| * | Munic A ** | 11.55 | |
| | (aka Munic / Yesterday, Munic / Yesterday) | |
| * | Don't Take Roots | 4.51 | |
| * | Das Meer | 2.45 | |
| | (aka Meer (alternative), Piano Piece) | |
| * | Knochentanz ** | 11.46 | |
| | (aka Munic B, Munic Other) | |
| * | Baby ** | 4.19 | |
| | (aka Komm Mit) | |
| * | Party 2 | 7.04 | |
| | (aka J'ai Mal Aux Dents, Schempal Buddah, Schempal, Schempal Buddha) | |
| * | Party 8 | 1.21 | |
| * | Psalter ** | 4.05 | |
| | (aka Lauft... Heisst Das es Lauft Oder es Kommt Bald... Lauft, Lauft (Alt), Psalter (slow), 13/8, Psalter (5 May 1994)) | |
 | Party 5 / 25 Yellow Doors ** | 4.29 | |
| * | Chromatic | 9.45 | |
| | (aka Party 3) | |
| * | Party 6 ** | 0.42 | |
| * | Giggy Smile ** | 3.23 | |
| | (aka Party 1, Giggy Smile (Alt), Picnic On A Frozen River (Deuxieme Tableaux)) | |
| * | Lieber Herr Deutschland ** | 3.23 | |
| | (aka Party 4, Lieber Herr Deutschland, Demo) | |
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Total Time: 71:43
Line-up / Musicians
- Werner Diermeier / drums
- Hans-Joachim Irmler / organ
- Jean-Herve Peron / bass
- Rudolf Sosna / guitar, keyboards
- Gunter Wusthoff / synthesizer, saxophone
Album Notes
One of the key bands in Germany's Kraut-rock movement of the 1970s, Faust took concepts from the experimental avant-garde (sound collage, ambient synth, music concrete, improvised noise, et al.) and applied them to a rock framework. 71 MINUTES... collects tracks from two unreleased albums recorded in the early-to-mid 1970s, RETURN OF A LEGEND and FAUST PARTY. And while this is not an immediately easy set to enjoy, if given the time there is a tremendous amount to be gained from it.Nothing here comes off as straightforward, though elements of fuzz rock ("Don't Take Roots"), ambient ("Das Meer"), and proto trance and techno ("Munic-Yesterday) all appear in brilliantly mutated forms. 71 MINUTES OF is experimental music in the purest sense of the word: though Faust certainly had inspirations, there was simply no previous attempt to put such styles together. The band mixed and matched disparate sounds both new and old, fixed what wasn't broken, and expected nothing from the mainstream. Inspiring.
