Fausto Rossi
Lost and Found

Every fire, every fire I light...

It is a work, underrated, steeped in post-punk atmospheres and very visionary at times extreme.

"Lost and Found" is a live or a pseudo-live or even a collection of rarities or demo tracks, as unfortunately they are called here; whatever it is, this product was released in 1996 along with some reissues and after the underground success of "L'erba". A product that was supposed to be released back in 1983 but did not see the light due to record company issues, we recall Faust'O's follies with "Out Now" or even with "Faust'O". The fact is that these tracks are really strange.
It seems that few people attended this concert from what you can hear at the end of the songs.

After the wonderful version of "Ultimi Fuochi", "Jeraldine" shows that the alternative talent used in studio masterpieces was indeed present in concerts as well.

Decadent taste, imbued with sax, chilling bass lines, fast rhythms.

The other tracks have no name, and it's unclear why given their beauty: "Demo track 3" first and "Demotrack 4" after highlight unreleased, very distorted and at times experimental tracks. The following "Demotrack 5" appears more restrained and elegant thanks to Fausto's use of the Fender piano. "E poi non voltarti mai", clearly rock-influenced and also sung in English, is the next track, more incisive and noisy than the studio version. Another peak of the record.
More soft is "Demotrack 7", desperate and screamed, almost a Faust'O anticipating Robert Smith's vocal lines (fans of the Cure, take no offense). More akin to a more metropolitan Lou Reed is the frenetic "Demotrack 8", and to a post-modern and hallucinatory Bowie "Demotrack 9". Without the availability of lyrics and more detailed information, comparison (barely tolerated) thus seems to be the most suitable tool for describing this record.

It seems closed and isolated in a dark room with a flickering bulb, yet poetic in its pain, Faust'O in "Demotrack 10", and that sax you want to smash against the wall for all the pain it transmits. But it is "Alien", taken again from the masterpiece "Faust'O", that will mark you for its 4 minutes and 59 seconds; piano and voice, the artist alone with himself, perhaps with an audience in front, but who cares; the piano, an instrument of expression for his torments, accompanies him.

Fausto, heart-wrenching and anguished alien, almost bleeding... surely it will mark you for better or for worse.

Enjoy your listening.

Ps: thanks to the usual and always ready Iside for info and curiosities.