Ravvivando
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| Ravvivando | ||||
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| Released | 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1997–1999 | |||
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| Length | 56:05 | |||
| Label | Klangbad | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
| NME | 7/10[5] |
| Q | positive[1] |
Ravvivando is the 8th album by the German krautrock group Faust, released in 1999.[6] A vinyl edition (one 12" and one 10") was released about a year later including a bonus track not included on the CD edition.
Founding member Jean-Hervé Péron left the band prior to the recording of the album due to "artistic differences".[4] The band recruited guitarist Steven Lobdell and bassist Michael Stoll alongside the returning members, drummer Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, and keyboardist Hans Joachim Irmler.[4] The album is mostly instrumental, while the "few lyrics are incomprehensible, buried and/or in German."[4]
Reception
Jason Gross of Allmusic called the album "some of the best Velvet Underground minimalist-noise-rush this side of My Bloody Valentine" and calling it an "intriguing phase for an always unpredictable group."[3] Q compared the album to the groups earlier Musique concrète work, "Namely huge bedrocks of looping, mutated riffing, driven by metronomic [drums] and glued by [keyboards].[1]
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
