Mambo Kurt
20.30u / king of heimorgel / presented by HH Concerts / € 10,-
English Translation
Mambo Kurt What does Mambo Kurt do? A solo entertainer with a home organ plays and sings cover versions of songs that you would never expect on a home organ. There are days when ‘Abba’ is too hard or ‘Slayer’ is too soft. For all other states of mind, there is Mambo Kurt.
The universally beloved, slightly crazy organ god interprets a fine selection of true world hits on his beloved home organ. He does this in his inimitable way, which immediately brings a smile to any audience’s face. Mambo Kurt celebrates the high art of omission and being unable to sing in such a way that it is a pure joy. Every song is a homage to the original artists. Nothing gets into your legs quite like a rhumba at 124 bpm. A good song remains a good song, even if you play it on the largest home organ ever built (whose current price, by the way, is under 30 euros at online auctions).
Mambo Kurt gives hard rock and pop classics a very unique style and he really gets it grooving. Much like a musical tsunami, the home organ drives straight into the dancing legs with its glorious plastic sounds and makes Mambo Kurt fans happy from the very first notes. Added to this are sometimes senseless, but sometimes also highly intellectual interludes by the master; it squeaks, it rocks. World-class. Mambo is the only one after whom ‘Slayer’ can be followed by ‘Dr. Alban’, and ‘Abba’ by ‘Rage Against the Machine’, without anyone doubting the correctness of it.
A Mambo Kurt concert is only successful when there has been stagediving and a polonaise. And until now, it has always worked. Mambo Kurt was the West German home organ playing champion in 1982 in the under-14 age group. In the late 90s, he performed cover songs on the home organ in a small circle for the first time. A large fan base immediately formed in heavy metal circles, as Mambo has a preference for rock songs. Legendary is his ‘Enter Sandman’ version as a waltz. The trash hype of the turn of the millennium washed Mambo onto TV, to RTL and VIVA2 to be exact. This was followed by an engagement at the Schauspielhaus Hannover in 2003 and composition work for ARTE.
Mambo Kurt is definitely the only artist who performed at the European Theater Festival in Wiesbaden and a week later at Parookaville in Weeze, and another week later in Wacken. Mambo Kurt has played at Wacken every year since 2004. From 2006 to 2017, Mambo Kurt could be seen once a week as the smallest studio band in the world on the SWR late-night show. In autumn 2024, the Wißner-Verlag released Mambo’s autobiography. It bears the name ‘Heimorgel to Heaven’. Mambo prefers to play live. Mambo entertains festivals all over Europe. Mambo Kurt is the Terminator among solo entertainers. Mambo separates the masses faster than Moses parted the sea; love him or hate him. Play home organ, play!!!
Fri 11 Sep
