Manu Louis. Photo by Merja Hannikainen

Following the good old rule of associating two extremes instead of choosing the middle path, Manu Louis collides the exotic and glamorous Pop Music of his youth with the naff sounds of the native Western Europe folk trash he always did his best to ignore (brass bands, Euro-Dance, Industrial Trance and old-one-man-synth-wedding entertainers…)
In October, he released a first single (7’ vinyl) under the Berlin label New Pangea (premiering on Spex.de) of his up-coming album 'Kermesse Machine' described by Contra Pop alumnus, Felix Kubin, as "really fun(k)y and clever and playful music and I'd be happy to hear it in the aquarium of the deep sea club anytime."
'Kermesse Machine' is a mountain of plastic glasses in the streets the morning after, a tropical digital marching band, a guy giving all he’s got at Karaoke because there's nowhere left to sing, a gypsy virtuoso playing synth with a trumpet sound.
Since 2015, he has performed solo more than 80 times everywhere in Europe and Asia accompanied by a crowd of electronic instruments and video projections.
Manu also composes and performs for/with the 30-piece Orchestra Vivo and Fanfares. His past projects include Funk Sinatra and The Music for Garden.