Who?Formed in the early '70s, the Germans of Faust (along with contemporaries Kraftwerk and Can) helped create a new branch of music that was more spacious, ethereal and psychedelic than any other rock band had produced thus far. The band formed on the cusp of a technological revolution between standard rock instrumentation and the introduction of synthesized sounds. Throughout their career, ...
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I am having one of my MOG vs. World discourses-the ones between, you know, myself and I. The source of the great divide is this. Masses: like musing with background music on. Moggers: like music with background musing on. Excuse the elitism but take the case of instrumental music, relegated to escorting office toilers, lobby dallyers or elevator riders, only on Planet Hoi Polloi.Myself, I accom...
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Krautrock. Out of all the genres I've discussed so far, no doubt this is the one that the majority of you loyal readers out there will be familiar with. This is the genre of Can, of Neu!, of Tangerine Dream, and without a doubt is the progressive style that has the most street cred. It certainly has been a huge influence on music from the 70's through today, and because of that it seems that...
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I guess nine, after this, right? I promised 31 content-filled posts at the beginning of the month, and I have to say I never realized it would be this hard! I guess I shouldn't be surprised, though. During my not-quite-two years here there have been weeks and weeks on end where I had nothing to post about, so the fact that it is catching up with me isn't really all that newsworthy.What I want...
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I made a post earlier today that had a Faust video attached to it, and it generated a couple of positive responses. I spent some time afterwards scanning youtube for more Faust videos and was actually surprised by the amount of content I found there. Faust is a band I've posted on before, so I won't go into details here. Suffice to say that they are one of the most enigmatic and boundary-breaki
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[10-01-2009] In his hard-to-find but continuously enjoyable Krautrocksampler, Julian Cope declares, “There is no group more mythical than Faust.” So, standing within inches of the band as it performed at the opening night of the WFMU Fest seemed like it would be a clarifying experience. Here was this legendary and elusive name, now physically embodied and definable, right there on the stage
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I recently got into Faust. Well, “got into” sounds much more involved than I would really say. “Became interested in,” maybe. I’ve downloaded a couple of their albums from emusic, and find them to be one of the more interesting bands I’ve ever discovered. I have the self-titled album, which I have not been able to listen through more than once, the second album, which I really like
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The 2007 Venn Festival in Bristol, UK will be held from May 31 to June 3rd. Looks like a lot of good downtempo/electronica/space rock/atmospheric type bands. i also see some vaudville acts in there as well. should be worth it for the Faust set alone! Faust play "krautrock" but really spacey type stuff. like spacmen3 meet neu! or something. i am still kicking myself for not seeing Faust w...
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Finally, I'm back from the hinterland - at least for a week, and able to MOG again. As I only have a 56k modem at home, I sadly can't listen to all the music in the MOG-O-Sphere, what is quite mournful. On the other side, I'm listening to more "conserved" music again. The last time, when I drove home, I passed by the Klangbad label, and Connie - the "good soul" of the label, if one can put that...
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The recent BBC Four documentary Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany, the most thorough examination of the genre since Julian Cope’s definitive Krautrocksampler, has finally made its way onto the Interwebs. And it’s as solid as you’d expect.From the BBC: “Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock [...]
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First I read of a "new Faust album":http://www.art-errorist.de/ mixed by Steve Stapleton and Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound) and a track for download via jh peron's site. (goto the site for the DL) The next email from the NWW list heralded the passing of Nettelbeck. Blessed be.So, this morning, I find "WFMU":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/01/uwe_nettelbeck_.html has a good 'obit' by Brian ...
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I put this WDR German TV clip up a couple years ago as a download on Beware of the Blog, but figured I'd repost since I just noticed via Boing Boing that someone had You Tubeized it for easier viewing. Great and rare glimpse at one of the most inventive rock bands ever, in studio.
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Catalog Number: DPROMCD59Number of Discs: 4Genre: Avant Garde/ExperimentalLabel: DirterRelease Date: 5 February 2007Krautrock legends Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set.Recorded last year in the UK, their performances featured many Faust enduring classics performed live for the very first time after all these years.The first two CDs in the set are a complete unedited show from ...
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Faust Rien CD "From 1971 to 1975, Germany's Faust carved a megalithic reputation as the greatest avant-garde group of the era. Formed in the spirit of the May '68 uprisings, they inspired the term 'Krautrock,' influenced generations of subsequent bands, and to this day define an entire genre. In 1994, Table of the Elements brought the reclusive Faust to America for the first time, taking them o...
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The Wumme Years 1970-73Five Experimental Krautrock EssentialsFaustSo FarThe Faust Tapes71 MinutesBBC Sessions+I thought about penning some huge tome about the history of Krautrock and Faust's rightful place in the universal scheme of things, but figured fuck it, you're either interested in 5 CDs of German experimental madness or you're not. Besides, it's just hard to imagine Faust making that m...
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