Due on Bureau B records in October and spread across eight CDs, Faust 1971- 1974 is a comprehensive collection of the German band’s early studio works. The box, which also comes in a seven-LP format with two 7” singles, includes their self-titled debut, plus So Far, The Faust Tapes, Faust IV and 1974’s ‘lost’ Punkt, recorded at Giorgio Moroder’s Musicland Studios in Munich, but never officially released.
“This is the one piece you need to complete the puzzle,” Jean-Hervé Péron tells Prog. “We’re extremely pleased to have rescued all the tapes from Musicland and to present two extra LPs full of unreleased material.” These comprise bonus albums Momentaufnahme I and Momentaufnahme II, from Faust’s Wümme studio phase. The two singles include Lieber Herr Deutschland, the demo that secured a deal with Polydor in 1971. “It’s enjoyable to listen back to what we were back then,” says Péron.