WE'RE OK. BUT WE'RE LOST ANYWAY (vinyl)

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STUNNING & EXHILARATING, THE FIFTH ALBUM BY ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP. Founded in 2006 by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is a major project. Conceived as a true orchestra, the size of the ensemble has varied over time. Now 12 strong, 14 in the past or 6 at the beginning, the group has toured the stages of Europe to show that the saying “the more, the merrier” has never been truer than on stage. Whether at prestigious festivals (Paléo Festival de Nyon, Fusion Festival, Incubate, Womad, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Jazz à la Vilette) or on the four albums released since its launch, the band displays incredible fluidity. Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (a mischievous title paying cross tribute to traditional African bands - Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo etc...- and to one of the greatest disruptors of 20th-century art) embraces the forms of its musicians while pushing them to their limits. The result is a powerful, experimental, unstable and terribly alive, organic sound. These characteristics are found on 'We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway', the band's fifth album. Built around twelve musicians drawn from their respective biotopes, it develops a repetitive musicality which, unfolding in successive waves, creates a feeling of trance. Blending free jazz, post punk, high life, brass band, symphonic mixtures and kraut rock, their sound uniquely goes beyond genre boundaries. Transcendental, almost ritualistic, the music is coupled with powerful lyrics, declaimed in rage against a world falling apart. Adorcist, hypnotic and post-syncretic, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, far from Tzara's manifesto, finds itself somewhere between Hugo Ball's phonetic psalms, a Sufi procession that turns into a brawl and a voodoo rite, but always with a precision akin to the monomania of an Asperger's. "A manifesto of free and adventurous music organized into fervent and incandescent pop songs." --- FIP ---. "A musical UFO. A bold blend of jazz, post-rock, Congolese rhythms and pop, which escapes all current codes while remaining accessible to the widest audience." --- TÉLÉRAMA ---.