We are ex­cited to an­noun­ce that Mar­tin Dupont will be tour­ing Europe and the US for the first time ever, in May 2023. The French band is known for mak­ing be­auti­ful, heady electronic, with strik­ing poetic voc­als. A hard-to-classify group from Mar­seil­le with a cult fol­low­ing, Mar­tin Dupont has in­spired some of the lumina­ries of the con­tem­pora­ry music scene cross­ing many gen­res from trip-hop to electro to tech­no. Tri­cky, Mad­Lib, Mick Wills, Mar­cel De­ttman, and Theop­hilus Lon­don are just a few of the art­ists who’ve been touc­hed by the be­auty that is Mar­tin Dupont.

Mar­tin Dupont original­ly for­med in 1980 and con­sis­ted of Alain Seg­hir, Brigit­te Balian, Be­ver­ley Jane Crew, and Cat­herine Loy. They were im­men­se­ly talen­ted with a rare dynamic bet­ween them that was li­ke­ly in­spired by a com­bina­tion of their mag­netic per­sonalit­ies, creative vis­ion, and the home studio where they re­cor­ded. The music they made was col­or­ful, en­thusias­tic, and de­licate, but also melancho­ly and mys­teri­ous. A mix­ture of hot and cold, light and dark. They made electronic music that in­cor­porated guitars and clarinets and is de­scribed by many as New Wave yet they truly trans­cen­ded gen­res. They had mainstream suc­cess fin­d­ing them­selves op­en­ing for legen­da­ry bands like The Lotus Eat­ers, The Loun­ge Li­zards, and Sioux­sie and the Banshees, with­out any in­ten­tion of ever being a com­mer­ci­al en­terpr­ise. In Be­ver­ley Jane Crew’s words, “the songs just tumbled out in a com­plete­ly or­ganic and spon­tane­ous way and as soon as they were re­cor­ded on the four-track, they were shared with friends on tapes, op­en­ly and ex­cited­ly.” By 1987, they dis­ban­ded but left be­hind three cult al­bums: Just Be­cause, Sleep Is A Luxu­ry, and Hot Para­dox, one cas­sette en­tit­led Inédits 1981-1983, and one 7” single en­tit­led Your Pass­ion. Mar­tin Dupont re­mained under the radar for over thir­ty years, but since ac­hiev­ing un­ex­pected suc­cess in the US, cham­pioned by the New York label Minim­al Wave, first with the 2008 re­lease Lost and Late and more re­cent­ly with The Com­plete Col­lec­tion 5LP box set, the band is now mak­ing a com­eback. They will per­form live again sup­por­ted by ad­dition­al musicians Sandy Casado and Thier­ry Sin­toni, of the band Girls Like You, along with Ol­livi­er Leroy. They will be re­turn­ing to the very stages that hos­ted their first gigs, bolstered by their ever-increasing fan base. They will then em­bark on a major in­ter­nation­al tour in 2023.

A new album by Mar­tin Dupont cal­led Kintsugi is now out di­gital­ly. The album fea­tures lush re-works of their old songs, and will be avail­able on CD via In­fras­ti­tion, vinyl, and cas­sette via Meidosem, and di­gital­ly via Minim­al Wave. Pre-order the LP here, and the li­mited edi­tion Mar­tin Dupont long sleeve t-shirts here.

EU

3/10/2023
Bar­celona, ES
LAUT
https://entradium.com/es/events/martin-dupont-spanish-tour-2023_barcelona-barcelona

3/11/2023
Mad­rid, ES
Sala BarCo
https://entradium.com/es/events/martin-dupont-spanish-tour-2023_madrid

3/12/2023
Valen­cia, ES
16 Toneladas
https://entradium.com/es/events/martin-dupont-spanish-tour-2023_valencia

US

5/18/2023
San Fran­cisco, CA
Great American Music Hall
https://wl.seetickets.us/event/Martin-Dupont/520341?afflky=GreatAmericanMusicHall

5/19/2023
Los An­geles, CA
The Globe Theat­er
https://restlessnites.com­/events/mar­tindupont/?pk=5689bf81360e1eae5­bab86b013a41558c695aad00134f0613f1f9c57e2e200cf

5/20/2023
Las Vegas, NV
Area 15
https://area15.com/events/martin-dupont/

5/23/2023
De­nv­er, CO
Hi-Dive
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-dupont-with-guests-tba-tickets-477616643237

5/25/2023
Chicago, IL
Metro
https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/5844613/martin-dupont-chicago-metrochicagoil

5/27/2023
Montre­al, QC
Theat­re Fair­mount
http://blues­kies­turnblack.com/show/2857

5/28/2023
Brook­lyn, NY
The Brook­lyn Monarch
https://link.dice.fm/qfc6bc684178

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