Biography
Hailing from France's Auvergne region, the five-piece art rock group Jack Dupon builds its guitar-driven sound from a fusion of 21st-century prog, math rock, improvisation, post-punk, and prog metal. An invented namesake figure moves through time, reshaping the world's inner spirit. Their first full-length statement arrived as the 2006 three-track album L'Africain Disparu, which paired propulsive guitar rock with extended improvisational passages and no vocals. Guitarists Gregory Pozzoli and Philip Prebet work alongside drummer Thomas Larsen and bassist Arnaud M'Doihoma. The 2008 release L'échelle du Désir introduced the band's looping, absurdist art punk vocals, supplied by every member. Years of intensive touring built a loyal European audience, reflected in the strong response to the 2012 double live set Bascule à vif and the looping studio album Jesus L'Aventurier from 2013. The group revisited live recording with 2014's Tête de Chien, featuring exclusively new material. Empty Full Circulation, issued in 2016, marked their first entirely English-language release and revealed a clear debt to Frank Zappa. In 2021 they delivered the syncopated conceptual work La République Dominicale du Zoo, saturated in surrealism, neo-psychedelia, and Pere Ubu-esque post-punk.
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