Momentuafnahme translates as Snapshots and is a collection of snippets and tunes recorded at Faust's base in Wumme between 1971 and 1974. Both these volumes were originally released as part of the 50th Anniversary box Set that are now being issued as separate albums. These releases show a variety of ideas both fully formed and in progress.
The first volume opens with a little ident intro by the band called Naja before it leads into the odd distorted guitar epic Flaflas that has Moe Tucker style drumming and fuzzy guitars droning into the cortex.
Es Ist Weider Da feels like radio interference that gets finely tuned as the drums come into focus and the theremin waves across the speakers.
Mechanika has the machines taking over with doom laden intent. Weird Sounds Sound Bizarre is an almost library style collections of weird sounds you can add into a mix, short samples that make a compelling whole, with the odd vocal interjection.
Karotten is a 30 second brass interlude and celebration of carrots. Remaj7 sounds almost classical or medieval folk song, a bewitching tune.
Fin De Face is slow bass tones over a synthesizer. Vorsatz takes a steady backbeat then adds odd synth and keyboard sounds, disjointed guitars mixed with other elements of derangement.
Acouphenes opens with the sounds of the seashore growing into a tsunami of sound that overwhelms before the wind whistles through.
Interlude 18 Juni has the feel of early techno dance club beats set against a long tone. Dadalibal is chattering voices repeating the title over and in unison sort of as the multi vocals feed off each other in the way Phil Mintons choirs normally do.
Bonne Soup Au Fromage not sure if this is the soundtrack to making the cheese soup or eating it, as the guitars mangle and churn, I’m guessing there was plenty of garlic and onion added to that soup as the space phaser noises come and go the bass drum remains steady.
The album closes with Ruckwarts Durch Die Drehtur the longest piece on the album at over 7 minutes long journey into outer space weirdness, careful beats with heavy rock sodden guitars searching for the correct exit from the revolving door as they explore the possibilities a Rotating Leslie might provide.
Volume II opens with the short synth ident of Danach that's followed by Gegensprechanlage that's a space rock chugger with odd noises coming in and out of the mix before it devolves into just the odd synth noises that are quite squelchy in places.
Lampe An, Tur Zu, Leute Rein! has long organ tones, with horror film soundtrack impending doom type feel to it, something bad is about to happen, but what as it develops over 6 minutes it becomes more church like, as if they are about to exorcise demons in a cathedral.
Purzelbaum Mit Anschubsen is acoustic folk rock, quite relaxed. Tete A Tete Im Schredder is proggy space rock with a nasty edge to it, foreboding and intense.
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Dampf is annoying synth and brass blasts at the dystopian edges, music to aggravate. Testbildhauer is like an alarm going off to wake the dead set against an intense drum solo.
I Am An Artist is almost classical guitar with the odd buzzing undertone. Wir Wollen Mehr Volumen Kriegen takes longer to type than listen too. Arrampicarsi Sul Vesuvio is like an eruption that's not quite drastic enough to bury Pompeii again, as the clattering percussion steadily rams home what the guitars are doing.
…Und Alles Durcheinander has tribal drumming and percussion that would still sound good in the right club environment.
The Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO as it would nowadays be called is of course way ahead of the game title wise, only in this case it features bowel shaking noises distressed synths, droning vocals, space interference, into a cauldron of noise giving way to ambient classical comedown plus an odd assortment of snippets that seem very random indeed.
Ma Trompette is 40 seconds of children's toy's an acoustic guitar and some clapping. The album closes with As-Tu Vu Mon Ombre is darkly twisted synths and strings with the odd shouted vocal about baking babies, swooshing sounds that go over the classical outro, some chanted Hebrew as they get as strange as they can before the vocals go into French to leave listeners every bit as bewildered as you might expect.
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