THERE’S something different about the energy at Café Oto this evening. As the venue slowly fills to capacity, there are young children moving among the crowd of experimental music connoisseurs. When one of them grabs the microphone, it seems like a transgression of this generally reverential place. That is until he says, “Will you please welcome… Charles Bullen!”
If this weekend’s Lifetones residency has and . There was improvisation and noise, but also cats with “heavy vibes”.