“After dipping into the archive to deliver a series of essential reissues, Bureau B continue to encourage the chaotic brilliance of Faust with an LP of brand-new music curated by originator Zappi Diermaier and a band of musical friends, including fellow founder Gunther Wüsthoff.
Over the years Faust has become many things, each as separate as the fingers, but as together as the hand which makes up their eponymous fist. From 1971 to 1974 the Hamburg band blazed a bold sonic trail, helping to create...

When Wayside Music started, I bought something like 250 of these from an overstock dealer and was selling them for $2.00 each for years and years!
Nice to have this old friend from the past back once again at a bargain price (with the passage of 40 years, at the equivalent of the same price, actually!), and it’s also a little bit weird too!

Faust are a rightly legendary experimental German ensemble from the early 1970's. This was the last album to be released in their lifetime and the 1st to.

"Krautrock legends Faust are back with an unbelievable 4 disc live set. Recorded last year in the UK, it features many enduring Faust classics performed live for the very first time after all these years. The first two CDs in the set consist of...

“Originally part of 2021's Faust Box Set release commemorating the bands 50th anniversary Momentaufnahme I and II are now set for their own standalone release by popular demand. This is for all those that missed out on the limited-edition box set release. They collect together music recorded at the band's studio -- a converted schoolhouse in rural Wümme between 1971 and 1974 in a similar vein to the way in which The Faust Tapes (released in 1973) was assembled. These two albums range from minimal...

The good: This is great stuff!
The bad: They go out of their way to hide the fact that this material has been out before on the records ‘Munic & Elsewhere’, ‘The Last LP’ ‘BBC Sessions +’ and the double CD version of ‘Faust IV’.
If you own these, you own this material. If you don’t own these, these are well worth picking up!

“For the first time ever this lost "last" album recording, Punkt gets a deserved and necessary standalone release.”

"The band called it 5½, fans referred to it as the 'Munich album' and for almost fifty years it's been the missing chapter in Faustian mythology. Now for the first time, the German iconoclasts' previously unreleased fifth album sees the light of day as Punkt . . . Punkt is Faust at their most unhindered, untethered and unstoppable.
Returning to Germany after a loss-making U.K...

"Faust has been around for over 40 years. Since 2007, the line-up of the Krautrock legends has comprised founding members Jean-HervÈ Peron and Zappi Diermaier, the English musician James Johnston, founder of the brutish blues rockers Gallon Drunk...

"Faust was among the most adventurous and creative German bands of the 70s, and after disappearing for a decade and a half, they reunited in the 90s and made several startlingly good albums. Today, drummer Werner 'Zappi' Diermaier and bassist Jean...

''Tireless traveller Favata returns to his island with Voyage en Sardaigne, to re-interpret in a personal way the wonderful musical heritage of Sardinia. A journey among the various flavours of the Sardinian music, from the mystical miserere to the fir...

Pierre Favre: Drums, Percussion.

A reissue of three RARE albums from 1970, 1972, 1978, all of which are solo recordings.

"PIerre Favre's 1970s solo works are important mile­stones in the history of European jazz. Any discography of...

Claudio Puntin: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet / Samuel Blaser: Trombone / Philipp Schaufelberger: Guitar / Beat Hofstetter: Soprano Saxophone / Sascha Armbruster: Alto Saxophone / Andrea Formenti: Tenor Saxophone / Beat Kappeler: Baritone Saxophone.

Pierre Favre: Drums, Percussion, Compositions
Michel Godard: Tuba, Serpent
Beat Hofstetter: Soprano Saxophone
Sascha Armbruster: Alto Saxophone
Andrea Formenti: Tenor Saxophone
Beat Kappeler: Baritone Saxophone

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Philipp Schaufelberger: Guitar / Pierre Favre: Drums.

"Pierre Favre, the great pioneer of the European jazz scene, the tone-colour-painter among the Jazz drummers, presents two duo-CDs with young musicans: this one with Philipp Schaufelberger on

Pierre Favre: Percussion / Lucas Niggli: Percussion / Roberto Ottaviano: Saxophones / Michel Godard: Tuba, Serpent

" Pierre Favre has been performing as a solo percussionist since the beginning of the Seventies. Since then, critics have been.

“Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature, spirituality, humanity. His songs are "calming hymns for another chaotic time", he says. His influence can be traced through many artist's work, and so it only seemed right to celebrate this with a collection of newer voices interpreting his timeless tracks.
Originally released in 2010 by David Tibet (Current 93), Still Some Light was released as a double CD, made up of 70's album demos (Disc One)..

Excellent reissue on Esoteric, overseen by Mark Powell, by singer/songwriter Bill Fay, who released two albums for Deram/Nova in 1970/71 and promptly dissapeared after they came out to total bafflement of the public at large.
This really is a very fine album in its vein; as the little sticker sez on the box "The missing link between Nick Drake, Ray Davies and Bob Dylan"-Uncut.
This, the second, is much more stripped down, with Bill Fay on piano and vocals, with Ray Russell as musical arranger and..

No one until now has proposed an amalgamation of the music of Bert Jansch, Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix and Karlheinz Stockhausen. By attatching beads, rings & other objects to her acoustic guitar strings, Janet has managed just ...

Avram Fefer alto and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet
Marc Ribot guitar
Eric Revis bass
Chad Taylor drums

“There’s molten fire in Fefer’s delivery.” — Nate Chinen, WBGO.com

“Frayed lyricism, cycling African rhythms, Semitic scenery, and a jostling camaraderie that’s surprisingly sympathetic and inclusive.” — Dan Bilawsky, JazzTimes

“Saxophone veteran Avram Fefer has long held true to an ethic of loyalty. The musical relationships he forms are anything but fleeti

Avram Fefer alto and tenor saxophones
Marc Ribot guitar
Eric Revis bass
Chad Taylor drums

“Testament, is the kind of project that excites and entices even on paper. First there’s Fefer, the saxophonist and composer who has been an important contributor to the adventurous New York scene for the past quarter-century, and whose collaborators have included Bobby Few, Archie Shepp, the Last Poets, Sunny Murray, Tony Allen, Reggie Washington, Roy Campbell and many others.
Joining

"Wu Fei has composed music for solo instruments, string quartets, choirs, orchestras, modern and traditional dance, film and chamber ensembles. Performing on guzheng since the age of six, she studied composition at the China Conservatory and with Fred...

Mark Feldman: Violin

"The New York violin virtuoso Mark Feldman presents a new solo album, a portrait of the artist now, some twenty-six years after his first solo CD. Sounding Point contains six of his own compositions as well as one piece each by Sylvie Courvoisier and Ornette Coleman. Coleman's 1987 Peace Warriors is one of three pieces in which Feldman skillfully employs overdubs."

"Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier are two of the most spectacular composerperformers working today. Virtuosos on their respective instruments and sensitive, telepathic improvisers, their quest for perfection results in breathtaking new music that...

"As a follow-up to his most personal project to date, 2015's Koi, in-demand Italian session bassist and RareNoise recording artist Lorenzo Feliciati has upped the ante on Elevator Man.
A powerhouse recording with echoes of King Crimson, Allan Holdsworth and other prog rock icons in it's ten tracks, this outing by the prolific bassist-composer-arranger features a rotating cast of stellar musicians, including King Crimson drummer Pat Mastelotto, former Holdsworth drummer Chad Wackerman, Swedish...

Jim Denley, piccolo, concert, alto and bass flutes / Andrew Sparling, Eb, Bb and bass clarinets / Alex Ward, Bb clarinet / Tim Berne, alto saxophone / Damien Royannais, baritone saxophone, Eb tubax / Chris Batchelor, trumpet / Joby Burgess, tuned and...

Xu Fengxia Guzheng, Sanxian, Voice / Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion

"Black Lotos is far more than a duo. Not only consists Lucas Niggli’s acoustic layout of many parts, each of which could stand alone as an instrument: Xu Fengxia keeps...