s/d popol vuh

I would totally see a PV tribute act -- don't have the skills to be in one by anyone's standards though. I could be the svengali behind it, I suppose.

Would need a visual component too -- I'd like to see some National Geographic cutting room floor nature stuff from the 70s and 80s? Can you imagine?! There must be a ton of material out there.

i'm in the process of recording a version of "cortez the killer" that is (hopefully) in the vein of the vuh's aguirre sdtk. it sounds rad in my mind. don't know if it'll come out rad. but it'll be 20-25 minutes, I think.

Would listen!

it might be my life's work.

I would totally see a PV tribute act -- don't have the skills to be in one by anyone's standards though

You only need to know one chord for a lot of their stuff!

I suppose if someone told me what to do, I could do it. I've always appreciated the drumming.

Now that's difficult

tribute act would definitely have to dress in these. and perform underwater.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6016/5943113488_39c77754e5.jpg

25min cortez/aguirre hybrid TOTALLY sounds rad!

can't you just hear it? and doesn't it sound sooo good? PS NO ONE STEAL MY IDEA.

it also offers a familiar context (cortez the killer familiar to all kinds of people not likely to pick up or even listen to a PV record)

brills, now you gotta record it!!

*anticipates furiously*

everyone hold your breath. it's happening.
gonna try to get this guy to guest on it. actually both of these guys. somehow.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9FzQXECMKS1YxrVTWl6rpc0GNvPEvAbdUW_uNgboI436rYscfWQ

hold my breath or hold my horses?

both

title track on hosianna mantra might have the most majestic guitar solo ever

Dadaismus' reviews upthread are all-time

A couple of weeks ago I listened to all the albums 1971-1977 and then had to listen to them again, and then again ... I think Einsjäger und Siebenjäger is my favorite right now

what dadaismus did up top is inspiring. this band deserves that quality of attention

Yes, those reviews are GREAT and I refer to them a lot!

BTW Dadaismus = Tom D.

I listen to Popol Vuh a lot. Maybe too much. It always feels like not enough.

let me explain

1) what dadaismus did up top is inspiring. this band deserves that quality of attention
super duper otm. writing about popol vuh seems like it would be really hard to do, and he has done it so well and with such attention to the best details. i came to popol vuh sort of by accident, and decided it was something i should explore further, but only after maybe 10 years had passed from the first time i heard them, tangerine dream, shit like that. when i read his reviews, it was gratifying to find that his favorites were also my favorites (Brüder des Schattens, Söhne des Lichts and Herz au Glas in particular) and that there were favorites I hadn't heard yet.

2) remember that "listen to popol vuh recording while sitting in a church" event discussed upthread? i thought some time would pass and i would realize that this is a silly idea. instead, time has passed and i find myself still thinking that this sounds like an enjoyable activity, minus the people plinking their plastic beer cups.

anyway, --> actual question ----> recommended books/articles containing interesting information about popol vuh? i haven't done much reading about them tbh.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone! I'm no music critic but just felt the need at the time to share my thoughts on some great music. I don't know of any books on Popol Vuh. There are articles 'n' stuff online if you look, some of which are useful for reminding you that Florian Fricke et al were not a bunch of head-in-the-clouds mystics (I remember reading one where Danny Fichelscher was drunk and being obnoxious). First article I ever saw on Popol Vuh was in an old issue of Sounds by Sandy Robertson, an interview from ca. 1980.

I did not realize a "soundtracks" PV box set had come out

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K%2B%2BrahEoL._SS400_.jpg

Weird I just listened to aguire this morning at breakfast, lovely album

popol vuh rules.
still need to get that soundtracks box. i've got most of it already, but it looks so niiiiiice.

i know, me too! i was (am, i guess) holding out for a vinyl version but i would really like to see the book.
i will look up that article you mentioned, tom. thanks.

i lucked into a weird pressing of aguire at a garage sale for $4 :)

will admit that i was envious when i read that upthread

i've only even seen a PV record one time, and that was aguirre in a tiny jazz store in paris, and it was really expensive!
actually that's not true -- i have this because someone gave it to me (thanks jeff/jenny!)
http://www.amarcordrecords.it/images/rockeurope/rockpicturespopolvuhherzogre.jpg

The SPV remasterings are not all better than the Spalax CDs. IIRC I still prefer the Spalax releases for Herz aus Glas and Letzte Tage Letzte Nacht. Would have to go compare again...

I have that soundtracks box and the book is kinda mostly fluff, unfortunately.

some nice pics tho.

they ketpt the same terrible remaster packaging for the individual cases (identical booklets, giant, weird fricke pic) as well.

is this the article?

http://www.popolvuh.nl/archsounds1981

otherwise the only thing i can find (maybe i am not searching well?) is this

http://www.enso-on.com/2008/09/popol-vuh-florian-fricke-1981-interview.html

'A CLEARER VUH-POINT' XD

oh why not

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_x0YsFNqhV0M/SN_WuaR3mQI/AAAAAAAACa4/DP8l34QQ0wk/s1600-h/sounds+popol+vuh+bb.jpg

oops that image must have been too big

@Jon, both the Spalax and SPV versions of Letzte Tage Letzte Nacht are equally and atrociously muddy. Maybe the original tapes were that way? I still have the Spalax for Herz Aus Glas and it's good to know that I didn't need to bother with the "upgrade."

I re-read that 1981 article last night when I couldn't sleep, and this stuck out in particular because I am on a Herzog kick.

Both Werner Herzog and Florian Fricke have a vision that is almost religious in its intensity but lately a divergence has appeared in their ways of seeing.
Florian has no time for blissed-out hippy-trippy muzak and feels that it’s not enough to show a phoney happiness all the time, and yet despite the awesome powers at play in the light and shade of Popol Vuh he does not see himself as being at one with his friend.
Herzog revels in conflict: When he was refused permision to unleash thousands of rats on the town of Delft for a scene in ‘Nosferatu’, he met the truck bringing the rats back with a tractor on which he perched himself, forcing the truck to go in the opposite direction.
“Too much the darkness”, says Florian.

too much the darkness indeed!

was working on my vuh/cortez the killer cover w/ my two year old this morning. think we've got the keyboard sound down!
at the rate i'm going this project will be completed sometime in 2015.

it has been three months
where is our cortez the killer?!

at the rate i'm going this project will be completed sometime in 2015 2018.

;_;

i hope the song is three years long

at least that long.
until then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjBtHVOyFE

i guess that'll do.

just out of curiosity to anyone who would bother to click on this thread:

assuming you already went through the active devouring phase, how frequently do you listen to popol vuh right now?

me? 1-3x per week probably, a lot for any one band by my standards. this has been going on for years. that's why i asked.

i end up listening to them whenever this thread is bumped. right now!

weekly and often multiple times during the week. ususally makes my evening commute bearable

I only listen to them once every few months. If I had more than two of their lps I would probably listen to them more.

Yeah, once every few months for me too. Always on vinyl. Faves are the first three, Affenstunde, In den Gärten Pharaos and Hosianna Mantra. I will always keep coming back to them.

you are people who know how it's done.

1-3x per week here, usually first album of the morning