Plante Interdite: Free Jazz Duo + Guest
Plante Interdite is a Geneva-based duo exploring the borderlands between jazz, improvisation, and cinematic soundscapes. Formed by drummer Guy Schneider and double bassist Jeremy Marozeau, the project creates immersive sonic environments—sometimes spectral, sometimes grooving—that welcome guest musicians into a constantly evolving musical universe. Their debut album, The Arrival (December 2025), is both a beginning and an invitation: a search for new languages of sound and communication.
We started Plante Interdite in Geneva in 2024 as a duo. What brought us together was a fascination for free improvisation, immersive atmospheres and the search for new ways of creating dialogue through sound. Our music takes inspiration from European free jazz, meditative soundscapes and the cinematic moods of 1960s science fiction and independent cinema, from Forbidden Planet to the dreamlike worlds of Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch.
From the start, we imagined our music as a sonic environment rather than a closed form. We see it as a space that is solid enough to have its own identity but flexible enough to welcome other voices and ideas. Every time we play with guest musicians, the music reshapes itself, opening to new colors, textures and unexpected turns. For us, Plante Interdite is not just a band, it is a place where encounters happen.
Our name is another homage. Plante Interdite recalls the cult film Forbidden Planet (1956) and its revolutionary electronic soundtrack by Louis and Bebe Barron. With just a few elements placed with rhythmic precision, they invented a new world of sound that was both strange and dreamlike. By turning planet into plante, we also root our project in the world around us — the nature, textures and rhythms that inspire us and keep our music alive. Like a plant, it grows and transforms with every encounter.
On stage we keep things open. Sometimes we play as a duo, sometimes with the guests from the album, and sometimes we invite local musicians wherever we perform. This flexibility is at the heart of what we do. Plante Interdite is a project that evolves with each collaboration, a living ecosystem of sound, deeply connected to Geneva yet always reaching outward.
In April 2025, we spent a residency at Studio Gatillon, an isolated space in the mountains near Geneva. Inspired by the surroundings, we wrote and recorded six original pieces. These tracks move across a wide spectrum: from spectral, almost noise-based sound explorations to moments of deep groove that carry a more organic pulse. Later that summer we shared the first mixes with musicians from the Geneva scene. Two of them, Juliette Hubert on cello and Marquis McGee on saxophone and foley, chose the pieces that resonated most with them and recorded their contributions. Their voices became part of our first album, The Arrival, which will be released in December 2025.
The title of the album refers to Denis Villeneuve’s film Arrival (2016), which redefined the science fiction genre by focusing not on conflict but on communication. That idea is close to our own: music as a way to create a language together, to exchange across instruments, aesthetics and communities.
Contact: jmtet.music@gmail.com