The exuberant Swiss collective returns to shake the dreams of contemporary avant-jazz lovers, with a project with strong rhythmic connotations. No wave, psychedelia, African music and modal tones typical of jazz, shape a rhythmic and melodic sound fabric, where funk and afrobeat go in loop, while sounds of marimba, horns, strings and vocal interweavings enhance the seductive and original aptitudes for contamination .
More organic and less dissonant than the previous album “We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway”, the sixth recording chapter of the Orchester Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp travels on two different thematic tracks, with the imaginative deployment of tropical, afro and calypso rhythmic euphoria (“Smile Like A Flower”), dazed from an alienating Dadaist minimalism, and at times even cacophonous (“Speak By The E”), the formation of twelve elements contrasts painful themes (the decline of the West and the climate crisis), throwing the many sound impulses into chaos with a shred of insane naivety that infects the enthralling Afro-funk rhythmic textures (“Tout Hart”).
Nothing is as it seems in “Ventre Unique”, the electrifying tribal-exotic-jazz of “Color” has the energy of Tom Tom Club, while the angular guitar playing of “Dehors” is the daughter of the avant-rock of Skeleton Crew. The continuous game of misdirection – for example the circus graces of the intertwining of trumpet and marimba of “Tout Cassé” which is followed by the jazz-rock scribble of “Breath” – is a continuous flow of delights and ingenious compositions (“Ils Disent ”, “Petit Bouts”) which feed on contrasts and resonances which, as in a game of mirrors, capture disorder in an ecstatic and brilliant sound form.
07/11/2024
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
