Ridiculously great band.' (Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music) * brilliant performances.Faustus are at their best here.' (**** Songlines) * ne of Britain's outstanding folk bands.' (**** The Guardian) FAUSTUS ARE PAUL SARTIN, BENJI KIRKPATRICK & SAUL ROSE Nominated in the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Faustus are three of the leading lights of their generation: Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead), Saul Rose (Waterson:Carthy, Whapweazel) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar's Feast). Rooted deeply in the English tradition, in 2007 they received a 75th Anniversary Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society. During 2016 the band were Artists in Residence at Halsway Manor, National Centre for the Folk Arts, in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, where they had unlimited access to the Manor's extensive library, and where 'Death and Other Animals' was recorded. Four songs unique to Halsway's little-known Ruth Tongue archive, lyrics by Bill Caddick and Olivia McCannon, a Chartist poem, and the band's own indomitable settings of traditional texts comprise 'Death and Other Animals' . . . he best thing they've done' (Froots). 'Death and Other Animals' received the 2017 German Critics Award (Schallplattenkritik Bestenliste) in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter/World Music category. They are also nominated for the 'Iron Eversteiner' the only European Folkmusic-award. - Benji, Paul and Saul formed the core band in The Transports (Guardian *****), the revival and reworking of Peter Bellamy's ballad opera which proved a sensation in 2017-18 and played to full houses across the country. In 2018 Faustus continued the research in the Archives and came up with previously hardly known documents which they publish now as songs with their own compositions. The 'Lancashire Cotton Famine' is a part of the history of the British working class that still needs to be discovered - and it affected other countries as well - Globalisation in the 19th century.