Release show for 3D Jesus. Featuring performances from Bint Mbareh & Big Hands, THE NARRATOR, Hostage Wallet.
Doors 7pm
Tickets: £8
3D Jesus is an experimental quartet of tenor saxophone, violin, guitar and drums. Incorporating ambient cosmic swellings with post rock death balladry.
Big Hands is the main moniker of the elusive artist Andrea Ottomani. He also creates work under the names Andrea Ottomani Nontet and Otto Von Lumi. Mainly known for his serpentine and labyrinthine electronic productions that founded home on labels such as MArionette, Al Wootton's Trule, Blank Mind and Vargmal, to name a few.
In recent years, he has developed an intimate and personal electronic sound that owes as much to free jazz and psych-rock as it does to more leaden styles such as dub and techno. Operating from London's musical institution Honest Jon's Records, in 2020 he founded - alongside Soreab - the label Baroque Sunburst, releasing a series of distinctive records operating in a space that runs parallel - adjacent, but never touches the generally accepted club music sound.
In 2024, he launched alongside Abraham Parker, the Ottomani Parker collective. Focusing on live improvisation, their show is a collision of jazz and dub techno .In 2023, Ottomani started building an archive of percussive loops, bells, sound-scapes and voices with the intent of building a map of recurring sounds connected to his Mediterranean heritage. In 2025, Andrea joined the Italian trio MYS (Luca Baioni, Paolo Bazzana, Riccardo Commento) with the aim of exploring ideas such as Deep Listening, improvisation and imperfection.
Bint Mbareh is a sound researcher with a focus on water in Palestine. Her interest in the physical parallel between the water wave and the sound wave leads her into questions of border dissolutions (between bodies, between states, between tenses), and into the possibility of being enveloped by the voice, by sounding communally similarly to being enveloped by a water body. She challenges Settler colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage as an instigator to political revolution.
BM has shown some of this work with TBA21, at the Tate Modern, at Cafe OTO, New York's Lincoln Centre, Unsound Festival, Almaty's Tselinny Centre for Contemporary Art, the Sharjah Biennial, has been in collaboration with Forensic Architecture, Aram Lee, Niki Kohandel and other filmmakers, at Next Festival in Bratislava and Insomnia Festival in Tromso, as part of Another Sky festival. Bint has founded event series such as Against the Clock, which runs regularly at Vesper's Club in Peckham. She has been in collaboration with Nicolas Jaar, Alabaster Deplume, The Vernon Spring, Danalogue and is a member of Ottomani Parker. She also established the Choir for Non-musicians, a workshop bridging the gap between performance and spectatorship.
Her work has been covered by Art in America, Art Forum, Rolling Stone India, E-flux, Teen Vogue UK, and others. Bint Mbareh is cofounder of Palestine's only underground music festival, Exist, and has been awarded a Camargo Mondes Marins residency as well as Tidal Arts residency in Lagoa. BM is currently showing work at Glasgow International and Ramallah's Khal Sakakini Centre. She has guest lectured at London Communications College, the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths', Oxford Brookes, and HGK in Basel and has been a resident mentor at Free .Wav, one of Kerala's first experimental sound residencies.
THE NARRATOR is a poet-shaped storyteller and songbird.
Hostage Wallet is an experimental electronic project composed of Louie Johnston Ward and Tom Ashpitel. The London based duo play improvised sets that blend multiple genres and soundscapes.