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.
― ian, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah it does - i ran out of DL's though before i could get it
― 69, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jon Lewis, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i need an LP copy of the aguirre soundtrack, if anyone has one to spare. even a crappy bootleg! ("need")
― ian, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Classic ILM thread!
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 March 2008 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON-CogKcfk
=)
― am0n, Monday, 31 March 2008 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q19C220Vvo
― am0n, Monday, 31 March 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks!
― ian, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 14:20 (sixteen years ago) link
kyrie is definitely top 5 vuh jams
― 69, Wednesday, 2 April 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
we jammed that one at your place after the FMU fair!
, ian
If ever a band warranted a box set, it's this one
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 13 June 2008 06:21 (fifteen years ago) link
ahh, man, i'm floatin in the pharao's garten.
― LOUT of ICHOR (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 October 2008 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i got a copy of aguirre sdtrk a few weeks ago.lovin it.
the really do need a box set.
― ian, Sunday, 26 October 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
also, some of the recurring themes on "coeur de verre" remind me of "hiroshima" by flower travellin' band.
― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
What albums that on? "Hiroshima", I mean.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Friday, 14 November 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
"made in japan"
― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 14 November 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Pashmina, Friday, 14 November 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Pashmina, Friday, 14 November 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
― craig sager (eman), Friday, 19 December 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
"wo bist du?" (einsjager bonus track) sounds a LOT like six organs of admittance. (this is a fantastic thread, by the way)
― kamerad, Sunday, 15 February 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― ian, Monday, 16 February 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been really into this stuff lately. it's totally fitting these guys would inspire those painstaking, loving descriptions dadaismus supplies up above
― kamerad, Monday, 16 February 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, feller did a great job of those write ups.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Monday, 16 February 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― kamerad, Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I have been tempted but not been to one
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Please go and then tell us all about it.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.britevents.com/img/event_pictures/80576.jpg
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
As long as it's not full of Goths and hippies
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
... nah, that wouldn't be so bad
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was wondering: who goes to such an event? That's part of the report I expect, btw.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i don't know if i like this idea or not
― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
... there's even a bootleg of a gig!
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4405098082_cdeab708f8_o.jpg
― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Hope the T dream series stops before the 1980s era.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I don't know, some of that's OK too
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
How about the 90s?
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't be silly
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a couple live boots, one is "1973 baumberg kirche germany" and the other is from 1976 with some live roberto cacciapaglia(!)
― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I've got those, but second is not Popol Vuh at all?
― Whirlwind Bromance (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
how did everyone do just sitting there still for so long? was there audible fidgeting? was the music really loud?
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:48 (thirteen 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! 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.
― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link