Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Rotorotor
My English friends call them the-bandwith-the-name-I-neveremember and I admit its pretty much unpronounceable. However, 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 n1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrythmo etc. etc.)but also to one of the biggest dynamiters of 20th century art. Now, 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 Duchamps famous rotoreliefs and to the latters 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.