Klangbad Shop - Faust - The Early Wümme Years

Shop Specials (3)

Tickets

Audio CDs (61)

Film (1)

Vinyl records (10)

Shirts/Clothing (7)

Festival Stuff (4)

61 Articles in this categorie

Faust - The Early Wümme Years - 5 CD Box

61,50 EUR
incl. 19 % Tax excl.

Product No.: Other6

Faust - The Early Wümme Years - 5 CD Box

Also available (including prelisten!) at >>>>>>>>>

5 cd-box incl. all their early albums (\'Faust\', \'Faust So Far\' a.o.) plus previously unreleased material and a John Peel session (ReR)

Released:	2000
Recorded:	1970-1973
	Werner Diermaier	Drums
Engineer:	Kurt Graupner
	Hans-Joachim Irmler	Organ
Producer:	Uwe Nettelbeck
	Jean-Hervé Péron	Bass
	Rudolf Sosna	Guitar and Keyboards
	Gunter Wüsthoff	Synthesiser and Sax

Richard Fontenoy: Three years of Teutonic experimentalism in one handy box

Review of Faust: The Wümme Years

Few bands have been as mythologised as Faust. A group of German experimental musicians and/or hippies, they were brought together in 1970 by journalist Uwe Nettelbeck to form a pop band for Polydor to rival the Beatles. However, all the suits got were massive bills for Faust's three years in a converted schoolhouse studio, a ton of weed and some of the most outrageously innovative and influential music of the decade. The only problem was it wasn't commercial enough and when Faust later struck a deal with Virgin, Richard Branson quickly discovered he couldn't make them sell either, despite bringing out The Faust Tapes for 49p.

The lovingly-packaged box and booklet tells the story of this era with the proviso that each band member has differing recollections of the story. And therein lies part of the fascination of how the band recall what really happened. Naked darts matches, drunken tomfoolery with loaded guns, constant recording and oodles of drugs - by all accounts it was a blast. But in the moments in between such goat-acting the band developed some still-stunning songs and highly advanced recording techniques.

Faust made three albums proper in this era - the stunning Faust, the more accessible So Far and the amazingly weird The Faust Tapes - a record which dismayed many purchasers attracted by its cheapness with its curious blend of avant-garde experiment and freaked-out Kosmische rock. All three are included in this box, remastered and available outside Japan on CD for the first time.

Theres also a reworked 71 Minutes (a collection of two rare albums from Recommended) and a CD of John Peel Sessions and other rarities to tempt the collectors. Fans might already own most of the set, but the whole really is an essential purchase for the interviews and previously unavailable pieces.

Customers who bought this product bought also the following products:

	Faust - The Land Of Ukko & Rauni
	18,00 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.
	faust - faust is last Double-CD
	20,00 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.
	Faust - IV
	18,00 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.
	Ole Lukkøye - Crystal Crow-Bar
	14,50 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.
	Ole Lukkøye - Horse-Tiger
	14,50 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.
	Ole Lukkøye - DooDooDoo
	14,50 EUR incl. 19 % Tax excl.