Agitation Free - Malesh

This time we show one of the maximum exponents and one of the pioneering groups within Krautrock (used term to define the German progressive) that initiated that experimental scene in the beginnings of the years 70's was AGITATION FREE; a band that formed in the year of 1967 by Michael GUNTHER, bass and keyboards and by Lutz ULBRICH in the guitars and keyboards. Originally known by the name of AGITATION - selected name at random of the dictionary - and that later decided to really add "FREE" to the name of the band a year to him later, due to the consequent inspiration of all the concerts that offered free.

This band began like the majority touching covers, in the case of inspired them basically by JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and IRON BUTTERFLY, but soon would initiate their proposal avant garde adding improvisations within the subjects integrating part of their own work, with a joint between guitars with an atmospheric instrumentation giving him to a sensitivity with a hipnotic tendency experimental developed good and with an emotional control that would take them to collaborate with students of the school of art in Berlin for the accomplishment of its performances, showcases, galleries, presentations in conservatories in addition to the participation in some Clubs.

In 1970 AGITATION FREE it comprised in the scene of the German Progressive Popfestival in Berlin alternating with groups like TANGERINE DREAM, AMON DÜÜL and GURU GURU, bands with which before already had played. Often considers like a a pioneering band them of other bands, so it is the case of the guitarist Alex GENRICH who later started off to comprise of GURU GURU and the drummer Christopher FRANKE to TANGERINE DREAM in 1971. ULBRICH and GUNTHER called to the guitarist Jorg SCWHENKE, the drummer Burghard RAUSCH and the keyboardist Michael HOENIG, forming therefore the quinteto that its first called album "Malesh" would record, made with a strong influence of the regions that visited during their tour in Egypt, Greece and Cyprus in 1972, impelled by the Goethe Institute. After its poor distribution of its first record material the group continues in tour by France and Germany, in which they make his second called album "Second" in 1973, which would be its last album of study. Disappointed by the few sales of their last disc, in addition to some internal differences of the group, caused the definitive separation of the group in 1974, although the group no longer existed in 1976 left a third called disc "Last" and in 1995 one call "Fragments", although GUNTHER and ULBRICH continued with a new called name LAGOONA. In 1998 they met for the ULBRICH birthday, GUNTHER, RAUSCH and HOENIG and decided to revivir AGITATION FREE, and for the following year of Return would leave "River". In this time we presented "Malesh", his first work, enjoy it.

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