MALESCH

We can feel such a hallucinogenic atmosphere via a combination of free jam sessions and sensitive production. One of Krautrock masterpieces "Malesch" released in 1972 by a German psychedelic giant AGITATION FREE can be called as a supermixture of worldwide music scenes. Apparently in the whole album, weird electronic tendency, tribal oriental melody streams, heavy guitar-based rock vibes, indo-raga moments, heartwarming mellotron buffers, repetitive percussive movements are spread out based upon flexible freaky jamming psychedelic sound ground. In addition, the creation sounds not simply improvised nor inspired but also well planned and calculated ... at least for me. We would get intimidated into silence by their colourful, kaleidoscopic sound variation. Not continuously pushy but sometimes mellow and dreamy.

"Khan El Khalili" is a slowtempo, improvisational jamming with long trippy repetitions mainly by acoustic and electric guitar talks plus smooth rhythmic section plays, upon a keyboard-oriented silky flying carpet. And the titled track also has mysterious melodic dissonance. Such a smoke melodic screen like this is crazy impressive, but wondering why we can accept their tricky, camouflagic attention so easily. On the contrary, the first "You Play For Us Today" is full of indo / raga percussive improvisation, nervous guitar navigation, and sarcastic electronic seasoning ... this soundscape is quite authentic in the Krautrock world. "Sahara City" is a simple, desert, dry-fruity one, that reminds us all of AF members would have played under contemplation. The latter phase has deeply heavy, cool strain atmosphere. The following "Ala Tul" is more and more of inspiration filled with tribal percussion and hazy structure. The last "Rücksturz" is melodic catchy electro-guitar dancing that should be suitable for the epilogue of this fantasy.

Honest to say, this impressive album launched in the early 70s should be more and more appreciated.