Faust - Fliegen Lernen (curated By Gunther Wüsthoff) CURREN$Y In the late 1960s

In the late 1960s

soulful songwriting manage to be simultaneously both contemporary and timeless

the hum of an air conditioner

Alan Lamb’s unique telephone wire recordings from outback Western Australia and a string quartet to produce a score that operates as a philosophical counterpoint to the horror of Wolf Creek

In the decades since its release

Faust - Fliegen Lernen (curated By Gunther Wüsthoff) CURREN$Y In the late 1960sFor Wsthoff, music began long before Faust. 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