Agitation Free - S/D, C/D?

I went out thinking was going to be salsa dancing tonight, but guess what? The tent blew down! The tent over the club on Delaware Avenue. And so: no lesson, no band, no Latin music, and virtually no salseros in attendance. (They must have a phone tree, and I am out of the loop.) So I drank some but not enough to be truly drunk, so basically the whole thing was a waste.

I just downloaded a copy of "Mawoud." I haven't hear it in a while and it's pretty good. Like just about everything else from that period of Egyptian popular music, it's a bit sprawling and uneven, but there are some great moments, and this piece hangs together better than some.

There's also a Greek song that I think might be derived from part of "Mawoud," unless "Mawoud" stole from it.

"Mawoud" is very 60s sounding, psychedelic, with occasional very heavy Egyptian dance sections, and some catchy melodies.

-- RS (Catalino) LaRue (Al__sucar@go.com), May 29th, 2005 10:17 PM. (RSLaRue)

christ, get out of this thread already. half of it is you not even talking about Agitation Free ffs!

"Malesch"
http://s10.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DUHO34ITWE0R2IU1T6D3T6XX4

"Sahara City" (the money shot is at 5'55")
http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2CMOJR2ZWTPB60VHCPRW1BAN18

?? ;' (

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrr5u6f1E&search=agitation

RUCKSTURZ!!! I can't get enough of that track. The best bit of Malesch, easy. I do like the rest of the album, but on most of the tracks, it seems like just as they're about to TAKE OFF (a la RUCKSTURZ), they go back into Subliminal Frequencies style field recordings of dudes yabbering in Arabic, which is fine with me, but can't they TAKE OFF, first??

"first communication" sounds like what i always thought "dark star" would

UK dates announced!

http://www.hmvtickets.com/events/4774

There's a new album too, wonder if this will be any good or more like the execrable Amon Duul II gig I saw once.

Picked up a CD copy of Last for two bucks today. Had heard the name checked before, but haven't heard a note. Figure I've blown more than $2 on a lot worse before.

Saw the Malesch reissue in the local shop.
I don't know...I'd rather have an lp of Second, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWSILbP4S0

This came out last year and just came up in a thread elsewhere
https://www.discogs.com/Agitation-Free-Last-Fragments-Live-74/release/9406451

thought i@d look them up on the search engine here and see what had been said about them.
I only really know the 1st 2 lps. "nd one is really good at least, 1st is quite good too.

i only have Malesch but i absolutely love it, no idea what people are moaning about upthread

^^^

in fact this revive made me put it on, listening now

on the cliffs of the rhine is killing me today, can't get enough. sloppily cosmic... whoever compared it to what they wanted 'dark star' to sound like is spot on

At the Cliffs of the Rhine is the same as Live '74, correct?

Streamed about 2/3rds of the their 2023 album last night, it is... uh... not good. Granted I went into it with prime era Agitation Free in my head, but it was just not good at all.