Kurt Maloo – What About

Kurt Maloo (ex Double) surprises with a refreshingly straight new album. His voice obviously feels comfortable in the slender arrangements, that work perfectly and rely on just a few basic instruments like guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. Although Kurt’s guitar definitely plays the main role in this production.

You will hear familiar sounds (Drama Queen, Come Over Here, What About) without having a deja-vu, as well as two rocking tracks (Tumbling Skies, Sometimes Easy), which you might have not expected on a Maloo album in the first place. „Never Give Up“ though, is one of two dance tracks, that’s being chased to the fade out by Kurt’s funky guitar. When it’s over way too soon you have no other choice than to put it on repeat.

Biography

Kurt Maloo, a former painter from Zurich, Switzerland, who made his first musical appearances in the mid 70s as singer and guitarist of Troppo, a nine-piece
experimental art-punk band and later with Ping Pong, a trio that was touring in Europe and also played the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, teamed up one year
later with pianist/drummer Felix Haug and formed the legendary duo Double. They started invading the world with their beautifully crafted, catchy single The
Captain of Her Heart from their first album Blue in 1986, after they had released two highly acclaimed maxi singles Rangoon Moon and Woman Of The World. The sound
of Double certainly has caught on. The million selling album Blue has been released in more than 50 countries and The Captain of her Heart became a modern-day classic.

After a full year of promotion in Europe and the US, Kurt Maloo and Felix Haug recorded their second and last album DOU3LE, a Freudian stroll through the mind of a modern man. Visualized best in the unique performance of the legendary Mummenschanz in the award winning music video of Devils Ball, a weird easy-
listening tune, feat. Herb Alpert on trumpet.

When the duo disbanded in 1989, Double had never toured, dispite their huge commercial success.

In the 1990s Kurt Maloo was busy with his solo career, releasing two albums under his own name in France and Germany, while Felix Haug was focusing on movie soundtracks and commercials. When the two decided to give Double another go and hit the studio together again, Felix died of a heart attack shortly after the finishing of their recordings in 2004.

In 2006 Kurt Maloo compiled the last Double recordings with remixes of old songs for a tribute album (Loopy Avenue) and started to go back on stage with young
musicians from Hamburg, Germany, where he still lives with his family. Another solo album (Summer Of Better Times), released on the legendary jazz label Verve
Forecast, followed in 2009 and he continued playing concerts with his band around Europe, including the Nu-Note Festival in Moscow.

In the 1980s, as one half of the brilliant pop duo Double, Kurt Maloo coauthored and sang one of the most enduring soft rock anthems. The velvety insistence of Maloo’s voice has grown in suggestiveness and seductiveness even more over the years.

Just listen to his new album „What About“ and you will agree.

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