s/d popol vuh

there's this weird one, but it's not really a "greatest hits" or anything
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4921
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/popol-vuh.jpg
it's pretty nice though, esp. the long piano thing.

there was a 2cd "revisited and remixed" cd last year

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Revisited-Remixed-1970-99-Popol-Vuh/dp/B004UBB3QU/

1. Aguirre I Lacrima Di Rei
2. Affenstunde
3. In Den Garten Pharaos
4. Ich Mache Einen Spiegel
5. Nachts - Schnee
6. Eine Andere Welt
7. In Your Eyes
8. Train Through Time
9. Nascita
10. Bruder Des Schattens
11. Through Pain To Heaven
12. Kailash: Last Village

plus a disk of remixes by people like Mika Vainio, Mouse On Mars, Stereolab...

(also on amazon.com)

I listen all the time! This is a great thread, it's what pushed me to really dig into the catalog.

Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte is the one for me, followed by Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin (the production!!!!) although they're all really great in different ways. They also all kind of blend together in the best way possible for me, like they only actually have one song that is 10 albums long or something!

there's always 1:19 for this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL8E3Q5iZsY

I think about that sequence every time I listen to PV. I love that little tune... it turns up in several places in the discography. (also that's my favorite Herzog film).

I like the mastering of the old Spalax version of Letzte Tage more than the 21st century remastered one available now. I hope I come across a used copy of the Spalax LT, LN someday.

I just checked and I have the Spalax version. There's one that sounds different than this one?

My LT, LN is a vinyl reissue on "Think Progressive." It is a little muddy sounding? But I love it.

i'm always kinda wondering whether my popol vuh stuff sounds muddy n murky because that's just the way it was recorded or whether it's been transferred in a less than optimal way. but it doesn't really matter in the end.

It's def among my favorite Herzog films too btw. The Bruno years were really really really good.

Mine sounds clear, but it's a CD -- I wish someone would reissue all of this stuff and give it the treatment and also outtakes etc.

(on vinyl i mean -- years of looking have yielded me zilch in terms of pv lps aside from the ONE aguirre soundtrack i found that was 40 euros, ie too much)
maybe this is naive, i dunno. but honestly i would take cutting room floor scraps of PV for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and spend my hard-earned dollars to do so.

The one which is in print in a couple of different incarnations is from the label run by Fricke's son, that's the remaster that has been available for a decade or so. It sounds like it was decently mastered from vinyl. The Spalax sounds like it was mastered from the tapes.

There were one or two others in the remastered line which were mastered from vinyl IIRC. Heart of Glass mebbe? I have the Spalax for that one so I'm not sure.

music from 'woodcarver steiner'

http://www.box.com/shared/f612eh1qsr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLGcd9Az9w

Awesome!

cool! the whole movie is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liYnvIBLMBQ

I've been listening to the soundtracks boxset very much over the past couple of weeks, and I think Aguirre is the key.

hey thanks am0n!

also, I killed like three hours at work today reading about ski jumping after watching that.

music from 'woodcarver steiner'

hell yeah! thanks am0n

amazing how well the music fits to the ski jumping picures in slow motion. thanks, am0n, great stuff.

http://www.popolvuh.nl/files/baubravo72_1.jpg

... photo from this site which all Vuhheads should visit

Holger Trülzsch, as well as being a mean bongo player, seems to have been a photographer who did a lot of work with Veruschka, the jaw-dropping 60s model, who of course donned a false beard to appear as Jesus in Florian Fricke's "Sei Still wisse ich bin"... Munich, incestuous little scene or what?

... also I noticed the other day that Florian's wife (soon to be wife?), Bettina, was a production assistant on Herzog's "Even Dwarfs Started Small"

This is going to be the summer of Popol Vuh.

I approve of this ^^^ message!

One Vuh-y Summer
http://www.hollywoodteenmovies.com/Cusack&Demi.jpg

I just heard "In Den Garten Pharoahs" (however its spelled), and, whoa. "Vuh" sounds like the music is coming at you from a mile away, just this organ *WRRREEEEEEEEEEAKKK*. Is this album good?

It is... for some reason I almost never reach for it though? It's like the path PV were not destined to take

YES it is so good. I find it colder than some of the other stuff but still enjoy it frequently.

I'm just having trouble figuring it out now. You know how some albums are completely forgettable when you hear them quietly, but earth-shattering when you hear them loud?

Best on headphones, preferably while lying still and prone but ymmv.

class dude

http://www.popolvuh.nl/drupal-5.5/files/ff_sei_still_0.jpg

also, some of the recurring themes on "coeur de verre" remind me of "hiroshima" by flower travellin' band.

3 years later and I've eventually heard the Flower Travellin' Band track and it reminds me of... the 2nd track on "Letze Tage, Letzte Nachte"

oooooOOOOOOOOooooo it totally sounds like that but super fuzzed out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5FZxRgRqM

Oh jeez I completely forgot to play any Popol Vuh on my krautrock spotlight radio program last night.
I suppose I don't really think of PV in the same light as Can, Neu!, Faust, and Amon Duul.
Still, it's weird that I completely forgot about them. There aren't enough minutes in a two hour radio program to play all the German Prog classics, anyway.

hey brooklyn zoo, the record grouch as a bunch of popol vuh records on the wall right now. i haven't stopped by yet, this is on a tip from my man keegan

my heart started racing a little when i read that

awwww la lech! i can post a list here later after i go by and if anyone wants anything i will buy & ship.

i think he said they had 5 or 6.

I want to start a band that does tranced-out covers of Abba songs called Popol Voulez-Vous

IAN -- please! yes please!

I suppose I don't really think of PV in the same light as Can, Neu!, Faust, and Amon Duul.

All these bands were so different; I can't really think of what the "prototypical" Krautrock band would be. I don't think Amon Duul even fits with the other three.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVo6CDPzbis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CXFU6PGUI

I want to have a popol vuh music video contest for students focusing on finding and editing archival footage
how awesome would that be to judge?!

A pretty great essay from Head Heritage on Aguirre:
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/popol-vuh-music-from-the-film-aguirre

i read that a while ago, it was a really great essay!!

pv must be the most powerful band in the world to inspire hyperbole of this magnitude, but i cannot argue with his last sentence at all.

Throughout this juxtaposition, Eternity sits above on her fat and absorptive throne of royal jelly not watching but anticipating all manifold, inevitable outcomes without a care and still it continues in its sad and joyful caresses. It’s beyond words. It’s beyond worlds. Play it at my funeral and I will be released.

this one is good too
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/popol-vuh-affenstunde

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/66609_448065677609_2509972_n.jpg

Will never get tired of seeing that photo, nor of listening to Popol Vuh of all eras save City Raga.