At the Cliffs of River Rhine

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At the Cliffs of River Rhine
Live album from Agitation Free

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) Garden of Delights

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock , Krautrock

Title (number)

5

running time

38 min 06 sec.

Studio (s)

Live recording by WDR

Cologne 02.02.1974
chronology
2nd
(studio album 1973 ) 		At the Cliffs of River Rhine Load
( 1976 )

At the Cliffs of River Rhine is a live album by the Krautrock band Agitation Free . It contains an excerpt from a concert on February 2, 1974 in Cologne, which was recorded as part of the WDR radio program "Nachtmusik".

background

In 1974 Agitation Free was marked by a strong tendency to break up. In January 1974 the band completed another successful tour of France. Starting with the Cologne concert, the band gave concerts in various German cities with their basic line-up until April 1974. Michael Hoenig then switched to Tangerine Dream , Lutz Ulbrich worked as a street musician in France and later helped out with Ash Ra Tempel . In September 1974 Burghard Rausch also got out. He then worked as a moderator at RIAS Berlin. The band toured with a changing line-up until November 1974. After that, the band stopped all activities until 2001. The album is therefore also a sound document of this time in the band's history.

content

At the Cliffs of River Rhine is characterized by longer live improvisations stylistically with psychedelic and jazzy influences. The tracks are mostly live interpretations of tracks from the album 2nd . The longest track Through the Moods only appeared on this album.

The album was only released in 1998 by the Garden of Delights label. The sound quality is excellent, as it is a recording by the WDR . It is the only official live release of the band aside from unofficial bootlegs of poor quality.

Track list

  1. Through the Moods - 13:28
  2. First Communication - 8:56
  3. Dialogue & Random - 0:57
  4. Laila - 10:03
  5. In the Silence of the Morning Sunrise - 4:41

A new edition of the album in 2008 still contains the track Big Fuzz (8:54) as a bonus title , but it comes from a concert on February 16, 1972 in Moers.

occupation

Publications

  • 1998 CD Germany Garden of Delights CD 028
  • 2005 LP Germany Amber Soundroom AS LP 048
  • 2008 CD Germany Revisited Records, SPV GmbH REV 101, SPV 42812 CD (under the title Live '74 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Günther: Pause . Agitation-free.de. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  2. ↑ Michael Günther: CD`s / LP`s . Agitation-free.de. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ Agitation Free - At The Cliffs Of River Rhine . Discogs.com. Retrieved December 18, 2010.

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