Mani Neumeier is a German rock musician, free jazz

Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

-drummer, artist, frontman (singer and drummer) of the German Krautrock

Krautrock

Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music scenes that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s, especially in Britain. The term is a result of the English-speaking world's reception of the music at the time and not a reference to any one...

-band Guru Guru

Guru Guru

Guru Guru is a German Krautrock band formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier , Uli Trepte and Eddy Naegeli later replaced by American Jim Kennedy...

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Probably best known for his work with Guru Guru

Guru Guru

Guru Guru is a German Krautrock band formed in 1968 as The Guru Guru Groove by Mani Neumeier , Uli Trepte and Eddy Naegeli later replaced by American Jim Kennedy...

, Neumeier collaborated with numerous bands and artists, such as Dieter Möbius, Damo Suzuki

Damo Suzuki

, universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the German krautrock group Can.-Biography:As a teenager, Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking....

, Harmonia

Harmonia (band)

Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included the British musician Brian Eno.-Musical style:...

, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Irène Schweizer

Irène Schweizer

Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...

, Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann

Peter Brötzmann is a German artist and free jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings.-Early life:...

, Sonny Sharrock

Sonny Sharrock

Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed....

, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Jojo Hiroshige, Kawabata Makoto

Kawabata Makoto

Kawabata Makoto is a Japanese musician and founding member of the band and "soul collective" Acid Mothers Temple.- Band history :Kawabata is chiefly famous for his leadership of Acid Mothers Temple and its variants; however, he has also played in many other bands since the start of his career in...

, Yoshida Tatsuya

Yoshida Tatsuya

is a Japanese musician and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as Koenji Hyakkei...

, Luigi Archetti. Neumeier has lived in Germany

Germany

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 and Japan. The wax museum

Wax museum

A wax museum or waxworks consists of a collection of wax sculptures representing famous people from history and contemporary personalities exhibited in lifelike poses....

 of Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 has a wax figure of him. He has also regularly collaborated with Japanese jam and noise bands Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...

 and Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan is a Japanese noise and free improvisation group with a revolving lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy...

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Solo

• 1981 Mani Neumeier
• 1983 Waldmeister (limited MC)
• 1992 Privat
• 1993 Terra Amphibia
• 1998 Terra Amphibia 2
• 2002 Birthday !
• 2005 Terra Amphibia 3 - Deep In The Jungle
• 2007 Sketches aka Mani
• 2009 Smoking The Contracts

Collaborations and guest appearances

(Source: http://www.fuenfundvierzig.com)

• 1967 Humair, Favre, Antolini, Neumeier, Gruntz From Sticksland With Love
• 1967 Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...
  
   Trio Jazz Meets India
• 1967 Globe Unity Orchestra
• 1967 Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...
  
   Trio Early Tapes
• 1967 Wolfgang Dauner Free Action
• 1975 Harmonia
  Harmonia (band)
  Harmonia is a Krautrock supergroup from Germany. They formed as a collaboration between Michael Rother of Neu! and Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Möbius of Cluster and later included the British musician Brian Eno.-Musical style:...
  
   Deluxe
  Deluxe (Harmonia album)
  Deluxe is the second album from the highly influential Krautrock/Kosmische Musik group Harmonia. Harmonia was formed by the addition of Neu! guitarist Michael Rother to Cluster, the duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius....
  
  
• 1975 Highdelberg
• 1982 Ensemble Yniverze Ensemble Yniverze
• 1982 Moebius, Plank, Neumeier
  Moebius & Plank
  The duo of Dieter Moebius and Conny Plank recorded three albums between 1979 and 1986. Plank died of cancer in 1987. Their final album and an album with Mayo Thompson were released posthumously in 1995 and 1998 respectively...
  
   Zero Set
  Zero Set
  Zero Set is the only album by the German electronic music trio of Dieter Moebius, Conny Plank, and Mani Neumeier. It followed two collaborations by Moebius & Plank as a duo. Zero Set was recorded in September, 1982 at Conny's Studio outside Cologne, and released by Sky Records in 1983.The music...
  
  
• 1983 L.S. Bearforce L.S. Bearforce
• 1986 Alfred Harth Red Art
• 1989 Der Blaue Hirsch Cyberpunk
• 1989 Unknownmix Whaba
• 1992 Der Blaue Hirsch Brain Drain
• 1992 Tiere Der Nacht Hot Stuff
• 1994 Tiere Der Nacht Wolpertinger
• 1996 Cosmic Couriers Other Places
• 1996 Mani Neumeier & Peter Hollinger Monsters Of Drums
• 1997 Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer
  Irène Schweizer is a notable Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist. She was born in Schaffhausen, in 1941.She has performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as performing as part of the Feminist Improvising Group, whose members include Lindsay Cooper, Maggie Nichols, Georgie...
  
   & Mani Neumeier European Masters Of Improvisation
• 1997 Möbius, Engler, Neumeier Space Explosion
• 1997 Damo Suzuki's Network Tokyo On Air West 30-April
• 1997 Damo Suzuki's Network Tokyo On Air West 2-May
• 1997 Damo Suzuki's Network Osaka Muse Hall 4-May
• 1997 Tiere Der Nacht Evergreens
• 1998 Neumeier & Hollinger Monsters Of Drums Meets The Demons Of Bali
• 1998 Tiere Der Nacht Sleepless
• 2000 Damo Suzuki's Network Jpn Ultd 1
• 2001 Lover 303 Modern Fairytales
• 2001 Hans-Karsten Raecke & Mani Neumeier Pescanned Passages
• 2002 Achim Jaroscheck & Mani Neumeier Europlosion
• 2002 Damo Suzuki's Network Jpn Ultd 2
• 2003 Möbius + Neumeier Live In Japan
• 2003 Neumeier Genrich Schmidt Psychedelic Monsterjam
• 2005 Neumeier Genrich Schmidt Intergalactic Travel Agency
• 2006 Acid Mothers Guru Guru Psychedelic Navigator (Live Collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...
  
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• 2008 Acid Mothers Temple Festival Vol. 5 DVD(Live Collaboration with Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple
  Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...
  
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External links

• Guru Guru & Mani Neumeier - official web site (also known as www.guru-guru.com)
• Fünfundvierzig (45) - a record label, releasing music by Mani Neumeier (also by Damo Suzuki
  Damo Suzuki
  , universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the German krautrock group Can.-Biography:As a teenager, Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking....
  
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