Faust So Far [Digipak]

Performer: Faust
Engineer: Kurt Graupner
Producer: Uwe Nettlebeck; Thomas Worthmann (Reissue); Gunther Buskies (Reissue); Bureau Buskies (Reissue)
Distributor: Ryko Distribution

Notes: 2 LPs on 1 CD: FAUST (1971)/SO FAR (1972). Cut in 1972, the second recording from the German rockers features nine tunes, including "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl," "Picnic On A Frozen River," "In The Spirit," "So Far Mamie Is Blue," and "I've Got My Car And TV." Faust: Jean Herv� Peron, Werner Diermaier, Rudolf Sossna, Gunther Wusthoff, Hans Joachim Irmler. Though a commercial blip in its day, Krautrock has become one of the most enduring movements in music history, with countless indie acts namedropping the genre's most famous as influences. Now, as then, Hamburg's Faust gets the least love. Revisited Records hopes to change that with this long overdue reissue of the band's classic second long-player, SO FAR. One of the worst commercial failures in the history of Virgin Records, SO FAR was a slight capitulation to the marketplace after their mellow-harshing debut: there are some hints of accessible grooves (the mesmerizing opener, "It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl") and melodicism (the Jimmy Page-ish guitar and flute of "On the Way to Adamae") to pull in the faint of heart. Otherwise, SO FAR builds on the drastic pastiches of the first album: proto-industrial soundscapes evaporate into dreamier, layered ones and back again throughout the album's nine tracks. Faust didn't have the groove of Can, the thrust of Neu!, or the riffs of Amon Duul, but they had guts and an unsinkable sense of "anything goes." Given the success of industrial music and the uncompromising throb of the millennial American underground in places like Providence and Brooklyn, they also had a vision of the future. Essential for fans with adventurous ear drums.

Q (Magazine) (p.141) - "[F]orward-looking tracks such as 'Mamie Is Blue' show that these people were truly ahead of their time."

Faust are one of the seminal Krautrock bands--they even gave the genre its name with one of their early song titles. Their music is a heady mix of rock, avant-garde electronics, and trippy psychedelia. After disbanding in the mid 1970s, the band reunited properly in the 1990s and were embraced by a new and enthusiastic audience. They began touring and recording again, and collaborated with the likes of art rock luminary Jim O'Rourke and experimental hip-hop act Dalek. The band's sound has proven hugely influential on a host of underground, indie, and experimental rock bands of the '80s, '90s, and 2000s.

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