Faust Releasing New Album "Free At Last" On May 24
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Nearly forty years after their self titled 1971 debut album Faust, the krautrock icons are set to return with Free At Last. The latest iteration of Faust consists of members Hans Joachim Irmler, Jan Fride, Steven W. Lobdell, Lars Paukstat, and Michael Stoll.
"Whatever can happen to a band has happened to Faust. In that sense they are not an unusual group of musicians. What is unusual is that each project, each record, each concert over the last 40 years has been different. On the very first record they made clear (on clear vinyl) that they were in it for destruction. 'All you need is love' and 'Satisfaction' symbolically were set fire to. That same fire you will hear on this new & last Faust record. The circle will be closed by more circular music.
"A music that seems to come out of nowhere, sonic descriptions rather than songs. Timeless and not rooted in specific places and/or traditions. Maybe influenced by Cage's idea of chance, Dada, cut-ups, Sun Ra's free jazz organ playing and the second attempt after the German-American Monks to represent 'a rock group as total artwork'. faust in 1970 and in 2010 sound aggressive and 100 percent oriented towards the future. There is not a glimpse of nostalgia in Faust Is Last."
The album is available for vinyl orders now from Klangbad Records, and will be available everyone else on May 24th.
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Pretty sure that the album referrenced is actually the recently released FAUST IS LAST, reported to be the final album by this incarnation of FAUST (another incarnation, which includes two of the band's original members, are currently touring and will undoubtedly continue to record).
Yep I think pkazee is correct.
As part of their tour in May, "founding members Jean-Hervé Péron and Zappi Diemaier [will be] onstage with James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Bad Seeds) and Geraldine Swayne".
From the Arches website where they're playing their Glasgow date... http://www.thearches.co.uk/BEHAVIOUR-presents-Faust
Should be a treat!
I had the priviledge of hosting a stop of this line-up's recent U.S. tour. It was an amazing experience.