The second edition of Oto Nove Swiss takes place from February 21 to February 23, 2019 and features both live gigs and DJ sets. Among the artists playing Cafe Oto during those three nights are London-based producer and performer Lolina (aka Hype Williams’ Inga Copeland), Swiss noise-legend Norbert Möslang, London-based veteran-DJ, -producer, -writer, -radiohost, and -labelowner Andrew Weatherall, Bristol-based grime-noise-dub-punk-duo ASDA (feat. Vessel and chester giles), Lucerne’s synth-pop and sound art fusionist Belia Winnewisser, and more. Scroll down to learn more!
Thursday, February 21, 2019: Andrew Weatherall, Louis Schild, Tout Bleu
Andrew Weatherall (UK; Rotters Golf Club)
Andrew Weatherall is—among others—responsible for acid house’s blossoming in the UK, he was part of Warp-signed duo Two Lone Swordsmen, produced Primal Scream’s album Screamadelica, has remixed music by Björk, New Order, and Saint Etienne, and runs the label Rotters Golf Club to this date. After decades in the business as a DJ, producer, writer, radio host, and label owner, Weatherall is still on top of things. His latest musical discoveries can be heard during his epic DJ sets—on his own or together with Sean Johnston as A Love From Outer Space—and his Music’s Not For Everyone show on NTS Radio alike. The latter format also provides a vantage point for Weatherall’s gig at Café Oto.
Louis Schild – Intrevalle (CH; Hummus Records) live
Louis Schild is a Swiss bass player with strong ties to the noise-, improv-, and free jazz-scenes. Among other things, Schild performs and records together with Antoine Läng, David Meier, and Raphaël Ortis as Léon. For this night at Café Oto Schild presents an exclusive live concert together with Gaspar Pahud. The two musicians create imposing sounds that materialize in space, or as they put it: “Even in its most intangible aspect—sound totally isolated from its source—music is felt as movement that is realized in space. Hit the ground to calm the volcano.”
Tout Bleu (CH) live
Tout Bleu is a Geneva-based trio consisting of singer Simone Aubert, violinist Agathe Max, and POL on electronics. With their experimental compositions the three musicians create haunting pieces that sit somewhere between drone and industrial music. Their latest record has been published by Les Disques Bongo Joe.
Thursday, February 21, 2019 is presented by Bad Bonn & Spezialmaterial
Behind the walls of a rather stiff looking building at the border of a remote lake in the middle of Switzerland’s no man’s land one of the most exquisite concert venues of the country can be found: Bad Bonn. No matter if metal, antifolk, country, electronica, indie or hip-hop—the venue has presented everything that was relevant at the outer fringes of pop music since 1991.
Cio Assereto is a Swiss promoter, DJ, and music enthusiast. Under the Spezialmaterial-banner he provides a steady stream of off-kilter-dance-music. Be it a concert by Autechre at Lucerne’s Boa back in the days, or an all-night DJ set by Vladimir Ivkovic and Lena Willikens at Zurich’s Zukunft, Cio exactly knows how to make a crowd dance to music that actually can be listened to.
Friday, February 22, 2019: Lolina, Norbert Möslang, Belia Winnewisser, Janiv Oron
Lolina (UK) live
With Lolina UK-based producer and performer Alina Astrova (aka Hype Williams’ Inga Copeland) created another enigmatic personae. As the work of Hype Williams and Inga Copeland, Lolina’s self-released albums and EPs—Relaxin’ With Lolina (2015), Live in Paris (2016), Lolita (2017) and most recently The Smoke (2018)—build on experiments with lo-fi and digital production, minimalist composition and discordant vocal arrangements. Making use of a DJ set up, additional layers of live percussion and vocals, Lolina’s live shows continue her attempts to discover possibilities for experimentation within the adopted limitations of electronic music and the contexts for its performance.
https://soundcloud.com/relaxinwithlolina
Norbert Möslang (CH; Bots, Ideologic Organ, Cave12) live
Swiss musician and visual artist Norbert Möslang is experimenting with cracked everyday-electronics since a little eternity. The results of his examinations are preferably noisy sounds that he used to bring on stage together with Andy Guhl as Möslang/Guhl and Voice Crack, before he went solo and started performing in other constellations. Möslang’s music was published on Ideologic Organ, the Editions Mego-sublabel curated by Sunn O)))-mastermind Stephen O’Malley, among others.
Belia Winnewisser (CH; Präsens Editionen) live
Lucerne-based artist and musician Belia Winnewisser exactly knows how to fuse (synth-)pop references with more abstract sounds. Her latest record Radikale Akzeptanz published on Präsens Editionen combines long running traits from Winnewisser’s practice in various band projects (including Evje and α=f/m) with rather new interests from her studies in sound art. Bittersweet off-pop-hymns can be found next to more austere pieces. Winnewisser’s music is not about those two poles however, but rather the in-between.
https://soundcloud.com/zweikommasieben/sets/belia-winnewisser-radikale
Janiv Oron (CH) live
Janiv Oron fosters an independent artistic outlook set within a framework of collective and interdisciplinary working relationships. These experiments result in creations of electronic music focusing on the development of timbre and texture. Oron creates exquisite drones, that give an insight into his improvisatory sensibility and dig deep into the potentials of modular synthesis. Hailing from Basel, he launched several successful party series, formed a successful DJ-duo with his brother Eres and had his own show on Radio SRF Virus. In more recent times Oron also made a name for himself as an electronic music composer for theater music.
zweikommasieben DJs (CH)
Depending on the event and the resources at hand different members of zweikommasieben Magazin team up or go solo to play DJ sets as zweikommasieben DJs—equally in clubs, art spaces, and on air. As within their journalistic practice the outer edges of contemporary music and sounds are at the center of their DJ activity.
Friday, February 22, 2019 is presented by Präsens Editionen & Cave 12 Genève
Präsens Editionen was founded in 2011 to give home to zweikommasieben Magazin. Ever since a variety of magazines, books, zines, records, tapes and oddities has been published—among other things LPs by Andrea Taeggi and Brendan Dougherty, tapes by Robert Turman and Rolf Laureijs, EPs by Martina Lussi and dane//close, a catalogue on Zurich’s off spaces, and a research journal/tool/object on colors.
Cave12 was founded in 1989 to bring some of the most exciting music to Geneva. With a focus on improv, jazz, noise, electroacoustic, drone, and ambient music the venue has made itself a name for being equally intimate and professional—and being furnished with one badass PA. Next to promoting shows, Cave12 also publishes music and more.
Saturday, February 23, 2019: ASDA, Feldermelder, act tba
ASDA (UK; FuckPunk, No Corner) live
Bringing together grime, noise, dub, punk, poetry, jungle, and more, ASDA is a prime-example for the thrilling scene that came to existence around Bristol’s Young Echo collective. Sebastian Gainsborough (aka Vessel) and Chester Giles, the two men behind ASDA, have released their music on Bristol’s own FuckPunk and No Corner, and their live performances are notorious to say the least.
Feldermelder (CH; -ous Records) live
Manuel Oberholzer’s influences range from the decomposed structure works of old pioneers of electronic music to classic jazz, as well as current paths in electronic and analog music. The diversity of the music that inspires him finds reflection in his own sonic adventures, forming ever evolving sounds, combining them to map and compass to guide his artistic outbursts. He has performed his psychedelic live sets, played on a wide range of analog and controlled digital equipment, all over the world.
Saturday, February 23, 2019 is presented by Südpol & Amalgame Yverdon
Lucerne-based center for contemporary performing arts Südpol defines itself as a platform and catalyst of the local, national and international creative scene. The venue that was established in 2008 offers residencies to artists, and a broad range of concerts, performances, plays, dance pieces, and more to its guests.
Located in the beautiful city of Yverdon Amalgam offers a carefully curated program to its guests. From rap concerts to performances of electronic music to club nights—Amalgam’s offerings are broad in scope and nonetheless always on point.