Ravvivando

Ravvivando
Studio album by Faust
Released	1999
Recorded	1997–1999
Genres	Noise rock123 progressive rock4 post-rock4 drum and bass4 drone4
Length	56:05
Label	Klangbad
Producers	Hans Joachim Irmler Steven Wray Lobdell
Faust chronology
Faust Wakes Nosferatu (1997) Ravvivando (1999) Derbe Respect, Alder (2004)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	3
NME	7/105
Q	positive1

Ravvivando is the eighth studio 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

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

1. "Ein Neuer Tag" – 4:16
2. "Carousel II" – 2:45
3. "Wir Brauchen Dich #6" – 7:22
4. "Four Plus Seven Means Eleven" – 7:07
5. "Take Care" – 4:08
6. "Spiel" – 0:41
7. "Dr' Hansl" – 1:30
8. "Apokalypse" – 4:30
9. "D.I.G." – 5:29
10. "Du Weißt Schon" – 2:43
11. "Livin' Tokyo" – 8:43
12. "T-Électronique" – 6:51

• Werner "Zappi" Diermaier- drums
• Ulrike Helmholtz - vocals
• Hans Joachim Irmler - keyboards, organ
• Steven Wray Lobdell - guitar
• Michael Stoll - bass guitar
• Lars Paukstat - percussion