Patchwork 1971-2002

1. Walter Adler
2. Stretch Over Times
3. A Seventies Event (Edit)
4. Rittersleut An Anderes (Excerpt I)
5. Ayi Ayi
6. Psalter (Slow Version)
7. Tourbotrain
8. Nervous
9. Passings
10. Duo
11. Pause
12. Jassie
13. Ironies
14. Zerr Aus
15. Drone Organ
16. Stretch Out
17. Elegie
18. Rittersleut And Anderes (Excerpt II)
19. Klaviernacht
20. Out Of Our Prison

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Customer Reviews:

Faust - 'Patchwork' (Staubgold).......2004-11-07

Great Album!!!!.......2004-05-17

Phooey. Can you say "exploitation"?.......2003-06-21

Faust regrouped in the mid '90s, following the path taken by many other '70s era Progressive groups. I found the results of Faust's '90s efforts to be mixed, but at least with Jean-Herve Peron in the group there was still something interesting--they still had a small amount of Faust's original spirit left in them. It couldn't compare to the old stuff obviously, but it was still Faust and it was nice to hear the old boys again after such a long absence.

When Peron left the group a few years ago, that old spirit dissolved. The albums "Faust Wakes Nosferatu" and "Ravvivando" were masses of buzzsaw guitar and/or synth noise that were wanting in creativity and originality. Now this repackaged "Faust" has dropped to a new low with "Patchwork".

"Patchwork" takes bits and pieces of songs which were already existing on the old Faust albums and remixes them together with modern tracks and sometimes overdubbed lyrics. There are also some songs and versions of songs from the '70s and '80 that were never released before. After listening to them, you know why they were never released--they are substandard and not very interesting. It sounds like this new "Faust" was trying to make a "Faust Tapes II" with neither quality material nor proper creative skill.

I'm not looking for the Faust of old here. If I wanted "good old Faust", I'd stick to the old records. I want "good new Faust". Magma, Pere Ubu, and Slapp Happy have all come out with great new stuff recently that still has their character. Patchwork does not follow in this trend.

Frankly, as a Faust fan, I feel exploited. Let me make this perfectly clear-- THIS IS _NOT_ FAUST. It may say Faust on it, it may have one of the old members of Faust (Irmler) involved in it's production, but it's actually a lot of [copied] material with none of the creativity or stunning originality of the old Faust. I don't care how much they remix the old stuff or scrape the bottom of the barrel looking for scraps of material--this is exploitation and a way to get us real Faust fans to part with our money. Don't fall for it.

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