Cafe Oto
18 - 22 ASHWIN STREET, DALSTON,
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A Colourful Storm celebrates 10 years, with two shows over two nights at Cafe OTO.
Where to begin with a figure like Simon Fisher Turner? From teenage stage and screen star to illustrious recording artist for Creation and Mute and score composer of Caravaggio (1986), Blue (1993) and The Epic of Everest (2013) - via a stint with The The and collaborations with Derek Jarman, David Lynch and Tilda Swinton - Turner embodies a distinctly modernist sensibility and boundless curiosity for sound. For A Colourful Storm, discovering Deux Filles, his devilishly intriguing, perfectly camp project with Colin Lloyd-Tucker, was a significant moment in shaping the label’s identity.
Caravaggio began Turner’s long relationship with the BFI, leading to the original score composition for restorations of three silent films, Un Chant D’Amour dir Jean Genet (1950), The Great White Silence dir Herbert Ponting (1924) and The Epic of Everest dir. Captain John Noel (1924, the latter winning an Ivor Novello Award. He has also composed film music for Mike Hodges, Michael Almareyda and Isao Yamada, while his collaborators over the years include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Gina Birch, Klara Lewis and The Elysian Collective. He returns to the stage for A Colourful Storm, following their Under the Arches release, Instability of the Signal (Mute, 2024) and ongoing missives for Touch’s sonic blog, Guerilla Audio.
Lone Capture Library is the one-off project of Rory Salter, London-based sound and performing artist and label runner of Infant Tree.
His work is formed through experimentations with acoustic & electronic instruments, faulty & functional technologies, cassette tape, feedback and walking. Motivated by exploring relationships to environment, work, labour and craft, it is rooted in practice and documentation. He has performed and worked with Derek Baron, Phil Julian, Sun Yizhou, Mark Peter Wright, Regan Bowering, Li Song and others. He has published albums under various monikers with Index Clean, TEETH, Zoomin' Night, Alter, TakuRoku, MAL and Bison.
Lone Capture Library takes the stage for a rare performance, following A Colourful Storm’s reissue of All Natures Most Mundane Materials (2025).
Jack Rollo is one half of Time is Away, a duo (with Elaine Tierney) working across radio, research and site-specific sound-works. Over twelve years as a resident on NTS Radio, both solo and collaboratively, he has combined spoken word, field recordings and music as part of an ongoing reflection on the relationship between time, place and power. As Time is Away, Rollo and Tierney’s recent commissions include the Arts Council England-funded solo exhibition Fable of the Bees (Black Tower Projects, 2020), Prospect Cottage 1989–90 (La Becque, 2020), Countercultural Bohemia as Prefiguration (Repeater Books/ICA, 2021) and Raid on the Medway (TACO!/Estuary Festival, 2021).
