Malesch is an album by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 rock group Agitation Free

Agitation Free

Agitation Free was a German experimental krautrock band. The band was formed in 1967 with Michael "Fame" Günther , Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich , Lutz Ludwig Kramer and Christopher Franke . They were initially called Agitation, a name they chose at random from a dictionary...

. It was released in 1972 on the Music Factory label, and later on the Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records

Vertigo Records today is a UK-based record label operated by Universal Music UK.-History:Vertigo Records was the name Philips Records chose in the late 1960s for its record sub-label to counter the progressive labels of its rivals EMI with Harvest Records and Decca Records with Deram...

 label. It was reissued on CD in 1992 by the Spalax label and in 2001 by the Garden of delights label and again in 2008 by Revisited Records. The album was inspired by the group's travels through Egypt

Egypt

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, Greece

Greece

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, and Cyprus

Cyprus

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Agitation Free.

1. "You Play for Us Today" – 6:14
2. "Sahara City" – 7:50
3. "Ala Tul" – 4:54
4. "Pulse" – 4:51
5. "Khan el Khalili" – 6:11
6. "Malesch" – 7:59
7. "Rücksturz" – 1:58
8. "Music Factory Live (Bonus Track)" - 15:15

Personnel

• Michael Günther – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Lutz "Lüül" Ulbrich – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Jörg Schwenke – guitar
• Burghard Rausch – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Michael Hoenig
  Michael Hoenig
  Michael Hoenig is a German composer who has composed music for several movies and games, in addition to two solo albums...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  

External links

• Album at Discogs.com