^ Both great albums
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Friday, 18 January 2013 11:39 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, if this sounds anything like Popol Vuh crossed with Ann Steel I need to hear it asap.
― LAST DAY to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Saturday, 19 January 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
deplorable lack of PV on Spotify
more/different stuff up there now, including the Herzog soundtracks box set
― Brad C., Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Only in the US though. Europe only gets the Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999 comp.
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
That's weird and unfortunate. I'm sorry.
Can we talk about how great Agape-Agape is? I listened to it last night as I was trying to fall asleep and it was super dreamy.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
"They danced, they laughed, as of old" is a well structured jam afaic.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but it's just the end bit of "Die Umkehr" from "Bruder des Schattens..." isn't it? Good album but the production lets it down.
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link
Is it? I honestly can't tell sometimes. The production is kinda bad, you're right. I just wondered why no one ever talked about that album.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:32 (eleven years ago) link
When's it from? 1983 or something? Who would expect a "Krautrock" band still to be any good in 1983? Also, I'm sure it was only released on an independent - I think it was on Uniton, which is a Norwegian label.
― Designated Striver (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
What in tarnation is this? http://www.discogs.com/Florian-Fricke-Die-Erde-Und-Ich-Sind-Eins/release/1317995
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 09:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.popolvuh.nl/dieerdeundich
― ☏ (am0n), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
It wasn’t put out for the music business, but for therapeutics. The background to it is that I experienced early on that the original sense of music is not for going crazy, but that it has an enormous effect on the psyche and the physical aspect of Humanity. And originally it was only used in these way thousands of years ago. And in the bourgeois development of the Romantics suddenly we are shown that the melancholy of Brahms is important or the morbid side of Chopin. And I’m absolutely not interested in any of that. Egotism through music doesn’t interest me, but rather the unbelievable active changing power of music. To go from speech to responsibility.
Man, why can't we have a Fricke On Music volume?
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
FOR REAL
You could label it as ‘Body-space music’ (Körperraummusik) where you sing inside the body and take it in such a way that every cell in the body, from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, starts to vibrate. In order to be able to realise this I have experimented to find where speech resonates in the body. The consonants vibrate at the body walls, the bones and flesh and the vowells fill the body spaces. And that sounds like a gong-concert: it also has a great therapeutic effect.
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
No blog visibility on this one? Would love to hear it.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
When the soles of my feet start to sing, I will know I have arrived at full therapeutic resonance.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
"And that sounds like a gong-concert"
We can safely assume he does not mean Daevid Allen etc here.
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if he heard rhys chatham's "two gongs"
― groundhog-enorme-toute-grosse-253x300.jpg (clouds), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
This perked my ears up on the Kraftwerk thread yesterday:
5) Two of Kraftwerk's most famous sound effects came from a speaking-aid for deaf-mute children, and a popular toy. The Vortrax was invented in Detroit in the early 1970s. A hand-held machine that looked a bit like a pocket calculator, it produced the distorted vocal choir sound that can be heard on 1975's 'Uranium', which was later sampled in the opening build-up of New Order's 'Blue Monday'.
This is slightly off; the Vortrax was used for the vocodered spoken word part, but I'm about 99.4% positive that the 'vocal choir' sound mentioned is just an Orchestron keyboard, the same one they use for Radioactivity (and the same one Popol Vuh used for 'Aguirre' etc). It never occurred to me that 'Blue Monday' lifted a 'Uranium' sample directly, but now that it's mentioned that makes sense!
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 1:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Went and looked on the app store and hola there is a 99 cent Orchestron simulator app for iPhone, which includes the Aguirre-esque choir patch and a few other patches. Fun! It has programmable chord pads too to help you cope with the teeny little imaginary keys.
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Omg wut?!?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
search 'Orchestron'
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
hmm that makes me want to get an iphone. what else do they do?
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Popol Vuh used the Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ for "Aguirre". Orchestron didn't exist in 1972 after all?
Believe me I've looked high + low
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
(Don't get me started on Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ)
Roguelike dungeon crawl games, ILX Zing Touch, fun synth and drum machine simulators, that's all I got so far.
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
xpost actually no why don't you get started on Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ? I know nothing!
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.popolvuh.nl/pvchoir
― ☏ (am0n), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
...also first Amon Duul II review here
(I love that Planet Mellotron site!)
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
oh man its the same instrument as on Wolf City!!!
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
Also, thanks a lot cause now I'm going to be saying
HABOOB
in my head all day...
― try a little crowleymass (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yes, it's a distinctive sound tho I'm not convinced it's not just a (perhaps malfunctioning) mellotron (xp) Haboob have an album too, which is fitfully entertaining, Choir Organ shamefully underused (I can hear it on one track only)
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 February 2013 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone know anything about the supposed 5 PV vinyl reissues? I saw something on their lol facebook page, but I have no idea who operates that or how much they know about what's going on. The Affenstunde reissue has not let me down AT ALL. It sounds great. In fact, now I truly understand why it's called Affenstunde.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh, that's great to hear about affenstunde! was wondering if I should pick that up and I think you just helped me get to the bottom of that little dilemma.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Will someone please tell me what is up with these Japanese reissues? All the facebook page says is "watch out for them now!" and that is not helping...
This image is all I have been able to find (haven't looked very hard, admittedly)
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/164459_10151301793167610_722187347_n.jpg
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
the LT-LN cover is giving me a heart attackWANT
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
i still can't find anything
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
'Die Erde Und Ich Sind Eins' is about to hit the blogs! Give it a week or so.
― Call the Cops, Sunday, 7 April 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
What does that mean?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 April 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Privately produced album long sought after by sad people like me
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
Who's sad? What's sad?! Will someone let me know when this exciting thing happens?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's an album of vocal pieces, perhaps like e.g. "Song of Earth" on "Spirit of Peace"?
― Step not on a loose unforgiving stone on a pyramid to paradise (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh that sounds great.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 April 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
hey wait a second, did this happen?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
Good question, to the internet to find out
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
i did a quick search around for it last week, but came up with zilch! maybe call the cops has the details?http://www.popolvuh.nl/files/cass_0.jpglooks pretty good.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
i hope we have someone on the case. i want this!
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man, if you want something doing... Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
call the cops otm!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Awesome is the operative word
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, too cool!
― liam fennell, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
muchisimas gracias!
btw i found a picture of the bluebird costume! (i realized this morning that this thread is where i mentioned it before)http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8678479892_812c16096f_m.jpg
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link