Agitation Free
2nd

THE REVIEW

Winds of change keep on blowing, 
Winds of change keep on blowing,

Bob Dylan sang about the winds of change
Blowing, it's all blowing, the winds of change… […]*

The proverbial winds of change, excellently celebrated by Eric Burdon & The Animals in a track, "Winds of change", as it happens, oozing psychedelia from every pore. 

"Winds of change"; symbolic renewal, revolution, palingenesis (sonic, in our case)… Words, these, decidedly “adherent” to the new forma mentis (after the primordial work, "Malesch") of the German ensemble Agitation Free.

After a spectacular debut in 1972 with "Malesch" (one of the most representative works of Kraut-Rock), a sparkling sonic epicenter with a vigorously Mediterranean taste and richly spiced flavor, Agitation Free left behind, the following year, such iridescent influences in favor of a much less ethnic sound with decidedly intangible, astral, and minimalist connotations.

The celebrated winds heralding change powerfully lash the heads of these young sprouts from Berlin.

Exquisitely impregnated with bittersweet vapors, acid-lysergic emanations and corrosive miasmas, "Second" intoxicates and bewilders; the changing electro-acoustic mixture, wisely sweetened by eccentric experimentation, excellently paints distant horizons, the ethereal celestial vault, and sidereal spaces. Kosmische Musik softly imbued with fragrant aromas and flavors evokes ascetic, mystical, and esoteric landscapes; Bouzouki with oriental strings, feverish percussion, and a boiling Hammond paint hieratic and arcane sound frescoes, an eclectic mixture of cosmic vibrations and oriental glimpses. ("A Quiet Walk")" 

Majestic, "atmospheric" and evanescent, "First Communication" stands -boldly- on the versatile, polychrome, and overflowing sonic magma.

Creative apex, artistic and musical paradigm, "First Communication" boasts of amphetamine-like, driving percussion splendidly adorned with sulphurous, distorted, and electric guitar escapades with copious psychedelic aftertaste and grotesque sound effects (à la Guru Guru), heralding cosmic impulses and dark perceptions.

Receptacle of powerful and inscrutable visions and enigmatic fantasies, "Second", with a daring Pindaric leap, also soars over the fertile Jazz-Rock territory with lively and sparkling diversions ("Dialogue And Random", "Layla part I- part II") saturated with instrumental improvisations, percussive experimentalism, and murky organ carpets.

Vivid, chameleonic, flamboyant.

"Second".

*: Winds Of Change (Eric Burdon & The Animals, 1967)