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Mad King Ludwig & The Mojo Co

Mad King Ludwig & The Mojo Co

Southampton, UK

http://madkingludwigandthemojoco.co.uk

With the spirit and inventive momentum of a Steinway grand piano hurtling down a busy inner-city intersection and all of the primitive fun-loving elation of a group of primates throwing bananas at a wall, Mad King Ludwig & the Mojo Co. are an exciting prospect, both on and off the record.

Hailing from Southampton, their style is a combination of many, from urban Funk to rural Blues, late-night highway Alternative to sun-bathed, beach-bound Reggae, but could perhaps best be described via the invention of a new term – ‘Freak-Bop’. It is free, it is frenetic; it is joyous, it is jazz-infused; it is industrious, it is instinctive: it is inimitably their own.

Fronted by the former Bavarian monarch Mad King Ludwig on vocals and saxophone, the Mojo Co. is comprised of a group of highly talented multi-instrumentals, with Sir Rumblesticks providing all manner of beats on drums, Baron Gambhira laying the tracks hither and thither on bass, The Magyar Gypsy and Tsar Chord adding myriad forms of stringed wizardry on guitars, and Prince Ivories and Klavier Zauber tinkling and sparkling on keys. In 2017, they released their debut EP, ´Freak-Bop Stew´, and recorded with Grammy-winning producer Liam Watson. In 2018, they play the Isle of Wight, Victorious, Rhythmtree, Leigh Folk festivals, amongst others.

To put it simply via means of a metaphor, if you enlisted this group to paint your house red, you’d find upon the job being finished that it was both the requested colour and all those others that populate the rainbow, all at once. If that sounds like your cup of tea, put down that cup, get out of that house, and get down to their next show. You won’t regret it.

Genre: Circus

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