damn I never knew that about the Ya Ho Wha box, that is disappointing
there's a great Vinyl On Demand box set (German Punk And Wave) with all-German liners, but the label at least put out a pdf translation
― sleeve, Saturday, 28 October 2017 18:35 (six years ago) link
Well, this has probably got something to do with it. Some musical/singing/breathing therapy stuff.
http://www.popolvuh.nl/d/archafa1995
― winnebago taco, Saturday, 28 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
taco i was at that roedelius show too! i wonder if i already know you?!? i loled when he rhymed "nature" with "creature"
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 28 October 2017 21:58 (six years ago) link
The German-language verse was just as silly. It was the equivalent of "I saw you on the train/And our eyes, they met/You've since been on my brain/Do you have a pet?" But I doubt we know one another. I think I know like three people irl who know who Roedelius is, and none of them were in attendance.
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 29 October 2017 01:39 (six years ago) link
But if you ever see some dude who looks like he's just dying to talk about the Vuh, by all means give him/me a shout!
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 29 October 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
I was at Lands End National Park in San Francisco last weekend, where it was a beautiful sunny day and I listened to Einsjäger & Siebenjäger on my headphones amongst the cypress trees.
I guess it's not really from that album originally, but Wo Bist Du? is an all-time great rambling tune, it makes any straight path into a labyrinth that pleases and soothes a troubled mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bguDZdGj9gI
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
you are a person who knows how to live, f hazel!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:31 (six years ago) link
Wow, that is a great track. And it's not on my earlier CD issue of E&S (damn!) so I'll need to find a copy of the expanded remaster.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
Wah Wah for the win there, nice of them to add those two tracks to the vinyl reissue
― sleeve, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
xp that track was originally released on their "Die Nacht Der Seele" album.
is the version that was added to E&S a different recording?
― new noise, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
haha, I was thinking "LL would approve of this choice" when I decided what to listen to! Last night I was lying on picnic bench in a state park in Arkansas looking up at the stars through towering pines and shivering, but I was listening to Music for the Age of Miracles by the Clientele. It wasn't a Popol Vuh moment.
As for Wo Bist Du? the bonus track on the E&S SPV CD (the one I have) is identical to the one on Die Nacht Der Seele, as far as I can tell. Why it ended up as a bonus track on E&S I cannot fathom.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 27 November 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
i was having religious / sacred kinds of feelings listening to hosianna mantra while driving through the mojave over the weekend. i think it just repeated 4-5 times because i couldn't think of anything else i wanted to listen to.
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
that sounds dreamy
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
See America by Popol Vuh!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
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!
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 15:52 (eight years ago)
Hahaha.
I went to this. Probably a very crappy idea to begin with but the 'bar' was just one of the cuntiest things possible in the circumstances. In the same (reverberant) room as we were supposed be quietly listening to this music (In Den Gärten Pharaos) the guy was literally tossing bottles into a bin of other bottles.
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
ha i was just reading this thread earlier today, been listening to a bunch of the 70s albums this week
― marcos, Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
good move
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 31 May 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
has this been posted before? new to me: https://sanjindumisic.com/florian-fricke-1981-interview-by-sandy-robertson/
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
Great interview!
I love his explanation of the band's name:
"It describes the music," says Florian. "The good soul of the good person, the feeling. Like now people call themselves the B52s and you know what the music will be like".
Presumably he was thinking about Cold War bombers rather than beehive wigs
― Brad C., Saturday, 2 June 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KQjcriu.gif
my secret travelogue for popol vuh fans part 4: listening to Im Garten des Ruhe, a bonus track from Die Nacht der Seele, on the 148th-floor outside observation deck of the Burj Khalifa. we stayed late until everyone else left and lay along the glass looking at the city fade into unlit desert
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 9 June 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
best travelogue, never stop!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 10 June 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
heard "aguirre 1" playing between sets at a show recentlyi looked around to see who else noticed and saw nothing :-/(this doesn't mean no one noticed, just that PV fans don't tend to emote publicly, lol)
this is the second time i've heard PV between sets at a show. last time was probably about 8 years ago.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
You mean no-one punched the air and went, "Well, awwllllriiiiight!!!"
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:22 (five years ago) link
aside from me, no
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:26 (five years ago) link
ha i think i would have given a big smile. "aguirre!!"
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
the correct reaction is to pull a plush toy monkey out of your bag, and then loudly recite the soliloquy at the end of Aguirre about how you're going to marry your daughter and found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen, then shout WHO IS WITH ME
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
the worst possible ending to that would be that it was not actually a song from Aguirre and was actually from Nosferatu and you have to crawl away and change your props real quick
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
Lol
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
now i am second guessing which track it was but seriously, i knew within a few notes WHO it was and that is what mattered to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
all of a sudden I can see this as DJT's next SOTU speech
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
i put on Einsjäger & Siebenjäger at the bookstore where i work this morning, my boss came in and asked what jam band it was - "the Dead?" - i told him it was a German guy who did the soundtracks for Werner Herzog's movies and he said "keep it up" lol.
― macropuente (map), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
lol yes my wife has also mistaken PV albums for the Dead
― sleeve, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
more than just one guy!! still active in my quest to get fichelscher the respect he deserves
i do see some upsetting similarities between klaus kinski & DJT now that i think about it
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
respect for the distinctive PV sound of the albums he was on, i meandjong yun tooi wonder if she is still in north korea?!!?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
I made a painting of Djong Yun once but it turned out so badly I threw it away. I must attempt again one day.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Speaking of Daniel Fichelscher, is there actually any difference at all between Morgengruss on E&S and Moregengruss II on Aguirre?
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
idk -- i would have to listen to them side by side and am not prepared to do that atmreport back and tell us!
that's such a good song they put it on 2 albums just in case
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
Yes, the second has more, or different at least, (electric) lead guitar on it, it's not as good.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
it sounds to me like no, but all I did was sync them up and let them play, if the latter has an electric lead it might just be overpowering the former
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
the backing tracks seem identical tho
playing along with that song is one of life's small joys
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
Der Ruf from Herz aus Glas is also great Fichelscher, would be OK with like a 29-minute version of it
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
the guitar tone make it sound like a song off the Real Ramona
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 05:37 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah herz aus glas could have every song extended to lp side length and I’d be happy
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
i still haven't been able to find that interview that used to be on youtube -- the one where fichelscher is basically talking to the camera and he tells the story of how he brought his bongos to a music festival as a teen and joined amon duul II. it was the closest i have come to learning more about the popol vuh history/sound/process than i have found anywhere else and i can't find it!
one thing that stuck with me was when he picked up his guitar and just started noodling a little -- that's when i realized that what i loved about PV was at least 50% (prob more) fichelscher.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
is that the one where he's shirtless and the interview pauses so he can go get cigarettes?
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
Yes, he's absolutely not what you might expect someone in Popol Vuh to be like, he's a kind of rock 'n' roll dude.
― Alan Alba (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
I was telling someone about that DF interview / monologue recently and trawled back through this thread to find out when it first appeared. I think he must have taken it down himself? Dude needs to get a memoir out there IIRC.
Is he still playing with ADII?
― Absolute Unit Delta Plus (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
last i heard he was still playing with ADII -- i have a google alert for him so i am aware of any developments and i can't say much has come through
i would like to meet/converse with him more than any other living person of that place/time (now that Jaki is gone :( ) would also enjoy a convo with irmin but i do have the can book so that's something
the info on fichelscher is so scanty -- i want him to know that there are people out here who care! so he can spill while he is still with us!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 5 July 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
Where is he living? If I find myself in Berlin this Christmas I'll look for him
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link