""ohn Weinzierl, good looking guy, strong, vital"
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Oops, John Weinzierl...
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Can't front, I will always get a little creeped out when Germans talk abt vitality/mountaineering/fresh clean air. Make exception for Danny tho.
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
vitality/mountaineering/fresh clean airthree great things, what are you talking about!?
i am on a total d fichelscher kick atm
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Oh it's just that unfortunate link the early 20c proto nazis forged between health regimens and anti semitism.
"Hey I'm in an outdoor singing society too!"
*winks ominously*
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
But that's why German hippies had to go SO FAR OUT. A lot of ghosts to chase off!
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
oh well yeah on second thought i guess that's pretty grossbut those things are great on their own, minus the association
i keep thinking about how d fichelscher showed up at a music festival with his bongos and wound up being an essential part of ADII and PV. that's pretty amazing.
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Shit I gotta get some bongos ASAP.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
I guess I would also have to be willing to leave the house with them though ....
― grandavis, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
ADII are so fkin wonderful
Is it yeti and carnival he is on or carnival and wolf city?
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
the latter
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
maybe next year i will be d fichelscher for halloween and i will be able to bring my bongos and change my lifethere's a goal
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
Sounds like a good goal all around.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
I need to do that this year. Right now. Halloween might even be too late.
― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
cmon never too late
― Untt (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
La Lechera do you have a report or any thoughts on your new vinyl? I saw them yesterday for sale at Wall Of Sound in Seattle and was super tempted, but $30 is just a bit steep.
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Friday, 18 October 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
I do! I am not interested in dominating the thread with my personal opinions about objects, but these are some very special objects. I have been enjoying them IMMENSELY! I don't really care about the poster or the essays (there is the same set of info inside each record + a little poster) and I think it's something I've read before anyway, but I can imagine people who weren't that familiar with the Vuh getting more out of that stuff.
I've only had PV on mp3 or CD and these records definitely sound great. I'm also enjoying the ritual of flipping them over and realizing the genius of the sequencing (which really is not the same on CD/mp3). Surprise hit (cymbal crash) has been Einsjager & Siebenjager, but Pharaos sounds way way way more amazing than I remember it (I don't listen to that one as much). They're all obvs great albums.
Overall, since I bought them with birthday money and they are a special band for me, I would say the purchase was worth it. If there is an album you feel extra strongly for, I would definitely recommend buying. You will feel a brief surge of remorse (I did) that will melt as soon as you drop the needle.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
actually no, i had 2 PV records prior to the reissues
also i haven't listened to the bonus djong yun 7" yet
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 18 October 2013 18:56 (ten years ago) link
thank you!
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
no mention of it here yet, but mount eerie covered "engel der luft" from fitzcarraldo on his/their last album and it's incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufs3Wpg2-Y0
― clouds, Friday, 1 November 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
whoa that's intense!but also uh oh -- i better hurry up!!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
LL I bought Affenstunde and In Den Garten Pharoahs based on yr recommendations and I love them! So thank you. Those Spanish LP reissues are really hard to find in the US.
― sleeve, Friday, 1 November 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
always glad to be of service!
i'm right about the essay inside, right? i'm pretty sure that i've read that before but i can't find it -- i think there was a scan of a magazine or something? it seemed like a lot of familiar info to me and my memory is not spectacular, so maybe it's just the same info recycled in a different format?
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 1 November 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, though, where can one buy these in the States? Been looking everywhere. No distros, no shops, and not even any US-based online sellers that I've been able to find.
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 3 November 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
i don't know that you can unless your local store ordered them from wah wah. if you're serious about buying them, i would recommend buying them from norman records in the UK. they were great and a human answered my emails!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
Noted. It's just, you know...shipping. Brutal.
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 3 November 2013 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I know! But if you want to receive the records, you have to pay to have someone carry them across the ocean.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 November 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
I just feel like some joint getting wholesale prices (as such) would be selling these for like 35 USD as opposed to 45 USD. I shouldn't really be allowing myself to afford either of those prices, so $10 goes a pretty long way. Of course, that would-be store doesn't seem to exist, so here we are. Thanks for the advice, re: Norman Gonna feel so guilty, but it's gonna feel so good finally to hear the b-side of that Yun single after all these fucking years. I've never once found a copy!
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 3 November 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
Yeah it's gonna sting, but unless you enjoy making phone calls that lead nowhere and general disappointment, ordering from a source that you 100% know will deliver is better. Esp if you have been waiting that long! Geez.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
as far as Hosianna Mantra goes, there isn't even a copy on Discogs. just get it from Norman, it'll be gone son.
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
SOON
ha, you got all sassy for a second there
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Sunday, 3 November 2013 23:48 (ten years ago) link
Ha. There were several copies on Discogs, last week. The cheapest one, of course, didn't include the 7".
― winnebago taco, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
np: my first ever hearing of Seligpreisung (the Fichelscher interview reminded me I didn't have it)
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:42 (ten years ago) link
I really want that one.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
It's just the digital DL from emusic, not the vinyl, to be clear. Did not expect the singing!
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
it's the only one where florian sings! i think it's a nice change of pace. total cymbal mania too iirc.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
The spv bonus track is, of course, another arrangement of florians Agnus Dei melody aka kaspar hauser ditty. I feel every reissue has one!
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
cantare cantare cantare plod plod plod plod.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 00:04 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Florian's Agnus Dei tune, I want to mention "Gutes Land" off 1jaeger & 7jaeger-- after they play the Agnus Dei for a few bars, there's the stirring piano chord + cymbal crashes and then everyone makes as if to take flight but the strangest thing happens-- three different Fichelschers (hard right at low volume, center at normal volume, hard left at normal volume) stammer awkwardly for several bars, completely failing to come up with anything eloquent to say, and THEN things take off. It's always struck me as the strangest passage; it doesn't seem deliberate, more like a bad improv moment, and yet Danny overdubbed himself twice in the same awkward manner so...?
Also, I think we can all agree 1jaeger is the most hi-fi of the classic PV records, no?
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
man I need to get decent CD reissues of the rest of the first 10 records or so (I have the first two on vinyl now), any ideas as to which ones I should seek out? I note upthread that dodgy vinyl-ripped Italian CDs were mentioned, don't want those.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
I prefer the Spalax CDs to the SPV reissues in some cases, very strongly so with Letzte Tage, somewhat so with Herz aus Glas. I haven't heard the SPV Einsjaeger to compare but the Spalax sounds fantastic. SPV Bruder des Schattens sounds great, so does SPV Hohelied. SPV Nosferatu sounds a little distorted to me but I only have a few tracks of the spalax to compare. SPV Sei Still... sounds okay to me, haven't heard the Spalax but I don't think that is a very well recorded album to begin with, so. I remember the celestial harmonies CD of the Pharaohs sounding good.
― Linda Darmstadt (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
einsjäger is my fave pv
i heard das hoheleid salamos for the first time yesterday — so gorgeous
― clouds, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
thanx Jon! xp
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
The SPV Pharaohs is a little distorted, too. The Einsjaeger sounds good, as I recall, but I haven't really put it on in a while. As for Letzte Tage, Letzte Naechte, I've never heard a release that didn't kinda sound like shit; still the "Haram Dei Ra" SPV bonus track with Florian singing was worth the price of admission, for me.
― winnebago taco, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Florian's Agnus Dei tune, I want to mention "Gutes Land" off 1jaeger & 7jaeger-- after they play the Agnus Dei for a few bars, there's the stirring piano chord + cymbal crashes and then everyone makes as if to take flight but the strangest thing happens-- three different Fichelschers (hard right at low volume, center at normal volume, hard left at normal volume) stammer awkwardly for several bars, completely failing to come up with anything eloquent to say, and THEN things take off.
i relistened to that part with this comment in mind and i think he's trying to create a windup type feeling? like this isn't itthis isn't it
BOOM CRASH this is it
but i dunno. i love that part!
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:44 (ten years ago) link
also the LT-LN Spalax cd that i have sounds ok to me but it's also the only one i've heardif that ever gets reissued i'm going to go crazy and buy three
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:46 (ten years ago) link
It is truly strange and challenging to me to contextualize.
IDK like a lot of Vuh this record is about searching and questing and this passage perhaps evokes the stumbling that takes place along the way...
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
xpost
The Aguire soundtrack is really amazing. I just love how it sounds. I got a feeling its going to become one of my favorite ambient records, it just has a great tone.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link