Thu
Jul 10, 2025
Split Bill
Main Stage

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

No reservations
With opening act:  
Dining 5:30-9pm. Music 7:30pm.

The phenomenal 12 piece band mixes minimalism, punk, Kraut rock, Moondog and pretty much anything that pleases them with tight orchestrations and hypnotic grooves. Bongo Joe will release their new album later this fall. This will be their second US tour.

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Jul 10, 2025
  •  
Main Stage
  •  
Dining 5:30-9pm. Music 7:30pm.

Founded in 2006 in Geneva, 90 years after Dada, by Vincent Bertholet (Hyperculte), the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is a large-scale project. Designed as a real orchestra, the size of the ensemble has varied over time. Now with 12 members, 14 in the past or 6 at the beginning, the ensemble has scoured the stages of Europe to demonstrate that the formula "the more the merrier" has never been more true than on stage.


Whether in 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, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is a mischievous title in homage to traditional African groups - Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo etc... - and to one of the greatest dynamizers of 20th century art) shows an incredible fluidity. The band embraces the forms of its musicians while pushing them to their limits. The result is a powerful, experimental, unstable and terribly alive, organic sound.

Mixing free jazz, post punk, high life, brass band, symphonic mixtures and kraut rock, their sound only goes beyond the limits of genre. Transcendental, almost ritualistic, the music is coupled with powerful lyrics, declaimed in rage against a world that is falling apart. Adorcist, hypnotic and post-syncratic, the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, far from Tzara's manifesto, is somewhere between Hugo Ball's phonetic psalms, a Sufi procession that turns into a brawl and a voodoo ritual, but always with a precision proper to the monomania of an asperger.