Faust
Faust formed in 1971 in the rural setting of Wümme, near Hamburg, where the producer Uwe Nettelbeck had installed them in a converted schoolhouse with a studio and a generous Polydor advance. The debut, Faust, sold poorly but its cut-up of tape collage, rock and noise won critical acclaim and a devoted following; The Faust Tapes (1973), sold by Virgin for the price of a single, and Faust IV made them one of the premier bands of what came to be called krautrock. The group broke up in 1975 after Virgin rejected their fifth album, and reappeared in the 1990s in two branches, around Jean-Hervé Péron and Zappi Diermaier on one side and Hans-Joachim Irmler on the other, both still touring with cement mixers, power tools and long improvisations.
Faust formed in 1971 in the rural setting of Wümme, near Hamburg, where the producer Uwe Nettelbeck had installed them in a converted schoolhouse with a studio and a generous Polydor advance. The debut, Faust, sold poorly but its cut-up of tape collage, rock and noise won critical acclaim and a devoted following; The Faust Tapes (1973), sold by Virgin for the price of a single, and Faust IV made them one of the premier bands of what came to be called krautrock. The group broke up in 1975 after Virgin rejected their fifth album, and reappeared in the 1990s in two branches, around Jean-Hervé Péron and Zappi Diermaier on one side and Hans-Joachim Irmler on the other, both still touring with cement mixers, power tools and long improvisations.
