Four Original Faust Members Announce Solo Albums, Dropping Simultaneously in September

Faust have spent over half a century dissolving the line between band and open workshop. On September 26, the four surviving original members will test that openness from four distinct angles, releasing solo albums simultaneously via Bureau B.

The simultaneous drop isn’t a KISS-style branding exercise. It’s closer to four field reports from a shared territory being mapped in vastly different ways. Hans Joachim Irmler’s WithUnbegunden builds from organ drones and immersive electronics, stripping back to the elemental pressure of sound itself. Jean-Hervé Péron’s MOI pulls in a wide set of collaborators, assembling a collage of musique concrète, spoken word, avant-pop and Fluxus play that feels personal and stubbornly communal.

Gunther Wüsthoff’s Fliegen Lernen — made with Onnen Bock and Bureau B’s Gunther Buskies — returns to the collective spirit of Faust’s earliest years but with a rhythmic ingenuity that twists genre expectations into something wry and unclassifiable. Werner “Zappi” Diermaier’s Gugaruz (created with Schneider TM) puts percussion at the center of a shifting electro-acoustic landscape, merging his signature physicality with textural deconstruction and electronic manipulation.

Together, the records don’t add up to a Faust album. They don’t try. What they reveal is how fully the group’s founding impulse — invention without fixed rules — still operates in each of its original members, no longer needing a single name to hold it together.