s/d popol vuh

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' ;)

Weird use of PV: Ah! in "Sightseers"

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

Yeah, I'd probably vote either Aguirre or Hosianna Mantra, but there are so many great ones.

did this get posted?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Popol-Vuh-8-CD-Promo-Box-CDep-Japan-Mini-LP-New-tangerine-dream-klaus-schulze-Z-/281224656941?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item417a4bb82d

Those are the same remasters as the SPV by the way. I have a few.

Computer translated Fricke is its own kind of magic. Not sure why this isn't being recycled as spoken word poetry or sthg?!

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:11 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lyrics for new kosmische project

― 2 huxtables and a sousaphone (Jon Lewis), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:14 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tongebäude! Who wants to start this band with me...?

― tylerw, Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:17 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me me me

― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:17 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

whenever you're ready, i'll have a lot of free time coming up this summer!

also -- is this real?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdwUL10mMu4

What's worth tracking down from the compilations? How much is there that didn't end up on the albums (or bonus tracks on the SPV releases)? This makes it sound like what's on Gesang der Gesänge isn't the same as the originals – is that true? Are there other things like that? Is Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves (also remixed, but not by Fricke) terrible?

I can't help you there, but i was looking at popol vuh compilations yesterday and this sleeve is pretty badass: http://www.thewaxfactor.com/images/popv.jpeg

I used to know the answer to that question re Sing, For Song... but it's gone now. Milan is a weird record label.

Ben Wheatley's black-hearted screwball comedy pastorale The Sightseers (2012), which I watched this weekend on NF streaming, makes wonderful use of "Ah!" from Hosianna Mantra.

(Alongside some Harmonia, Roedelius, and Neu).

Good film on its own terms and well worth watching, I should also say. Can't wait to see his A Field In England.

I picked up the new SPV reissues of Aguirre and Einsjager today (for a reasonable $10 each at Newbury Comics); so, looks like I can ditch my Spalax copies.
Don't hear much difference in sound if they were remastered (doubt it), but the packaging at least is way superior to Spalax (plus, it's nice to have Digipaks rather than standard jewel case).
Can't wait for them to do Letzte Tage - Letzte Naechte and the others...

― Joe (Joe), Friday, June 18, 2004 6:26 PM (9 years ago)

... and, of course, the Spalax editions are now oop and rare w/different bonus tracks...

As I've said before, hold on to Spalax versions if you've got em. Some of the SPV are inferior in sound quality.

have there been any interviews/anything written at all about fichelscher recently, like after that thing that's up on youtube?
if so, will someone point me to them? make photocopies and messenger-pigeon them to me? he seemed pretty lively in that interview and i know he must be up to something and i would like to know what it is.

nothing? does anyone know what he's doing these days?

why doesn't anyone want to write about him?
also i would like to strongly recommend the soundtrack for A Field in England for PV fans. It's both light and heavy, super good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW39fmmQEmc

If no one is writing about Danny somebody should at least interview Ben Wheatley about kosmische musik.

i'm within inches of asking the dude who posted the youtube interview whether or not there's more or how it happened or w/e
maybe i'll watch it again to make sure those are not stupid questions

I assume you have df google alerted to within an inch of his life and none of them traps have sprung

my google alerts have not yielded the fruit i am looking for
they hardly ever do tbh!

david stubbs on pv/herzog for those what missed it:
http://thequietus.com/articles/16110-herzog-popol-vuh-overview

man everyone focuses on fricke and herzog
thx for posting!

i found at least one popul in there though :-/
Fricke and Vuh did further great work on Heart Of Glass (1976), in which guitarist Danny’s Fichelscher’s playing comes to the fore - by this point, Popul Vuh were more conventionally “rock”, though as Klaus Schulze observed, Fricke’s compositions still followed “electronic patterns” in their structures.