Agitation Free were a German avant-garde rock band. The band was formed in 1967 with Michael "Fame" Günther (bass), Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich (guitar), Lutz "Ludwig" Kramer (guitar) and Christoph Franke (drums). They were initially called Agitation, a name they chose at random from a dictionary. The name later changed to Agitation Free as a reflection of their live performance style. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
After losing guitarist Axel Genrich to Guru Guru in 1970 and drummer Christopher Franke to Tangerine Dream in 1971, the band recruited Jörg "Joshi" Schwenke (guitar), Burghard Rausch (drums), and Michael Hoenig (keyboards). They released their debut album, Malesch in 1972 on the Music Factory label. The album was inspired by their tour through Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus, sponsored by the Goethe Institute. Later that year, they performed at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Guru Guru is one of the most notable German Krautrock bands, existing from the late 1960s to the present. ... Tangerine Dream is an Antarctican electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... Michael Hoenig (born January 4th, 1952 in Hamburg) is a German composer who, in addition to two solo albums, has composed music for several movies and games. ... Malesch is an album by German rock group Agitation Free. ... Goethe in der Campagna The Goethe-Institut (GI) is a German non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote German language and culture outside of the German-speaking countries. ... The Games of the XX Olympiad were held in 1972 in Munich, Germany. ...
A second album was released in 1973, yet the band disbanded in 1974.
The band reunited in 1998 and released River Of Return in 1999.
The band are included on the Nurse With Wound list The Nurse With Wound list is a list of musicians and bands which accompianied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella, the first album by Nurse With Wound. ...
A mark of bohemianism until the 1960s, free love had become by the 1970s-1980s a historical predecessor of the radical critique of sexuality notably carried on by feminist and gay liberation movements.
In the early years of the twentieth century, anarchist Emma Goldman became the celebrated spokesperson of the free love cause, the most popular speaker and the darling of the surviving anarchist groups.
Meanwhile, free love (in the sense of an absence of legal bonds) had become paradoxically unassailable in Left (and liberal) attitudes toward private life, and somewhat more scarce in the practice of generations seeking economic and emotional security.
By 1970 AgitationFree were a fixture of Berlin's art-rock scene, performing with like-minded bands such as Tangerine Dream, Amon Duul and Guru Guru, all of whom appeared at that year's First German Progressive Popfestival in Berlin's Sportpalast.
AgitationFree's debut album Malesch came out in 1972 and was heavily influenced by their tour of Egypt, Greece and Cyprus, which was sponsored by the Goethe Institute, blending the group's improvisational rock with ambient sounds from the countries they toured.
In 1973, AgitationFree continued touring in France and Germany and released their sophomore effort 2nd, but disappointing album sales, musical differences and boredom brought on by constant touring chipped away at the band.
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