s/d popol vuh

yeah, you guys got me daydreaming

lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHK8oWVUkAAijKD.jpg

what exactly is happening in that photo? is that their recording studio?

heh heh, it's a picture of Can

ooh great news

haha that's what i thought
cmon people

some light in the attic intern is getting his ass handed to him right now!!!
but seriously it is good news - if they're distro-ing, the vuh reissues might be easier to find.

looks like they brought a beehive to the practice space

Crazy German longhairs all look the same, amirite?

Contact mic on an apiary, that's an old stockhausen trick cmon guys. Zzzzzzzzzzz

Foreground: a shirtless, ripped Djong Yun

to be fair, that pic does come up if you GIS Popol Vuh Band, and it is misattributed in the link as being Can

https://mousique.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/de-krautrock-archieven/

heh heh, it's a picture of Can

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:37 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i THOUGHT that was damo, but it's kind of small on my monitor

i saw that popul vuh werner herzog soundtracks box set for cheap a few years ago and i really regret not snapping it up

shit makes me feel immortal

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-LN
what other greek music sounds like this??!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSXxrLcSV4

(for comparison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-sShP-TA4

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."

(xp) I see what you mean!

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 :)

Hasn't he been playing with Amon Duul II recently?
He's mentioned here anyway : http://www.amonduul.de/main.html
WARNING website is Flash hell that will start playing music when it loads

ok well that's good news
i guess they only play european festivals?
also that is truly a hellish website

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

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 record
today!

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=176
still pricey, but...

thanks for the heads up!

New reissues are all in at Fusetron, in case anybody was wondering. $31/32 for everything but the Nosferatu double, which is $45.

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

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 Lachen
04:55 Hungern und Dursten
11:59 Hungern und Dursten (2nd take)
17:48 Willig Arm
20:47 Leid Klagen

yeah think that's the same thing (minus the interview that was on the mp3 download)...

I wonder where this person got their Fichelscher info or if it's pure speculation

aw, I love the vocals on Seligpreisung!

I feel like that album could be dubbed onto a Peanuts TV special and work really well.

btw yes that is the same bootleg referenced earlier in the thread

as noted by JoeStork on another thread, there's a lot more Popol Vuh on Spotify now

Florian, 1968.

https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de/sites/deutsche-kinemathek.de/files/public/images/bildergalerien/08_200925_27_31_07.jpg

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?

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)

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.

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).

every reissue makes me hope that maybe this will bring Daniel Fichelscher out of the shadows. he's only 64?!?!

and Djong Yun too for that matter
is she still in North Korea?!

She's in North Korea? Why?

I think she was taking care of family or something? I read she was in Pyongyang :(

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?

somehow really getting into this band after many years. and THANK YOU Dadaismus for the reviews upthread. I wish ILM was still like that

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?

just about everything past In den Gärten Pharaos sounds nothing like it.

xp
nothing 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

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.

Now that is an interesting fact!