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Wed 13th The Luminaire presents A special event featuring legendary art-errorists and inventors of Krautrock FAUST with solo performances by founder members Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron. + A première screening of Julien Perrin's movie 'Faust Live In Lyon [2005]' featuring, among others, the first ever live performance of Faust's first album.
Doors 7.30 "There is no group more mythical than Faust." [Julian Cope] "Inventors of 'Kraut Rock', iconoclasts extraordinaire, Faust are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early '70s, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically European art-form. "A radical mix of Musique Concrete, Stockhausen, the Velvet Underground and moments of almost pastoral beauty." [NME] Virtually imprisoned by Polydor in their own studio for two years, they were able to revolutionize the whole process of musical production; they improvised with Industrial noise, generated bizarre hypnotic grooves, indulged in shockingly wilful studio-based collages, and dabbled with every conceivable musical genre, sometimes simultaneously! "Faust were first!" [Time Out]
Every now and then they found time for a burst of satirical pop, or occasional waves of delicate ambience. Amongst those Faust have strongly influenced we must count Brian Eno, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, Test Department, Neubauten, My Bloody Valentine, Julian Cope and a host of Industrial and Techno bands. The music has lost none of it's immediacy or relevance - it sounds as if it was recorded last week, not last decade.
"Anyone who's loved the last half-decade's re-invention of the guitar (Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine et al.) will instantly recognise Faust as a prime ancestor of 'our' music. "Faust are essential, not just as a history lesson, but as a living legacy and as a reproach to an underachieving age." [Melody Maker] |
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