{"product_id":"faust-fliegen-lernen-curated-by-gunther-wusthoff","title":"Faust - Fliegen Lernen (curated By Gunther Wüsthoff)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor \u003cstrong\u003eWüsthoff\u003c\/strong\u003e, music began long before \u003cstrong\u003eFaust\u003c\/strong\u003e. As a child he watched his father lose himself in music, playing accordion renditions of operettas, film themes and folk songs with complete absorption. At eleven he discovered jazz through a radio programme tracing its history, then taught himself guitar and piano as a teenager, developing an instinctive relationship with sound driven by curiosity rather than convention. That outlook would become central to Faust, not simply as a band but as an enduring way of thinking. Reflecting on those formative years, Wüsthoff describes them as the experience that shaped everything that followed: without Faust, he says, he would never have made this record in the way he has today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by \u003cstrong\u003eOnnen Bock\u003c\/strong\u003e alongside Bureau B's \u003cstrong\u003eGunther Buskies\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFliegen Lernen\u003c\/em\u003e continues that philosophy. Drawn from decades of archived recordings, new studio experiments and collaborations with musicians in Hamburg, it is a living extension of Faust's open-ended creative spirit. Ideas emerge through chance as much as intention, with sounds, words and stories setting one another in motion until they gradually find their own form. Its title, simultaneously suggesting \"flies are learning\" and \"learning to fly\", perfectly captures the playful shifts in perspective that have long defined Wüsthoff's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003eFliegen Lernen\u003c\/em\u003e, Wüsthoff revisits and reimagines ideas that have animated his career for more than half a century. Much of the material grew from electronic sequences discovered in his archive, some echoing the patterns behind the homemade \"Spieluhr\" frequency-divider and sequencer he built during his Faust years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpener \u003cem\u003eHörst Du Die Schritte\u003c\/em\u003e crashes jerky piano figures into a wiry punk-funk groove, with rhythmic saxophone and deadpan vocals creating something stranger than No Wave but irresistibly danceable. \u003cem\u003eSonntag Nachmittag\u003c\/em\u003e drifts into electroacoustic territory, balancing synthetic textures, live drums and melancholic piano motifs, while \u003cem\u003eCharm Quarks Boogie\u003c\/em\u003e offers a brief detour into clipped digital minimalism. Tracks such as \u003cem\u003eDown, Down And Come To Me\u003c\/em\u003e and the title piece lock into mechanical funk rhythms filled with squealing saxophone, bubbling electronics and spoken-word passages, locating a contemporary version of the playful tension that always defined Faust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElsewhere the album reveals a more atmospheric and exploratory side. \u003cem\u003eSandra Tanzt\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds like a shadowy soundtrack, while \u003cem\u003eSendepause\u003c\/em\u003e transforms kosmische textures into weightless funk. \u003cem\u003eErstbesteigung\u003c\/em\u003e emerged from an improvised session featuring Wüsthoff on\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eMS-20 and Faust's original ARP 2600, gradually dissolving language itself into streams of fragmented syllables. The haunting \u003cem\u003eSchongang\u003c\/em\u003e recalls fourth-world ambience and late-night jazz introspection, before closing track \u003cem\u003eGanz Gut, Oder\u003c\/em\u003e expands into a stomping, hallucinatory desert-psych excursion. Throughout it all, the ordinary becomes a source of invention. Vacuum cleaner hoses become rhythmic loops, rubber gloves squeak in the bath, shells and stones are rubbed together for texture, while a simple encounter with a fly in the kitchen becomes the basis for the album's title track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns humorous, reflective, cinematic and groove-driven, \u003cem\u003eFliegen Lernen\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that Wüsthoff's creative imagination remains as restless as ever. Rather than recreating the past, it embodies the same openness that made Faust so singular in the first place: a belief that any sound, object or passing observation can become the spark for something unexpected. More than fifty years after those formative experiments, Wüsthoff continues to approach music as an act of curiosity, collaboration and continual discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bureau B","offers":[{"title":"Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Clear Vinyl LP","offer_id":58541027262809,"sku":"SDZ-48567","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58541027295577,"sku":"SDZ-48568","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58541027426649,"sku":"SDZ-48569","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/SHE_20260709_1000_090746_962_v_4015698738179_003.jpg?v=1783594797","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/faust-fliegen-lernen-curated-by-gunther-wusthoff","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}