i was just googling around to see when/if that big batch of reissues was released yet and i found this, which sounds almost exactly like "in deine hande" from LT-LNwhat other greek music sounds like this??! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSXxrLcSV4
(for comparison) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-sShP-TA4
― La Lechera, Monday, 7 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Thank you for Nikos Xylouris! Listening to Youtubes now.
Also: "Psaronikos is a nickname as it is customary for people in Anogeia to have. His grandfather was Psarantonis. His grandfather kept company with a group of five or six men who stole from the Turks. As he was the fastest runner in the group, when they met with Turks he was running very fast and he could catch all of them as if they were fish. So, first he was given the name Fishturk (Greek: 'Ψαρότουρκος') and then the nickname Psarantonis. That is how all family male members after him were nicknamed Psaronikos, Psarogiorgis, Psarantonis etc."
― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Monday, 7 September 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
(xp) I see what you mean!
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 7 September 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
ok two things:
1) the video interview with d fichelscher has been removed from youtube afaict; that was the closest i had gotten to knowing that he was still alive and well. my google alerts for him haven't produced much beyond news of upcoming reissues. does anyone know how to confirm that he is alive and well? i feel like this thread is more of a global hub of PV fans than i'm likely to find elsewhere, so why not ask.
2) what's up with those reissues anyway? waxworks was all excited about them, but i haven't seen anything since. i checked last week and just that instagram post came up. am i missing something? LT-LN is about to turn 40 next year :)
― La Lechera, Saturday, 19 September 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
Hasn't he been playing with Amon Duul II recently? He's mentioned here anyway : http://www.amonduul.de/main.htmlWARNING website is Flash hell that will start playing music when it loads
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Saturday, 19 September 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
ok well that's good newsi guess they only play european festivals?also that is truly a hellish website
― La Lechera, Saturday, 19 September 2015 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Yes, panic over, he seems to be playing with the current line-up...
https://gerhardemmerkunst.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/amon-dc3bcc3bcl-ii-milla-mc3bcnchen-2015-06-10-15.jpg
― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 September 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
months ago i preordered the wah wah reissue of nosferatu because 1) i couldn't resist and 2) there is bonus material that i don't have and it arrived today!! i am not into packaging but since i paid a zillion dollars for this, i'm glad that the posters (there are 2) are pretty cool (not just pics of the band, esp the ones i've seen a zillion times) and the LPs themselves are red
so excited!! no more weekly emails from phil at norman records about my order. i'll probably not miss deleting those too much but they continued to give me hope that the day would arrive when i could finally cradle my wampyr recordtoday!
― La Lechera, Monday, 28 September 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
looks like light in the attic is distro-ing the wah wah reissues, so they should be easier to get now? http://lightintheattic.net/releases?all_labels=false&label_list%5B%5D=176still pricey, but...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 19:37 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the heads up!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
New reissues are all in at Fusetron, in case anybody was wondering. $31/32 for everything but the Nosferatu double, which is $45.
― winnebago taco, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:09 (eight years ago) link
i still wonder what daniel f is doing right now, like at various points in the day.
this was posted on fb today -- is it same as the bootleg that was posted here a while ago? I am not on the same computer and don't remember what was on the other one. anyway, a good day is one that has a popol vuh surprise in it
i think it sounds like the same recording though fwiw
https://youtu.be/Kyi2KHZKYIQ
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
FYI
This is a soundboard recording of a live performance in 1973, probably late summer or early fall, in the church in Baumberg in Germany (which accounts for the beautiful natural reverb).My guess is that this is just Daniel Fichelscher on guitar and Florian Fricke on keyboards and vocal (and may be the first recording of Fichelscher as a member of Popol Vuh - he would become co-partner with Fricke for all subsequent Popol Vuh albums. Vocalist Djong Yun did not sing here, because she was away in America at the time. Fricke's dissatisfaction with his vocals - heard here and on the studio album from 1973, "Seligpreisung" - would prompt him to later add another vocalist, Renate Knaup, whom he met through Fichelscher (both Fichelscher and Knaup had been members of Amon Duul II).
Tracklist: (all are extended versions of the following pieces from their 1973 album "Seligpreisung"):00:00 Weinen und Lachen04:55 Hungern und Dursten11:59 Hungern und Dursten (2nd take)17:48 Willig Arm20:47 Leid Klagen
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link
yeah think that's the same thing (minus the interview that was on the mp3 download)...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I wonder where this person got their Fichelscher info or if it's pure speculation
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
aw, I love the vocals on Seligpreisung!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I feel like that album could be dubbed onto a Peanuts TV special and work really well.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
btw yes that is the same bootleg referenced earlier in the thread
― sleeve, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
as noted by JoeStork on another thread, there's a lot more Popol Vuh on Spotify now
― Brad C., Friday, 22 July 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
Florian, 1968.
https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/sites/deutsche-kinemathek.de/files/public/images/bildergalerien/08_200925_27_31_07.jpg
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 14 January 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
2 new reissues today! Agape-Agape (one of my favorites) and Spirit of Peace iirc (which I don't remember) I guess Light in the Attic is handling US distribution -- is there any reason I should not give them a small portion of money in exchange for this fine recording?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
I got the (green!) Cobra Verde soundtrack. It's nice but I'm not sure I need another version of Agnus Dei (j/k, i do)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Always thought "Agape-Agape" suffered from lacklustre production, maybe this reissue will spruce it up a bit. "Spirit of Peace" is the last good one... no, hold on, "Cobra Verde" is after that and is good too.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:45 (seven years ago) link
xps I have heard some second hand griping about LITA not paying people, but that wouldn't stop me from buying something on the label (at least not yet).
― HONOR THE FYRE (sleeve), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
every reissue makes me hope that maybe this will bring Daniel Fichelscher out of the shadows. he's only 64?!?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
and Djong Yun too for that matteris she still in North Korea?!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
She's in North Korea? Why?
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:15 (seven years ago) link
I think she was taking care of family or something? I read she was in Pyongyang :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Insane details of Djong Yun's father's life here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isang_Yun
Daniel Fichelscher's been playing with Amon Duul II again recently, no?
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:48 (seven years ago) link
somehow really getting into this band after many years. and THANK YOU Dadaismus for the reviews upthread. I wish ILM was still like that
― Dominique, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
Having gone no further than their first three albums, "Vuh" from In den Gärten Pharaos is the only track that truly awed me. Is any of their subsequent work similar to it?
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
just about everything past In den Gärten Pharaos sounds nothing like it.
― new noise, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
xpnothing like it really -- they didn't find the sound they're known for until after that record. Blissful, psychedelic new age folk music? try the title track of Brüder Des Schattens for a good idea of their thing
― Dominique, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
Hosianna Mantra didn't do it for me, but given my love of 1970's ECM I should probably keep going. As a side note, Florian Fricke was briefly part of the same jazz trio as then-double-bassist Manfred Eicher.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 June 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Now that is an interesting fact!
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Friday, 2 June 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Nr9ZCm8.png
Perhaps more suited to a Roy Montgomery thread, but here's a photo from atop Temple IV in Guatemala, where I listened to bits of Seligspreisung last week. Some Popul Vuh seemed appropriate since I was in the heart of Maya territory. Luckily it got cloudy and rainy while I was up there, because otherwise the punishing sun and heat do not make for an atmosphere conducive to listening to extended jams. Although the place itself is pretty overwhelming even without a soundtrack.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
You'd think I'd spell the band name right by now... Popol Vuh that is.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
how to live!!so beautiful
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 26 June 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
that sounds amazing
― sleeve, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
well done
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 3 July 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
I'm glad it's of interest! I'd offer more cool pictures of my Popol Vuh tourism, but a day or so after I took this picture I accidentally dropped my phone in the sea, so this Instagram pic is all that remains.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:07 (six years ago) link
Poetic! Much as fricke threw his moog into the ocean after the 2nd album
You must now take all your photos acoustically
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
I thought he sold it to Klaus Schulze? Not very poetic, I know.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Monday, 3 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
Let history record that when I dived into the Caribbean to retrieve my phone, my hands searched the ocean floor in the midnight waters for an hour and twenty minutes, the phone sparking and popping while it played Schulze's "Moondawn" in its entirety, heard properly for the first time, although that is not what happened.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 3 July 2017 23:29 (six years ago) link
What exactly is this thing? Looks like a greatest hits, but seems to be a unique recording. (Related also to this compilation, both titled in such a way as to be most impossible to find.) Seems to have been done (if Discogs can be believed) just before Guido Hieronymous came on board? How much other stuff is out there?
― with hidden noise, Monday, 2 October 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
I always assumed it was a best of compiled by his son. If it’s NOT just a best of I’d like to know about it
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
The first one looks like a straight compilation, judging by track timings, though I suppose they could be remixes. The second, may be retitled tracks, remixes, don't know tbh.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
This is one of those bands, like Tangerine Dream, whose soundtracks are essential, and yet whose official soundtrack releases are inconsistent and/or incomplete. Right?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 October 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
Kind of. Heart of Glass + Nosferatu would be hard to improve on as albums but they are far from being straightforward score releases. Aguirre is kind of just an album that happens to be named Aguirre with a couple things from the film and mostly other stuff. Fitzcarraldo is like a traditional late 70s early 80s ost pretty much. Some vuh from the movie and some diegetic music heard in the movie. I still don’t have cobra verde!
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Monday, 2 October 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Heart of Glass is my favorite as an album