Then, such complexities as there were in Faust's music were largely a matter of editing, and the monomaniacal pounding of a track like "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl" caused outrage. With founder members Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Peron joined by Amaury Cambuzat from French post-rockers Ulan Bator, the focus here remains on Faust's trademark monolithic spontaneity. Nine-minute opener "Kundalini Tremeloes" features juddering vibrato guitar figures pursuing their own courses over one of Zappi's primal drum pulses, with the rhythmic breathing of an asthmatic jogger dimly audible; "Accroché à Tes Lèvres" harnesses white noise and wavery organ to muscular bass and tribal tom-toms, with late-arriving guitar jabbing at the riff; and the 14-minute title track marshals all manner of squeaks, thumps, clangs and drones into a cacophonous continuity. But it's remarkable that delicacy and fragrance can percolate through Faust's seemingly brutal methods.
Download this: 'Kundalini Tremeloes', 'Ce Chemin est le Bon', 'C'Est Com... Com... Compliqué'
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