Mastered and/or mixed by Rupert Clervaux

MENTAL SHAKE

Our tenth OTOROKU release sees a return to the group that kick-started the label - the veteran German reedsman and free jazz pioneer Peter Broetzmann with the long-running London bass/drums partnership of John Edwards and Steve Noble. After the release of '…The Worse The Better' that group went on to play a series of devastating shows in Europe and to emerge as one of Broetzmann's finest working groups. Over the same period Peter was developing a deep rapport with Jason Adasiewicz, the upstart vibraphone player from Chicago. What seems on paper like an awkward pairing reveals itself on stage and on record as a symbiotic revelation. Adasiewicz's physical attack matching Broetzmann for impact whilst the extended sustain of the vibes opens up an eerie space for some of Broetzmann's most fertile lyricism.

The recording is from the last set of a two-day residency at Cafe OTO that brought these two groups together for an astonishing quartet. Adasiewicz and Noble struck up an immense partnership in rhythm. Edwards wrestled with a broken house bass and failing amplifier and still managed new levels of invention - stoking the others onwards. Broetzmann was clearly energised - I swear I saw him dancing at the side of the stage whilst exchanging a shattered reed. And for all the usual rhetoric of Free Jazz bluster and machismo, this is a meeting characterised by the joy of communal creation that makes you want to dance - even if only in your head.

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Peter Broetzmann / alto and tenor sax, Bflat clarinet, Taragato
Jason Adasiewicz / vibraphone
John Edwards / double bass
Steve Noble / drums

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Recorded live at Cafe OTO on 12 August 2013 by James Dunn.
Mixed by Rupert Clervaux at Grays Inn Road. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx.

Design by Brö/Untiet. Drawing by Brö. Photocollage (on sleeve reverse) by Dawid Laskowski

ROKU010. LP/CD/Digital Download. Edition of 1000.

ROKU010 Broetzmann / Adasiewicz / Edwards / Noble - MENTAL SHAKE (excerpt)

Idem

Track 2 of my new ep ‘6tr4x’ 

Buy here: https://jonny3snares.bandcamp.com/album/6trax

2. Un - B0x

"Sounds hide within shadows, and what might be a discreet scrape on a cymbal could equally be an inconspicuously stroked guitar string. The musicians feed their material into the space, enough to be picked up by their feedback system, after which they ride their own sounds, penetrating inside the noise to throw its shapes." - Philip Clark, The Guardian

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Utterly beguiling recording of two great improvisers at work in the Hara Museum, Tokyo in the winter of 2013. Drumset, percussion, guitar, amplifier - a simple set up that produces complex and extremely dynamic results, with immense swells of enveloping feedback, fragile cymbal scrapes that hover at the edge of audibility, ecstatic free-rock clatter and slyly resonant melodies.

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Recorded by Taku Unami at Hara Museum, Tokyo on 17 February 2013 
Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux at Gray’s Inn Road 
Music by Roger Turner (PRS) and Otomo Yoshihide (JASRAC) 
Produced by Trevor Brent

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http://recordings.fataka.net/products/541032-the-last-train-roger-turner-otomo-yoshihide-fataka-10

Roger Turner & Otomo Yoshihide - The last train (Fataka 10)

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - O Ignis Spiritus

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko - O Tu Suavissima Virga

https://lyl.live/episode/geograficamente-perto-42
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Wooden Horse Carousel –– Geograficamente Perto (LYL Radio)

Opening track from "Au temps pour moi" LP on Thin Consolation
-> https://thinconsolation.bandcamp.com/album/au-temps-pour-moi

Composition, mix, mask: Antonin De Bemels
Mastering: Yvan Hanon

Au temps pour moi

Traversée

release on 2nd May 2025 : www.wabi-sabi-tapes.bandcamp.com
@manja-ristic

Manja Ristić is a Serbian violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. In her work, she sets ecosystems in resonance and translates the human activity that criss-crosses them.

Manja Ristić - Olovo (extract)

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but right now (butterfly master chain)

SKUPINA & MAPPA is a mixtape series that focuses on the vibrant Eastern European experimental music scene. Fresh news and premieres from the region, unreleased tracks, self-released albums and labels' activities. Music you don't often find in year-end charts and Western music magazines, yet you should!

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📡 Connect with the Outsiders, every day, at 9 am or 9 pm CET
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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 07.07.2025

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Otoroku is proud to present the second recorded outing from the universe shifting free jazz trio of Evan Parker, John Edwards and Chris Corsano.  This trio have been playing together for 9 years, sometimes expanding into quartets with the like of Noah Howard, John Russell, Joe McPhee, John Coxon & Paul Dunmall.  

The material on this LP was recorded during a 4 night residency by Corsano at Cafe Oto in August 2014.  All material recorded live, no editing or post production. As raw and liberating as it was on the evening.

All compositions Evan Parker - John Edwards - Chris Corsano 

Artwork by Dennis Tyfus
Recorded by James Dunn at Cafe Oto on 22nd August 2014
Mixed by Rupert Clervaux at Grays Inn Road, London
Mastered by Andreas (LUPO) Lubich at Calyx, Berlin

Limited Edition vinyl in an edition of 500 copies. First 100 copies come with limited 11"x11" risograph print designed by Dennis Tyfus 

mail@cafeoto.co.uk / https://www.cafeoto.co.uk


Evan Parker / John Edwards / Chris Corsano - The Hurrah (excerpt)

INTERVIEW > inverted-audio.com/feature/machine-woman-talks-up-genau-house-premieres-kassem-mosse-remix

Ahead of the release of her third effort 'I Can Mend Your Broken Heart' on @where-to-now-productions we caught up with Russian producer @machinewoman to talk musical background, production sidelights and Berlin surroundings. Stream @kmos slow-burning revamp within.

Machine Woman - I Can Mend Your Broken Heart (Kassem Mosse Remix) [Where To Now?]

Under a new alias, Lobster Theremin don Jimmy Asquith treats all to a dose of needle-breaking sounds at a nosebleed bpm. Asquith's tendencies for variety and deep, diverse breadth of musical talent is what Lobster Theremin has become known for. Any time that isn't spent heading up the revered label, is spent fabricating music that shares the Lobster manifesto. Having consistently catapulted talent such as Palm Trax and Manse onto our hard drives, it seems only fitting that the label boss is now displaying his own ability to kill it in the musical laboratory.

Tom Hang's upcoming The New World EP sees the label boss weave a narrative of escapism and delirium, from which “In The Deep” stands king. Toeing the line between immersive deep pulses, organ rupturing modulations and teetering melodies, “In The Deep” tackles techno from a number of angles – keeping you hooked throughout.

"In The Deep" emerges on 2nd October via Where To Now.

The New World

Pre-Order

Tom Hang "In The Deep" - Boiler Room Debuts

Octo Octa drops a smooth, groovy house cut for Femme Culture's HeForShe Arts Week compilation!

Buy: https://bleep.com/release/96172-various-artists-heforshe-x-femme-culture

Premiere: Octo Octa 'By Yourself (Clap Mix)'

As you can imagine we are under huge pressure at the moment and are working flat out to ensure Cafe OTO survives this. The impact of this situation is extremely acute for small venues like ours and we need all the support we can get to pull through. Please donate what you can, if you can. Thank you. 

Cafe OTO opened in April 2008 with the aim of providing a home for creative new music that exists outside of the mainstream. It comprises one large cafe/performance space open during the day serving food and drink with an evening programme of live music almost seven nights a week. 

OTOROKU is part of OTOProjects - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC) that has been set up to manage the programme at Café Oto. Any profits from OTOROKU are put back into supporting what we do and will help us to continue programming the best musicians and performers from all over the world.

www.cafeoto.co.uk

Evan Parker / John Edwards / Chris Corsano - The Hurrah (excerpt)

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