Reuniting after a nine-year hiatus, Marteau Rouge — Jean-Francois Pauvros, Jean-Marc Foussat and Makoto Sato — joins longtime associate Daunik Lazro on tenor saxophone for a live Montreuil performance of seven compact improvisations, merging distorted guitar, Synthi AKS electronics, percussion, voices and toys with Lazro's incisive tenor in a volatile mix of free jazz, noise and free rock.
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Jean-Francois Pauvros-electric guitars, voice
Jean-Marc Foussat-Synthi AKS, voice, toys
Makoto Sato-drums
Daunik Lazro-tenor saxophone
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UPC: 3491570067222
Label: Fou Records
Catalog ID: FR-CD 70
Squidco Product Code: 37938
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: France
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in concert at Montreuil, France, on February 1st, 2026.
After a nine-year hiatus, the French trio Marteau Rouge — guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros, synthesist Jean-Marc Foussat and drummer Makoto Sato — reunited for a one-off 2026 concert in Montreuil, joined by longtime friend and collaborator Daunik Lazro on tenor saxophone. Active since the early 1990s, the group has cultivated a volatile language at the intersection of free improvisation, noise and free rock, with Pauvros' abrasive and lyrical guitar, Foussat's analog electronics and vocal interventions, and Sato's forceful percussion forming a dense but highly responsive foundation.
Lazro adds a sharply etched acoustic voice to that charged environment, threading tenor lines through electronic turbulence, distorted guitar, percussion and occasional voices and toys. Across seven relatively concise improvisations, the quartet shifts between collective density, fractured exchanges, sudden openings and passages of stark lyricism, balancing Marteau Rouge's characteristic physical intensity with the precision and restraint developed through decades of European improvised music. More than simply a reunion, the concert reconnects several long-standing musical relationships while allowing a familiar trio language to be destabilized and renewed by Lazro's presence.
Marteau Rouge is a French improvising trio formed in the early 1990s by guitarist Jean-Francois Pauvros, electronics player Jean-Marc Foussat, and drummer Makoto Sato. The group emerged around 1992, when Foussat returned to live performance with Sato and Pauvros after a period focused largely on recording and electroacoustic work.
From the beginning, Marteau Rouge developed a language that sat between free improvisation, noise, and free rock. Pauvros' amplified guitar, Foussat's analog electronics and voice, and Sato's highly physical percussion created a dense, volatile sound built on sudden shifts of texture, dynamic contrast, and collective interaction. Their music often carried the force and saturation of rock while remaining entirely rooted in spontaneous form.
Over time, the trio also expanded its sound through collaborations with guest musicians, particularly saxophonists. Evan Parker became one of the most notable additions, bringing tenor and soprano saxophones into the trio's already turbulent electric environment and demonstrating how readily Marteau Rouge could absorb a strong outside voice without losing its identity.
The group also performed with Keiji Haino, whose own combination of improvisation, extreme dynamics, and rock-derived intensity made him a natural fit for their aesthetic. These collaborations reinforced Marteau Rouge's position within a broad European experimental tradition that connected free improvisation with noise, electroacoustic sound, and amplified music.
As the years passed, the trio's activity became more intermittent while each member continued extensive work elsewhere. Pauvros remained active across improvised music, experimental rock, and collaborative projects; Foussat continued as an electronic improviser and later founded Fou Records; and Sato maintained his work in experimental and improvised music.
After roughly nine years without performing together, Marteau Rouge reunited in 2026 for a one-off concert in Montreuil, joined by tenor saxophonist Daunik Lazro, a longtime associate of the group and a major figure in French free improvisation. The resulting recording extends the trio's long history of combining an established collective language with the destabilizing presence of a distinctive guest voice.
Across more than three decades, Marteau Rouge has remained defined by the meeting of free improvisation and electric intensity: a trio capable of moving from dense walls of sound to fractured exchanges and sudden openings, while maintaining a raw, physical energy that gives the group a character distinct from more austere forms of European improvisation.
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• Show Bio for Jean-Francois Pauvros "Jean-François Pauvros is a French musician, electric guitarist and improviser born on 19 October 1947 1 in Hautmont in the North. He is the brother of Rémi Pauvros. He was a professor of French before living music, and began his career playing in balls. He was influenced by guitarists like Jimmy Page , Sonny Sharrock or Derek Bailey , and perhaps by Lightnin 'Hopkins and Charlie Christian. He participates in the Moebius group with Gaby Bizien and Philippe Deschepper. The French talent discoverer Jef Gilson recorded a first disc of Pauvros with Gaby Bizien in duet whose music is close to the British free music. He met Siegfried Kessler with whom he recorded Phoenix 14 in 1978. In 1978, at the Théâtre Mouffetard, he played with the singer Aude Cornillac and met the trumpeter Jac Berrocal, with whom he formed the Catalog group (where the drummer Gilbert Artman succeeded Jean-Pierre Arnoux ). Hathut Records releases the band's first album, Penetration. Jean-François Pauvros recorded in 1985 Le Grand Amour with guitarist Arto Lindsay (ex DNA ), vocalist Ted Milton from Blurt and drummer Terry Day ; In 1988 released Hamster Attack with drummer Julian Fenton , singer Mary Genis and saxophonists Evan Parker and Stan Sulzmann among others. His musical nomadism led him to Japan (with the poet Gozo Yoshimasu), in the United States (with Jonathan Kane and Ernie Brooks), in Chile (Ultima Round) or in Ethiopia. He played with David Holmes and Elliott Sharp , George Lewis , Jacques Thollot , Rhys Chatham and the 100 Guitars. With Mary Genis, he creates a group of Steel-drum which will also include the reggae trombonist Rico Rodriguez. He founds the Red Hammer groups with sound engineer Jean-Marc Foussat and drummer Makoto Sato , " the four daughters of industry " with Jean-François Binet, Jean-Marie Messa, Jean Nirouet, Ernie Brooks, Makoto Sato , Plays a duet with the harpist Hélène Breschand and in trio with Noël Akchoté and Jean-Marc Montera. He will participate in reading-performances with the poet Charles Pennequin and the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. He also played and released records with Daunik Lazro , Roger Turner, Keiji Haino and Kawabata Makoto (founding member of the Acid Mothers Temple Group). He is the author of, among others, the music of Charles Najman's Royal Bonbon and Pitchipoi films, Karim Dridi's Gray-Blanc and La Mechanique des femmes by Jérôme de Missolz. He works regularly with filmmaker Guy Girard." ^ Hide Bio for Jean-Francois Pauvros • Show Bio for Jean-Marc Foussat "Jean-Marc Foussat (born March 19, 1955 in Oran ) is a French composer and improvisational musician ( guitar, piano, live electronics ). Since the mid-1970s, Foussat had belonged to groups such as Lézard Marçio, in which he contributed the sounds of concrete music with magnetic tapes. In 1981, he finished his first solo album, Abattage, which was released in 1983. In the ensemble Marteau Rouge (with the guitarist Jean-François Pauvros and the drummer Makoto Sato), he also collaborated with Evan Parker. Together with the saxophonist Sylvain Guérineau, he formed the duo Aliquid, which also appeared with Joe McPhee ( Quod, 2014). In addition to soloprograms, he also starred with Noël Akchoté / Roger Turner, Samuel Blaser, Émilie Lesbros, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Sophie Agnel, Daunik Lazro and numerous other musicians, as well as the Fortuna 21 Octet of Raymond Boni and the department of education psychique on." ^ Hide Bio for Jean-Marc Foussat • Show Bio for Makoto Sato Drummer Makoto Sato has been a member of Marteau Rouge, Nuts, and has recorded with Joe McPhee, Marteau Rouge, Evan Parker, Nuts (Benjamin Duboc, Rasul Siddik, Itaru Oki, Didier Lasserre, Sato), Linda Sharrock, Itaru Oki, Mario Rechtern, Makoto Sato, Eric Zinman & Yoram Rosilio. ^ Hide Bio for Makoto Sato • Show Bio for Daunik Lazro "The French saxophonist Daunik Lazro combines a tart, piercing tone with a quick mind and a flexible philosophy of music-making. His professional start was in bassist Saheb Sarbib's orchestra, a relationship he maintained through most of the '70s, which included three recordings. His first steps playing his own music involved a radical resizing of the cast on-stage, going from orchestra playing to solo saxophone concerts and duets. In the '80s, he busily played with many on the European improvised music scene, including bassist Jean Jacques Avenel, cellist Tristan Honsinger, violinist Carlos Zingaro, drummer Christian Rollet, and saxophonist Evan Parker, among others. In the mid-'80s, Lazro expanded his partnerships to include dance and theater projects, including work with the Company of the Chance. He formed a particularly fine trio in 1987 with fellow saxophonist Michel Doneda and the brilliant ppercussionistLê Quan Ninh, playing at many of the major European festivals and also touring in Canada. Duets with the American free improviser Joe McPhee are a 1991 discographical highlight, during a period when Lazro also began playing viola. In 1993, he started his own orchestra as well as a quartet called Outlaws in Jazz with Jac Berrocal, Didier Levallet, and Dennis Charles. In 1995, he toured Europe in a triple-threat combination with both McPhee and Parker, and the former artist also joined him in a quartet the following year with the superb British contrabassist Paul Rogers. In the late '90s, he continued involvement with a series of orchestra projects, often as a guest soloist." ^ Hide Bio for Daunik Lazro
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Track Listing:
1. Apres la Pluie 3:53
2. Sous la Lune 5:16
3. Visages 9:39
4. The End Of A Love Affair 2:30
5. des Abymes 8:43
6. Viens 5:14
7. Le Beau Temps 7:28
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