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FIT & LIMO

Indo-Prog/Raga Rock • Germany


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Fit & limo is a couple of multi-instrumentalists folk artists from Bavaria (Germany). They started their career back in the seventies as an acid folk rock formation. Their sound is in the tradition of the Incredible String Band influences. Today the duet explores "world", ethnic harmonies & traditional acoustic instruments. Compositions provide an important variety of dreamy folk sections including a heavy use of sitar. This is for fans of fusion music and kraut-folk, mixing psych rock to chamber folk, "ethnic" arrangements. A large community of musicians accompany the band in this adventure; also involved into numerous side projects (the religious "the god box" and the more rock sounded "Discolor".). From their retrospective (1983-88) to the recent inspired kraut-folk "Terra Incognita" (2004) the band has brilliantly brought folk rock on new territories.

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Hände Hoch
1982
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Internazionale
1982
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Put On The Flipside
1985
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Revisited
1989
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That Totally Tore My Head Off
1991
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Angel Gopher
1993
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The Serpent Unrolled
1998
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As Above So Below
2000
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Ginnistan
2002
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Terra Incognita
2004
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Astralis
2007

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Retrospective 1983-1988
1988
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Folly Is An Endless Maze
1995
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Feather And Dust (A Collection Of Fit & Limo´s Early Tracks)
1995
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A Garland of Flowers / A Bunch of Herbs
2006

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Golden Trash
1984
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Fit & Limo and Stratis: Im Blickpunkt
1984
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This Moment. Fit & Limo Play Incredible String Band
1993
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Fit & Limo and Stone Breath: The Silence Of A Million Tongues
2000
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Indian Worm Moon
2006

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 Angel Gopher by FIT & LIMO album cover Studio Album, 1993
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Angel Gopher
Fit & Limo Indo-Prog/Raga Rock

Review by kenethlevine
Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team

— First review of this album —
3 stars After listening to this release by acoustic folk/raga duo FIT & LIMO, one could be forgiven for doing a double take upon discovering that it is from 1993, and that the group didn't release a single recording in the 1970s, let alone the 1960s. Apart from the self-avowed idolatry of INCREDIBLE STRING BAND, which luckily avoids much of that group's nerdy cleverness, I hear bits of countrymen EMMA MYLDENBERGER in the many seemingly improvised passages.

"Late Summer" evokes the pastoral disposition of early MIKE OLDFIELD and FUHRS and FROHLING. The insertion of flutes imparts an ancient and eerie mood in tracks like "The Carpet" and the sweet "Black Berry", while "Stony Glory" utilizes sitar and crumhorn to achieve an appealing cross between transcendental meditation and a courtly dance. Vocals are generally sparse but recall at turns ISB, DONOVAN, and BROSELMASCHINE.

While I can't recommend this highly to prog fans who cherish sonic bombardment, for those willing to meet the music in its own ecosystem, "Angel Gopher" might offer you much more than surface pleasures.

 This Moment. Fit & Limo Play Incredible String Band by FIT & LIMO album cover Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, 1993
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This Moment. Fit & Limo Play Incredible String Band
Fit & Limo Indo-Prog/Raga Rock

Review by The Jester

— First review of this album —
3 stars Review #6 Fit & Limo is a German duet that follows the path of The Incredible String Band, and they don't hide it. The proof of that is this mini LP that contains 4 songs from The Incredible String Band in cover versions. Here I will write the 4 tracks of this record, and inside the parenthesis the albums of the ISB that you can find them, in case you want to listen to the original versions as well... 1. This moment (I Looked Up) (1970) 2. Come with me (Be Glad for the Song has no Ending) (1970) 3. Three is a Green Crown (The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter) (1967) 4. Chinese White (5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion) (1967) As for the album, it's in the same style of the ISB. Many strings, (guitar, sitar, tambura, viloin, etc), weird vocals, and so on... I will put 3 stars on this, but only because I grew up with the music of The Incredible string Band, and that doesn't sound too weird to my ears. But it is recommended to the fans of this Scotish band only!

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Terra Incognita
Fit & Limo Indo-Prog/Raga Rock

Review by philippe
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

3 stars Eastern influenced psych-folk obscurity. The album includes very peaceful, mellow "bucolic" pieces with an omnipresence of sitar chords. The atmosphere is sometimes melancholic, sometimes sunny but always wonderfully "stoned". "Seraph" is a fragile, beautiful composition including an almost religious theme for sitar and backing vocals, repetitive in style but quite catchy melody with an inspired 60's felt. "Will You" is an acoustic little ballad with female vocals. "Lasst Uns Auf Die Reise Gehn" is pop folk piece sung in a plaintive tone (in German). "Golden Floor" is a touching pseudo mystical ballad with long sleeping, monotonous melodies (featuring percussions, chants and mellotron). "Wende Dich Her" starts with a nice combination of mandolin & Mellotron; meditative, dreamy like piece. "Unknown World" is an other acoustic ballad with conventional folk melodies. The "floating", dream folk sound (for violin and guitar) is punctuated by male/ female voices. Emotional hippy folk soundscapes for dream time.
 Terra Incognita by FIT & LIMO album cover Studio Album, 2004
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Terra Incognita
Fit & Limo Indo-Prog/Raga Rock

Review by pirkka

2 stars I have only heard this one album by Fit+Limo. This is also first Raga album I listen to. The music is meditative. Mellotron and Chamberlin are used to create a flowing background for monotoniuos vocals, cymbals, tambouras, glockenspiels, indian banjos etc... The overall feeling is somewhat foggy. Probably best enjoyed while incense are burning and with eyes shut. This is as far from rock as we are from alpha centauri but can probably take you there. Actually this would be etno if these people would come from some distant country but this music is from Germany. Folk music there is different :-). I would rather place this music into new wave. For progheads ... no.. Is this bad music? No, only boring.
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