s/d popol vuh

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.

Even the lowest priced copies of the reissues on Discogs will total almost $50 to the US w/ shipping. Bummer.

you could order the ones that just arrived at my store. http://www.reckless.com/index.php?keywords=popol+vuh&format=&cond=&store=&is_search=true&srch=Search

imo popol vuh is sort of terrible
― the late great, Monday, December 30, 2013 9:19 PM

ya but u like high contrast :[

mambo - I'm on it. Stand by

btw how the hell haven't we had a POLLpol Vuh thread? If no one starts one, I will.

Seriously mambo, if you have limited quantities please hold Seligpreusung, Hosianna and Einsjager for me if you can. I'll order this week...

lol @ "mambo" -- it's not my store like i work there, just my go-to local store -- you can order the records via their website i think or you could call the location if you are super concerned. not sure if they're open tomorrow or not. best of luck!

i have never considered polling PV because i don't want to be forced to choose.

I'm always torn about whether to explain the "show username" preference to people who obviously have it turned off and/or are unaware

but hey JD I like yr taste in music so what the hell

ha! Thanks. I can see the username, I just like writing 'mambo' ;)