Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

Described by The Guardian as "part global music big band, part European art project," the brainchild of Geneva-based Vincent Bertholet was founded in 2006.

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is a perpetually evolving ‘orchestra’, loosely modelled on the great 20th-century African groups like Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou and tipping its hat to revolutionary French artist Marcel Duchamp.

Their sound is a dream amalgam of folk, krautrock, post-punk and African rhythms that feels both uncluttered and beautifully organic.

They balance fat, loping grooves – built around simple loops written by Bertholet – sparkling marimba, strident horns and strings with dissonance and angular guitar riffs.

The group’s political outlook and vision of radical collectivity was forged in Geneva’s punk past and its squat scene, the spirit of which lives on in their music.

A travelling party of 14 people, including two sound engineers, one of the triumphs of OTPMD is their longevity and the manner in which the group’s sound and spirit is maintained, regardless of personnel.