Krautrock Three - Agitation Free - Last

So a test post after some strife alleviated by E & M Here's my first upload.
Looping IV was originally the b-side of AG's er, last album and was recommended to me personally in the slightly sweaty flesh by the Brothers Freeman (whom I must visit sometime soon, lovely people really).
It starts pretty tripped out and full of echo...

http://rapidshare.com/files/15869045/03_Looping_IV.wma.html

For those who knoweth not the delights of Windows Media Audio lossless, here a link to a 320 mp3 rip

http://rapidshare.com/files/15965069/03_Looping_IV.mp3.html

Here's what Marco's friends @ Prog Archives say:
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It only features 3 pieces, but what pieces!The first one, “Soundpool”, features a long psychedelico-cosmic introduction followed by the beautiful lyrical guitar solo from Malesh’s last piece “Rücksturz”.The second piece is a major piece from the “2nd” album, “Laïla II”. The introduction is simply mind blowing; it brings the listener straight into another galaxy…The “cosmic” adjective takes its full dimension here. Then the piece evolves with stunning space rock developments lead by fantastic guitar. An absolute masterpiece! The third piece, the long one -unreleased-, is a cyclical repetitive suite; the same theme is repeated with variations and progression, in a way somehow reminiscent of TD mid period’s albums such as “Phaedra”, but in a more captivating way. It evokes a shamanic psychedelic trance.Sound is quite hazy but curiously, it fits well the music. It doesn’t sound like a live album as public’s presence is never heard. This album is a major german prog album and a gem of space psychedelico-cosmic genre.
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I was all set to say that the TD comparison is bollocks before I realised I was listening to the more boogie/psych riffing tracks on side A. This one is a moody cosmic chill-out classic. How they got away with this live I don't know. It's all de-tuned, mellow and about 100,000 years through the Magellan's Cloud.
[crap photo here:http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060110.html ]
This is a fair review from the same site:

AGITATION FREE — LastReview by Cesar Inca (César Inca Mendoza Loyola) SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Prog Specialist
This is my fave Agitation Free album from their first era. Actually, this is a selection of recordings that the band had already planned for release, but the release only took place many months after the band’s demise, due to some French label’s initiative. This circumstance helped the album to become a cult classic of krautrock. Anyway, IMHO, the three tracks in “Last” comprise the most proficient performances accomplished by the five musicians; they also contain the most confident labour of texture and jamming ever conceived by the band during this first era. While being more stylish and refined than “Second” and much more cohesive than their debut recording “Malesch”, “Last” continues to capture the band’s unique energy perfectly. The band’s inherent sonic power of the band is still there, irradiating its peculiar light across their increasingly polished sonic landscapes. Jörg Schwenke is back in the band, while drummer/percussionist Burghard Rausch was gradually leaving AF: in one of the tracks he is replaced by Dietmar Burmeister. It seems that the band’s internal turmoil didn’t affect the level of consistency of their new material. Once again, the Ash Ra Tempel influence is quite noticeable (more evident, in fact), specially when it comes to the fluid transition from the cosmic layers to the more jam-oriented sections. Track 1 starts with a very laid-back hypnotic sonic landscape that feels distant, as if drifting through space (it kind of reminds me of early Pink Floyd); eventually, a not too long jam reprising a slight variation of the main motif of ‘Rucksturz’ (“Malesch” closing number) fills the room and gives the track a more definite shape. Then comes the very long ‘Laila II’, which retakes one of the basic subdued themes of “Laila” and explores it further, even taking it to different places as the jam goes onward. Some of the best guitar interplaying ever in AF’s history is comprised in both this track and the next one, the long-side “Looping”: the way that the latter incorporates dreamy passages and rocking moments in a fluid intercalation comes as no surprise to those already familiar with the band’s capability to create their unique ethereal walls of sound, bathed in majesty. My overall rating for this album is the maximum one in Prog Archives terms – this is, after all, a unique masterpiece of krautrock.
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If, I say If my head was full of spliff I might never come down after this...
Cosmic Peace y'all.
djh