Guru Guru 'Mani Und Seine Freunde' album

Originally released in 1975, Mani Und Seine Freunde is one of the more experimental of the Guru Guru recordings. The album is full of surprises and everyone from Champion Jack Dupree to Hans Joachim Roedelius join Mani on this musical expedition. The listener experiences everything from blues to Mani's weird sense of humour in tracks like Chicken Rock and Walking Eating My Hotdog as well as serious tracks like From Another World and Woodpecker's Dream, which pre-dates New Age Music and Sunrise is Everywhere, which set the stage for the more jazzier direction the band would follow. The bonus track From Another World was recorded live in 1974 at the Underground in Bonn. Mani Und Seine Freunde also features guitarist Klaus Walz from the legendary band, Epitaph. Mani Und Seine Freunde is released as deluxe edition digipak with enhanced booklet and has been digitally remastered by Eroc.

Guru Guru are/were one of the wildest and most imaginative bands to emerge from the 1970`s Krautrock scene and gave definition to the term. Fuelled by a combination of LSD and loud raunchy experimental music, which may seem to be unstructured, it indeed incorporated many styles, from jazz to pop. These influences became more and more evident as the band’s career progressed. Guru Guru was founded 1968 by Mani Neumeier and Uli Trepte, whom had previously played together in the free jazz influenced Irene Schweizer Trio. Mani Neumeier had played from 1966 to 1968 with well known musicians like Peter Broetzmann, Peter Kowald, Champion Jack Dupree, Philly Jo Jones, Alex V. Schlippenbach, Manfred Schoof Quintett, Globe Unity Orchestra, plus other bands at the Berlin Jazz Festival and other European fests and clubs around the world. German Rock Music’s first presence was felt in 1968 and was a movement that later became a worldwide influence on music with acts such as Kraftwerk, Cluster, Amon Düül II, Can, Guru Guru, Faust and Tangerine Dream, to name just a few. Krautrock, as it has become known the world over, became a new way of expression in music and lifestyle. These musicians created a German underground scene that was not influenced by Anglo-American idols and other countries soon took an interest in this new phenomenon. Extensive touring in Europe and the U.S. in early seventies showed that the Krautrock bands possessed enough self-confidence potential to make it on an international level and directly started influencing diverse musicians like Brian Eno and David Bowie, whom claimed that they were fascinated by this new wave of German bands. The will to experiment, producing sound collages, non-song structured music and noise, is seen nowadays as the birth of industrial electronic music. Guru Guru was one of the most popular Krautrock bands in the seventies as well as being one of the most experimental. Mani Neumeier and his ever changing line up of Guru Guru produced some of the most innovative albums in the German music history. Their first four albums UFO, Hinten, Kaenguru and Guru Guru were as experimental as it gets and their music was often referred to as acid-space music - music that follows no rules and is free and inspirational. Guru Guru presently continue to create original sounding albums, completely detached from the mainstream and on stage they are one of the most colourful and energetic bands ever.

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