Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Rotorotor (LP)

Brand new studio release from Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on the Moi J'Connais Label (Mama Rosin, Imperial Tiger Orchestra)Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp presents ROTOROTOR, a thrilling third album produced by John Parish (P.J Harvey, Eels, Giant Sand, Dominique A�) and recorded by Ali Chant at Toybox Studio in Bristol.ROTOROTOR (a nod to Duchamp's famous rotoreliefs and to the latter's taste for palindromes) is a manifesto for free and adventurous music, organised in versatile pop songs; playful and fervent, incandescent, funny and impetuous, assuming without ostentation a sort of fragmented futurist traditionalism, combining festivity and war, wedding dances and battle-cries.Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (roughly translated as All Mighty Orchestra Marcel Duchamp) is a name with a programme. It not only refers to some of the most legendary bands from West-Africa (Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n�1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrythmo etc. etc.) but also to one of the biggest dynamiters of 20th century art. Around Vincent Bertholet's obstinate double bass riffs, Ma�l Saletes' striking and stumbling guitar lines keep up a hypnotic dialogue.The melodic counterpoint of A�da Diop's marimba, here voluble and danceable, there more pointillistic, and Mathias Forge's trombone, groove impeccably along on the drumming of Wilf Plum (who we know from the legendary Dog Faced Hermans, a notable influence on OTPMD) whose playing lays down a groove of soul shivers and rhythm 'n' blues syncopation.