Rien (Faust album)

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

Rien
Studio album by Faust
Released	1994
Genre	Krautrock
Length	42:41
Label	Table of the Elements
Producer	Jim O'Rourke
Faust chronology
Faust IV (1973) Rien (1994) You Know FaUSt (1997)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "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]

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

• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier – drums
• Jean-Hervé Péron – bass guitar
• Keiji Haino – guitar
• Hans-Joachim Irmler – organ
• Steven Wray Lobdell – guitar
• Michael Morley – guitar
• Erling Wold – various
• Ferrara Brain Pan – Turkish pipe

References

1. 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. "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.

External links

• Rien at Faust Pages
• Rien at Discogs