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Werner Zappi Diermaier and Jean-Herv Pron, also known as Faust, or the other Faust if you’re a fan of the other Faust because there’s two of them, appear at Festsaal for a rare outing guaranteed to burn itself onto your long-term memory, if you have any left after the summer that is. Confused? You should be, I am.
Faust are the Krautrock band and have the stunning debut album, great follow ups and band break-ups to prove it, just like any great band should have. Their unique approach to producing music and completely unorthodox sound of their records meant a new genre had to be coined to deal with them. Krautrock, in the end, wasn’t even big enough to hold them.
In 1975, after five albums, the original line-up went their separate ways and what happened in the next 15 years are anyone’s guess. Diermaier (drums) and Peron(guitars, vocals, misc) have since then reformed their Faust in 1992, toured together first, then with the rest of the original Faust, then quit that Faust and re-formed their own version of Faust while the other one keeps going also. Oh, by the way, if you see a Faust record in the shops called Faust Is Last (2010, Klangbad) that’s by the Faust that is NOT playing tonight. Got it? Of course they have released records too, tonight’s Faust I mean, the last one being called “c’est complique” in 2009, loosely translated “it’s very complicated”, indeed.
Yes, indeed, it’s enough to make you form a krautrock band of your own and call them Fasut with your debut album entitled Fasut is First Faust Last.
I can’t wait for this show. It’s a couple of legendary noise-makers and their collaborators given the best stage in Berlin. Drool.
Here’s a video of them playing in London doing “Krautrock”, what else. Patience will be rewarded 4:40 secs in.
