s/d popol vuh

(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.

I actually kinda like City Raga. Realize it's only tangentially related to the classic-era stuff (about as much Deep Forest as Popol Vuh) but I kept it in my car for a long time, and it makes great roadtrip music.

heywaitasecond

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

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:37 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

my birthday is coming up...

(translation: i am feeling compelled to buy myself a present)

i still think about these records that i didn't buy and wonder what they were.

recently i watched the demme/herzog interview thingie from the bonus disc of encounters at the end of the world and herzog goes on about how much he loves music and blablabla. then demme's like "so popol vuh...what is that?" and oh did i scoff! do some homework, demme! geez.

anyway, i was thinking about popol vuh so i thought i would bump this thread for old time's sake.

Play it at my funeral and I will be released. <--- still hits home

speaking of Herzog, i recently read Every Night the Trees Disappear from cover to cover and there was NO MENTION of Popol Vuh whatsoever, which is fine -- I get the scope of the book. but still, i'd have liked one sentence? two sentences? an offhand mention?
nothing.

lots of good moments though -- i recommend the book if you're into that sort of thing. here's a sample i posted to another thread for an altogether different (worse) reason

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8492/8330412332_037b642f3d_b.jpg

this ever get posted here?

http://thequietus.com/articles/03775-the-great-ecstasy-of-the-sculptor-popol-vuh

good article

Yeah I missed that before. Especially great paragraph starting with 'Having been taught composition...'

i c/ped like three different paragraphs before i decided to go with a simple "good article" because i was getting too excited

cult-like devotion: activated

Popol Vuh, then, is uneasy listening, but like all the best mood music it envelops you in its own sound world, cocooning the listener in waves of sound. Fricke rarely played live and submitted to few interviews but inspired a kind of cult-like devotions amongst his fans. One of his very last projects was an audio-visual installation based around the myth of Orpheus - perhaps the 'cult' musician par excellence, of whom it was claimed his music could coax the trees and rocks into dance. He referred to the acoustically designed chambers of the installation as "good rooms", explaining in a contemporary interview, "We hear so much that we don't hear anything." Now, as music becomes increasingly the atomised personal soundtrack to every mundane activity, the music and ideas of a soundtrack composer for whom music was never background music, and always inseparable from a community of the faithful, from site and from ritual, may prove to be a much needed corrective, or cleansing purgative.

We hear so much that we don't hear anything

This strikes so painfully close to home for me right now. I am actually aiming to change this in my life starting today.