Faust

   
Artist: Faust

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Rock: Electronic
   

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Discography:


   
 Faust/Faust So Far

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 You Know Faust

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 17


   
 Faust Concerts, Vol. 1 - Live In Hamburg, 1990

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Rien

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 7


   
 Faust IV

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Faust Concerts Vol. 2

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 9


   
 71 Minutes Of Faust

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 13


   
 71 Minutes Of

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 13


   
 The Faust Tapes

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 1


   
 Bbc Sessions +

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 8


   
 Faust So Far

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 9


   
 Faust

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 3

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"There is no chemical group more mythical than Faust," wrote Julian Cope in his script Krautrocksampler, which detailed the pivotal influence the German band exerted all over the maturation of ambient and industrial textures. Producer/overseer Uwe Nettelbeck, a onetime music journalist, formed Faust in Wumme, Germany, in 1971 with innovation members Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean Hervé Peron, Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wusthoff, and Armulf Meifert. Upon receiving bring forward money from their label, Nettelbeck born-again an old school into a recording studio, where the chemical group exhausted the offset several months of its being in about tot isolation, honing its singular cacophonic heavy with the financial aid of occasional guests like minimalist composer Tony Conrad and members of Slapp Happy.


Issued on clear vinyl in a guileless arm, Faust's eponymously coroneted debut LP surfaced in 1971. Although gross sales were notoriously bad, the record album -- a noisy healthy collage of cut-and-paste musical fragments -- did take in the grouping a whole cult undermentioned. Another lavishly packaged work, Faustus So Far, followed in 1972, and earned the chemical group a squeeze with Virgin, which issued 1973's The Faust Tapes -- a fan-assembled aggregation of base recordings -- for about the price of a single, a marketing gambit that earned considerable media interest group. After Extraneous the Dream Syndicate, a collaborationism with Tony Conrad, Faust released 1973's Faust IV, a commercial failure that resulted in the loss of their contract with Virgin, which refused to release their planned fifth long-player.


When Nettelbeck sour his stress away from the group, Faust disbanded in 1975, and the members scattered passim Germany. However, after more than a decennary of acting together in assorted incarnations, Faust formally reunited about the cell nucleus of Irmler, Peron, and Diermaier for a handful of European performances at the showtime of the nineties. In 1993, they made their first-ever U.S. alive appearance backing Conrad, followed by a serial of other stateside performances. After several live releases, a pair of new studio albums, Rien and You Know FaUSt, followed in 1996. Ravvivando appeared trey days after.





Gert Emmens and Ruud Heij