Remaining Four Original Faust Members Announce Four New Albums: Hear A Track From Each
Krautrock greats Faust have been around for over half a century in various permutations. Today, the group's four surviving original members announced a fun initiative: They're each releasing their own solo album. You know, like KISS! Bureau B will release all four LPs simultaneously in September. The post Remaining Four Original Faust Members Announce Four New Albums: Hear A Track From Each appeared first on Stereogum .
Krautrock greats Faust have been around for over half a century in various permutations. Today, the group's four surviving original members announced a fun initiative: They're each releasing their own solo album. You know, like KISS! Bureau B will release all four LPs simultaneously in September.
With Unbegunden , Hans Joachim Irmler returns to the elemental power of sound itself, creating a solo work of immersive electronics, organ drones and spontaneous creation that channels Faust's most transformative and destabilising impulses.
Jean-Hervé Péron's MOI presents a deeply personal yet profoundly communal record, drawing together a wide network of collaborators in a playful, moving and unpredictable collage of musique concrète, spoken word, avant-pop, jazz and Fluxus-inspired experimentation.
Fliegen Lernen sees Gunther Wüsthoff, working alongside Onnen Bock and Bureau B's Gunther Buskies, revisit the openness and collective thinking that defined the group's earliest years, crafting a set of rhythmically inventive, genre-defying pieces that balance wit, groove and experimentation.
Meanwhile, Werner "Zappi" Diermaier's Gugaruz , created alongside Schneider TM, places rhythm at the centre of an ever-shifting landscape of noise, electronics and electro-acoustic invention, merging his unmistakable percussion language with electronic manipulation, studio experimentation and textural deconstruction.
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