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  • Faust Performance in Albany Reviewed

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    Image via Wikipedia From the Albany Times Union: The fact is that the concert was as much a ’60s art happening as it was a rock concert. Drummer and co-founding member Werner “Zappi” Diermaier spent some time banging away on a slab of sheet metal. Newer band recruits James Johnston (of Gallon Drunk and Nick…

  • Don’t Call Faust ‘Krautrock’

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    Faust via last.fm A Faust profile from Washington City Paper: Almost 40 years after the fact, Faust remains a standard-bearer of Krautrock, the German experimental rock movement of the early 1970s. Just don’t call Faust a Krautrock band. For one thing, says Jean-Herve Péron, one of the group’s two remaining original members, Faust doesn’t have…