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
  25. Chere Chambre

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Free Music Review: Chaos Runs Amok!
Hit: 5 Stars

If you can appreciate highly experimental, way-out excursions in sound, you should check this out. This is no-holds-barred avant-garde/avant-noise and essential Krautrock (for the uninitiated, Germany's 60's/early 70's "hippie" movement in music).

There's actually a fair amount of music to be found among the wide variety of noises although most of the album consists of chopped-up segments laced together . . . limitations of song structure and the like are abandoned. Some do qualify as songs, namely "Flashback Caruso," "Stretch Out Time," "Der Baum" . . . "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" is a jarring but brilliant song. The translation from French (the band is actually German of course) is "My Teeth Hurt" which is appropriate because this is teeth grinding stuff, like a robot gone haywire or a crankhead on a mission. At one point, the song is invaded by a bizarre, urgent sax. If this description sounds unappealing, you might be surprised to find out how addictive it is.

The "Exercise - with voices" that precedes "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" is quite an intense piece in its own right and a foreboding precursor. There are so many wild sounds to discover and explore I couldn't begin to cover them all. But the synthesiser stuff (Moog or whatever they used) is incredible. "Untitled (track 16)" is a prime example of synth weirdness in flight and "Untitled (track 19)" sounds like "Pong" in the fourth demention.

Faust also excel at playing instruments, often piano or acoustic guitar, in a classical style, strangely incorporated into the chaos. More often these and many other instruments are drenched in echo and who knows what other sonic manipulations.

Back to the "songs," defined as having a vocal passage and some sense of order: some of them actually sound like they were made from brilliant 60's rebels who listened to the Beach Boys (couldn't sing like them but they made up for that - truth be told I'm no Beach Boys fan anyway) "Chere Chambre" features a narration from Jean-Hevre Peron in mostly french. His name and accent lead me to believe that he is, indeed, french. His contributions add a lot of color to TAPES.

Both the experiments and the songs are fascinating. They all have the unique Faust imprint that reflects a playful love of life and strange music. Highly recommended for the adventurous!
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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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