Artist / Name:
Agitation Free

Birthday of band:
Fall 1967

Residence:
Berlin / Germany

Musicians:
Gustl Lütjens (guitar)
Lutz Ulbrich (guitar)
Michael Günther (bass)
Burghard Rausch (drums)

Important steps along the way:
Improvisations, experiments, psychedelic light-shows with founding member Christopher Franke (Tangerine Dream)
- One of the most interesting bands in Berlin, the house band of legendary "kommune 1" and of "zodiac", played at student-happenings during the Berlin riots
- Founding member of the "Berlin School", the elektronic-avantgarde - concerts with guitarist Ax Genrich (Guru Guru) at the "First German Progressive Popfestival" and the Berlin Sportpalast
- Michael Hoenig (Tangerine Dream) and Burghard Rausch (Bel Ami)
join the band,
- Eastern European tour organized by the Goethe Institut;
- Album "Malesch", an early project in the category "world music" with Peter Michael Hamel
- Extensive concert tour throughout Europe, especially France;
- Special concerts at the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich and at the "German Rock Super Concert" in the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle
- Album "2nd" with guitarist Stefan Diez; radio-portraits und concerts for SFB and WDR
- Gustl Lütjens joins as guitarist, further concert tours in France and Germany
- 1974 Agitation Free breaks up in Paris

Musical influences:
Very diverse range from The Beatles to Pink Floyd to Grateful Dead and Slade, Steve Reich and Terry Riley

Hobbies:
Music

Personal motto for life:
If it's easy, it's good.

Discography:
"Malesch", 1972, Vertigo; 1992 Spalax
"2nd", 1973 Vertigo; 1996 Spalax
"Last", 1976 Barclay; 1992 Spalax
"Fagments", 1995 Spalax
"Fragments", cd-rom; 1995 Musique Intemporelle
"At the Cliffs of the River Rhine", 1998 Garden of Delights
"The Other Side of Agitation Free", 1999 Garden of Delights
"River of Return", 1999 BSC Music