They blagged a fortune off their label after promising to be ‘the German Beatles’ – then went wild in the countryside making experimental krautrock. But was there more to Faust than pneumatic drills ...
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The story of Faust is one of the oddest in modern music, taking in terrorism, nakedness, cement mixers, prison and no small amount of groundbreaking music. Here, in an extract from a new oral history ...
Krautrock icons Faust are in the NYC-area for three shows as part of their current North American tour. The two original core members core of Faust, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier and Jean-Herve Peron aka ...
Few have achieved as much in both the music and fine art worlds as Tony Conrad. In the ’60s, Conrad helped pioneer minimalist drone techniques together with the likes of La Monte Young, John Cale and ...
Faust are a band – sometimes two – who lend themselves to tales tall, wide and occasionally apocryphal. For a group whose origins lie in the 1968 desire for Polydor to find their own German answer to ...
Faust will always - hopefully - remain enigmas in the world of ‘rock’ music. Their influence, much like that of fellow Teutonic godheads Neu! and Tangerine Dream, has now seeped into a realm of sonic ...