nah from like 1974 on it's just the grateful dead or santana circa "lotus" but only the solos + pompous interludes not the groovy parts, minus drugs
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
i could not disagree more but i respect your right to miss out on some top notch noodling
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
allow in den gärten pharaos, maybe hosianna mantra, can't stand einsburger und siebensburger or seligspreisung or much of the stuff after that
except, i suppose, some of the herzog soundtrack stuff is okay too
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
nosferatu is really boring, post-that is especially dire, check out "sei still wisse ich bin" if you don't believe
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
no way, i have that album in my stupid cd wallet that i keep in the car and i never take it out! it's so soothing and singing along is fun too. i like the vocal stuff and i'm pretty happy with their catalogue through agape agape. after that it gets spotty, but there's not much after that.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
nah from like 1974 on it's just the grateful dead or santana circa "lotus" but only the solos + pompous interludes not the groovy parts, minus drugssounds so good bring it on
― tylerw, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say
does Norman still have copies of these Wah Wah reissues? it is Wah Wah, right?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link
'bring it on' otm
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:45 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 08:54 (ten years ago) link
... if there's an opposite of a doppelganger I've just discovered mine
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 08:55 (ten years ago) link
my copy of Seligspreisung responded well to cleaning, noise is gone.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Even the lowest priced copies of the reissues on Discogs will total almost $50 to the US w/ shipping. Bummer.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
you could order the ones that just arrived at my store. http://www.reckless.com/index.php?keywords=popol+vuh&format=&cond=&store=&is_search=true&srch=Search
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
imo popol vuh is sort of terrible― the late great, Monday, December 30, 2013 9:19 PM
ya but u like high contrast :[
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
mambo - I'm on it. Stand by
btw how the hell haven't we had a POLLpol Vuh thread? If no one starts one, I will.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
Seriously mambo, if you have limited quantities please hold Seligpreusung, Hosianna and Einsjager for me if you can. I'll order this week...
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
lol @ "mambo" -- it's not my store like i work there, just my go-to local store -- you can order the records via their website i think or you could call the location if you are super concerned. not sure if they're open tomorrow or not. best of luck!
i have never considered polling PV because i don't want to be forced to choose.
― mambo jumbo (La Lechera), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 23:32 (ten years ago) link
I'm always torn about whether to explain the "show username" preference to people who obviously have it turned off and/or are unaware
but hey JD I like yr taste in music so what the hell
― sleeve, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
ha! Thanks. I can see the username, I just like writing 'mambo' ;)
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 23:57 (ten years ago) link
Weird use of PV: Ah! in "Sightseers"
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'd probably vote either Aguirre or Hosianna Mantra, but there are so many great ones.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
did this get posted?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Popol-Vuh-8-CD-Promo-Box-CDep-Japan-Mini-LP-New-tangerine-dream-klaus-schulze-Z-/281224656941?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item417a4bb82d
― the late great, Thursday, 23 January 2014 05:52 (ten years ago) link
Those are the same remasters as the SPV by the way. I have a few.
― Call the Cops, Friday, 24 January 2014 09:34 (ten years ago) link
Computer translated Fricke is its own kind of magic. Not sure why this isn't being recycled as spoken word poetry or sthg?!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:11 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lyrics for new kosmische project
― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:14 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Tongebäude! Who wants to start this band with me...?
― tylerw, Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:17 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me me me
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:17 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark
whenever you're ready, i'll have a lot of free time coming up this summer!
also -- is this real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdwUL10mMu4
― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Friday, 14 February 2014 15:48 (ten years ago) link
What's worth tracking down from the compilations? How much is there that didn't end up on the albums (or bonus tracks on the SPV releases)? This makes it sound like what's on Gesang der Gesänge isn't the same as the originals – is that true? Are there other things like that? Is Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves (also remixed, but not by Fricke) terrible?
― with hidden noise, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
I can't help you there, but i was looking at popol vuh compilations yesterday and this sleeve is pretty badass: http://www.thewaxfactor.com/images/popv.jpeg
― brimstead, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
I used to know the answer to that question re Sing, For Song... but it's gone now. Milan is a weird record label.
― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
Ben Wheatley's black-hearted screwball comedy pastorale The Sightseers (2012), which I watched this weekend on NF streaming, makes wonderful use of "Ah!" from Hosianna Mantra.
(Alongside some Harmonia, Roedelius, and Neu).
Good film on its own terms and well worth watching, I should also say. Can't wait to see his A Field In England.
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
I picked up the new SPV reissues of Aguirre and Einsjager today (for a reasonable $10 each at Newbury Comics); so, looks like I can ditch my Spalax copies.Don't hear much difference in sound if they were remastered (doubt it), but the packaging at least is way superior to Spalax (plus, it's nice to have Digipaks rather than standard jewel case).Can't wait for them to do Letzte Tage - Letzte Naechte and the others...
― Joe (Joe), Friday, June 18, 2004 6:26 PM (9 years ago)
... and, of course, the Spalax editions are now oop and rare w/different bonus tracks...
― KrafTwerk (sleeve), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
As I've said before, hold on to Spalax versions if you've got em. Some of the SPV are inferior in sound quality.
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Monday, 19 May 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
have there been any interviews/anything written at all about fichelscher recently, like after that thing that's up on youtube? if so, will someone point me to them? make photocopies and messenger-pigeon them to me? he seemed pretty lively in that interview and i know he must be up to something and i would like to know what it is.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 6 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
nothing? does anyone know what he's doing these days?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 21:59 (nine years ago) link
why doesn't anyone want to write about him? also i would like to strongly recommend the soundtrack for A Field in England for PV fans. It's both light and heavy, super good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW39fmmQEmc
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
If no one is writing about Danny somebody should at least interview Ben Wheatley about kosmische musik.
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
i'm within inches of asking the dude who posted the youtube interview whether or not there's more or how it happened or w/emaybe i'll watch it again to make sure those are not stupid questions
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
I assume you have df google alerted to within an inch of his life and none of them traps have sprung
― Neil Sekada (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
my google alerts have not yielded the fruit i am looking forthey hardly ever do tbh!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
david stubbs on pv/herzog for those what missed it:http://thequietus.com/articles/16110-herzog-popol-vuh-overview
― john wahey (NickB), Friday, 29 August 2014 16:45 (nine years ago) link
man everyone focuses on fricke and herzogthx for posting!
i found at least one popul in there though :-/Fricke and Vuh did further great work on Heart Of Glass (1976), in which guitarist Danny’s Fichelscher’s playing comes to the fore - by this point, Popul Vuh were more conventionally “rock”, though as Klaus Schulze observed, Fricke’s compositions still followed “electronic patterns” in their structures.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
i listened to gila's "bury my heart at wounded knee" mostly for the fichelscher connection -- pretty good!
― clouds, Friday, 29 August 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
ooh love that one!!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 29 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
while we were at my mom's house we watched a nature docu on cable in the Globe Trekkers series-- the episode was called Planet of the Apes and during the section on Orangutans there was this processional acoustic guitar stuff that gave me a really nice elevated Vuh-ish feeling. The episode had like 10 composers listed though, no chance I'll ever track that cue down.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 29 August 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
1973 soundboard!
http://shardsofbeauty.blogspot.com/
― sleeve, Sunday, 7 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
niiiiice! thanks!
― tylerw, Sunday, 7 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
actually it might be a good audience recording, there is a lot of accompanying info
― sleeve, Sunday, 7 September 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
this is great! yeah hazy sound is more likely an audience recording (maybe there wasn't even really a "soundboard" per se) but the haziness is nice.
― tylerw, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
i saw this yesterday and today i remembered to click on it and it's asking me to "click here for downloader" and i feel like i am 500 years old pls send help bc i want to hear this!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Monday, 8 September 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
i thought i posted that boot for y'all upthread. maybe it was another one
― am0n, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i have a couple live boots, one is "1973 baumberg kirche germany" and the other is from 1976 with some live roberto cacciapaglia(!)― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:46 AM (4 years ago)
― am0n, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link
whoops! yeah this is the church one
it's in FLAC if that makes a difference to anyone
― sleeve, Monday, 8 September 2014 16:30 (nine years ago) link