A fine maggio ci avevano detto che ‘Faust Is Last’ sarebbe stato l’ultimo. Il disco finale della leggendaria storia dei Faust . A quasi 40 anni dalla prima omonima release (1971) la band tedesca ricordava nell’artwork proprio quell’esordio. Una mano, un pugno (”faust” appunto) ai raggi X. Ecco quel toccante comunicato ufficiale:

“Whatever can happen to a band has happened to Faust. In that sense they are not an unusual group of musicians. What is unusual is that each project, each record, each concert over the last 40 years has been different. On the very first record they made clear (on clear vinyl) that they were in it for destruction. ‘All you need is love’ and ‘Satisfaction’ symbolically were set fire to. That same fire you will hear on this new & last Faust record. The circle will be closed by more circular music. A music that seems to come out of nowhere, sonic descriptions rather than songs. Timeless and not rooted in specific places and/or traditions. Maybe influenced by Cage’s idea of chance, Dada, cut-ups, Sun Ra’s free jazz organ playing and the second attempt after the German-American Monks to represent ‘a rock group as total artwork’. faust in 1970 and in 2010 sound aggressive and 100 percent oriented towards the future. There is not a glimpse of nostalgia in Faust Is Last” .

Ma i Faust ritornano sui loro passi, disorientando e continuando il loro unico cammino. Il 1 marzo via Tapete Records esce infatti ‘Something Dirty’, l’ennesimo album di una carriera monumentale, che oggi prevede questa line-up: Jean-Hervé Peron, Zappi Diermaier, James Johnston (Gallon Drunk, The Bad Seeds) e Geraldine Swayne.

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Faust @ Init (Roma, 2008)

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