Something Dirty news

The official release date is set to the 28th of January 2011. The cover artwork is as you see it here also. The bureau b releases website offers mp3 music samples also.

From the releases website:

FAUST
something dirty. CD, vinyl (180g), download. Out Jan 28, 2011

The living Krautrock legend Faust, around for over 40 years now, have recorded a new album! Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi W. Diermaier (both founding members), James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), and Gerladine Swayne (...Bender) have come up with another archetypical Faust album: inspiring, innovative, unpredictable, crossing boundaries, anarchic – Faustian! "something dirty" is a definitive milestone in the long history of this world-famous musical institution from Hamburg.

Tracklisting:

01. Tell the Bitch to go Home
02. Herbststimmung
03. Something Dirty
04. Thoughts of the Dead
05. Lost the Signal
06. Je Bouffe
07. Whet
08. Invisible Mending
09. Dampfauslass 1
10. Dampfauslass 2
11. Pythagoras
12. Save the Last One
13. La Sole Dorée

71 Minutes on 180 g Double LP Vinyl

ReR Megacorp continues to re-release limited edition Faust on heavy vinyl. This time it is the collection of early recordings that was compiled from "lost" and unreleased material, originally released as “Munich & Elsewhere” as well as most of the unreleased "Faust Party 3" LP. Finally out as a double LP, 71 Minutes is the second in a series of reissues of Faust on limited edition 180 gram HQ vinyl. Available here

Nice article on early Faust

Read about the 70s album, and

"the ways in which the band's avant-garde self-image continues to cover up the ways in which their creative output was tied to social and political questions that faced Germany in the wake of the generational upheaval of the late 1960s. Supported, in part, by original interviews with three of Faust's founding members, this article then broadly re-examines the band's subtle social attentiveness that is often buried beneath musical experimentations and extra-musical reflections. In the end, one can therefore conclude that Faust's until now overlooked politics of the unpolitical constituted a musical project aimed to question the status quo and Germany's inability to confront its past adequately."

Link >> Koch, Arne and Harris, Sei 'The Sound of Yourself Listening: Faust and the Politics of the Unpolitical', Popular Music and Society, 32:5, 579 - 594

Der Schlaeger - Blogs CD out

The last few years Zappi has been involved in a band project called Der Schlaeger. From the band website: "The music of "DER SCHLAEGER" is a combination of typical german "Schlager" music and kind of abstract and aggressive instrumental overlays. The lead vocals definitly represent the original harmonies and lyrics of the "Schlager" whereas the vocalist live performance has a more punky attitude.
SCHLAGER: typical german popular songs mainly from the 60ies. Very easy tunes with easy lyrics."

The CD BLOGS is released by Dirter, and is limited to 1000 copies. Divided into 4 blogs, it contains 23 tracks altogether, and is a nice mix of strange experimental soundscapes, and the German Schlaeger songs sung very nicely by Karin Meier.

A dvd will also be released.

FM Einheit + Irmler live dates

As last year Irmler will team up with previous EN member FM Einheit, and do some live gigs in Germany. One already done earlier this month, but the next dates /places are as follows:

16.10. FM EINHEIT + IRMLER @ Skala, 20 Jahre FZML Festival, Leipzig, GER
18.10. FM EINHEIT + IRMLER @ Kreuzberg Festsaal, Berlin, GER
22.10. FM EINHEIT + IRMLER + band @ Galerie Falkenberg, Hamburg, GER

New Faust release in January 2011

Faust (Geraldine Swayne, James Johnstone, Zappi Diermaier, Jean-Hervé Peron) has recorded a new album at Cloudshill Stuios in Hamburg. It is called "Something Dirty", has 13 tracks and will be released as a CD, a Vinyl with art-work inside, a 12" single with a remix from a great band (TBA), and a 7" outtake. The album is produced by Johann Scheerer and Faust, and will be released on January the 21st 2011 by the label bureau.b in Hamburg, Germany.

Live dates update

The rest of the years performances for Peron an Zappis Faust are:

20 Sep Uebel und Gefaerlich , Hamburg, GERMANY
21 Sep Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, GERMANY
23 Sep Szene, Vienna, AUSTRIA
06 Oct Teatro Maria Matos Lisboa, PORTUGAL
07 Oct Galeria Zé dos Bois (workshop) Lisboa, PORTUGAL
09 Oct Monasterio de la Victoria @ Monkey Week, Cadiz, SPAIN
17 Oct Tolbooth @ Le Weekend , Stirling, Scotland, UK
22 Oct Nødutgangfestivalen, Bodø, NORWAY
06 Dec JHP/ZAPPI @ Astra-Stube Hamburg, GERMANY

pirlouiiiit images from Mimi Festival

pirlouiiiit has some very nice images from Faust performance @ the Mimi Festival earlier this summer. Also a short videoclip here

A review (in French) from the same festival can also be found if you scroll down at this page.

The Timeless krautrock of Faust

Harry Prenger has written an article on Faust on his blog, ending with some nice talk about Faust is Last. It is in Dutch, so it's mostly for fans who are fluent in that kind of language. Others interested could try the google translate version.

Reviews from Evilsponge

EvilSponge has done a nice review of Faust is Last. Concluding quite rightly "I don't believe Irmler will stop now". Also a nice review of Peron and Zappi's Faust performance in Wrexham in May. Some images as well.

Faust live at Klangbad DVD and So Far 7" re-relase

The two films from Playloud!, one about the Klangbadfestival 2005, and the other about Faust performance of the same festival, is now available on one DVD. The two films are: Klangbad: Avant-garde in the Meadows, Faust: Live at Klangbad Festival. In conjunction with the two films Playloud! also does the first re-release of the one & only Faust 7" vinyl single. Restored and remastered by Hans Joachim Irmler. Both tracks are non-LP tracks and they differ slightly from the original single versions.

Phantom Circuit Radio interview

The 38th edition of internet radio show Phantom Circuit features an interview with Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi Diermaier, Geraldine Swayne and James Johnston of Faust and by their kind permission some tracks from their set in Birmingham, recorded on 10th May. The show is available for on-demand streaming from: Mixcloud

Klangbad festival timetable

Friday, 06.08.

Main Stage

17:30 Transmitter
20:00 Heaven And
22:30 Mekons
23:45 These New Puritans


Tent Stage

16:00 Fodderstompf feat. DJ Marcelle & Holger Mertin
18:45 Pendler
21:15 Cluster


Canteen I

01:00 DJ Fett

Canteen II

01:00 Skug Soundsystem


Saturday, 07.08.

Main Stage

13:15 QA´A
15:45 Trost
18:15 Metalycee
19:30 Liebezeit,Lippok,Irmler,Bell
22:00 FM EINHEIT + IRMLER
23:30 Jimi Tenor + Kabu Kabu

Tent Stage

12:45 Allroh
14:30 Violet Violet
17:00 Golden Disko Ship
20:40 Villalog

Canteen I

01:00 DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess

Canteen II

01:00 Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin)

Courtyard

01:00 Incite


Sunday, 08.08.

Main Stage

13:15 Aranis
17:15 Nufa
18:45 Gustav
20:15 A Hawk and A Hacksaw

Tent Stage

11:00 Max Dax / Martin Hossbach DJ-Set
14:30 Aquaserge
15:45 Fifty - Fifty

3-day and single day tickets also available from the website

Lydia Lunch's Big Sexy Noise @ Avantgardefestival Schiporst

Avantgardefestival Schiporst is closing in on us, and James Johnston will appear in various settings, not only Faust. The great Lydia Lunch will perfrom with her Big Sexy Noise project and James has been a regular in the line-up for some time. The programme is official, it looks like this:

Friday july 2 18:00 > 03:00
18:00 Press Conference
19:00 Blaakraft
20:00 Reportaz
21:00 Bloodstereo
22:00 LYDIA LUNCH's Big Sexy Noise
24:00 Quattrophage
01:00 Richard Lainhart
02:00 DJ Tango Mango

Saturday july 3 12:00 > 03:00
12:00 Tom Zunk
12:45 Datashock
13:45 Underdog
15:00 Chaos Physique
16:15 Gugu Flux
17:00 FAUST & Friends
18:15 Ferdinand FÖRSCH
19:00 Somnambule
20:00 Philippe Petit & Penates
21:00 GALLON DRUNK
23:00 Knight & Thrower
24:00 Jetzman
01:00 Anton Tornister
02:00 DJ Tango Mango

Sunday july 4th 12:00 > 22:00
12:00 Ookoi-A-Table !
13:00 Lisa Dillan
14:00 Sascha Aurora Akhtar
16:00 Kommissar Hjuler & C. Graham
17:00 BOBBY CONN
18:00 P.A.S. & Vultures
19:00 Qarad Quintette
20:00 Thorsten Soltau
21:00 Toys-R-Noise

The folowing artists will be performing at the Annexe / Workfloor according to their own plans :
Geoff Leigh ( UK) - Stadtfisch Filme ( D) – The Grand Erector (UK) – Patricia Molins (F) - Balog (D) – Matthieu Safatly (B) – Maya Danon (ISR) – Mareike Groschel (G) – Geraldine Swayne (IRL) – Karen Constance (UK) –Hardtart ( D) –

More details at the festival website

Faust at F.O.N. Festival

Here's a video of Faust at the Full of Noise festival:



If you follow this link, you can see the rest of the show added (it's 12 parts).