{"title":"Faust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is no group more mythical than Faust,\" wrote Julian Cope in his book Krautrocksampler, which detailed the pivotal influence the German band exerted over the development of ambient and industrial textures. The group's initial run during the early '70s produced a series of albums which radically reimagined the role of the recording studio, introducing tape cut-up techniques and Dada-ist whimsy to freewheeling psychedelic rock. The band's releases earned a cult following, particularly 1973's Faust IV, a more accessible set which gradually attained classic status. The group disbanded in 1975, and some of the founding members reconvened in 1990. Faust continued performing and releasing albums -- demonstrating that the group had become a lasting influence on industrial, techno, noise-rock, and even hip-hop, as evidenced by their 2004 collaboration with Dälek, Derbe Respect, Alder. Two separate lineups of Faust, both centered around original members, subsequently became active, with the incarnation featuring Jean Hervé Péron and Werner Diermaier being the most prolific, touring often and releasing albums such as 2017's Fresh Air. A lineup featuring Diermaier and early member Gunther Wüsthoff released the studio album Daumenbruch in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer\/overseer Uwe Nettelbeck, a one-time music journalist, formed Faust in Wumme, Germany, in 1971 with founding members Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean Hervé Péron, Werner \"Zappi\" Diermaier, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wüsthoff, and Armulf Meifert. Upon receiving advance money from their label, Nettelbeck converted an old schoolhouse into a recording studio, where the group spent the first several months of its existence in almost total isolation, honing their unique cacophonous sound with the aid of occasional guests like minimalist composer Tony Conrad and members of Slapp Happy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued on clear vinyl in a transparent sleeve, Faust's eponymously titled debut LP surfaced on Polydor in 1971. Although sales were notoriously bad, the album -- a noisy sound collage of cut-and-paste musical fragments -- did earn the group a solid cult following. Another lavishly packaged work, Faust So Far, followed in 1972, and earned them a contract with Virgin, which issued 1973's The Faust Tapes -- a fan-assembled collection of home recordings -- for about the price of a single, a marketing ploy that earned considerable media interest. After Outside the Dream Syndicate, a collaboration with Tony Conrad, Faust released 1973's Faust IV, a commercial failure that resulted in the loss of their contract with Virgin, which refused to release their planned fifth long-player.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Nettelbeck turned his focus away from the group, Faust disbanded in 1975, and the members scattered throughout Germany. However, after more than a decade of playing together in various incarnations, Faust officially reunited around the nucleus of Irmler, Péron, and Diermaier for a handful of European performances at the outset of the 1990s. In 1993, they made their first-ever live U.S. appearance backing Conrad, followed by a series of other stateside performances. After a pair of live releases, the Jim O'Rourke-produced Rien appeared in 1994, followed by You Know FaUSt in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePéron left the group in 1997. Ravvivando appeared in 1999 with the lineup of Diermaier, Irmler, Steven Wray Lobdell, Lars Paukstat, Michael Stoll, and Amaury Cambuzat (of Ulan Bator). The album received almost universally favorable reviews, prompting more invitations to play festivals and tour. Faust continued releasing new material with this lineup until 2004, when Péron rejoined the group for Trial \u0026amp; Error, a DVD released in 2007 by the Funfundvierzig label. Diermaier proposed a \"new\" Faust to Péron, and together with Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion, this new Faust made their debut at the Art-Errorist Avantgarde Festival in Schiphorst, Germany, where they also presented a new release entitled Collectif Met(z), a set of live, new, and unreleased material. This incarnation of the group released several CD-Rs and DVD-Rs and toured almost continually. From their 2005 U.K. tour they released In Autumn, though it didn't appear until 2007. This band also featured ex-Henry Cow saxophonist\/flutist Geoff Leigh, vocalist Lucianne Lassalle, poet Zoë Skoulding, and members of the Welsh group Ectogram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormer member Uwe Nettelbeck died on January 17, 2007. In April the trio of Diermaier, Péron, and Cambuzat performed at the Rock in Opposition Festival in France and recorded a new studio album entitled Disconnected. C'est Com...Com...Compliqué, the second album from this trio, was issued under the Faust moniker on the Bureau B imprint in 2009, though by 2007 the lineup had changed again -- Cambuzat left and was replaced by guitarist James Johnson (Gallon Drunk, Bad Seeds) and former filmmaker turned keyboardist\/percussionist\/vocalist Geraldine Swayne. In 2010, with the release of Faust Is Last by a group consisting of Irmler, Paukstat, Lobdell, Stoll, and Jan Fride, Faust had actually split into two groups with different lineups sharing the same name. Continuing in that vein, Something Dirty was released on Bureau B by the quartet faction with Diermaier and Péron.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, Diermaier and Péron paired up for the album jUSt (or Just Us), a collection of sometimes-skeletal song structures they offered up with the intention that other musicians use them as foundations on which to build their own creative works. The duo toured the United States in 2016, working with a revolving cast of guest musicians, including Barbara Manning, Jürgen Engler (Die Krupps), and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger (Art Zoyd). Faust's 2017 full-length, Fresh Air, consisted of selections from these performances. In 2020, Faust contributed two songs to a split LP with Kommissar Hjuler und Frau, as part of the FLUXUS +\/- series on German label Psych.KG. The record was issued under multiple titles and featured custom artwork for each copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe following year, Bureau B released the Faust box set 1971-1974. It included the band's first four studio albums as well as three LPs of previously unreleased material, including a full-length recorded at Giorgio Moroder's studio in Munich. In 2022, Bureau B packaged that album as a standalone release entitled Punkt. Immediately following the 1974 sessions at Moroder's studios, the band went their separate ways, too focused on new projects to finalize or release the new material they'd just captured on tape. Punkt marked the end of the band's first phase, and its release nearly 50 years later served as their unofficial fifth album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaust remained active in multiple forms during the 2020s. Diermaier reunited with Gunther Wüsthoff, additionally working with Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) and Einstürzende Neubauten's Jochen Arbeit and N.U. Unruh, and other musicians. This lineup released Daumenbruch on Eroto Tox Decodings in early 2022. The lineup with Péron and Diermaier collaborated with Keiji Haino for the album This Is the Right Path, released by Old Heaven Books later in the year. In 2023, Momentaufnahme I and II, two discs of previously unreleased material first included as part of the 1971-1974 box set, were issued individually. ~ Jason Ankeny \u0026amp; Thom Jurek, Rovi\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"faust-faust-clear-vinyl-import","title":"Faust (Clear Vinyl) [Import]","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracksCredits 1 Why Don't You Eat Carrots 2 Meadow Meal 3 Miss Fortune [Live]\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 10\/5\/2007\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Faust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43664065036521,"sku":"973QJN-QRWW-00","price":39.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/Faust-Faust-Clear-Vinyl-Import_jdO4q.jpg?v=1742433691"},{"product_id":"faust-just-us-w-cd","title":"Just Us (W\/Cd)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust Us (W\/Cd) is a Records \u0026amp; LPs from Faust\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP+CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITFE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 11\/25\/2014\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Faust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589701857513,"sku":"VQMMG9-RWS0-00","price":32.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/faust-just-us-wcd_JjlUC.jpg?v=1759125307"},{"product_id":"faust-fresh-air","title":"FRESH AIR","description":"Krautrock legends Faust toured the United States in 2016, working with different guest musicians at each location. To be specific, this is the Jean-Herv? Peron and Werner Diermaier lineup of Faust (the other lineup, headed by additional co-founder Hans Joachim Irmler, doesn't appear to be as active, and may have ceased activity), along with Maxime Manac'h. Additionally, they now prefer the spelling faUSt, similar to their 2014 album jUSt (Just Us). The opening and closing tracks on the album were recorded live at Jersey City free-form radio station WFMU, but it's not necessarily a live album, as other pieces were recorded at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and Nico Studios in Austin, and include some overdubbing. It's hard to tell how much of the material was composed and how much was improvised, but it all seems to be of a very spontaneous nature. The album opens with a mammoth 17-minute title track filled with spoken recitations, operatic vocals, and droning strings. After a long, slow build, a steady rhythm emerges, along with twangy distorted guitar. There is an urgent call for fresh air across the world, and it sounds like a glorious cry for freedom. Following a pair of shorter experiments (including a 22-second vocal piece titled \"Partitur,\" which sounds like a brief Dadaist interpretation of a circus), the group locks back into motorik rhythms for tracks like \"La Poulie,\" which is filled with spiraling guitars, buzzing synths, and exuberant French vocals. Barbara Manning provides English counterpoint to P?ron's French poetry on \"Chlorophyl,\" then takes control on the frantic \"Lights Flicker.\" Rusty, skronky saxophone wails over a racing rhythm while Manning blurts out a manic prose verse with a gruesome conclusion, returning to the line \"lights flicker as I blink my eyes.\" The 11-minute closing track, \"Fish,\" is slower and calmer, but its lyrics are still turbulent, touching on social disenchantment, environmental issues, and politics: \"[the sea] doesn't mind all the corpses of the refugees, slowly sinking down in the Mediterranean Sea.\" The collaborators seem perfectly in tune with what faUSt are doing, so the album feels like a coherent work rather than something assembled in different locations by a disparate cast of individuals. 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Starting off with the genre-defining \"Krautrock,\" the band sets up sheets of electronic sound that bounce off each other endlessly, creating a kaleidoscopic feel, while the insistent beat conjures up images of great drooling beasts jumping incessantly up and down. The band steps outside of its comfort zone on \"The Sad Skinhead,\" a loopy reggae sendup. 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