This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If the band Faust ring any bells for you, I’m willing to bet you might have a ponytail, an old VW van and a stack of Can LPs in a milk crate behind your lava lamp.
For the rest of you, here’s the skinny: Back in the ’70s Faust helped pioneer the German musical style known as Krautrock — progressive, avant-garde electronic soundscapes that push the musical sound barrier. Now revived for the ’90s (hence the Italian title Ravvivando), Faust continue to forge their own twisted path. Aggressively freaky and surrealistic, Ravvivando is an hour of swirling cacophony and buzzing, noisy fever dreams outfitted with bulging, rumbling bass lines, jazz-rock backbeats, barely decipherable vocals and all the echo, reverb and insectile click-clacks of a Kafka nightmare. It’s safe to say Faust haven’t sold their souls for rock ’n’ roll.
