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A download code is included. Deriving from the acclaimed performance and exhibition—staged by Anne Imhof at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation— the album Faust is part documentation and part elaboration, the sonic capture and extrapolation of the gestures, intensities, and durations of the live event. Serving as the dramatic backbone of a several-hour long performance seen by thousands over the course of the Biennial, the soundtrack was a product of the collective and its individuals, animating and organising the performers while immersing the audience in the potent images of power and paradise. The music for Faust was written in a band-like process by Imhof and her close collaborators Billy Bultheel, Eliza Douglas, and Franziska Aigner during the months leading up to its premiere at the opening of the German Pavilion in Venice. From the chaos of the performative, the album is constructed out of live recordings and original arrangements, teasing out the most potent strands and weaving them into a new composition of brutal feeling and baroque intricacy, each track a testament to the energy that brought it into being.

Trackliste

A1 Billy Bultheel - Opening March
A2 Eliza Douglas & Anne Imhof - Medusa’s Song
A3 Billy Bultheel - Red Scape
A4 Cast Of Faust - Suicide Is Painless
A5 Billy Bultheel - Interlude
B1 Eliza Douglas & Billy Bultheel - Guitar Piece
B2 Franziska Aigner & Billy Bultheel - Owen
B3 Billy Bultheel - Headbanger
B4 Cast Of Faust - Bella Ciao
C1 Billy Bultheel - Of Love (Hraah)
C2 Eliza Douglas & Billy Bultheel - Queen Song
C3 Billy Bultheel - Postscriptum
C4 Cast Of Faust - Mars
C5 Billy Bultheel - Trauermaschmusik
D1 Eliza Douglas - Faust’s Last Song
D2 Billy Bultheel - Blue Scape