FAUST

In the organizer's words:

In the early 1970s, a band from a village in the district of Harburg changed the world: founded in Hamburg in 1969, FAUST set up a recording studio in Wümme in Lower Saxony with lots of grass and technology and released four albums between 1971 and 1973 that broke with traditional rock music song forms. Following in the footsteps of John Cage and The Velvet Underground, FAUST created an anarchistic amalgam of rock, electronica and tape collages, for which the British music press invented the term "Krautrock". FAUST then used this in turn as the song title for their fourth album - the last with the original line-up of guitarist Jean-Hervé Péron, keyboardist Hans Joachim Irmler and drummer Werner "Zappi" Diermaier. "FAUST IV" (just re-released on bureau b) was created in a studio in Oxfordshire for the British label Virgin Records, which, however, hoped in vain for commercially viable pop songs produced in Germany. Instead, FAUST flirted unflinchingly with forms ranging from reggae to folk, using sequencers, wah-wah and fuzz effects to their heart's content, creating a "subtle dissolution of the rock structure in which beauty and absurdity coexist without hierarchy" (Pitchfork). As the very last concert of this year's summer festival - and as a transition into the multi-year transformation of Kampnagel - FAUST around Jean-Hervé Péron now plays FAUST IV with an 8-piece line-up ranging from Péron's daughter Jeanne-Marie (*1990) to Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, *1947): the story continues.

Price information:

VVK 38 Euro / B.O. 42 Euro (50% reduced with festival ticket)