s/d popol vuh

einsjäger is my fave pv

i heard das hoheleid salamos for the first time yesterday — so gorgeous

thanx Jon! xp

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.

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 it
this isn't it

BOOM CRASH
this is it

but i dunno. i love that part!

also the LT-LN Spalax cd that i have sounds ok to me but it's also the only one i've heard
if that ever gets reissued i'm going to go crazy and buy three

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...

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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.

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...

More likely the result of trying to record a rock song with two people, one on piano and one on drums, not your usual method by any means. There are a few tracks where the piano and drums go slightly out of time or, for instance, the end of "Letzte Tage", where there's a drum fill that's out of synch...

^^^tom d you have been neglecting your breathing exercises haven't you >:[

So after her career with Popol Vuh, Djong Yun seems to have ended up in North Korea, or at least she was there eight years ago. (Brief thread on her father Isang Yun here.) Has she ever been interviewed about her life? I'm really curious – starting with how someone who could sing like that could just stop.

Been a huge PV fan for years but only just discovered the Gila connection this week. Mind-boggling.

Wow. I knew none of those things, re: Yun. Thanks for posting that interview.

her father is isang yun? whoa!

wow, that's intriguing
i wonder what she does all day?! she lives in pyongyang?!

Reissues are in at Fuestron, btw. Or they were, a few days ago.

^^^ was just about to post this when i saw the update.
fusetron v reliable ime.

i missed out on the reissues at Wall of Sound, got there a few days too late :(

sorry, that was me!

all this djong yun stuff is news to me - wow!

god help me I just bought three more of those reissues from Fusetron

thanks, I think.

prediction: you won't regret it

yeah, popol vuh are pretty much The Best Band Ever, so there is no worry. you will be having a great time.

I know, huh? Somehow I missed this band amidst all my years of exploring exactly this kinda sound, I always just thought of them as a Herzog soundtrack band. Never realized all the connections with ADII etc. By the way thanks to Tom D (I think, yeah?) for his excellent overview at the beginning of the thread.

yeah, popol vuh are pretty much The Best Band Ever, so there is no worry. you will be having a great time.

― ian, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 7:00 PM

having a great time with side 1 of Hosianna Mantra right now, god damn

how to live

i mail-ordered the hosianna mantra reissue but it hasn't arrived here yet. gorgeous album though.

I keep wanting to buy the Herzog box but find myself unable to pull the trigger. I love Aguirre - all time top ten - but I already own it on CD. The only other Popol Vuh I listen to a lot is Hosianna Mantra, if that gives you an idea of what version of Florian's wild circus I most enjoy. I don't know the other four soundtracks included in the box and I understand that one of them - Nosferatu, maybe? - features very little Popol Vuh. I also hear the book is not really any great shakes. Anyway, should I buy this?

herz au glas/heart of glass is top 3 PV albums for me -- at least do yourself the favor of hearing/getting that!!
nosferatu is awesome
the only one in there that i'm not in love with is cobra verde, but it's cool in its own right even if it doesn't have the PV feel

surface noise on Seligpreisung side 2 :( just the first song or two, but still. gonna clean the LP and try it again.

IDK if Bruder des Schattens is included in the Herzog box -- it is the discarded score for Nosferatu and v different to the Nosferatu PV LP -- but IMO Bruder des Schattens and Herz aus Glas are the best PV Herzogs by far. And v v different to each other!

good cause I just bought them :) I think I got one of your SPV/Spalax recommendations mixed up, but what the hell.

yeah Herz Aus Glas has some of the best music ever

lololol the guy from the store just called me
i thanked him for calling and told him that i just bought them from norman records
he said that was the right thing to have done and i was like yeah i know
ha

my hosianna mantra FINALLY shipped this weekend. should arrive tomorrow.

imo popol vuh is sort of terrible

^^^ noize card REVOKED

Revoked and -5 for using a hedge.

Two hedges!

nah from like 1974 on it's just the grateful dead or santana circa "lotus" but only the solos + pompous interludes not the groovy parts, minus drugs

i could not disagree more but i respect your right to miss out on some top notch noodling

allow in den gärten pharaos, maybe hosianna mantra, can't stand einsburger und siebensburger or seligspreisung or much of the stuff after that

except, i suppose, some of the herzog soundtrack stuff is okay too

nosferatu is really boring, post-that is especially dire, check out "sei still wisse ich bin" if you don't believe

no way, i have that album in my stupid cd wallet that i keep in the car and i never take it out! it's so soothing and singing along is fun too. i like the vocal stuff and i'm pretty happy with their catalogue through agape agape. after that it gets spotty, but there's not much after that.

nah from like 1974 on it's just the grateful dead or santana circa "lotus" but only the solos + pompous interludes not the groovy parts, minus drugs
sounds so good bring it on

yeah i was gonna say

does Norman still have copies of these Wah Wah reissues? it is Wah Wah, right?

'bring it on' otm

nosferatu is really boring, post-that is especially dire, check out "sei still wisse ich bin" if you don't believe

LOL

... if there's an opposite of a doppelganger I've just discovered mine

my copy of Seligspreisung responded well to cleaning, noise is gone.