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AT THE CLIFFS OF RIVER RHINE

Agitation Free

 

Krautrock

4.01 | 67 ratings

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Rivertree
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4 stars At the cliffs of Krautrock ...

The best live recording in my opinion from AGITATION FREE and one of the last gigs with this line-up which was recorded 2/2/1974 in Cologne (at the cliffs of the river Rhine). Excellent instrumental Space/Psychedelic Rock jams from this band but unfortunately very short for a live recording. Keyboards are used diversified, mostly sparingly, sometimes sacral or for serving spacy synth effects. But first of all the songs are dominated by Lüül Ulbrich and GustI Lütjens with their excellent guitar work.

We have a very relaxed start with Through the moods, a song which never was released on a studio album. The music raises slowly as for the fine-tuning of the soundcheck and the warmup of the musicians. After some minutes it slips into the main theme and the song is beautifully meandering with great interaction between the musicians. My favourite of this release.

The following songs are from the former studio effort 'Second'. First communication is somewhat bluesy, more dramatic and undulates. Laila indeed consists of some Allman Brothers themes. So this song surprises with southern rock feeling and might be played in memory of Duane Allman who sadly died in 1971. The album ends (too early) with In the silence of the morning sunrise, shorter than the studio one and with some birds singing. A nice song which sounds like a hommage to SOFT MACHINE.

'At the cliffs of the river rhine' is a great live document from this german band which should be a part of every Prog Rock collection.

Rivertree | 4/5 |

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