Get lost in an album’s worth of melancholy beauty from the early-1970s German band Faust – better known for its whimsy, chaos, progressive grooves, and metallic dub slabs.
Faust was many bands at once, and their albums insisted on keeping them mixed up.
This mix pulls their most gorgeous recordings together into the Faustian equivalent of the 3rd Velvet Underground album.
Most of the band's music was created in an old schoolhouse in rural Wumme, Germany, which doubled as studio and home. The engineer the record label sent turned out to be Faust's perfect George Martin - genius Kurt Graupner.
The band's melancholy side matches the pastoral recording setting and seems to have been defined by Rudolf Sosna, who wrote, sang, played guitar and keyboard, and was involved in the mixing/production that achieved the atmospheres you'll find on this mix.
49-minute mp3 mix zipped up here. (Source information and alternate titles included in song title tags.)
- Hermann’s Lament >
- I’ve Heard That One Before
- Jennifer (alt mix)
- Rudolf Der Pianist >
- Party 8
- Purzelbaum Mit Anschubsen >
- Chère Chambre
- Läuft ... Heisst... (alt mix) >
- On The Way To Abamäe
- Flashback Caruso
- Das Meer (full length)
- Lampe An, Tür Zu, Leute Rein! >
- Schön Rund
- Rémaj7
Editing Notes:
• No internal edits of tracks.
• Starts and ends cleaned up in some cases.
• Several segues added, as noted by “>,” above.
• Volume equalized to match “The Wumme Years” boxed set, the baseline master I recognize for the bulk of Faust’s catalogue. (“Das Meer” volume adjusted in various ways.) Sources are that box, the 2006 “IV” expanded reissue, and the 2021 box including extra material.