POLLpul Vuh

I listen to a ton of Popol Vuh and would love to take more of an active role in this thread, but thinking about their music for me is like trying to recall a dream. I remember experiencing it but beyond the vague feel of it I can't really describe what happened.

Actually I mostly listen to them lying in bed so that might be the reason.

haha

that's what i meant about the headphones vs LPs -- listening to this music in a room with people other than myself present is a pretty new phenomenon.

kind of shocked how little love Hosianna Mantra is getting. Heart of Glass is my second favorite so I get where you all are coming from, but HM is so incredibly beautiful.

i agree. it was the second album of theirs i heard after garten and remains one of my favorites.

I voted Hosianna!

Um, any love for Yoga? I must give it a second listen one of these days (note: the first listen was decades ago).

Listening to a lot of these again, I like Seligpreisung a little less than I remembered and Einsjäger & Siebenjäger a lot more than I remembered.

i've never heard yoga.

Quoting from an interview Fricke gave to Eurock.com: "YOGA is an unauthorized release. Some Indian musicians visited me in my studio, and somebody else took the tapes and sold them under the name of Popol Vuh, but it had nothing to do with Popol Vuh, really. I'm playing harmonium, and organ. I think it was released in Italy."

Maybe this is off topic (this being a poll, and there being a s/d thread already), but is there any decent (non-web) literature out there on this band? I know there are a few Fricke anecdotes in the Herzog book, and I'm sure Cope talks about Popol Vuh in Krautrocksampler (which I've never actually read), but has there ever been a sort of Our Band Could Be Your Life kinda thing about this scene?

There's this, about which I know nothing:

http://www.amazon.com/Krautrock-Cosmic-Rock-Its-Legacy/dp/1906155666/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1389139516&sr=8-1&keywords=krautrock

i still haven't gotten over the cover art for the second album

Aside from reviews of some of their albums there isn't much about Popol Vuh in Cope's book.

There are so damnably few resources on PV and Fricke. Maybe in German...?

For about a decade when the CDs were expensive and hard to get (in the nineties up to file sharing) my PV bible was the little write ups of all the discs in the (print) forced exposure catalog.

I memorized those and dreamed of what the music would sound like.

Not exactly non-web literature, but this is worth a read : http://www.furious.com/perfect/populvuh.html

I remember our v. own Tom D doing an excellent Popul Vuh alb rundown somewhere on this board

Feel like a bit of an outlier on this thread, in that while I like most of the PV recs I've heard, Einsjäger & Siebenjäger is by some distance my fave - such an uplifting rec

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

btw if anyone is still looking for copies of those Wah Wah reissues, Fusetron just listed a few!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Winner is sorta shocking here! The rest makes sense except for 0 votes for Seligpreisung and Cobra Verde.

Aw, Agape Agape deserves more than 0.

the winner is the album most pick tbh

Really? Ah, man, I like those first two but, err...had no idea people rated IDGP so highly. I should listen again.

It's the second side -- it's totally grandiose and captivating.
Respectable choice!

Glad my two favorites were tied in votes too.

I bought Seligpresung and have been listening to it! But while it is pretty, it didn't move ahead of Aguirre or Heart of Glass for me.

Seligpreisung that is

Yeah, I remember liking that one more than I did when I listened to it again recently

I'm glad someone else likes Messa di Orfeo!

Kind of surprised "In Den Gärten Pharaos" won this tbh. Anyway I came here to say "Meditation" by Eberhard Schoener sounds very like that early electronic side of Popol Vuh, which is not that suprising as it was recorded in the same studio Popol Vuh used, on (I'm almost certain) the same equipment, some of the sounds used are pretty much identical.

I guess In Den Gärten Pharaos (and Affenstunde) stand alone in the catalogue; people who like that electronic side of the band have only those to pick from, whereas the remaining records feel like variants on a different template (whether vocal or instrumental, rocking or contemplative).

Of the eleven I've heard, I might pick Letzte Tage - Letzte Nächt for its concision and breadth.