s/d popol vuh

listened to some of cobra verde last night, half of it sounds like a gas album without the buried house thump, fucking awesome.

that 'Train Through Time' track on the Affenstunde reissue I like better than the album!

the Aguirre bonus track is basically the title theme one more time with one extra overdub, probably not worth buying the album again if you've already got it, but I don't mind hearing it three times a sitting

very curious about that 70's Progressives compilation, someone figure out what that is and post back.

I still don't have all the 70's albums, I'm kind of spacing out the purchases at this point, savoring each new one. I just finally bought Hosianna Mantra, zero gravity

1. Wanderer Am Himmel 8:18 (?)
2. They Danced, They Laughed, As Of Old 4:50 (Agape-Agape)
3. Eastern Sunrise 4:12 (?)
4. Am Tor 3:47 (?)
5. Love-Love 5:24 (Agape-Agape)
6. Der Große Krieger 3:10 (Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte)
7. Wo Bist Du? 5:40 (Der Nacht der Seele)
8. Dort Ist Der Weg 4:29 (Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte)
9. In Deine Hände 3:01 (Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte)
10. Calling You 4:42 (?)
11. Oh Wie Nah Ist Der Weg Hinab 4:36 (Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächte)

the 4 tracks i couldn't place only had a reference to what looks like another comp. called "florian fricke"
http://www.progarchives.com//Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=6250

http://www.enricobassi.it/playsmozartfrontpic.JPG

... which I haven't heard, but I think I can imagine what it sounds like, and which I used to see a lot in one record shop in Glasgow and almost bought until I realised I was a fan not a fool

Sing, For Song Drives Away The Wolves
Shepherd's Symphony
For Me And You
City Raga

I see them around cheap-ish, but life's too short to be a completist if they really are that bad.

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

Daniel Fichelscher's guitar playing is awesome and inspirational. Remember when ILM was informative ?

messa di orfeo is actually pretty good

Still not heard it. It's Florian tho and not Guido Hieronymous clogging everything up and ruining it?

right

Messa di Orfeo (Spalax, 1998) documents a 1998 multimedia installation by Fricke (keyboards), Fiedler (video), Guillermina De Germano (vocals) and Maya Rose (vocals)

This reminds me that I gotta get Cobra Verde OST this month when my eMusic creds refresh.

The big question about Fichelscher is where the hell is he? What does he do with his hands instead of doing that Kleiner Krieger thang?

hey the search engine's finding this thread again, it was lost for a while. I was trying to wake it up to say how good Messa di Orfeo is.

the first time the recitational comes on, I thought 'ok I could listen to that woman's voice forever', and was happyy when it turns out they were thinking exactly the same thing. and the return to electronics really works -- the sampled crickets & insect harmonics are great. finally found a copy of the CD this weekend and the booklet's filled with color photos of the recording sessions & installation, including De Germano at the mic and a picture of the huge chorus.

also been listening to Hosianna Mantra a _lot_ these last few months. you really have to be in a wispy mood I guess but sometimes I think this one's my favorite

lately i've been listening to:
-bruder des schattens-sohne des lichts
-Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte
-Herz aus Glas

that mid seventies stuff reallllly does it for me.

remembered to check for pv on emusic, got four albs, and the first three tracks of hosianna mantra have been blowing my mind all day

i guess i gotta listen to that one again. My copy has a bit of surface noise and it always agitates me. Does emusic have Bruder des Schattens? That's my fave, probably.

yeah it does - i ran out of DL's though before i could get it

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!