La Pompe Manouche

La Pompe Manouche is a family of gypsy jazz musicians from Germany, New York, Netherlands and the former Soviet Republik that come together when they are on tour.

The members used to make their living by playing in brothels and burlesque shows. But, since brothels have gone either illegal (U.S.) or turned into trashy asylums for runaways (Germany) or have become just way too dangerous to perform in (Russia, where playing guitar with no fingers is no fun), they decided it was too limiting to only play in the Netherlands and started to go on tour as La Pompe Manouche in 2010 in other countries of the world.

We all grew up with the music and have been playing the old swing tunes and middle-eastern and yiddish influenced romantic songs with great passion since then.