The Faust Tapes
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| Studio album by Faust | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | Wümme, June 1971 – June 1973 | |||
| Genre | Experimental Music, Musique Concrète, Krautrock | |||
| Length | 43:26 | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Uwe Nettelbeck | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
The Faust Tapes is a 1973 album by the German krautrock group Faust. The album sold well in the United Kingdom (50,000 copies) because of a marketing gimmick by Virgin Records that saw it go on sale for the price of a single.[1] This exposure introduced British audiences to Faust.
Recommended Records reissued the album on LP in 1980, and on CD in 1996 and 2001, both mastered from vinyl sources. The Recommended LP reissue used a brand new cover design and was packaged in an oversized plastic bag. Neither CD edition included the original LP artwork; the 1996 CD used the cover art from the second "Faust Paty 3" extract single as the front cover and the 2001 CD used the cover art from the "Munic And Elsewhere" album as the front cover. The Virgin and Recommended LP releases, and the first Recommended CD release had no track titles.
The Faust Tapes consists of segments of songs woven together in pieces spread out over two sides of the LP.[1][2]
Background
Faust's previous record label was Polydor Germany, and when they complained that Faust's second album Faust So Far (1972) was not commercial enough, Faust's producer, Uwe Nettelbeck signed the band up with Virgin Records in London. Part of the deal between Nettelbeck and Virgin was that he would give Virgin the tapes he had of the music Faust had been working on since So Far "for nothing" and that Virgin would release a record priced as low as possible. The result was The Faust Tapes, a full length album, which sold at 49 pence.[3]
Legacy
The Wire placed The Faust Tapes in their list "One Hundred Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)".[4]
Track listing
LP releases
- Side one
- "Untitled" – 22:37
- Side two
- "Untitled" – 20:49
2001 CD release
- "Exercise - With Several Hands on a Piano" (Faust) – 0:52
- "Exercise - With Voices, Drum and Sax" (Faust) – 0:21
- "Flashback Caruso" (Sosna) – 4:01
- "Exercise - With Voices" (Faust) – 1:48
- "J'ai Mal Aux Dents" (Sosna) – 7:14
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 1:03
- "Untitled (Arnulf and Zappi on drums)" (Faust) – 1:42
- "Dr. Schwitters - Intro" (Faust) – 0:25
- "Exercise (continues track 1)" (Faust) – 1:11
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 1:18
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 0:50
- "Dr. Schwitters (Snippet)" (Faust) – 0:49
- "Untitled (Arnulf on drums)" (Faust) – 1:03
- "Untitled (Arnulf on drums)" (Faust) – 0:47
- "Untitled (all on saxes)" (Faust) – 4:33
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 2:18
- "Untitled (Rudolf)" (Faust) – 0:34
- "Untitled (Rudolf)" (Faust) – 0:51
- "Untitled (Rudolf)" (Faust) – 1:15
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 2:28
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 0:20
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 1:13
- "Untitled" (Faust) – 0:59
- "Stretch Out Time" (Sosna) – 1:35
- "Der Baum" (Péron) – 3:49
- "Chère Chambre" (Péron) – 3:07
Personnel
Faust
- Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
- Hans Joachim Irmler – organ
- Arnulf Meifert – drums
- Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar, vocals on "J'ai Mal Aux Dents", "Der Baum" & "Chère Chambre"
- Rudolf Sosna – guitar, keyboards, vocals on "Flashback Caruso" & "Stretch Out Time"
- Gunter Wüsthoff – synthesiser, saxophone
Other contributors
- Kurt Graupner – engineer
- Uwe Nettelbeck – producer, cover artwork, vocals on "Exercise - With Voices"
References
- 1 2 3 Allmusic
- ↑ George Starostin - Faust
- ↑ Gill, Andy. "Having a Smashing Time". Mojo Magazine, April 1997. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
- ↑ Roy, Daryl Stephen; Uncle Fester (1992). "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". The Wire. Archived from the original on 19 October 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
External links
- faust-pages.com. The Faust Tapes.
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