s/d popol vuh

i was just thinking i should explore embryo. what's the deal with their mal waldron connection?

They did a cover version of a composition of his ("Call") on their first (least jazz, most rock) album, then did it again later on another album, this time with Waldron playing on the track. I assume Waldron was living in Germany (or at least Europe) at the time? Actually I think Christian Burchard (the main guy in Embryo) played with Waldron pre-Embryo. I'm not much of a jazz rock fan but I like some of their stuff.

first haboob album is on youtube. choir organ makes an entrance about 90 seconds into the first track. I'm only three minutes in, and yeah this record's completely messed up.

in a good way?

definitely for me. typical krautrock freakouts & processing overkill, but coming more from R&B / soul than rock. not lifechanging but if you're into both AD2 and Funkadelic.

the choir organ is a mystery!

oh, i'm mad on ADII at the moment; can't get enough of yeti and wolf city.

high five

Soul Jazz to release collection of Popol Vuh rarities

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=27777

Sweet.

Ooh!! Excited!

Nice! Haven't seen that doc before, sounds heavy.

this will warrant the purchase of a new glass pipe

Whoa. God damn. This is terrific news!

super surprised + excited by this!

will buy

coolness. i have those spirit of peace tracks (unrelated to the album of that name) appended to my cd copy of hosianna mantra, would anyone know what era they're from? cause no details in cd booklet.

in other news, Nosferatu 2-LP reissue via Wah Wah in August
my PV google alert has finally paid off (a little bit)
http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/popol_vuhs_nosferatu_gets_deluxe_vinyl_reissue

that kailash/spirit of peace thing is released next week right?

That's what I heard, but there's been very little info that I've seen. I think it's finally up on Soul Jazz's page as a pre-order, but I was hoping some US distros would be carrying it.

has this been mentioned? oh, yes, 2 months ago. appears to be out now.

http://boomkat.com/downloads/1215604-popol-vuh-soul-jazz-records-presents-popol-vuh-kailash-pilgrimage-to-the-throne-of-gods-piano-recordings

is this normal? for two reissue labels to both release dueling versions of the same title?
http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3336124/waxwork-announces-definitive-vinyl-release-nosferatu-vampyre/

Just a few days ago, we reported that Wah Wah Records was working on a remastered vinyl soundtrack to the 1979 German art-house vampire film Nosferatu The Vampyre, which was directed by Werner Herzog. Now official word has come down that Waxwork Records is also creating their own definitive release of the soundtrack and this one sounds like the ultimate edition for collectors.

Waxwork states that they have been, “…working with Florian Fricke’s (Popol Vuh’s founder) family for many months to create a definitive LP release of the score,” and that, “…it’s shaping up to be an incredible release and we are beyond excited, kinda in shock, that it is happening.”

Waxwork also tells us that this will be the first of many Herzog/Popol Vuh collaborations that will be coming to vinyl. While no specific details have been released, we’re told that details announced in the near future.

Waxwork’s edition will be an expanded double LP version with artwork by Jessica Seamans of LandLand. The album drops on April 17th and the street date is in May 25th. A full track list can be seen below.

haha, as if popol vuh's catalogue isn't confusing enough. "expanded" sounds like the one I want to get though.

they're both expanded!

i am excited that they're promising more
i want LT-LN and i want daniel fichelscher to show up in my google alerts

alive and well and ready to give me some pointers

the Solaris soundtrack did a similar thing last year.

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/772562-edward-artemiev-solaris-original-soundtrack
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/803396-eduard-artemiev-solaris-original-soundtrack-superior-viaduct-edition

there was also a third, on the same label as the first, with a different focus

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/787678-edward-artemiev-solaris-music-from-the-motion-picture

ha that foreshadows some classic popol/popul spelling issues

Spent a while trying to find definitive 'Stalker' sdtrk, to no avail.

review of the new thing over on pfork: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20242-kailash/
gotta get this

so what's the deal with Waxwork? Good sound quality/pressing quality? Their Phase IV release is vinyl and soundcloud only, apparently, which gives me a sadness-- I'd like to pay money for a high quality MP3 version instead of being stuck with the low bitrate version I had to use a plugin to download off soundcloud.

The dueling Nosferatus remind me of the separate reissues of HNAS's Im Schatten Der Möhre that both appeared in 2002. I picked up Heemann's Streamline edition too early and missed out on the bonus tracks on the Dom version. Meh.

haha ILXmail me if you want that, I snapped them all up

the year of the vuh is upon us

http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/popol_vuh_treated_to_new_batch_of_vinyl_reissues

my first wish listed above has been granted
aleluia!

kind of excited about these reissues, but I fear they will cost like $37 each

aw come on, those Wah Wah LPs were only like $28 ;)

at least this time i can avoid making 1000 phone calls to the record store about it
that's something

happy vuh year

i see what vuh did there

been into agape agape and sei still wisse ich bin quite a bit lately -- the versions i have downloaded of both sound like cassette tape rips and the wobbly sound adds to the overall weird occult hieratic recorded-in-an-enormous-cave-ness

I've never found his and Enzo Franchini's A Sacred Homage to Florian Fricket, but Valerio Cosi's latest is pretty easy to find and to hear. Hit or miss, I think. But pretty novel.

http://valeriocosi.bandcamp.com/album/plays-popol-vuh

Fricke*

Don't worry I think we know who you meant!

For years and years and years I was looking for the Djong Yun "Du sollst lieben"/"Ave Maria" single. Thanks to that Wah Wah reissue of Hosianna Mantra, I finally got the chance to hear "Du sollst lieben." Maybe not as good to hear it as it had been to imagine hearing it, but I'm a better and more complete person for finally seeing what was up. Well, I still periodically look around to see if any OGs show up. Before the reissue, I can't even imagine how much money one would've been. To this day, I've never found one. And I didn't know, until today, that this existed:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Popol-Vuh-Djong-Yun-Ave-Maria-CDep-Japan-Mini-LP-cd-florian-flicke-tangerine-Q-/371285535547?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item567257ab3b

That is a CD version of the single. One of the Japanese mini-LP deals. Stunned to find it. Two songs. $110. In 2015. The repress is easily found. I guess I'm just really glad I never had to spring for the 7" by selling a few of my internal organs. Fuck.

Is there some site that comprehensively cross-references Popol Vuh tracks? Some of the stuff on the second disc of Kailash sounds really familiar, but I can't remember where I've heard it before. There was a previously released version of "The Garden Morya" (the one with chanting) where a terrible beat comes in (maybe on City Raga?) – is this raw material that was later remixed by Guido Hieronymous?

Also confused about all the versions of "Spirit of Peace" – the version on the Celestial Harmonies In the Gardens of the Pharao is two minutes longer than the Kailash version.

There are what sound like slowed down renditions of "Aguirre" on disc 2

finally got the kailash thing on soul jazz -- totally great. only bummer is the diginoise that seems to be happening on the first disc's mahayana ... is that just the recording? or is it some flaw... too bad, totally lovely track otherwise.
haven't watched the DVD yet!

i need to buy that!! i've been slacking on my PV fanship

yeah i'm glad i shelled out for it... sending me on a popol vuh bender now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJNnKdzgW1I

I got to walk up this very trail last week! I had my headphones, but I forgot to load up Aguirre before I left so I had to settle for Seligpreisung.

whoa that must've been awesome! pics?
i think that is my favorite scene in any movie.