The final four minutes of “C’est Com” hearken back to an obvious Faust influence, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz." Honking saxophones abound, and cap this record off in a perfect way. The Faust Tapes album is always cited as their masterpiece, and I understand why. But C’est Com…Com…Complique is right up there with their best work, no question about it.
38 years after their inception, Faust are still experimental as ever. Their genius has always been to walk the thin line between avant-garde, and producing music you actually want to listen to. There is not a bad track on C’est Com. It is one of the most adventurous, yet accessible records I have heard this year.
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1 - zingzing
got this on your recommendation, and because i love faust, and because i didn't know it had come out. i did get lass mich when it was just a rumored track from a forthcoming album, and the version i have is 11 minutes long (as opposed to the 2-minute version here) and is incredible. you should search it out.
i have to say, half way through the album, that bonjour gioacchino is fucking amazing. it's beautiful, it rocks (sorta), and it has tape manipulations, which is always a plus for me.
this is the first post-IV album (beyond those things they threw together of 71-73 stuff) that i've gotten and it's pretty damn good. it's different from their early stuff, but there is a thread running through. just wish uwe was still around to produce. he got such a great drum sound, which is what initially drew me to faust. then their structures and experimentalism opened up new worlds for me.
out of the big four in krautrock, faust is the one i constantly come back to.
2 - zingzing
"words have never really been a part of their music. Vocals are rarely used, and when they are, it is generally just as an extension of Faust’s always enveloping musical content."
daddy. have a banana. tomorrow is sunday.
3 - zingzing
"The Faust Tapes album is always cited as their masterpiece, and I understand why."
really? i've always heard either "so far" or "iv," depending on the source. i really have a hard time choosing between the three (so far, tapes, iv). the story of tapes is quite amazing. selling 100,000 copies just because it was 49p... lovely. that act of marketing probably set up a lot of what was to come in music.
listening to the title track now. oh my. drums.