{"title":"Faust","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"faust-fliegen-lernen-curated-by-gunther-wusthoff","title":"Faust  -  Fliegen Lernen (curated By Gunther Wüsthoff)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis series of new LPs on Bureau B sees each living member of the legendary 1971-1974 line up present their own interpretation of the Faustian myth, working alone or with collaborators to create new material that reflects their contemporary vision of what Faust can be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Wüsthoff, music began long before Faust. As a child he watched his father lose himself in music, playing accordion renditions of operettas, film themes and folk songs with complete absorption. At eleven he discovered jazz through a radio programme tracing its history, then taught himself guitar and piano as a teenager, developing an instinctive relationship with sound driven by curiosity rather than convention. That outlook would become central to Faust, not simply as a band but as an enduring way of thinking. Reflecting on those formative years, Wüsthoff describes them as the experience that shaped everything that followed: without Faust, he says, he would never have made this record in the way he has today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProduced by Onnen Bock alongside Bureau B's Gunther Buskies, Fliegen Lernen continues that philosophy. Drawn from decades of archived recordings, new studio experiments and collaborations with musicians in Hamburg, it is a living extension of Faust's open-ended creative spirit. Ideas emerge through chance as much as intention, with sounds, words and stories setting one another in motion until they gradually find their own form. Its title, simultaneously suggesting \"flies are learning\" and \"learning to fly\", perfectly captures the playful shifts in perspective that have long defined Wüsthoff's work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout Fliegen Lernen, Wüsthoff revisits and reimagines ideas that have animated his career for more than half a century. Much of the material grew from electronic sequences discovered in his archive, some echoing the patterns behind the homemade \"Spieluhr\" frequency-divider and sequencer he built during his Faust years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOpener \"Hörst Du Die Schritte\" crashes jerky piano figures into a wiry punk-funk groove, with rhythmic saxophone and deadpan vocals creating something stranger than No Wave but irresistibly danceable. \"Sonntag Nachmittag\" drifts into electroacoustic territory, balancing synthetic textures, live drums and melancholic piano motifs, while \"Charm Quarks Boogie\" offers a brief detour into clipped digital minimalism. Tracks such as \"Down, Down And Come To Me\" and the title piece lock into mechanical funk rhythms filled with squealing saxophone, bubbling electronics and spoken-word passages, locating a contemporary version of the playful tension that always defined Faust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElsewhere the album reveals a more atmospheric and exploratory side. \"Sandra Tanzt\" unfolds like a shadowy soundtrack, while \"Sendepause\" transforms kosmische textures into weightless funk. \"Erstbesteigung\" emerged from an improvised session featuring Wüsthoff on MS-20 and Faust's original ARP 2600, gradually dissolving language itself into streams of fragmented syllables. The\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehaunting \"Schongang\" recalls fourth-world ambience and late-night jazz introspection, before closing track \"Ganz Gut, Oder\" expands into a stomping, hallucinatory desert-psych excursion. Throughout it all, the ordinary becomes a source of invention. Vacuum cleaner hoses become rhythmic loops, rubber gloves squeak in the bath, shells and stones are rubbed together for texture, while a simple \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eencounter with a fly in the kitchen becomes the basis for the album's title track. By turns humorous, reflective, cinematic and groove-driven, Fliegen Lernen demonstrates that Wüsthoff's creative imagination remains as restless as ever. Rather than recreating the past, it embodies the same openness that made Faust \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eso singular in the first place: a belief that any sound, object or passing observation can become the spark for something unexpected. More than fifty years after those formative experiments, Wüsthoff continues to approach music as an act of curiosity, collaboration and continual discovery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA1 Hörst du die Schritte\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA2 Sonntag Nachmittag\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA3 Charm Quarks Boogie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA4 Down, Down And Come To Me\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA5 Fliegen lernen schnell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA6 Sandra tanzt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB1 Sendepause\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB2 Erstbesteigung\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB3 Schongang\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB4 Ganz gut, oder?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Ltd clear vinyl","offer_id":56759423500674,"sku":"DHR-06971","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/2800\/5583\/files\/216876-faust-fliegen-lernen-curated-by-gunther.jpg?v=1783630129"},{"product_id":"faust-gugaruz-curated-by-zappi-w-diermaier","title":"Faust  -  GUGARUZ (CURATED BY ZAPPI W. 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Built from electronics, live instrumentation, spoken word and found sounds, it moves between wiry punk-funk, kosmische grooves, electroacoustic experiments and atmospheric soundscapes. Inspired by ideas stretching back to Wüsthoff's Faust years, the record never dwells on nostalgia, instead embracing chance, improvisation and playful discovery to prove that almost any sound can become music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eegen to the spacious Yesterday's Gift and Schleuse, the music captures ideas in their rawest form. 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