s/d popol vuh

emusic has k-vuh.

Even Cobra Verde.

It's all in the recent remaster versions, which are not always superior to previous editions, but mostly fine.

Hosianna Mantra is probably my favorite, though it doesn't really compare to any of the others (not rock, not electronic, less clay binding it to the ground)

i need an LP copy of the aguirre soundtrack, if anyone has one to spare. even a crappy bootleg! ("need")

Classic ILM thread!

However, have heard good reports on "Messa Di Orfeo", which is from 1999ish, have never actually seen a copy tho.

Finally got to hear this. It's nice, not an out-and-out classic, but very worthwhile and good that the last thing Florian recorded (or the last that was released) was something of a return to his roots: experimental, electronic and, unlike most latter day Popol Vuh, not a misguided (or misGuidoed) attempt to be down with the kidz. A live recording I believe.

Also heard "Yoga", which is also a nice album but really has nothing much to do with Popol Vuh. Apparently it was recorded by Florian Fricke, and he may have played harmonium on it, but it was released without his permission.

Next stop is to finally get to hear "Die Erde und ich sind eins", an album of vocal chants, which was a private release, credited solely to Florian Fricke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON-CogKcfk

=)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q19C220Vvo

Thanks!

kyrie is definitely top 5 vuh jams

we jammed that one at your place after the FMU fair!

, ian

If ever a band warranted a box set, it's this one

ahh, man, i'm floatin in the pharao's garten.

i got a copy of aguirre sdtrk a few weeks ago.
lovin it.

the really do need a box set.

goddamn, i don't think there's ever been a band where i've said to myself more often "ah, this is the last one i need!" and been wrong every time. i mean, i THINK i've got everything, then i notice how many soundtracks they did. and "yoga." and that guido hieronymous shit, though i doubt i need those.

also, some of the recurring themes on "coeur de verre" remind me of "hiroshima" by flower travellin' band.

What albums that on? "Hiroshima", I mean.

"made in japan"

guido heironymous albs are pretty bad....

Yeah, there's a number of the piano/drums/guitar albums that are basically the same kind of stuff, probably somehat repetitive if you don't dig PV*, but I find that I can never have too much of it, somehow.

(*If you actively dislike Popol Vuh, then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything. etc etc)

Probably said something similar upthread, but Daniel Fichelscher has got to be THE underrated "sleeper" guitarist's guitarist, how he isn't better-known is a mystery to me. I've never read an article about him in a guitar magazine once.

"wo bist du?" (einsjager bonus track) sounds a LOT like six organs of admittance. (this is a fantastic thread, by the way)

hosianna mantra really did it for me at 4am when i was drunkenly trying to settle in for bed. i dozed off and when i woke couldn't quite remember what record i had put on--it was THAT GOOD!

i've been really into this stuff lately. it's totally fitting these guys would inspire those painstaking, loving descriptions dadaismus supplies up above

Yeah, feller did a great job of those write ups.

cœur de verre is such great sunny summer sunday morning music i could listen to "blätter aus dem buch der kühnheit" on repeat sipping bloody marys till lunch

I am doing that annoying thing where a person bumps a thread just to say how much s/he loves something, but that said

I could probably listen to Popol Vuh once a day for the rest of my life and never really truly get tired of hearing them. I listened to Brüder des Schattens the other day and I'm still thinking about how much I enjoyed it.

Has anyone been to those events in London where one of their albums is played in an ancient church or something like that? I see updates on facebook but I am in no position to attend any events in London. Just wondering.

I have been tempted but not been to one

Please go and then tell us all about it.

http://www.britevents.com/img/event_pictures/80576.jpg

As long as it's not full of Goths and hippies

... nah, that wouldn't be so bad

Yeah, I was wondering: who goes to such an event? That's part of the report I expect, btw.

I went to the first one (Affenstunde and In Den Garten Pharoahs), once we got over the slight strangeness of the situation it was very nice - good sound system, candles, mmm. Bit of a strange thing to pay £5 for but until Daniel Fichelscher plays it live again (doubtful - did they ever even play live in the first place?) it'll have to do.

haha i don't know if i like this idea or not

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vTFpbd2yEbw/S7CoEs6kYYI/AAAAAAAAABs/LiL_risJSAs/s1600/official-pic.jpg

did they ever even play live in the first place?

Yes. Fricke/Fichelscher/Djong Yun line-up, I believe.

Who goes? Um, some middle-aged record collector types (had to move to a different part of the church to get away from their "witty" sardonic comments and beer breath), a few Hoxton hipsters, dunno really. Didn't see any goths. No psychobillies either.

... there's even a bootleg of a gig!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4405098082_cdeab708f8_o.jpg

Hope the T dream series stops before the 1980s era.

Oh I don't know, some of that's OK too

How about the 90s?

Don't be silly

i have a couple live boots, one is "1973 baumberg kirche germany" and the other is from 1976 with some live roberto cacciapaglia(!)

I've got those, but second is not Popol Vuh at all?

how did everyone do just sitting there still for so long? was there audible fidgeting? was the music really loud?

The music wasn't very loud, the worst noise pollution came from the back of the hall where they were selling cans of beer - lots of popping, clanking and fizzing. Problem solved by moving nearer the front! I had a similarly strange feeling at a Messiaen organ recital in Westminster Abbey a couple of years ago, as the organist was obviously hidden away, resulting in a "where do I look?" conundrum. The audience were better behaved at that one though, and they weren't selling beers at the back of the Abbey either, which helped.

I've got those, but second is not Popol Vuh at all?

really? def sounds like them

http://www.popolvuh.nl/?q=pvlive

In 1975 they visited again Italy for a concert at the University ‘La Statale’ of Milan, somewhere in september. The concert was promoted by the 'Gong' magazine (a magazine about progressive-experimental rock), after R.U. Kaiser established an agreement with the PDU label for licensing the Ohr/Pilz/DKK records in Italy.
The concert was opened by a very young Roberto Cacciapaglia, who played a part of 'Sonanze'. For this occasion Popol Vuh consisted of: Florian Fricke (piano and voice), Daniel Fichelscher (guitars) and Renate Knaup (vocals and percussion).
There exists a tape/bootleg from this concert.

Oh maybe I haven't got that one!