s/d popol vuh

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.

it's definitely hibernation time
also i think i read that article before when i was trying to find info about those PV listening parties in the church

I only really discovered PV last year, while watching Nosferatu. I was struck by the music and promptly bought the Herzog soundtrack box counting on all of it being as good. At the same time I made a resolution to watch more Herzog movies. The box is awesome and gets played regularly - everything except Fitzcarraldo (although I love the movie the opera stuff on the soundtrack annoys me).

More recently, I bought Affenstunde. I like that one too. Great, moody stuff, all of it. Equally well-suited to deep listening or as background while reading.

Florian Fricke in fact shares with the purveyors of mood music a great many concerns: the exotic fascination with faraway lands of Martin Denny, Les Baxter and the 101 Strings; the massed voices and Gregorian influence of Ray Conniff and the Swingle Singers; the use of found sounds and field recordings of Frank Clacksfield; the space-age sounds of Gershon Kingsley; the mysticism and promised healing properties of Andreas Wollenscheider's New Age music.

ok but why do i find popol vuh endlessly absorbing and yet am bored senseless by everyone else mentioned above

Because no sane person would choose to eat a bowl full of flour or a handful of butter when there's a fresh flaky delicious croissant right there on the table?

ok but why do i find popol vuh endlessly absorbing and yet am bored senseless by everyone else mentioned above

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:58 AM

theres a kitsch element to a lot of those thats more upfront so u have to be willing to put up with that (i happen to like martin denny, les baxter, ray conniff) whereas popol vuh doesn't wear the exotica/new ageness on their sleeve as much

I thought they were weird comparisons too, but i guess it's because people think of PV as "mood music" -- I'm not sure I do, really, nor could I use any of their albums as background music while reading. I'd be too distracted.

I do recommend (as I have said what seems like 1000x) listening to PV while walking through a plant conservatory or museum (esp if it has a lot of dioramas) or aquarium or other indoors/outdoors sort of place.

now i want a croissant

Are Popol Vuh really the croissant of music?

in den garten croissant.
but yeah as LL sez, being out and about with the vuh really does work -- the first time i "fell" for popol vuh outside of herzog's films was walking around government center in boston (with a walkman!) listening to a PV comp a friend had made for me. i think i was christmas shopping.

It's the kitsch factor that puts me off that stuff. I have listened to a couple Vangelis albums lately so I'm not totally immune. Croissants are too buttery for my tender tummy :(