{"title":"Faust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFew bands have challenged the idea of what rock music could be quite like Faust. Emerging from the fertile early 70s German underground, they helped shape the experimental movement later labelled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKrautrock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, though their music has always resisted easy categorisation. Tape manipulation, industrial noise, fractured pop melodies, free improvisation and moments of startling beauty collide across a catalogue that still feels adventurous decades on.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"blickwinkel-curated-by-zappi-w-diermaier","title":"Blickwinkel - Curated by Zappi W Diermaier","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter dipping into the archive to deliver a series of essential reissues, Bureau B continues to encourage the chaotic brilliance of \u003cstrong\u003eFaust\u003c\/strong\u003e with an LP of brand new music curated by originator Zappi Diermaier and a band of musical friends, including fellow founder Gunther Wüsthoff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years \u003cstrong\u003eFaust\u003c\/strong\u003e has become many things, each as separate as the fingers, but as together as the hand which makes up their eponymous fist. From 1971 to 1974 the Hamburg band blazed a bold sonic trail, helping to create the distinct and delirious strand of German music we've come to know as Krautrock. Uncompromising, innovative, and experimental, their releases in that period, and the stories accompanying their creation, are nothing short of legendary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fact that after a hiatus, the band returned and remained active in a variety of separate and simultaneous incarnations is entirely fitting for these musical revolutionaries. On \u003cem\u003eBlickwinkel\u003c\/em\u003e, Diermaier's incarnation embraces synchronicity and chance in order to capture the moment in a six-track snapshot of industrial churn, unsettling ambience, and psychedelic motorik.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSonically and politically, \u003cem\u003eBlickwinkel\u003c\/em\u003e is a profoundly Faustian venture, a communal project based on democratic ideals which eschews external influences to create something entirely on its own. The result is a shapeshifter, at times commune-friendly psychedelia, then grinding industrial, eerie ambient, or driving motorik, but always refusing easy categorization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe stylistic definitions are constantly disrupted by unexpected guests - baroque strings, impish horns, found sound breakdowns, or else mind-melting phasing and flanging - each offering a new combination on this album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Purple LP","offer_id":50380189729099,"sku":"2210656","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380189335883,"sku":"2210654","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50380189598027,"sku":"2210655","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/image007_26e0ae91_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726210491"},{"product_id":"punkt","title":"Punkt.","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the overwhelming success of last years 1971-74 box set release, containing the first four studio albums and for the first time ever this lost 'last' album recording, \u003ci\u003ePunkt\u003c\/i\u003e gets a deserved and necessary stand alone release to the relief of fans and collectors and the undoubted future gratification of those yet to experience the magic in these recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band called it 5½, fans referred to it as the \"Munich album\" and for almost fifty years it's been the missing chapter in Faustian mythology. Now for the first time, the German iconoclasts' previously unreleased fifth album sees the light of day as \u003ci\u003ePunkt.\u003c\/i\u003e Not only does this title place a bold full stop after the final recording by the group's seminal line up of Péron, Irmler, Sosna, Wüsthoff and Diermaier, but it also references the unflinching anarchism of German rock's ultimate outsiders. Punkt is Faust at their most unhindered, untethered and unstoppable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to Germany after a loss-making U.K. tour and after their manager Uwe Nettelbeck had split with them,the group dusted themselves down and planned their next project, what would have been their second for Richard Branson's Virgin. Joined as always by their engineering genius Kurt Graupner, the band took residence in the Arabella High Rise Building, the luxury hotel which housed Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studio in its basement. At the time, the Italian's space disco odyssey was yet to blast off, and he gave the group the studio downtime around his sessions with Donna Summer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOff the leash and on the lash (running up a record breaking room service bill), Faust spent their nights below ground, creating the sublime cacophony which courses through these seven tracks. Driven by Diermaier's primitive repetition and Péron's rabid low end growl, \"Morning Land\" stomps its way through almost ten minutes of heavy psychedelia. Vocals disintegrate into the sonic landslide of guitar feedback and synth scree, momentum building until the track rends open the hellmouth with its unthinkable heft. A Luciferian spirit courses through the beatless \"Crapolino\", a tumult of scorched guitar chords, strident FXs and disembodied vocals which bares all the hallmarks of a black mass. And just like that, the group summon some demonic hunting party for \"Knochentanz\" (bone dance), arguably their most immersive creation. Opening with Péron's plangent horn, the track soon establishes a hypnotic c ounterpoint between Irmler's electronic sequences and Diermaier's sparse rhythm, a pulse which continues to build for six minutes as kick drum, snare, shaker and toms pile on beneath the ever-present drone. The storm clears for a second to allow a celestial chord progression to emerge from the darkness before the heavens open and Sosna's snarling, sawing guitar rains down from above, carrying \"Knochentanz\" through its final iteration, a collision of muscular fretwork, percussion freakout and bleeping organ which completes the most psychedelic recording you've never heard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe frazzled optimism of \"Fernlicht\" buzzes away like an acid Beethoven bathed in neons, before the breathless \"Juggernaut\" stretches the definition of blues rock to its limit as squirming sine waves, clattering cymbals and corrosive guitars pan, reverse and overlap, each following its own unhinged rhythm. Then for a time the sound and the fury abate, making space for the frankly sublime \"Schön Rund\", a piano-led diversion into the soul-swelling realms of ECM jazz and fin de siècleimpressionism, which rivals anything else in their catalogue for pure beauty. And in case you thought they'd gone soft, Faust sign off with the guttural groans and course drones of \"Prends Ton Temps\". After ten days of recording, it became clear that Branson wasn't footing the bill and Péron, Irmler and Sosna were arrested until the mothers of Sosna and Irmler paid the bill - though not before smuggling the master tapes into an undisclosed location, where they've waited ever since...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50383911158091,"sku":"1147489","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50383911027019,"sku":"1147488","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c802bfc-2501-47ad-a130-ebaeb769988b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726278234"},{"product_id":"momentaufnahme-iv","title":"Momentaufnahme IV","description":"\u003cp\u003eFaust is a group of artists who shared intense musical experiences in the years 1971-1974. 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Undeterred by the fact the band's unwillingness to engage with the commercial landscape had seen them dropped from Polydor, Branson and co cooked up a suitably spectacular marketing strategy, selling the LP for 49p, the bargain price of a single. Shoppers flocked in their thousands to grab a copy, raced home and then spent the next forty five minutes checking their tracking, banging the speakers and blowing the needle, all to no avail. Do not adjust your set - This is Faust. What was lurking within the grooves was a condensed collage of outtakes, oddities, sketches and samples previously known to the band's nearest and dearest as 'The Faust Party Tapes' - and how you wish you'd been to those parties. Cacophonous keys and roaring drones splinter into a deranged hybrid of tumbling toms and yelping vocals; committed experimentalism which in no way prepares you for the beautiful ballad which follows. 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The progressive and symphonic \"Dr. Schwitters\", dissected by fragments of dissonant process music, haunted vocal takes and the proto-industrial grind of \"Elerimomuvid\", charts a course for the dark side of the moon more suited to the serious cosmonauts of the world. Then the record freefalls into disorienting drum workouts, mixing desk experiments and a wicked premonition of no-wave jazz (\"Hermann's Lament\") before taking slight respite in the beauty of \"Rudolf Der Pianist\" and \"I've Heard That One Before\". The particles of prepared piano, power tools and tape echo continue to cascade through the soundspace, gradually building into the final trilogy of \"Stretch Out Time\", \"Der Baum\" and \"Chère Chambre\", which return to conventional song structure, albeit in the group's typically twisted style. Once again though, in comparison to the wonderfully weird pieces which precede them, these three tracks are entirely accessible, and in this lies the brilliance of the LP. 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On the contrary, ‘Faust’ feels deliberate in its unpredictability: a meticulously chaotic document of six musicians discovering a new musical language in real time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe trip begins with “Why Don’t You Eat Carrots,” a collage of absurdist theatre and sound sculpture. Its snarling guitar feedback, shuddering electronics and tape-scratched pop samples mutate into a post-structuralist meltdown. Stones’ “Satisfaction” and Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” are reduced to spectral phrases, mocking the very idea of cultural consensus. From there horns squeal, pianos splinter and voices swirl in delay, as if the entirety of a circus is being squeezed through the hoop of a bubble blower, leaving us to watch the whole spectacle bend, shake and shimmer in the sunlight. Next, “Meadow Meal” opens with resonant industrial tones, like air forced through plumbing, and gradually blossoms into a surrealist jazz-folk ritual. Fingerpicked guitar cohabits with blasts of reverb-heavy organ and beat-poet vocal incantations. At its heart lies a groove so deep and syncopated it borders on funk, only to collapse into chaos once more. And then there is “Miss Fortune”, a 16-minute live improvisation soaked in hashish and reverb. One-note bass lines throb like minimalist mantras beneath swirling organs and mutant sax. Drums stutter toward cohesion and then back away in terror. Guitars unravel into smoke. And in the final moments, the music recedes, leaving behind a broken narrative, fragmented speech, laughter, coughs, like a bedtime story told by ghosts of a Europe still recovering from war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDespite the experimental nature, surrealist lyrics and a complete rejection of conventional music form, this isn’t an over intellectual exercise, or a display of wilful antagonism. 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But don’t be fooled. This is still Faust: unpredictable, subversive, and unbound by convention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe circumstances surrounding the album’s creation were no less unconventional than those of their debut. Faust were still ensconced in the converted schoolhouse in Wümme, Lower Saxony, and its improvised studio - a riddle of cabling, tape and custom electronics. By this point, the band had grown more cohesive as a unit but remained steadfastly anti-commercial, despite the pleas of their label.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“It’s A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl” sets the tone, sixteen bars of primal percussion exploding into a relentless rhythmic mantra, somewhere between a ritual and a rave-up. Sosna’s deadpan vocals and skeletal guitar, Diermaier’s thudding pulse, and Peron’s circular bassline create a mood both hypnotic and unsettling, on a track which feels as if it was beamed in from both the Velvet Underground’s New York loft and the outer edges of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab. The song’s descent into a howling maelstrom of Irmler’s droning organ and Wüsthoff’s screaming sax captures Faust’s unique balance of chaos and clarity.  Through its taut two and a half minutes of folky finger picking and icy electronics, “On the Way to Abamäe” oscillates between pastoral prettiness and gloomy paranoia while “No Harm” sets a new standard for tone shift. Muted horns and swaying syncopation, gradually joined by bass and organ, build into a pensive wave of orchestral heft, cresting into a bruised and bluesy vision of tender Germanicana, which is quickly cast aside in favour all out freak-funk. It’s the kind of acid overload which would leave today’s microdosers a quivering wreck, but in the hands of Faust finds the sweet-spot of spectral joy, where mind expanding magic never quite takes you to the point of madness.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe madness soon comes, taking the form of the overlapped, unhinged and tape-chewed slide guitar which introduces the irresistible psych groove of the title track. Driven by the syncopated repetition of a jazzy rhythm section, punctuated by staccato horns, and topped with all kinds of swirling, swooning electronics and vox, “So Far” is arguably the most catchy moment in the Faust Oeuvre. “Mamie Is Blue” pivots sharply into proto-industrial terrain, prefiguring post-punk’s darkest urges by nearly a decade, while “I’ve Got My Car and My TV” is pure Dada, with radio static, voice fragments, and machine-like repetition coalescing into a media-age mantra of alienation. 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In its place: deadlines, engineers, and a rapidly dwindling budget. The sessions stretched on and grew increasingly fraught, yielding a mixture of fresh material and fragments drawn in from earlier experiments in Wümme.\u003cem\u003e Faust IV\u003c\/em\u003e is the result: part studio artefact, part salvage operation, part séance.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTongues deeply in cheek or else aimed squarely at the British music press responsible for the reductive term, Faust open this oeuvre with “Krautrock”. Over eleven minutes, Faust lay down insistent sequencers, seesawing guitars and subterranean fuzz, slowly building before erupting into the funkiest motorik imaginable, fizzing with smart syncopation, fills and accents. Though the track is a titular parody of a sonic stereotype, Faust’s version has far more texture and technique than the rest of the pack. “The Sad Skinhead” enters with a gleeful shout and settles into a bizarre reggae lurch, complete with marimba plinks and arch lyrics about heartbreak and hairstyle, which skirt the surreal in typically Faustian fashion. Squint your ears and it’s almost three minute pop perfection. Almost. That same tension animates much of the album: a shrugging flirtation with form, always undercut by whimsy or abrasion. “Jennifer”, perhaps the band’s most beautiful creation, floats on pulsing bass and delicate guitar, a dream-pop prototype two decades ahead of schedule. It mutates as it plays, descending into feedback and eventually collapsing into a broken piano jig, as if self-conscious of its own beauty.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe B-side trades coherence for combustion. “Just A Second (Starts Like That!)” is all twitching electronics and FX-laden riffage, spiralling into a surreal chamber of wah pedals and pastoral keys. “Picnic on a Frozen River, Deuxième Tableaux” offers some of Faust’s jazziest interplay, bass nimble, sax carefree, before taking a hard swerve into proto-funk and chaotic organ. “Giggy Smile” opens mid-conversation and dissolves into Francophone acid folk, while “Lauft… Heisst Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald… Läuft” sees a contemplative organ grow ever more resonant across its run-time, double tracking and reverb seeing it snaking through the long grass of the stereo field. Then comes the sting in the tail: “It’s A Bit of a Pain”, the album’s closer and its emotional knot. 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Plus get a free Faust tote bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series of new LPs on Bureau B sees each living member of the legendary 1971-1974 line up present their own interpretation of the Faustian myth, working alone or with collaborators to create new material that reflects their contemporary vision of what Faust can be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Wüsthoff, music began long before Faust. As a child he watched his father lose himself in music, playing accordion renditions of operettas, film themes and folk songs with complete absorption. At eleven he discovered jazz through a radio programme tracing its history, then taught himself guitar and piano as a teenager, developing an instinctive relationship with sound driven by curiosity rather than convention. That outlook would become central to Faust, not simply as a band but as an enduring way of thinking. Reflecting on those formative years, Wüsthoff describes them as the experience that shaped everything that followed: without Faust, he says, he would never have made this record in the way he has today.\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Onnen Bock alongside Bureau B's Gunther Buskies, Fliegen Lernen continues that philosophy. Drawn from decades of archived recordings, new studio experiments and collaborations with musicians in Hamburg, it is a living extension of Faust's open-ended creative spirit. Ideas emerge through chance as much as intention, with sounds, words and stories setting one another in motion until they gradually find their own form. Its title, simultaneously suggesting \"flies are learning\" and \"learning to fly\", perfectly captures the playful shifts in perspective that have long defined Wüsthoff's work.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout Fliegen Lernen, Wüsthoff revisits and reimagines ideas that have animated his career for more than half a century. Much of the material grew from electronic sequences discovered in his archive, some echoing the patterns behind the homemade \"Spieluhr\" frequency-divider and sequencer he built during his Faust years.\u003cbr\u003eOpener \"Hörst Du Die Schritte\" crashes jerky piano figures into a wiry punk-funk groove, with rhythmic saxophone and deadpan vocals creating something stranger than No Wave but irresistibly danceable. \"Sonntag Nachmittag\" drifts into electroacoustic territory, balancing synthetic textures, live drums and melancholic piano motifs, while \"Charm Quarks Boogie\" offers a brief detour into clipped digital minimalism. Tracks such as \"Down, Down And Come To Me\" and the title piece lock into mechanical funk rhythms filled with squealing saxophone, bubbling electronics and spoken-word passages, locating a contemporary version of the playful tension that always defined Faust.\u003cbr\u003eElsewhere the album reveals a more atmospheric and exploratory side. \"Sandra Tanzt\" unfolds like a shadowy soundtrack, while \"Sendepause\" transforms kosmische textures into weightless funk. \"Erstbesteigung\" emerged from an improvised session featuring Wüsthoff on MS-20 and Faust's original ARP 2600, gradually dissolving language itself into streams of fragmented syllables. The\u003cbr\u003ehaunting \"Schongang\" recalls fourth-world ambience and late-night jazz introspection, before closing track \"Ganz Gut, Oder\" expands into a stomping, hallucinatory desert-psych excursion. Throughout it all, the ordinary becomes a source of invention. 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