French 80s new wavers Martin Dupont returning with album and tour

The unlikely release of a new Martin Dupont album called Kintsugi will be followed by a North American tour in May/June 2023.

 Here's the scoop from Minimal Wave HQ:

We are so thrilled to announce that French new wave legends Martin Dupont will be touring again for the first time since 1987. Their debut concert will be held on January 21st, 2023 in Marseille’s Espace Julien with Corpus Delicti. Tickets are available here. They will do further European dates along with a US tour in May/June 2023.

Martin Dupont formed in 1982 and originally released their material on Facteurs d’Ambiance, and later on Minimal Wave and Infrastition. The band consisted of Alain Seghir, Brigitte Balian, Catherine Loy, and Beverley Jane Crew, the latter joined the band after the first album “Just Because”, released in 1984. After Martin Dupont split up in 1987, the members started their own projects. Brigitte Balian collaborated with the composer Patrick Portella, Beverley Jane Crew became a producer of the Contemporary music network in London, and Alain Seghir composed for the choreographer Josette Baïz and the stylists Geneviève Delrieux and Patrick Murru, before devoting himself to his career as a surgeon (ENT surgery). He also created – together with Dan Armandy – the Supermax card for the Yamaha DX7, considered the year’s best invention by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Although the band laid dormant for decades, the interest in them never faded. A music video for the song “It’s So” was produced in 2005 by Minimal Wave, followed by a limited edition vinyl LP in 2008 called “Lost & Late”, which compiled their lesser-known tracks. The material included songs published on the unreleased cassette “Inédits ‘81-83” from 1985. Another compilation followed the same year, “Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes”. In 2009, the albums were re-released as a 4CD boxset by the French label Infrastition. Included in this set were previously unreleased tracks. In 2017, the French electropop label BOREDOMproduct released the “Broken memory” tribute album. In December 2018, Minimal Wave released a new boxset, The Complete Collection: 1980-1988, a 5 180-gram vinyl LP box set housed in a linen box and accompanied by a 12-page booklet, with cover artwork by Peter Miles. A previously unreleased track, “Nice boy”, appeared on the compilation “Des Jeunes Gens Modernes Volume 3”.

Stay tuned for a new album by Martin Dupont called Kintsugi, featuring lush re-works of their old songs, due out on CD / hybrid multichannel SACD via Infrastition, vinyl and cassette via Meidosem, and digitally via Minimal Wave.  

Get a copy of Martin Dupont's Complete Collection via Minimal Wave right here or a digital version of the Lost and Late collection right here. Watch their entertaining videos for "Nice Boy" and "Wagui" below.