play loud! (live) word series

Mani Neumeier (Manfred Neumeier, born December 31, 1940 in Munich) is a rock musician, free jazz-drummer, artist, and frontman (singer and drummer) of the German Krautrock-band Guru Guru. He has collaborated with numerous bands and artists, such as Dieter Möbius, Damo Suzuki, Harmonia, Hans-Karsten Raecke, Irène Schweizer, Peter Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Jojo Hiroshige, Kawabata Makoto, Yoshida Tatsuya, and Luigi Archetti. He lives in Germany and Japan, and has also regularly collaborated with Japanese jam and noise bands Acid Mothers Temple and Hijokaidan. The wax museum of Tokyo has a wax figure of him.

In November of 2011 the play loud! team talked to Mani Neumeier about his life as a musician and artist. During the conversation, he commented on film footage from an open air gig during the art fair "Kunstzone München 1971", which ended in chaos when police took the stage. play loud! exclusively presents for the first time ever this never-before-seen footage.

play loud! is proud to announce an entire Guru Guru package. The reissues of the original first two Guru Guru albums, Ufo (1970) and Hinten (1971), has been made possible through the fact that Guru Guru regained ownership to their masters.

Also, play loud! sticks to their idea of chronicling and archiving special moments in history. Within the package there is a full 106 min live show from 2010 filmed for the “play loud! (live) music series”, an 84 min extensive conversation with drummer Mani Neumeier from 2011, in which he also comments on never-before-seen archive footage of “Kunstzone Munich 1971” and three audio downloads of Guru Guru live shows from 1970, 1972 and 1973.

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play loud! (live) music series

CONCEPT BEHIND THE SERIES

The “play loud! (live) music series“ is based on three precepts: Alan Lomax´s work as an archivist and chronicler, John Peel´s BBC radio sessions, and the work of Direct Cinema pioneers, such as the Maysles Brothers, Leacock, Wildenhahn, Blank and Pennebacker.

play loud! aims to create an extensive archive of interesting popular music and culture that includes both material from the filmmakers' large amount of unreleased footage and material from other sources.

play loud!’s music films have been called raw, rough, canny, straightforward, adventurous, witty, insightful, direct, non-tricksy, minimal, unpretentious handheld camera work, artful film paintings, minimalist filmed paintings, painted films…

Some of the live performances are filmed with only one camera in one continuous shot and without any edits.

“When we film live shows, we don't use a TV style, but one that is very personal, intuitive and playful. Nothing is staged for the shoot. You go along with whatever happens.” (Dietmar Post)

Streaming offers everyone- fans, researchers, journalists- the opportunity to access the archive and support the use of the material by others. Paying a small fee to view the material helps to cover the immense costs of a private archive.

If there is great demand, some of the recordings will be made available on vinyl.

"Shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do." (Jonathan Demme)

001 Floating di Morel: A Summer Evening (2009) (VOD, DL)
002 Doc Schoko: Oktopus im Pentagramm (2009) (VOD, DL)
003 FM Einheit + Irmler: Live at Berghain (2012) (VOD)
004 Faust: Live at Klangbad (2010) (DVD, VOD)
005 Gebrüder Teichmann: Live at Maria (2011) (VOD, DL)
006 Christy & Emily: Live at Klangbad (2012) (VOD, DL)
007 Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers: (2017) (VOD, DL, LP)
008 Camera feat. Rother & Moebius: Live at HBC (2012) (VOD, DL)
009 Friedman & Liebezeit: Live at Festsaal Kreuzberg (2013) (VOD)
010 Lydia Lunch & Philipp Petit: Live at Volksbühne (2013) (VOD)
011 Guru Guru: Live at Lido (2014) (VOD, DL)
012 Gisela Oberbeck & Limpe Fuchs: Animare (2015) (VOD, DL)
013 Limpe Fuchs: Live at Klangbad Festival (2015) (VOD, DL)
014 Die Regierung: Live in Essen (2015) (VOD, DL)
015 Anima in Two Films (1972-1973) (VOD)
016 Die Regierung: Live at Berghain (2017) (VOD, DL)
017 Locust Fudge: Live at Privatclub Berlin (2018) (VOD, DL)
018 Alan Vega: Live at Rockpalast (1982) (LP, DVD, DL)
019 Martin Rev: Live in Berlin (2006-8) (LP, DVD, DL)

Up-coming:
Atari Teenage Riot, Barbara Manning, and many more.

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LINKS:
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/play-loud-live-music-series/351-guru-guru-live-at-lido.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/19-play-loud-live-music-series
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/play-loud-live-word-series/353-mani-neumeier.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/music-downloads/393-guru-guru-live-in-wiesbaden-1973.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/music-downloads/397-guru-guru-live-in-wiesbaden-1972.html
https://www.playloud.org/archiveandstore/en/music-downloads/395-guru-guru-live-in-essen-1970.html