Rien (Faust album)

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Rien
Faust-Rein.jpg
Studio album by
Faust
Released1994
Genre
Length42:41
Label Table of the Elements
Producer Jim O'Rourke
Faust chronology
Faust IV
(1973)		Rien
(1994)		 You Know FaUSt
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]

Rien is a 1994 album by the German krautrock group Faust, released on Table of the Elements. [3] [4] It was their fifth album, and their first reunion album. The album was produced by Jim O'Rourke. [5] [6]

Contents

Critical reception

Trouser Press called Rien "more a return to form than The Faust Concerts, with droning violins, pounding industrial synthesizers, odd sound effects, trumpet improvisations and, of course, power tools combining in an experimental haze." [5] Meanwhile, Ted Mills wrote for AllMusic that the album "should be taken on a different level as almost a different group. With the weight of nostalgic expectations against them, Faust did what they could to separate themselves from their past." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Rien" – 5.32
  2. "Long Distance Calls in the Desert" – 4.09
  3. "Eroberung der Stille: Teil II" – 6.54
  4. "Listen to the Fish" – 15.24
  5. "Eroberung der Stille: Teil I" – 9.19
  6. "Fin" – 1.23

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Mills, Ted. "AllMusic review". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN   9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "The Quietus | Film | Film Reviews | Cement-imental Journey – Faust: Where Roads Cross Reviewed". The Quietus. November 2013.
  4. ↑ "Rien at Faust Pages". Faust Pages. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Faust". Trouser Press. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  6. ↑ "Interview with Jim O'Rourke". 1996. Retrieved 9 September 2021. I had tapes of live shows and I went through them and found a point where the bass drum was hit and you can't hear anything else, so that's my bass drum. And oh, here's a guitar part where he plays a note very distinctly and you can't hear anything else. So, all of the guitar parts and the singing and everything else is all pieced together note by note.
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