bass Hans Peter Ströer
congas Ray Mantilla
drums Evert Fraterman
drums Joe Nay
drums John Marshall
drums Jon Hiseman
electric bass, bass guitar Eberhard Weber
electric piano [e-piano] Rainer Brüninghaus
electric piano [electra-piano] John Taylor
electric piano, synthesizer Thomas Bettermann
flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone Barbara Thompson
guitar, composed by, illustration [cover] Volker Kriegel
nadaswaram, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone Charlie Mariano
percussion Nippy Noya
percussion Peter Giger
percussion, voice, flute, effects Cees See
piano, clavinet, synthesizer Wolfgang Dauner
tenor saxophone Alan Skidmore
tenor saxophone Heinz Sauer
trombone Albert Mangelsdorff
trumpet Ack Van Rooyen
trumpet Ian Carr
Pressed By Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH
Sampler to promote a tour of Volker Kriegel & Mild Maniac Orchestra to Africa, January 6th to February 20th 1979.
Organized and sponsored by Goethe-Institut and Radio Deutsche Welle.

All tracks previously released from Kriegel's MPS and MOOD records.
A1 is from Octember Variations, MPS, recorded Oct.-Nov. 1976.
A2 from Topical Harvest, MPS, recorded Dec. 1976.
A3 from Inside: Missing Link, MPS, recorded March 1972.
B1 from Live im Schützenhaus, United Jazz+Rock Ensemble, MOOD Records 28 600, recorded Jan. 1977.
B2 from Topical Harvest, MPS, recorded Dec. 1976.
B3 from Inside: Missing Link, MPS, recorded March 1972.

Note from the backside:
From January 6th to February 20th 1979 the Goethe-Institut or German Cultural Institute and Radio Deutsche Welle will realize their first joint musical venture in Africa. That venture will feature, from the German side, the seven member jazz-rock group headed by the very well-known German Guitarist Volker Kriegel. The groups name: Volker Kriegels Mild Manic Orchestra.
The group will perform in Khatroum, Lusaka, Ndola, Mombassa, Lomè, Dars-es-salaam, Nairobi, Kinshasa, Douala, Yaoundé, Lagos, Ibadan, Ife, Accra, Kumasi, Abidjan, Ougadougou, Bamako and Dakar. Everywhere they go, they jam with local musicans.

Rights Society: GEMA
Pressing Plant ID: ST
Matrix / Runout: ST Z 139-A (Etched side A)
Matrix / Runout: ST Z 139-B (Etched side B)