The Faust Tapes

Faust - The Faust Tapes

The Faust Tapes
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Artist: Faust
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-05-05
Music Label: Recommended Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Exercise
  2. Flashback Caruso
  3. Exercise
  4. J'ai Mal Aux Dents
  5. Untitled
  6. Untitled
  7. Dr. Schwitters
  8. Exercise
  9. Untitled
  10. Untitled
  11. Dr. Schwitters
  12. Untitled
  13. Untitled
  14. Untitled
  15. Untitled
  16. Untitled
  17. Untitled
  18. Untitled
  19. Untitled
  20. Untitled
  21. Untitled
  22. Untitled
  23. Stretch Out Time
  24. Der Baum

Music reviews of The Faust Tapes

Music Review: Welcome to the madder end of Krautrock
Rating: 4 Stars

I once described this album to someone as "the Anti-Tubular Bells", and it's stuck with me as perhaps the easiest way to explain it to people before they've heard it. It exists in the same format, and was released at the same time, by the same people, but other than that it contrasts pretty much everything to its polar opposite. Hence, another easy way to explain it is "mad".

'The Faust Tapes' is an awkwardly-glued collage of Faust's most avant-garde outtakes, spread over two anonymous sides of vinyl. Only three or four 'sections' of this album can even be adequately described as "music", the others being experiments with synthesised effects as well as manipulations of sound from an array of acoustic instruments. Faust, for a band so genuinely progressive and challenging, can be rather light and playful with their experimentalism, but on 'The Faust Tapes' these facets of their character are not in abundance. Most of this album is... well, scary, to be honest. A lot of the pieces have a truly unsettling feel about them, and even the cut-and-paste-style editing has a menace of its own. It's like a rollercoaster with square, ninety-degree corners. Everything, even the softest of passages, comes as a sharp shock.

It's safe to say that if you want a comfortable listen, go elsewhere. You don't even need to go very far - 'Faust IV' or 'So Far' will do fine. This album has been accused of pretentiousness of the highest order, it's been accused of being utterly unlistenable... but I hear none of that. In its weird sections I hear a free-spirited madness that has clearly not been pompously overthought, and in the more conventional songs like the classic 'Flashback Caruso' I hear a talent for concise but slightly skewed pop music.

The one that always blows my mind, and anyone else's that I play it to, is the 7-minute track known variously as 'J'ai Mal Aux Dents' or 'Schempal Buddha' (one 'name' is chanted wildly into the other as the the song progresses, and then back again). It is an absolute stormer - a choppy, aggressive guitar riff repeated ad nauseum over stomping tribal-ish drums, with freak-out sax and fizzing, washing synths. And, yes, it ends with a hard cut. Shame.

'The Faust Tapes' is great because it is an example of the outermost limits in that ocean of German strangeness that was the 'Krautrock' movement. Faust are, in fact, the longest lasting band of their country and era, a band whose output has never dipped in quality and who continue to work with genre-busting artists to this day (see: "Derbe Respect, Alder" (2004) featuring experimental hip-hop group Dalek).
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Description of The Faust Tapes

Format: 180 gram LP + printed inner sleeve From the band that led the krautrock genre to glory, Faust's 1973 Virgin LP is an absolute classic and considered by many to be the band's best work. Originally released as one 43-min long sound collage, with no track division, it has now been re-mastered and repackaged, with a properly divided and annotated (!) track listing. Limited audiophile edition of 2000 copies on 180 gm virgin vinyl. Tracks - Side A: 1. Exercise - with several hands on piano 2. Exercise - with voices, drums and sax 3. Flashback Caruso 4. Exercise - with voices 5. J'ai Mal aux Dents 6. Untitled 7. Untitled - Arnulf & Zappi, 2 drums 8. Dr. Schwitters, intro 9. Exercise - Continues track 1 10. Exercise 11. Untitled 12. Dr. Shwitters snippet 13. Untitled - Arnulf on drums14. Untitled - Arnulf on drums Side B: 1. Untitled - All on saxes 2. Untitled 3. Untitled - Rudolf 4. Untitled - Rudolf 5. Untitled - Rudolf 6. Untitled 7. Untitled 8. Untitled 9. Untitled 10. Stretch Out Time (Sosna) 11. Der Baum (Peron) 12. Chere Chambre (Peron)

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