Ravvivando
Studio album by
Faust
Released1999
Recorded1997-1999
Genre
Length56:05
LabelKlangbad
Producer
Faust chronology
Faust Wakes Nosferatu
(1997)		 Ravvivando
(1999)		 Derbe Respect, Alder
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
NME7/10[5]
Qpositive[1]

Ravvivando is the 8th album by the German krautrock group Faust, released in 1999.[6] A vinyl edition (one 12" and one 10") was released about a year later including a bonus track not included on the CD edition.

Background

Founding member Jean-Hervé Péron left the band prior to the recording of the album due to "artistic differences".[4] The band recruited guitarist Steven Lobdell and bassist Michael Stoll alongside the returning members, drummer Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, and keyboardist Hans Joachim Irmler.[4] The album is mostly instrumental, while the "few lyrics are incomprehensible, buried and/or in German."[4]

Reception

Jason Gross of Allmusic called the album "some of the best Velvet Underground minimalist-noise-rush this side of My Bloody Valentine" and calling it an "intriguing phase for an always unpredictable group."[3] Q compared the album to the groups earlier Musique concrète work, "Namely huge bedrocks of looping, mutated riffing, driven by metronomic [drums] and glued by [keyboards].[1]

Track listing

  1. "Ein Neuer Tag" – 4:16
  2. "Carousel II" – 2:45
  3. "Wir Brauchen Dich #6" – 7:22
  4. "Four Plus Seven Means Eleven" – 7:07
  5. "Take Care" – 4:08
  6. "Spiel" – 0:41
  7. "Dr' Hansl" – 1:30
  8. "Apokalypse" – 4:30
  9. "D.I.G." – 5:29
  10. "Du Weißt Schon" – 2:43
  11. "Livin' Tokyo" – 8:43
  12. "T-Électronique" – 6:51

Personnel

  • Werner "Zappi" Diermaier- drums
  • Ulrike Helmholtz - vocals
  • Hans Joachim Irmler - keyboards, organ
  • Steven Wray Lobdell - guitar
  • Michael Stoll - bass guitar
  • Lars Paukstat - percussion

References

  1. 1 2 3 Aston, Tony (1999). "Q Magazine Reviews". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. ↑ freq.org review
  3. 1 2 3 allmusic
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 sfweekly
  5. ↑ NME review
  6. ↑ "Faust Record : Ravvivando".
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