“Le fanfaron du Kitsch.” LIBERATION

“This is Wagner in clown shoes, Morrissey on a carousel, and John Shuttleworth recognised as Poet Laureate” MUSICOMH

“plus coloré qu’une licorne vomissant un arc-en-ciel” GONZAI

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"It’s a rowdy, joyous affair full of eminently danceable tunes" THE UNDERGROUND OF HAPPINESS

Kermesse Machine (Igloo records) is a hyper-eclectic CD/LP about the fairground

Building on the momentum of his debut 7” single for Berlin label New Pangea, Manu’s first full-length solo album delivers a warped mix of post-modern pop, where luxurious horns elegantly collide with cheap synths to cradle his lyrical observations, sung in French and English.

Recorded in Berlin, Brussels and Rome, Kermesse Machine combines the exotic glamour of the Anglo pop of Manu’s childhood with the tacky sounds of Belgian popular music that he always did his best to ignore (brass band, Eurodance, industrial trance, wedding performers).

In the artist’s own words, the record 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.”

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