Funny that the explanation should come from the French member of Faust!
No idea if it’s true, but I heard that Polydor saw the interest that bands like Can and Amon Düül II were generating, and hired a bunch of musicians and conceptual artists to be Faust to cash in on the trend. If so, it’s funny that some of the best and most typically Krautrock stuff should have such crass beginnings!
I really like this one. Not to all tastes, very drony and harsh, but cool to listen to on occasion. I like the inner gatefold, with the picture of the band’s studio/recording/rehearsal space. Were all those instruments used on the recording? GEM combo organ? Cello? Lap-steel guitar? If so, I imagine they’re all heavily electronically processed!
Oktober sound to me like a German-language Yes plus a ton of leftist sloganeering. Weird. Some of Eulenspygel’s stuff strikes me this way too, as does some of the Austrian polit-rock stuff (like P. P. Zahl).
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Accept's "Fast As Shark" but it only starts kraut. Then it becomes something else. :-)
How about this one? It's one of the few that was on the Supernatural Fairy Tales Box set back in the 90s. There was a Can song on there too but I forget which one (something from Tago Mago I think).
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
My introduction to Krautrock was The Man Machine by Kraftwerk. I bought the English language version of the album because I had heard good things about Kraftwerk. I was far less than impressed. In fact the worst thing about it in my opinion at the time was the corny lyrics. That and the minimalist approach really put me off. I used to play it for my friends just to laugh at the lyrics. Some years later someone let me hear the German language version of the album and I actually found it listenable. Go figure.
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