Faust is a German krautrock band, originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunter Wüsthoff, working with producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner. The Wümme is a river in northern Germany. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Recommended Records (RÄ“R) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in 1978. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ...

History

The group formed in 1971 and located themselves in the rural setting of Wümme. They secured a lucrative record deal with Polydor and soon began recording their debut, Faust, which sold poorly but received critical acclaim for its innovative approach and established a devoted fanbase. Faust became one of the premier bands in the international appreciation of the genre that would eventually be known as krautrock. See also: 1970 in music, other events of 1971, 1972 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // February 8 - Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ... The Wümme is a river in northern Germany. ... Polydor Records is a record label once headquartered in Germany. ... Faust is the 1971 debut album by German krautrock group Faust. ... Musical genres are categories which contain music which share a certain style or which have certain elements in common. ... Krautrock is a generic name for the experimental music that appeared in Germany in the late 1960s and gained popularity throughout the 1970s. ...

Faust became one of the first acts to sign to Richard Branson's Virgin Records, who embarked on a marketing campaign somewhat daring for its time, aimed at introducing Faust to UK record-buyers in as big a way as possible. The Faust Tapes was a cut-and-paste album which spliced together a large number of bits and pieces from their extensive collection of private recordings, not originally intended for release, but widely regarded today as their finest work. Virgin issued it at the then price of a single, 48 UK pence (they did the same the following year with Gong's Camembert Electrique album except that by then the price of a single had gone up to 59 pence). The Faust Tapes reportedly sold over 100,000 copies but its low price tag rendered it ineligible for a chart placing. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Virgin Records is a British recording label founded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. ... Gong is a progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. ...

Faust broke up in 1975 after Virgin had rejected their fifth album (some of the recordings later appeared on the "Munich and Elsewhere" album), but reissues of their recordings and various additional material through Chris Cutler's Recommended Records maintained a level of interest. See also: 1970s in music. ... Chris Cutler (born January 4, 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. ... Recommended Records (RÄ“R) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in 1978. ...

The clear Faust album

Faust experimented with the presentation of some of their records. Their first album was originally on clear vinyl in a clear sleeve with an X-ray of a human fist silkscreened on the outer sleeve ("faust" is German for "fist"). The second album, So Far made extensive use of black, though inside the sleeve were sheets with one illustration for each song. The Faust Tapes had a visually disturbing op art cover design by Bridget Riley, while that for Faust IV consisted of a series of blank music staves. The impact of these designs is largely lost in CD reissues. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ... Op art is a term used to described certain paintings made primarily in the 1960s which exploit the fallibilty of the eye through the use of optical illusions. ... Movement in Squares, 1961. ... Faust IV is a 1973 album by the pioneering German krautrock group Faust. ... In musical notation, the staff or stave is a set of five horizontal lines on which note symbols are placed to indicate pitch and rhythm. ...

After Faust's breakup, the group's whereabouts were unknown; the Recommended Records catalogues talked about the group's "disappearance". The official website lists three concerts during the 1980's, and the "Patchwork" album, a compilation of outtakes, feature three snippets that were recorded in the 80's, but apart from that, the groups' activities between 1975 and 1990 remain shrouded in mystery.

In 1990, members Irmler, Diermaier and Péron reunited for performances . 1994, Péron and Diermaier toured the United States for the first time, assisted by Steven Wray Lobdell. They have continued to perform in various combinations and with various additional musicians ever since.

In the booklet for The Wumme Years box set, Péron announced that Sosna had died on November the 10th 1996 . Gunter Wüsthoff has not taken part in any of the reunions. Diermaier has always been behind the drum kit. Irmler was present, but contributed little to the reunited groups' first concerts, and did not participate in the 1994 US tour, but took a more active role after that, producing the groups' records and releasing them on his Klangbad label. He also compiled and edited the "Patchwork" album.

In 1996, Diermaier and Péron meet Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator). They performed for the first time together as "Collectif Met(z)" in November 1996 (this quartet is the basis of an actual Faust line-up and this concert is part of a 2005 release). Few days after, Faust performs at the Garage in London and at the Transmusicales de Rennes, featuring Chris Cutler. Great return, ovation. Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band formed in 1995. ... Chris Cutler (born January 4, 1947) is an English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist. ...

Péron left the group in june 1997.From mid-1997 to 2004, Faust tours as Zappi W. Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Steven Wray Lobdell, Lars Paukstat, Michael Stoll.

Diermaier and "art-errorist" Péron rejoined in 2004 by immediately recording "Trial and Error" , DVD to be released 2007 by Fuenfundvierzig Label. Zappi proposed to Péron to start a "new" Faust together with Olivier Manchion and Amaury Cambuzat from Ulan Bator. Diermaier/Péron's new Faust did their première at Art-Errorist Avant Garde festival ( Schiphorst, Germany), presenting in the same time a new release entitled "Collectif Met(z)", a collection of live, new and unreleased songs. This incarnation of the group has been extremely active, releasing several CD-Rs and DVD-Rs and touring extensively, including a very successful autumn 2005 UK tour, released in 2007 as "... In Autumn" by Dirter. This release also features ex Henry Cow saxophonist/flautist Geoff Leigh, and vocalist Lucianne Lassalle. A new album has also been recorded by Diermaier, Péron and Cambuzat and is produced and mixed by Steven Stapleton and Colin Potter of Nurse With Wound. It will be released in the first half of 2007. Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band formed in 1995. ... Henry Cow was an English avant-garde rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. ... Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily saxophone and flute. ... Steven Stapleton (born 1957) is a British musician and the only constant member of experimental improv outfit Nurse With Wound. ... Nurse With Wound (NWW) is a British music band, formed in 1978 by Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heeman Pathak. ...

Faust now exists in two completely different incarnations,both active and each reflecting different aspects of the original group. Uwe Nettelbeck, Faust's creator and producer, died 17 January 2007. [1][2]

Collaborations

During the Wümme years, Diermaier and Péron played on Slapp Happy's first two albums, Sort Of (1972) and Acnalbasac Noom (1973) which were also produced by Uwe Nettelbeck. Slapp Happy's connection to Faust was Peter Blegvad who had played with Faust in Wümme and subsequently toured with them in the UK. That tour also featured Uli Trepte, who had performed with Guru Guru and Neu!. The Wümme is a river in northern Germany. ... Slapp Happy: Anthony Moore, Dagmar and Peter Blegvad. ... Sort Of is the debut album of the avant-garde progressive rock band Slapp Happy. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Acnalbasac Noom is an album by German/British avant-garde pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in Wumme, Germany in 1973 with Faust as their backing band. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Blegvad (born 14 August 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. ... The Wümme is a river in northern Germany. ... Uli Trepte (born 1941 in Konstanz in the south of Germany) is a German musician probably best known for his collaborations with various influential Krautrock bands during the early 1970s. ... Guru Guru is one of the most notable German Krautrock bands, existing from the late 1960s to the present. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ...

In extreme contrast with Slapp Happy's song-based music, in 1972 Péron ,Sosna and Diermaier also collaborated with the violinist Tony Conrad on an album entitled Outside the Dream Syndicate; the record was released at low price in the UK and was at the time one of the few available examples of drone-based minimalism. A live recording from 1995 of a later concert, entitled "Outside The Dream Syndicate Alive" featuring Tony Conrad, Zappi & Jean-Hervé of Faust and Jim O'Rourke was released in Autumn 2005. This recording is considered by many to be more successful than the 1972 studio version with Jean-Hervé playing so hard he snaps a bass string and shreds his fingers. Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. ... ORourke in Stockholm 2005 Jim ORourke (born 1969) is an American musician and producer. ...

Faust also collaborated with New Jersey avant-garde hip-hop crew Dälek for the album "Derbe Respect, Alder" with surprising success in 2004. Dälek is an alternative hip hop trio from Newark, NJ. The group is comprised of Dälek (vocals)and the Oktopus (production). ...

Discography

Albums

• Faust (1971)
• Faust So Far (1972)
• The Faust Tapes (1973)
• Faust IV (1973)
• Outside The Dream Syndicate (1973) Collaboration with Tony Conrad
• Faust 5 (1975) Virgin Records promotional cassette
• Munich and Elsewhere (1987) Compilation of unreleased material
• The Last LP (1988) Also known as "The Faust Party Album"
• Faust Concerts, Volume 1: Live in Hamburg, 1990 (1994)
• Faust Concerts, Volume 2: Live in London, 1992 (1994)
• Rien (1995)
• You Know FaUSt (1996)
• BBC Sessions/Kisses for Pythagoras LP Lmt.Ed. (1996)
• Untitled (1996) Compilation of live and studio material
• Edinburgh 1997 [live] (1997)
• Faust Wakes Nosferatu (1998) The CD and vinyl editions contain completely different music
• Ravvivando (1999)
• Land of Ukko & Rauni [live] (2000)
• Freispiel (2002) Remixes of Ravviviando
• Patchwork (2002)
• Derbe Respect, Adler (2004) Collaboration with Dalek
• Outside the Dream Syndicate - Alive (2005) Collaboration with Tony Conrad
• Collectif Met(z) (2005) 3 cds box + video cd
• Impressions (2006) dvd
• Nobody Knows if it Ever Happened (2007) dvd
• ... In Autumn (2007) 3 cds box + 1 dvd
• Direct Injection (2007) cd/dvd box + LP
• Trial and Error (2007) dvd
• Disconnected (2007) new studio album

Faust is the 1971 debut album by German krautrock group Faust. ... Faust So Far is a 1972 album by Faust. ... The Faust Tapes is a 1973 album by the German krautrock group Faust. ... Faust IV is a 1973 album by the pioneering German krautrock group Faust. ...

Compilations

• Munich and Elsewhere (1986)
• The Last LP: Faust Party No. 3, 1971-1972 (1988)
• 71 Minutes of Faust (1996) Compilation of material from the above two
• Faust/Faust So Far (2000)
• The Wumme Years: 1970-1973 (2000)
• BBC Sessions + (2001)
• Patchwork 1971-2002 (2004)

References

• Faust: Stretch Out Time 1970-1975. Andy Wilson. Mute / The Faust-Pages, 2006. ISBN 0-9550664-5-X.
• Krautrocksampler - Julian Cope - Head Heritage 1997
• The Wumme Years: 1970-1973 - accompanying booklet 2000

External links

• The Faust Pages
• jean-hervé péron
• zappi diermaier
• hans-joachim irmler
• Video Report on OC-TV.net
• Gunther Wüsthoff
• Faust at All Music Guide