s/d popol vuh

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'

hmm that makes me want to get an iphone. what else do they do?

I thought Popol Vuh used the Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ for "Aguirre". Orchestron didn't exist in 1972 after all?

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

Believe me I've looked high + low

(Don't get me started on Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ)

Roguelike dungeon crawl games, ILX Zing Touch, fun synth and drum machine simulators, that's all I got so far.

xpost actually no why don't you get started on Jimmy Jackson's Choir Organ? I know nothing!

http://www.popolvuh.nl/pvchoir

...also first Amon Duul II review here

(I love that Planet Mellotron site!)

oh man its the same instrument as on Wolf City!!!

Also, thanks a lot cause now I'm going to be saying

HABOOB

in my head all day...

Yes, it's a distinctive sound tho I'm not convinced it's not just a (perhaps malfunctioning) mellotron (xp) Haboob have an album too, which is fitfully entertaining, Choir Organ shamefully underused (I can hear it on one track only)

Does anyone know anything about the supposed 5 PV vinyl reissues? I saw something on their lol facebook page, but I have no idea who operates that or how much they know about what's going on. The Affenstunde reissue has not let me down AT ALL. It sounds great. In fact, now I truly understand why it's called Affenstunde.

oh, that's great to hear about affenstunde! was wondering if I should pick that up and I think you just helped me get to the bottom of that little dilemma.

Will someone please tell me what is up with these Japanese reissues? All the facebook page says is "watch out for them now!" and that is not helping...

This image is all I have been able to find (haven't looked very hard, admittedly)

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/164459_10151301793167610_722187347_n.jpg

the LT-LN cover is giving me a heart attack
WANT

i still can't find anything

'Die Erde Und Ich Sind Eins' is about to hit the blogs! Give it a week or so.

What does that mean?

Privately produced album long sought after by sad people like me

Who's sad? What's sad?! Will someone let me know when this exciting thing happens?

I think it's an album of vocal pieces, perhaps like e.g. "Song of Earth" on "Spirit of Peace"?

Ooh that sounds great.

hey wait a second, did this happen?

Good question, to the internet to find out

i did a quick search around for it last week, but came up with zilch! maybe call the cops has the details?
http://www.popolvuh.nl/files/cass_0.jpg
looks pretty good.

i hope we have someone on the case. i want this!

Aw man, if you want something doing... Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!

call the cops otm!

Awesome is the operative word

Yeah, too cool!

muchisimas gracias!

btw i found a picture of the bluebird costume! (i realized this morning that this thread is where i mentioned it before)
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8678479892_812c16096f_m.jpg

thank you! i finally had time to figure out how to hear this and it totally sounds like it should have a herzog voiceover talking about cave-dwelling glow worms and their mating habits or something. also reminds me of ernst reijseger a little now that i think about it. anyone know what/where the picture on the cover is?

No idea. Spooky music!

ok good i thought i was being a chicken
it sounds more like lost souls than people at one with the earth

I Am At One With The Earth - And It Is Totally Freaky

Who are the singers?

Well it looks like it's Vocals – Anni Morris Wieland, Bettina Fricke Waldthausend*, Dieter Prym, Florian Fricke, Friedemann Berger, Friedemann Wieland, Gisela Von Doering, Ingeborg Jahnke, Jan Lorck-Shjmerning, Jana Faust, Karl F. Weber, Klaudia Wieland

wait -- "song of the earth" is "agnus dei"?
i have googled and found nothing about this release that i understand fully

It's the same tune, yes. He was fond of it and who can blame him? Interestingly, or maybe not, some of this reminded me of, respectively, Stockhausen's "Atmen gibt das Leben" and Cornelius Cardew's "The Great Learning", both of which were composed for choirs of "amateurs".