s/d popol vuh

I am still grateful to la lèchera for hooking me up with the Spalax edition of Letzte Tage which to me sounds much better than the remasters

:) that one remains one of my all time fave albums

i am satisfied with my current state of Popol Vuh releases

I have everything up to "Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts", what else should I check out? Cobra Verde? Fitzcarraldo?

and man you wanna talk about a discographical mess, crosscheck the various bonus tracks between editions if you dare

TBH I almost never listen to those two but I do like Agape-Agape a LOT

ty!

Sei still, wisse ich bin is really good too, imo

Yeah I dig that one quite a bit, was happy I found it.

noted, hey the 2017 Wah Wah version of that isn't insanely expensive!

yea I mean Aguirre alone - a bunch of Side A is alternate takes from Einsjager, Side B is a long discarded track from the Moog era called "Vergegenwärtigung", but later editions replaced it with 3 other tracks from later albums, though on the CD it's still one long track called "Vergegenwärtigung". some editions have "Aguirre III" and others have the 3-part "Spirit of Peace" on it. very little of this was actually in the film, though one of the tunes that was (the bit at the end of the first title track) isn't even listed on the sleeve. so what, exactly, would the definitive edition be??

This is from Agape-Agape and has the slow burn propulsion I love in this band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WMsM-c4bY

Agape-Agape is good but the production is just so lo-fi, I don't know what that was about.

Sei still, wisse ich bin is really good too, imo

^^^

fourth'd

just got the 2nd box. wow Seligpreisung is really good. sounds like Magma attempting Hosianna Mantra. sure wish Djong Yun was on it though!

I love Seligpreisung. It sounds to me like a jammier Obscured By Clouds-era Pink Floyd. Fricke's vocals are definitely the weakest thing about it. I don't actually mind them that much, but I would have preferred Djong Yun to sing it too. But it's all good because we have Das Hohelied Salomos for that. I recently treated myself to a clean OG German vinyl pressing of that one for my birthday, and I couldn't be happier with it. I love everything about that record, down to the whimsical/menacing cover art--spiritual psych perfection.

i adore that record.

hosianna mantra

This thread is ilm at its best innit: knowledgeable, obsessive, in love with its subject in a way that can only make you go wandering.

Don't think it's actually linked here, but ended up at the 1996 Edw1n P0uncey interview this morning. https://popolvuh.nl/archive/bibliography/34-archive/bibliography/180-my-strange-life-florian-fricke-interview

That's a great read, thank you!

irl lol:

FF - Sometimes I think about this. There's only one person in Germany I like (except for Gerhard!), to sit together with him. It's Boris Becker! He's a good man. My son knows him. And he's sung for the disco

Hehehe.

Also liked:

GA - Have you ever been in England, Florian?

FF - Yes, I was very early in London in the 1960s .. .l met some people, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The London 'underground' scene ... the Pink Floyd.

EP - Did you see Yoko in her gallery?

FF - No, it was private. It was terrible. The doors had no locks on them; there was a chair. The chair was half. I had claustrophobia. I need closed doors. And so the first doors I (whoosh) opened them up and then no possible more come out this terrible woman out of the room.