Mani und Seine Freunde [Bonus Track]

Performer: Guru Guru
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: Guru Guru: Mani Neumeier. Personnel: Sepp Jandrisits (guitar, acoustic guitar); Peter Wolbrandt (guitar); Gerd Dudek (flute, tenor saxophone); Champion Jack Dupree (piano); Ingo Bischof (electric piano, Moog synthesizer, bongos); Tommy Goldschmidt (congas, percussion); Mani Neumeier (kalimba, percussion); Jan Fride (tumba, percussion). Audio Mixer: Konrad Plank. Audio Remasterer: EROC. Liner Note Author: Matthias Mineur. Recording information: Neunkirchen (??/1974-04/1975); Underground, Bonn, Germany (??/1974-04/1975). Author: Mani Neumeier. This digitally remastered reissue of Guru Guru's 1975 album also includes "From Another World," a live bonus track. The stylistically wide-ranging set features blues pianist Champion Jack Dupree, as well as Krautrock pioneers and Cluster members Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius, and runs the gamut from blues to free-form, acid-influenced electronica that predates later artists' experiments with ambient music.

One of the original groups of the now famed Krautrock movement of 1970s Germany, Guru Guru positioned themselves quite clearly on the psychedelic rock end of the musical spectrum, considerably more so than their more proto-techno and ambient oriented colleagues. A predominantly instrumental act, Guru Guru mixed elements of free jazz, world music, and heavy American acid rock to create their sound. The band called it quits at the dawn of the 1980s, but have proven to be a quietly influential act on a host of contemporary psych bands.

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