Chinabot presents: MEMESHIFT + AYANKOKO + KEPLA + OISHI

Another excellent bill from Chinabot, a platform and  collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music,  established in 2017.

https://www.chinabot.co/

Ayankoko 

Ayankoko is the solo musical effort of French-Laotian  multi-instrumentalist and composer David Somphrachanh Vilayleck; a  fusion of jazz, sound design, traditional, noise, ambient, computer  music, and classical. He studied at the French conservatories of  Perpignan and Strasbourg and has a PhD in jazz guitar, improvised music  and composition. Vilayleck has been working for 20 years in the fields  of jazz, dub and experimental music. Ayankoko is an ever-evolving  project which questions the ear about sound perception, its raw nature,  the definition of music and the concept of ugly-beauty. Ayankoko uses  syncopation, abnormal time signatures, and polyrhythms to explore new  conceptual frameworks and create an overwhelming feeling of  weightlessness. On his new album ‘Kia Sao ກ້ຽວສາວ’, Ayankoko advances  his technique, pushing it as far as he can, from complex abstraction to  blissful bursts of melody. He's a co-founder of Chinabot, has released  Kia Sao and Khmu Thidin on the label.

MEMESHIFT 

Morgan is an organizer and experimental electronic musician who  draws creative strength from the vast diasporas of his fellow southeast  Asian kin.

Previously, Morgan co-curated Soy&synth, an experimental concert  series with Indonesian collective Soydivision, co-releasing much of the  output on their sister label L-KW alongside MidnightShift.

Morgan is also initiator of Latent Sonorities, a project with the  House of Indonesian Cultures – Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Berlin (RBI) and  Morphine Records Raum developing an open source sample pack and tuning  files of Javanese gamelan instruments from RBI’s instrument collection.  Its public release was accompanied by a concert series, DAW tools, album  and guide for other artists and researchers working with sonic  archives.

Kepla 

Jon Davies (b. 1988) is a musician based in Liverpool, born in  Hong Kong and raised in Croydon, producing work under the name of Kepla.  Since 2016 he has produced a number of records, including collaborative  records with DeForrest Brown, Jr. aka Speaker Music, and experimental  writer Nathan Jones. His last full length was a debut solo record titled  Within The Gaze, A Shadhavar released by Alien Jams in 2019, described  "as a thoroughly idiosyncratic journey into the depths of an alien  psyche." The Album In Furnace was released on Chinabot in 2023.

Oishi 

Zheng Hao and Ren Shang are two artists from China,  currently-based in London, UK. Their music as Oishi is a playful,  joyful, and at points absurdist exploration through musique concrete,  diaristic field recordings and digitally augmented realities.

On their debut album, ‘once upon a time there was a mountain’  released by Bezirk, Oishi use warped tape loops, field recordings and  digital manipulation to explore how everyday sounds can carry unexpected  paths of expression and meaning. Evoking fictional vocabularies and car  radios via motorbike rides down imagined mountains.

🎫Ticket: Reserve tickets at Cafe OTO

⭐️Event Organiser: Chinabot

💡Price: from £8

🗓Date: 7 May 2024