''Ravvivando'' is the 8th album by the

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, released in 1999. A vinyl edition (one 12" and one 10") was released about a year later including a bonus track not included on the CD edition.

Background

Founding member Jean-Hervé Péron left the band prior to the recording of the album due to "artistic differences".sfweekly
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, and keyboardist Hans Joachim Irmler. The album is mostly instrumental, while the "few lyrics are incomprehensible, buried and/or in German."

Reception

Jason Gross of ''

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'' called the album "some of the best

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minimalist-noise-rush this side of My Bloody Valentine" and calling it an "intriguing phase for an always unpredictable group." '' Q'' compared the album to the groups earlier

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work, "Namely huge bedrocks of looping, mutated riffing, driven by metronomic

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and glued by eyboards

Track listing

# "Ein Neuer Tag" – 4:16 # "Carousel II" – 2:45 # "Wir Brauchen Dich #6" – 7:22 # "Four Plus Seven Means Eleven" – 7:07 # "Take Care" – 4:08 # "Spiel" – 0:41 # "Dr' Hansl" – 1:30 # "Apokalypse" – 4:30 # "D.I.G." – 5:29 # "Du Weißt Schon" – 2:43 # "Livin' Tokyo" – 8:43 # "T-Électronique" – 6:51

Personnel

- drums *Ulrike Helmholtz - vocals *Hans Joachim Irmler - keyboards, organ *Steven Wray Lobdell - guitar *Michael Stoll - bass guitar *Lars Paukstat - percussion

References

External links

Ravvivando
at faust-pages.com. 1999 albums Faust (band) albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub