Last Updated 12/13/2024 07:24 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$16.50
$16.50
IN STOCK
01. Faust - Several Hands On Our Piano
Your browser does not support the audio element.
02. Faust - Don't
Your browser does not support the audio element.
03. Faust - Flashback Caruso
Your browser does not support the audio element.
04. Faust - Voices And Trumpet And All
Your browser does not support the audio element.
05. Faust - J'ai Mal Aux Dents
Your browser does not support the audio element.
06. Faust - Beim nächsten Ton ist es?
Your browser does not support the audio element.
07. Faust - Two Drums, Bass, Organ
Your browser does not support the audio element.
08. Faust - Dr. Schwitters Intro
Your browser does not support the audio element.
09. Faust - Several Hands On Our Piano (Continued)
Your browser does not support the audio element.
10. Faust - Beam Me Up, Scotty
Your browser does not support the audio element.
11. Faust - Elerimomuvid
Your browser does not support the audio element.
12. Faust - Dr. Schwitters (Continued)
Your browser does not support the audio element.
13. Faust - Have A Good Time, Everybody
Your browser does not support the audio element.
14. Faust - Above And Under Our Piano
Your browser does not support the audio element.
15. Faust - Hermanns Lament
Your browser does not support the audio element.
16. Faust - Donnerwetter
Your browser does not support the audio element.
17. Faust - Was ist hier los?
Your browser does not support the audio element.
18. Faust - Rudolf der Pianist
Your browser does not support the audio element.
19. Faust - Ricochets
Your browser does not support the audio element.
20. Faust - I've Heard That One Before
Your browser does not support the audio element.
21. Faust - Watch Your Step
Your browser does not support the audio element.
22. Faust - Under Our Piano Again
Your browser does not support the audio element.
23. Faust - Fluid Chorus
Your browser does not support the audio element.
24. Faust - Stretch Out Time
Your browser does not support the audio element.
25. Faust - Der Baum
Your browser does not support the audio element.
26. Faust - Chère Chambre
Your browser does not support the audio element.
ARTIST
FAUST
TITLE
The Faust Tapes
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
BUREAU B
CATALOG #
BB 391CD
BB 391CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
8/12/2022
Reissue, originally released in 1973. There's something perversely fabulous about the thought of this warped masterwork wandering into 60,000 unsuspecting British homes in 1973.
Faust
's second-and-a-half album hit the shops to celebrate their signing to the nascent Virgin Records, who were looking to take advantage of the zeitgeist for German music at that time. Undeterred by the fact the band's unwillingness to engage with the commercial landscape had seen them dropped from Polydor,
Branson
and co. cooked up a suitably spectacular marketing strategy, selling the LP for 49p, the bargain price of a single. What was lurking within the grooves was a condensed collage of outtakes, oddities, sketches and samples previously known to the band's nearest and dearest as
The Faust Party Tapes
-- and how you wish you'd been to those parties. Cacophonous keys and roaring drones splinter into a deranged hybrid of tumbling toms and yelping vocals; committed experimentalism which in no way prepares you for the beautiful ballad which follows. Armed with acoustic guitar, playful piano and panning vocals, Faust fashion a pastoral idyll imbued with the most profound yearning. "Flashback Caruso" brims with
Byrds
-ian jangle and
Syd
's psychedelia, its non-sensical English lending the piece a Confucian lyricism perfect for expanded minds. Sliced and spliced between TV snippets, dissonant trumpet and the sound of someone pissing, the utterly freaky fuzz-rock of "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" sounds positively radio-friendly, far less far out than if it were encountered alone. Compared to the non-musical madness beside it, this thrash-jazz trance dance makes perfect sense, as does the corrosive breakbeat of "Two Drums, Bass, Organ", a mutant funk workout which rivals
Can
in an all-German dance off. The progressive and symphonic "Dr. Schwitters", dissected by fragments of dissonant process music, haunted vocal takes and the proto-industrial grind of "Elerimomuvid", charts a course for the dark side of the moon more suited to the serious cosmonauts of the world. Then the record freefalls into disorienting drum workouts, mixing desk experiments and a wicked premonition of no-wave jazz ("Hermann's Lament") before taking slight respite in the beauty of "Rudolf Der Pianist" and "I've Heard That One Before". The particles of prepared piano, power tools and tape echo continue to cascade through the soundspace, gradually building into the final trilogy of "Stretch Out Time", "Der Baum" and "Chère Chambre", which return to conventional song structure, albeit in the group's typically twisted style. Once again though, in comparison to the wonderfully weird pieces which precede them, these three tracks are entirely accessible, and in this lies the brilliance of the album.
Other releases on BUREAU B
Other releases by FAUST