“Mitchener’s greatest strength on the album is her ability to say a lot with very little. She reminds us that poetry is not just words, it is something to feel deep within the body.”
Mike Hobart
“The first night of performance artist/vocalist Elaine Mitchener’s two-day Cafe Oto residency delivered articulate spoken-word, shapeshifting sonics and intense free jazz.”
“I wasn’t prepared for the remarkable focus, ingenuity, and invention behind her incredible new album Solo Throat (Otoroku), in which her vast oeuvre of extended techniques, literary inspiration, and improvisational thinking come together into something far more profound and jaw-dropping than the sum of its parts.”
The one-week programme Always, Already There, conceived in collaboration with guest curator George E. Lewis, focuses on Afrodiasporic contemporary music composers. A series of concerts, lectures, and panel discussions draws
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For five days in May, Elaine Mitchener (DAAD fellow 2022-23) transforms the daadgalerie into an interdisciplinary salon, a meeting zone, a testing ground, an open space for exchange and experiment.
First solo release from Elaine Mitchener: Solo Throat draws on the work of African-American and African-Caribbean poets Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard as source material
Cafe Oto hosts a two-day residency with Elaine Mitchener, to mark the release of her first ever solo LP, Solo Throat, released on Otoroku. This special two-day residency centres on
Elaine curates Politics of the Voice for Courtisane Festival 2024. The voice is soul. Voice is noise. It’s what makes us unique as individuals but also powerful as a community.
