Manuela+ was Rüdiger Carl on clarinet, accordion and claviola, Jin Hi Kim on komungo, Hans Reichel on guitar and daxophone and Carlos Zingaro on violin, recorded live at the Total Music Meeting at Podewil in Berlin on 6 November 1999.
The main set, Ei! Improvisiererei...!, runs for over an hour in seven parts; the disc closes with Those Were the Days, the tune by Boris Fomin. The cover shows Eidos, a 2009 work by Franz West.
CD edition published by FMP in 2010 as one of the twelve discs of the FMP in Retrospect box, also issued separately, with a booklet of liner notes by Felix Klopotek.