who is the american popol vuh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAWRyEbQfXg

NOT AMERICAN

this question is flawed but for a reasonable facsimile of the herz au glass/heart of glass guitar/drum sound and song structure, this lanterna song comes about as close as i've heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NSJcuJQM4o

the album cover even looks like guitar-era PV
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aOCZ4yRfL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

For more female vocal focus + the darker side of PV, i think this cover of a traditional Greek song has a PV-like feel
https://soundcloud.com/casualacidtearecordings/greece-kaike-ena-sholio-by

and that's all I've found so far!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xB3eVOSgBA

^ Mountains

La Lechera, you might like this mix that Koen from Mountains put together:

http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-084-koen-holtkamp/

Thx! I'll check it out :)

Some of Steven R. Smith's stuff verges on Popol Vuh. Ulaan Khol's numbered albums specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4XTU8rl7qg

Gets fairly noisy but reminds me of the early PV stuff and a little of the heart of glass soundtrack.

Some of that Espers II album reminded me of PV, only listened to it once or twice mind. First PV album I ever heard was "Bruder des Schattens" (this was years ago, pre-internet, when I knew nothing about anything) and I remember thinking it had a sort of Velvet Underground vibe about it! But then I thought the same about Steeleye Span the first time I heard them (and they definitely reminded me of Popol Vuh also!)

Hmm, Espers II doesn't have a PV feel for me at all -- I like it, but not the same. Did anyone listen to that Lanterna song? It really sounds like PV!
I dled that mix-- not surprised to see Peter Michael Hamel in there!

Who is Ulaan Khol? Around 3:45 it really starts going! Def looking into that one.

Hamel looks like such a mensch:

http://sleepingthrills.s3.amazonaws.com/styles/article_image/s3/images/2013/04/peter_michael_hamel.jpg

Ulaan Khol is Steven R Smith who does stuff under lots of different names but mostly as an associate of the Jewelled Antler guys I think. I have some Steven R Smith stuff and some Hala Strana, but I don't really know his other things.

Just listening to Lanterna now and yes, I see what you mean. Sounds a bit like earlier Black Sun Ensemble too, that kind of a mystical desert vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf47pWO5sjc

This BSE song is a bit Popol Vuh-y actually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXLHNxxq0JM

so is most of steven r smith's stuff like this or just that one? i just googled and it didn't really bring up a whole lot of useful info outside of this http://worstward.bandcamp.com/ <--- this is all him right?

that's him alright, he's quite a productive guy!

ooooh that BSE song is good!

of all those srs things I have 'autumn is the end' which i remember enjoying and 'these villages' by hala strana which has more of an eastern european folk vibe iirc

ned is the main bse man around here btw, i kind of went off them once the main guy started singing on all their records

that one s/t album with the goldfish on the front is 100% classic though

ok thx!

guaranteed terrible vocal-free, just fiddle and guitar and the endless vastness of space

doesn't seem to be easily found online but discogs have the vinyl for cheap:
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1324143&ev=rb

i'm listening to autumn is the end and wow, so good
QUESTION -- are there albums where he (SRS) plays with drums?

pretty sure hala strana has drums, but i am so not an expert on this guy

ok can confirm -- hala strana def has drums. this guy is awesome!

Love Hala Strana.

Steve Tibbets was the American PV IMO (I dunno if he does stuff anymore-- I'm referring to his ECM albums).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWlnnyqoiM

you all heard this, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LOoNVhSpzk#t=2224

Years ago walking home from work I would periodically see this LaMonte Young looking dude playing this stain glass patterned butterfly shaped electric guitar through this (presumably) battery powered amp. He had the crappy built in amp chorus and reverb cranked all the way up, playing drifty noodly stuff with a cigarillo in his mouth. Anyway, I'm pretty sure this dude was the American Popol Vuh.

tlg -- no, but it's lovely! where did you find it?

i have come to the conclusion that steven r smith is the american popol vuh,

it just got reissued on a new label called sacred summits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8z4JOh3bo

^ some nice french Popol Vuhlery afoot here from Isengrind

for all american popol vuh seekers, i strongly recommend chris forsyth's paranoid cat. the first and last songs in particular (paranoid cat 1-3 and anniversary day) for pure LT-LN outtakes. amazing! beautiful.

haha I took this video a couple days ago

http://instagram.com/p/lNiCeTIJC3/

That kid is otm! Wish I had bought the lp at the show but the merch table was unmanned and I was embarrassed to ask anyone. Stupid!!

what's stupid is I saw that LP at the record store for $7(!) and didn't buy it then went back bc I was stupid and it was gone. then I went back weeks later and I found it stashed somewhere else in the store entirely. like in the techno section iirc? Odd. I bought it.

it's so good though right?! paranoid cat 1-3 sounds so much like LT-LN/Heart of Glass era PV to me.

it's pretty incredible! I saw the forsyth self-titled recently but didnt get it. Probably should do that. Still have to get solar motel.

Wow, I'll have to look for that. I like Solar Motel a lot, but that's on some motorik Neu!/Rhys Chatham tip.

is robbie basho the american popol vuh???

I'd say at the heart of both artist's endeavors that's pretty close. He has the intent and seriousness of Florian Fricke's mysticism. A friend who I tried playing both Basho and Popol Vuh for responded in a similar way to each, something about those guys are serious hippies.

did robbie basho have a daniel fichelscher?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yZmXeACG_A

Does anyone here like Atman? The Polish band that were on Drunken Fish that became the Magic Carpathians? Just listened to 'Personal Forest' again for the first in years and it sounded a lot better to me than I remembered. Think that listening to PV and other stuff in the interim has given me a much better understanding of where they were coming from.

No I guess he had no daniel fichelscher, the popol vuh record that brings to mind Basho the most is Yoga which isn't exactly a popol vuh record. But when I first heard it years ago it was sort of a revelation to me. Now that I know the story behind it, I still like it a lot. You would think there are more home recordings laying around somewhere?

Who is the Italian Popol Vuh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XnZ2fhaNs

but with more 80s new age maybe and occasional vaguely John Cale/Talk Talk feeling vocals

Gigi really needs his own thread, he keeps popping up all over the place on ilm

Does he? Dang, I thought I was bringing some deep cuts here. I'd be down for a thread though.

balearic crew are down with gigi and all the other people that music from memory have been reissuing

oh wait, there's a thread already:

Tell me what I need to know about Gigi Masin

Dang! Bookmarked for later learning.

well there's not a lot there tbh

not the first time i've been impressed by how ahead of the curve jaxon was though

I was pretty slow on this album but the Mark McGuire record ‘Beyond Belief’ from a couple of years back has got some beautiful and very Vuh-ish tracks on it

Have been working my way through his albums and they’re a lot more varied than I would’ve anticipated and that one is definitely my favourite so far

has he stopped singing? the last time i listened to his music, he was singing and it was not my cup of tea. i like his guitar stuff though -- he definitely has an ear for the sublime.

there is some singing on it yes. not loads - most of its instrumental, but I think I quite like his voice anyhow

Still pink floyd

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