Record label MPS Records | ||
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Albums Elastic Menu, Octember Variations, Live in Bayern, Long Distance Similar Volker Kriegel, United Jazz + Rock Ens, Ingfried Hoffmann, Emil Mangelsdorff, Rainer Brüninghaus | ||
The Mild Maniac Orchestra was a German jazz-rock band founded in the 1970s around guitar player Volker Kriegel. It existed until the beginning of the 1980s. The band was named after Kriegel's record "Mild Maniac" from 1974. Another founding member was keyboard player Rainer Brüninghaus, although he does not appear on the published recordings.
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From 1975 on Kriegel appeared with his band as Mild Maniac Orchestra. Between 1976 and 1980 he published four records under the name Volker Kriegel & Mild Maniac Orchestra. Concurrently as well as from 1980 on he published under his own name.
Band members on all recordings were:
The music of the band was characterized by Kriegel's distinctive guitar playing and the orientation on improvisation patterns of fusion music as well as by the intensive use of percussion instruments, for which usually an additional musician was employed.