Faust
The Faust Tapes LP

Faust stand among the most influential creative forces to have emerged from Germany in the late ’60s and early ’70s. Along with Can, Agitation Free, Neu! and others, Faust rejected the Anglo-American norms of rock ’n’ roll to start a back-to-basics and uniquely Teutonic revolution in sound—later dubbed by the UK press with the semi-derogatory term “krautrock.” Faust would reach near-mythical status through a series of classic albums recorded between 1970 and 1973 at their secluded Wümme studio.

As Dave Segal writes in the liner notes, “There’s no consensus about which Faust album represents their zenith. But a survey of the group’s fans would likely find the collage-heavy messterpiece The Faust Tapes triumphing. Its freewheeling, jump-cut nature and unlikely earworm moments conspire for more what-the-fuck epiphanies per minute than just about any other record about which Krautrocksampler author Julian Cope has raved.”

Comprised of twenty odd tape-manipulation experiments and freak-out jams, The Faust Tapes stashes away some of the band’s best-known songs. “Flashback Caruso,” with its delicate acoustic guitar and Rudolf Sosna’s airy vocals, could easily have appeared on So Far or Faust IV, while on “J’ai Mal Aux Dents,” Jean-Hervé Peron’s playful lyrics and this ecstatic, era-defining riff perfectly represent Faust’s magical mischievousness.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 1973 / Reissue 2018

Tracklist:

A1 Exercise - With Several Hands On A Piano

A2 Exercise - With Voices, Drum And Sax

A3 Flashback Caruso

A4 Exercise - With Voices

A5 J'ai Mal Aux Dents

A6 Untitled

A7 Untitled - Arnulf & Zappi, 2 Drums

A8 Dr. Schwitters, Intro

A9 Exercise - Continues Track 1

A10 Untitled

A11 Untitled

A12 Dr. Schwitters Snippet

A13 Untitled - Arnulf On Drums

A14 Untitled - Arnulf On Drums

B1 Untitled - All On Saxes

B2 Untitled

B3 Untitled - Rudolf

B4 Untitled - Rudolf

B5 Untitled - Rudolf

B6 Untitled

B7 Untitled

B8 Untitled

B9 Untitled

B10 Stretch Out Time

B11 Der Baum

B12 Chère Chambre