The Faust Tapes

Infobox Album |
Name = The Faust Tapes
Type = Album
Artist = Faust


Released = 1973
Recorded = Wümme, 1971 - 1973
Genre = Experimental Music, Musique Concrète, Krautrock
Length = 43:26
Label = Virgin
Producer = Uwe Nettelbeck
Reviews =
* "Allmusic" Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfuxqy5ldke link]
Last album = "Faust So Far"
(1972)
This album = "The Faust Tapes"
(1973)
Next album = "Outside the Dream Syndicate"
(1973)

"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. [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfuxqy5ldke Allmusic] ] This exposure introduced British audiences to Faust.

Recommended Records reissued the album on LP in 1980, and on CD in 1996 and 2001. 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, in the same manner as "Thick as a Brick" (1972) by Jethro Tull. [ [http://starling.rinet.ru/music/faust.htm George Starostin - Faust] ]

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. [ cite web |url=http://www.faust-pages.com/publications/gill.nosferatu.html |title=Having a Smashing Time |work=Mojo Magazine, April 1997 |first=Andy |last=Gill |accessdate=2008-01-21 ]

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

*Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – Drums
*Hans Joachim Irmler – Organ
*Arnulf Meifert – Drums
*Jean-Hervé Péron – Bass
*Rudolf Sosna – Guitar and keyboards
*Gunter Wüsthoff – Synthesiser and sax

ound and art work

*Kurt Graupner – Engineer
*Uwe Nettelbeck – Producer, cover artwork

References

External links

* [http://www.faust-pages.com/records/tapes.html faust-pages.com] . "The Faust Tapes".