A to Z of Classic German Prog - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ Ah, thanks BaldJean & SpaciousMind for clearing up the Necronomi-confusion. Tongue

Glad you were able to get a Necronomi-confirmation. LOL

verslibre wrote:

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ Ah, thanks BaldJean & SpaciousMind for clearing up the Necronomi-confusion. Tongue

Glad you were able to get a Necronomi-confirmation. LOL

I'm just glad I don't have to say the name out loud, unlike this reporter who can't pronounce "Phenomenon" Smile

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 24 2021 at 16:47

1972: Agitation Free - Malesch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLZ0fS0X7zf4lVr2BOq4st6M9nKkXqjik

1973: Agitation Free - 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpXbxTydwdlp0ZHebK7v2TA

In the Silence of the Morning Sunrise

1972: Agitation Free - Malesch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLZ0fS0X7zf4lVr2BOq4st6M9nKkXqjik

1973: Agitation Free - 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpXbxTydwdlp0ZHebK7v2TA

1974: Agitation Free - Fragments: Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HZG3ME9cA

1976: Agitation Free - Last - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNd89fBIEm9ULD9XLlvulmwxetGtKIuDY

1998: Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of River Rhine (Recorded Live in 1974) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t_MEXiIHY

First Communication

1972: Agitation Free - Malesch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLZ0fS0X7zf4lVr2BOq4st6M9nKkXqjik

1973: Agitation Free - 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpXbxTydwdlp0ZHebK7v2TA

1974: Agitation Free - Fragments: Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HZG3ME9cA

1976: Agitation Free - Last - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNd89fBIEm9ULD9XLlvulmwxetGtKIuDY

1998: Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of River Rhine (Recorded Live in 1974) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t_MEXiIHY

1999: Agitation Free - River of Return - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llwNmNDfL9bztMFl6dhIVTMuyuFVfrhM4

Susie Sells Seashells at the Seashore

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 28 2021 at 09:21

1972: Agitation Free - Malesch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLZ0fS0X7zf4lVr2BOq4st6M9nKkXqjik

1973: Agitation Free - 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpXbxTydwdlp0ZHebK7v2TA

1974: Agitation Free - Fragments: Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HZG3ME9cA

1976: Agitation Free - Last - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNd89fBIEm9ULD9XLlvulmwxetGtKIuDY

1998: Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of River Rhine (Recorded Live in 1974) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t_MEXiIHY

1999: Agitation Free - River of Return - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llwNmNDfL9bztMFl6dhIVTMuyuFVfrhM4

1999: Agitation Free - The Other Sides of Agitation Free - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlevU2-yH0

Atlantic Overcrossing

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 29 2021 at 03:02

1972: Agitation Free - Malesch - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mLZ0fS0X7zf4lVr2BOq4st6M9nKkXqjik

1973: Agitation Free - 2nd - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7fpXbxTydwdlp0ZHebK7v2TA

1974: Agitation Free - Fragments: Live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HZG3ME9cA

1976: Agitation Free - Last - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lNd89fBIEm9ULD9XLlvulmwxetGtKIuDY

1998: Agitation Free - At the Cliffs of River Rhine (Recorded Live in 1974) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t_MEXiIHY

1999: Agitation Free - River of Return - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_llwNmNDfL9bztMFl6dhIVTMuyuFVfrhM4

1999: Agitation Free - The Other Sides of Agitation Free - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlevU2-yH0

2007: Agitation Free - Shibuya Nights: Live in Tokyo - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nmV8b19Ez9Eom6a4y8efkxy2BWpGpSKb4

A Quiet Walk

I have about a dozen from your list... fan of early Agitation Free, have the first 3 studio on cd....never picked up Fragments.

I like Utopia...an Amon Duul off shoot , ... and Lucifers Friend, the first 3 or 4 being good ,but the second my favorite...Banquet the 4th by them might be their proggiest though the sound changed with horns and sax added. (Strangely about 2 months ago at a small antique shop near me I found 2 mint copies of the first Lucifers Friend LP...one gatefold and one not..both on the small US Billingsgate label. The lady practially gave them to me...$3 each.... Smile

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Edited by dr wu23 - March 30 2021 at 11:29

dr wu23 wrote:

I have about a dozen from your list... fan of early Agitation Free, have the first 3 studio on cd....never picked up Fragments.

Agitation Free have always been one of my favourite Krautrock bands, especially Live. There's also a 3-CD box set available, which I'd buy without agitation. Smile

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 30 2021 at 11:18

That's the last of Agitation Free's albums added, apart from their 1st album, which is actually their last album, and their Last album, which is actually their fourth album, if that makes any sense at all. Wacko

Anyway, while we're in Between artists, here's an update on how the interactive A-Z is coming along. I've taken the liberty of adding Can myself because - in the words of Suzi Quatro - I couldn't possibly Can the Can from any self-respecting Krautrock list. Smile

A = Amon Duul II (added by Moshkito)

B = Brainticket (added by Verslibre)

C = Can

D = Dom

E = Embryo (added by BaldFriede)

F = Faust (added by Bald Friede)

G = Guru Guru (added by BaldFriede)

H = Hanuman (added by Logan)

I = Ibliss (added by Tigerfeet)

K = Kraan (added by BaldJean)

L = Liliental (added by BaldJean)

M = Message (added by ProgMind)

N = Necronomicon (added by BaldJean)

O = Orange Peel (added by BaldJean)

P = Popol Vuh (added by Moshkito)

S = Sperrmüll (added by Spacious Mind)

T = Tangerine Dream (added for Verslibre) Wink

U = Utopia (added by DrWu 23)

V = Vinegar (added by Spacious Mind)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 06 2021 at 09:22

1971: Between - Einstieg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCJyb0OYBM

Between: an international Krautrock band based in Munich with an intriguing blend of ethno-fusion that falls somewhere in Between ancient "serious music" and modern "popular music".

Katakomben (which means "Catacombs", at an educated guess without the aid of Google Translate)

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - April 09 2021 at 07:50

BaldJean wrote:

Orange Peel for O

Thanks. I've added them to the list above. Orange Peel are a band I haven't heard of before, which is probably not surprising, seeing as they only made one album, but I look forward to hearing it with zest. Smile

1971: Between - Einstieg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCJyb0OYBM

1973: Between - And the Waters Opened - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nb0uFG8AzGAwh_nKt0ykiNyeDRImN1dCg

A Turkish Delight that's full of eastern promise!

Uroboros

1971: Between - Einstieg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCJyb0OYBM

1973: Between - And the Waters Opened - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nb0uFG8AzGAwh_nKt0ykiNyeDRImN1dCg

1974: Between - Dharana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoiO46LCtI

Another exotic album of middle-eastern magic, ideal for listening to whilst puffing away on a hookah pipe, although I didn't inhale.

Joy...Sadness...Joy

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 03 2021 at 12:24

BaldJean wrote:

Kraan for "K". suggested album "Andy Nogger"

Hi,

I like the double live album ... far out stuff and trippy as heck!

To add to the supplemental list: (and I have almost a complete Popol Vuh and Jane. Early Scorpions, some Wallenstein and no Xhol Caravan)

Jane

Popol Vuh

Scorpions

Wallenstein

Xhol Caravan

NOTE:

While Agitation Free has grown into a "proper" band, I don't consider them as more valuable than AD2. AF was a project that started out being PAID by various means to do something which included Eastern influences. By comparison, AD2 came out of the instrumental musical circles on their original commune, to put together some music they considered better and more important than the mindlessness of the drum circle by stoned folks and nothing else. That could have been channeled into a much better idea of music, but it wasn't ... and the intention was NOT to create "music" ... mostly it was to have fun while doing it. AD2 immediately tore that idea apart with "Phallus Dei" since these circles were an excuse to get stoned and many women getting plundered. This would make PD and then Yeti and then Dance of the Lemmings (their comment on the early commune?) ... a lot more important as a creative endeavor than what AF ended up doing, which was good ... don't get me wrong and I have all the early stuff ... but was mostly a medley using Eastern motifs and ideas that would "exemplify" what the Eastern feeling was with modern Western instrumentation.

Edited by moshkito - June 03 2021 at 11:54

1971: Between - Einstieg - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yCJyb0OYBM

1973: Between - And the Waters Opened - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nb0uFG8AzGAwh_nKt0ykiNyeDRImN1dCg

1974: Between - Dharana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieoiO46LCtI

1975: Between - Hesse Between Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQiokW-Ob9E

Mein Gott! Was ist das!?? This contemplative album of meditational music could have been so much better without the intrusive narration from the German guru, but at least the album above is the English version, so that's some small consolation.

Suicide

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - June 04 2021 at 13:51

Trying to fill some of your gaps:

Sperrmüll

Silberbart

Vinegar

Virus

Vita Nova

Y is tough.

Z is also tough but maybe this Space Rock Fits? - Zone Six