s/d popol vuh

I really like their rockin' stuff; it has this regal majestic flavor to it that is irresistible.

I think right now Hosianna Mantra and Seligpreisung are my favorite Popol Vuh records. I've been listening to them on the 45 minute drive to work as the sun is coming up and Oklahoma is frozen, it's nice.

^^ that sounds wonderful

two things:

* i have some croissants in the oven (just the rise-overnight kind, nothing fancy) and they smell divine.
* there's a goofy women's dance party thing that i dj'ed yesterday, and we have to do a warm-up and cool-down song and i chose "sing, for song drives away the wolves" as my cool down song -- i looked around the hot hot hot dance studio and there was stretching, meditating, yoga, eyes closed, eyes open. perfect and totally heavenly.

every time I see this thread I think of Kevin Federline's "Popozao"

you know, in Portuguese, it means bring your ass, on the floor and move it real fast

haha
i shoulda put that on my dance mix

u should use http://www.discogs.com/Popol-Vuh-Yoga/release/799452

yknow, i don't have that one!
i knew i bumped this thread for a reason.

pv is gonna help this apartment get clean

Yoga's not an official release, Fricke disowned it... still worth a listen.

Not really Popol Vuh though

the cover art for In Den Garten Pharaohs always astounds me - the design looks so modern, like it's from a 2008 reissue

I'm on the train right now on my way to purchase, for better or worse, an Affenstunde reissue. I figure that's all that'll be left for nonmillionaires at some pt anyway. It's under $25.

It's dusk and the light is beautiful outside the train window. The woman next to me is wrapped in a plush blanket with cartoon bunnies and deer on it.

you are an odd bird LL

a beautiful bird of paradise

np at my desk: T Dream, Sorcerer sdtrk. Close enough.

You should get an affenpinscher to go with your affenstunde!

Thanks to my extensive AKC research as a child, I know what an affenpinscher is, and they are v cute.
They're like mini-yetis.

Also once I dressed up as a bluebird of paradise for Halloween so at the risk of sounding immodest, clouds otm ;)

hallo!
http://puppydogweb.com/gallery/affenpinschers/images/affenpinscher_rydju.jpg

next assignment: picture of you in bluebird costume

have we posted this milan show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyEHm-rEMJ0
what's the deal? is it actually popol vuh? someone upthread made the claim it was not. what the vuh?

In 1975 they visited again Italy for a concert at the University ‘La Statale’ of Milan, somewhere in september. The concert was promoted by the 'Gong' magazine (a magazine about progressive-experimental rock), after R.U. Kaiser established an agreement with the PDU label for licensing the Ohr/Pilz/DKK records in Italy.
The concert was opened by a very young Roberto Cacciapaglia, who played a part of 'Sonanze'. For this occasion Popol Vuh consisted of: Florian Fricke (piano and voice), Daniel Fichelscher (guitars) and Renate Knaup (vocals and percussion).
There exists a tape/bootleg from this concert.

― _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ (am0n), Thursday, May 13, 2010 10:53 AM

ooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo that sounds good

p.v. comes in just before the 14 min mark of that vid. before that is the cacciapaglia piece

ah gotcha. yeah this is good, though the recording is not perfect.

the end is ... funky? is that still them?

actually that sounds like more cacciapaglia. the boot mp3s i have only go to about 45 min mark hmm

that might make more sense (though i don't really know what cacciapaglia is supposed to sound like).

The sound is abysmal but it's worth a listen.

he sounds like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73s_DAvuvcc

but also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHCvfkvxg8c

^ Both great albums

Oh yeah, if this sounds anything like Popol Vuh crossed with Ann Steel I need to hear it asap.

deplorable lack of PV on Spotify

more/different stuff up there now, including the Herzog soundtracks box set

Only in the US though. Europe only gets the Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999 comp.

That's weird and unfortunate. I'm sorry.

Can we talk about how great Agape-Agape is? I listened to it last night as I was trying to fall asleep and it was super dreamy.

"They danced, they laughed, as of old" is a well structured jam afaic.

Yeah, but it's just the end bit of "Die Umkehr" from "Bruder des Schattens..." isn't it? Good album but the production lets it down.

Is it? I honestly can't tell sometimes. The production is kinda bad, you're right. I just wondered why no one ever talked about that album.

When's it from? 1983 or something? Who would expect a "Krautrock" band still to be any good in 1983? Also, I'm sure it was only released on an independent - I think it was on Uniton, which is a Norwegian label.

What in tarnation is this? http://www.discogs.com/Florian-Fricke-Die-Erde-Und-Ich-Sind-Eins/release/1317995

http://www.popolvuh.nl/dieerdeundich

It wasn’t put out for the music business, but for therapeutics. The background to it is that I experienced early on that the original sense of music is not for going crazy, but that it has an enormous effect on the psyche and the physical aspect of Humanity. And originally it was only used in these way thousands of years ago. And in the bourgeois development of the Romantics suddenly we are shown that the melancholy of Brahms is important or the morbid side of Chopin. And I’m absolutely not interested in any of that. Egotism through music doesn’t interest me, but rather the unbelievable active changing power of music. To go from speech to responsibility.

Man, why can't we have a Fricke On Music volume?

FOR REAL

You could label it as ‘Body-space music’ (Körperraummusik) where you sing inside the body and take it in such a way that every cell in the body, from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, starts to vibrate. In order to be able to realise this I have experimented to find where speech resonates in the body. The consonants vibrate at the body walls, the bones and flesh and the vowells fill the body spaces. And that sounds like a gong-concert: it also has a great therapeutic effect.

No blog visibility on this one? Would love to hear it.

When the soles of my feet start to sing, I will know I have arrived at full therapeutic resonance.

"And that sounds like a gong-concert"

We can safely assume he does not mean Daevid Allen etc here.

i wonder if he heard rhys chatham's "two gongs"

This perked my ears up on the Kraftwerk thread yesterday:


5) Two of Kraftwerk's most famous sound effects came from a speaking-aid for deaf-mute children, and a popular toy. The Vortrax was invented in Detroit in the early 1970s. A hand-held machine that looked a bit like a pocket calculator, it produced the distorted vocal choir sound that can be heard on 1975's 'Uranium', which was later sampled in the opening build-up of New Order's 'Blue Monday'.

This is slightly off; the Vortrax was used for the vocodered spoken word part, but I'm about 99.4% positive that the 'vocal choir' sound mentioned is just an Orchestron keyboard, the same one they use for Radioactivity (and the same one Popol Vuh used for 'Aguirre' etc). It never occurred to me that 'Blue Monday' lifted a 'Uranium' sample directly, but now that it's mentioned that makes sense!

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, February 6, 2013 1:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Went and looked on the app store and hola there is a 99 cent Orchestron simulator app for iPhone, which includes the Aguirre-esque choir patch and a few other patches. Fun! It has programmable chord pads too to help you cope with the teeny little imaginary keys.

Omg wut?!?

search 'Orchestron'