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German (1967 – 1974, 1998 – present)

Agitation Free is a German avant-garde rock band. The band formed in 1967 with Michael “Fame” Günther (bass), Lutz “Lüül” Ulbrich (guitar), Lutz “Ludwig” Kramer (guitar) and Christoph Franke (drums). They were initially called Agitation, a name they chose at random from a dictionary. Later, they added the word free to the name becoming Agitation Free to reflect their live performance style.

After losing guitarist Axel Genrich to Guru Guru in 1970 and drummer Christopher Franke to Tangerine Dream in 1971, the band recruited Jörg “Joshi” Schwenke (guitar), Burghard Rausch (drums), and Michael Hoenig (keyboards). They released their debut album, Malesch in 1972 on the Music Factory label. Their tour through Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus inspired the album sponsored by the German Goethe Institute. Later that year, they performed at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

They released a second album in 1973, but the band disbanded in 1974.

The band reunited in 1998 and released River of Return in 1999.

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1	Rücksturz	73
2	Laila Part 2	64
3	You Play for Us Today	55
4	Ala Tul	52
5	Sahara City	49
6	First Communication	47
7	Khan El Khalili	42
8	Pulse	41
9	Malesch	39
9	In the Silence of the Morning Sunrise	39
11	Dialogue & Random	32
12	Haunted Island	27
13	Laila, Part 2	26
14	Laila, Part 1	24
15	A Quiet Walk	14

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azachel wrote:
last month

2nd !

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VelvetMesgue wrote:
last month

Malesch - awesome :) [4], I like the guitar sound

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SleepingSuicida wrote:
October 2011

Fantastic until they became so jazzy..

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ProgShine wrote:
September 2011

http://progshine.com/2011/09/17/agitation-free-volta-com-disco-ao-vivo/

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sasha_stukalov wrote:
May 2011

fuck! fuck! gud!

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TheDougKaplan wrote:
May 2011

Excrementor -- 2nd is a brilliant album, live at the cliffs of river rhine is great too. If y'all are into the guitar interplay of Agitation Free, I urge you to check out my band The Earth is a Man. Our album is available for free download at http://theearthisaman.bandcamp.com . We are less jammy than AF, but feature similar Allman Bros-esque guitar conversations.

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xdreamx19 wrote:
March 2011

for similar music check my group http://www.lastfm.ru/group/Trippy+Jam

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Excrementor wrote:
January 2011

Malesch is fantastic, I need to check out the others - how do they fare in comparison?

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LePlatypope wrote:
November 2010

Germans are so fucking good at drumming.

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smithee1407 wrote:
November 2010

Yeah I just discovered these guys. Love the Live 74' album. Man that's the kind of jams the Grateful Dead couldn't or didn't want to play - if you have really early live Dead you can hear a similarity albeit for a short time. Some of it reminds me of a psychedelic type of Allman Brothers as far as the free form musicianship of the jams go.. Too bad they only made 3 albums.

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Kanetoad1992 wrote:
August 2010

For some reason, it reminds me of 'Echoes' by Pink Floyd ..

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nipperthedog wrote:
August 2010

"Haunted Island" must be one of the most terrifying and bone-freezing songs I've listened to in my life...

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Bentwick09 wrote:
August 2010

At the Cliffs of River Rhine....., brilliant.....

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Time_Dilation wrote:
August 2010

Malesch - awesome :) [3] , (also was in Khan El Khalili earlier , the actual place)

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falkmark wrote:
July 2010

The debut album by the swedish psych folk band Valla is out now (www.recordheaven.net). Please visit www.myspace.com/vallamusik for more info and some music.

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BOECK39 wrote:
June 2010

first time listening to this band , i am impressed ,.........yes one can hear some 'Tangerine Dream' in this music ...great stuff !!!

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Antikrun wrote:
April 2010

I liked second much more than Malesch

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FuckImAwesome wrote:
April 2010

Mindblowing.

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nocturana wrote:
March 2010

:)))))))))))))))))))))

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ikarus999 wrote:
February 2010

Malesch - awesome :) [2]

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Mar 20 Agitation Free Fritzclub im Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
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Mar 27 Agitation Free Point Ephémère, Paris, France
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22 Nov 2011 | from agitationfree.com

Agitation Free in der Originalbesetzung aus 1974! Berlin - tbc. 27.03.12 Paris - Point Ephémère 05.04.12 Manchester - Club Moho 06.04 12 London - The New Jazz Club

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