Agitation Free came from the same late-Sixties West Berlin commune scene as Ash Ra Tempel and Tangerine Dream but never gained the same level of recognition outside their native city as their contemporaries. This, their debut album, was partly recorded on a 1972 tour that took in Egypt, Cyprus and Greece and crackles with inventive, eastern-tinged psychedelia.
Underneath the duelling guitars and spacey, snaky synth-lines of Malesch, trance-like desert rhythms and taped sounds of humid dusky cities weave in and out, leaving you with the feeling you are right there in the smoky, smelly tour van with them.
Parts of this album really remind me of Tortoise's kaleidoscopic, genre-bending Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996). Gifted musicians having fun, but not at our expense.
If you like this, show them some love on Myspace. There's a good bio there too.
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Here's "First Communication" from their follow up album, 2nd.
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