FAUST IV

FAUST- FAUST IV Virgin Records 1973 @320 kbps (artwork included) A classic krautrock album! 1. Krautrock 11.47 2. The Sad Skinhead 2.43 3. Jennifer 7.11 4. Just A Second (Starts Like That!) 3.35 5. Picnic On A Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableux 7.45 6. Laüft...Heisst Das Es Laüft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Laüft 4.28 7. Run 3.40 8. It's A Bit Of A Pain 3.08 * * Listen carefully (about 1,38 min)! A female voice explains (in swedish): "The simple truth is that some men are hairy and some are not. Some women have a lot of hair and some have not. And different races have different patterns along ---(?). The most virile of all human beings,the young male negroe have practically no body hair". (A free translation.) :-) NOTE: Several tracks are mistitled on the sleeve. Track 6 is listed as "Giggy Smile" on the sleeve. Track 7 is listed "Laüft...Heisst Das Es Laüft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Laüft" See http://www.faust-pages.com/records/faustiv.html#Tracks "Formed in 1971, Faust were not the first German band to assert their own voice on the international stage, but they were by far the most radical. Holed up in the studios with an enlightened and encouraging producer, Uwe Nettlebeck, and a cache of new tech, they produced electro-acoustic experiments that were savage and uncompromising, and with precious few reference points to rock music from either side of the atlantic. The Velvet Underground may have provided some initial inspiration, but they junked their appreciation od noise-as-aesthetic after John Cale left them in 1968. Faust's third album, "The Faust Tapes" (their first for Virgin), compiled from the band's library of private tapes may also have alluded to Zappa with its brusque collage effects, but the link is tenuous at best. The pieces on "Faust IV", like the bands first two albums for Polydor ("Faust" and "So Far") are allowed the time and space to develop fully as streams-of-consciousness. It would be pushing things to call them 'Songforms' although Faust were happy to utilise popular forms: the pre-dub experiments on "So Far" give way here to a more conventional, jocular stab at reggae with "The Sad Skinhead", whilst "It's a Bit of a Pain" is a lyrical acoustic number rudely thrown off balance by retching electronic sounds. Contrast these with the opener, "Krautrock", with its trance rhythms and searing electronic noise nodding in the direction of the post-John Cage generation of 'systems' composers (especially Philip Glass). Calculatingly, Faust's influence on contemporary music is far easier. British avant-rockers Henry Cow and the later This Heat, who similarly tested the definition of rock music to near breaking point, owe them a sizeable debt, whilst the generation of industrialists which followed - everyone from Throbbing Gristle to Controlled Bleeding - would have been much the poorer without Faust's trailblazing inventions. Faust IV was not as ruthlessly avant-garde as its predecessors, although as a more conventionally polished product it's probably the best place for the uninitiated to start. It wasn't the last recording they made, although it was the last to be released during the band's lifetime. The last of their albums to make it on to CD, "Faust IV" is simply one chapter in the life of an extraordinary group. Pop it into your CD player, crank the volume up to maximum and let this classic music roar into your head. David Ilic, September 1992" -From the liner notes to Faust IV

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gypsydaze (2008-03-05)

thanks for keeping this alive..i'll seed...what a treasure

Azocur (2013-04-04)

@John777Berry
"Faust Tapes" was Faust's album which was sold for 50p, not this one. "Faust IV" was actually so unsuccesful that Virgin rejected further collaboration with the band.