Volker Kriegel & Spectrum -Mild Maniac -MOOSICUS / INDIGO CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

1.1 Mindwill

1.2 Prinz Eisenherz

1.3 Schnellhörspiel

1.4 Mild Maniac

1.5 The Visit

1.6 D-Dödel

1.7 Prinz Eisenherz [Live, Idsteiner Castle, 1977]

1.8 So Far, So Good [Live, Idsteiner Castle, 1977]

1.9 Song for a Friend [Live, Idsteiner Castle, 1977]

1.10 Natural Space [Live, Idsteiner Castle, 1977]

1.11 Schnellhörspiel [Live, Idsteiner Castle, 1977]

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The ingredients of a Kriegel style jazz rock are as simple as they are complex: an often pumping rock bass, whose stoic groove Eberhard Weber leaves behind in wide arcs on his corpus-less electro contrabass, and a drumset drumming crisply dry to the beat by Joe Nay, which is put under tension time and again by Peter Giger's shimmering percussions. Rainer Brüninghaus's flat-oscillating chord playing on the e-piano, which he breaks open with long, eloquently phrased garlands, and Kriegel's wide, slightly distorted legato bows on the semi-acoustic guitar. This is Kriegel's creative cosmos, so he sounds: The rudeness of rock and the suppleness of jazz go hand in hand with the melancholy of blues and the emotionality of soul. The five bonus tracks following the six "Mild Maniac" tracks on the original album are interesting for the re-release of this Kriegel recording, which has often been praised as a legendary recording. Kriegel played the last four numbers with his Mild Maniac Orchestra at the 1977 Schlossfestspiele in Idstein. But only in the last title, in Kriegel's long "Schnellhörspiel", is the whole band with all the musical set pieces described above present

First CD reissue of 1974 MPS LP, includes bonus tracks from two separate live performances in 1977. Released as digipak with all original artwork, plus bonus documentation written in German and English, in a 16 panel booklet. Tracks 1-6 from 1974 MPS LP [MPS Records / BASF 21 22020 6], recorded and mixed at Studio Walldorf, September 18- February 23, 1974 Personell: Volker Kriegel-Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Bass Guitar (only on Mindwill) Rainer Brüninghaus-Keyboards Eberhard Weber-Bass, Electric Bass, Bass Guitar, Cello Joe Nay-Drums Peter Giger (Guest)-All kinds of Percussion Track 7 recorded January or February 1977 for the TV Special "Volker Kriegel & Leo Kottke". Previously unreleased. Volker Kriegel-guitar Tracks 8-11 previously released in 1977 on "Idsteiner Schloßkonzerte '77" (2-LP: HGPA-4/5). Recorded by TTS-Records. Volker Kriegel & Mild Maniac Orchestra Personell: Volker Kriegel- Guitars Thomas Bettermann- Keyboards Hans Peter Ströer- Electric Bass Evert Fraterman- Drums Nippy Noya- Percussion

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05166172

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