Released in 1971, Faust — a landmark album in the history of krautrock — has been reissued on white vinyl by Hamburg's esteemed label Bureau B!
In 1969, at the instigation of cultural journalist Uwe Nettelbeck, the band was formed by six musicians drawn from the ranks of Nukleus and Campylognatus Citelli: Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wüsthoff, Hans-Joachim Irmler, Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, and Arnulf Meifert. Bankrolled by Polydor Germany, they lived and worked communally in a converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, following their curiosity wherever it led as they discovered an entirely new musical language — and this record is the document of that very process. Possessed of a self-contained logic and a radical spirit, it fuses German electronics, minimalism, the avant-garde, improvised structures, and surrealist collage into a musical culture all its own.
(Original Japanese text by hamon)
In 1969, at the instigation of cultural journalist Uwe Nettelbeck, the band was formed by six musicians drawn from the ranks of Nukleus and Campylognatus Citelli: Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wüsthoff, Hans-Joachim Irmler, Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, and Arnulf Meifert. Bankrolled by Polydor Germany, they lived and worked communally in a converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, following their curiosity wherever it led as they discovered an entirely new musical language — and this record is the document of that very process. Possessed of a self-contained logic and a radical spirit, it fuses German electronics, minimalism, the avant-garde, improvised structures, and surrealist collage into a musical culture all its own. (Original Japanese text by hamon)