her quotidian and the little things of every-day-life.
Her work combines theatre, performance art, installation, movement and poetry.
Amorim explores themes as gender identity, feminine aesthetics, womanhood, motherhood, ageing, and gender inequality within a domestic environment.
She is fascinated by stretching the role of the spectator, turning them into active participants of the show, and how this changes her own role on stage.
Amorim studied Drama at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon, and in 2016 graduated from her MA in Performance Making from Goldsmiths University of London. She is been performing her shows between London, Lisbon and Porto.
