s/d popol vuh

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.

Unbearably dreamy, what a life!!

http://i.imgur.com/vfQ79vm.jpg

that's so great. I really wanted to see the cloud forest side of Peru when I was there, but never had time.

so nice!

From the left, from the entrance of Machu Picchu with Huayna Picchu peeking out of the clouds, then just past the Huayna entrance gate (match with around the 2:00 mark of that video), and finally about 1/3-1/2 way up the trail looking down on Machu Picchu. I ascended in a very dreamy state. To make it to the Huayna Picchu gate by seven am, you have to wake up around four in the morning. It was just like in the movie, all wreathed in roiling mists and lush foliage. Just getting there, even with the trains and buses, is physically taxing enough to strip away a lot of your psyche. The ascent is ~1,000 feet in one mile of distance, from about 7,900ft up to 8,900ft. I listened to music all the way up.

are you on the Inca Trail? sure sounds like it!

what I noticed there was how clear the sounds are from the valley below

Nah, one of my traveling companions has a bad back and wasn't up for the Inca Trail. We took the train from Cusco into Aguas Calientes. The Irish pub in Cusco had Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo posters in it!

Sounds awesome. I'd be happy to give you more Sacred Valley travel tips over here:

TITTW sleeve goes to Peru

oh hey, that was your thread! unfortunately I'm back home in Texas now, but I read through that with great interest the other night : )

Loving this revive

yeah, you guys got me daydreaming

lol
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHK8oWVUkAAijKD.jpg

what exactly is happening in that photo? is that their recording studio?

heh heh, it's a picture of Can

ooh great news

haha that's what i thought
cmon people

some light in the attic intern is getting his ass handed to him right now!!!
but seriously it is good news - if they're distro-ing, the vuh reissues might be easier to find.

looks like they brought a beehive to the practice space

Crazy German longhairs all look the same, amirite?

Contact mic on an apiary, that's an old stockhausen trick cmon guys. Zzzzzzzzzzz

Foreground: a shirtless, ripped Djong Yun

to be fair, that pic does come up if you GIS Popol Vuh Band, and it is misattributed in the link as being Can

https://mousique.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/de-krautrock-archieven/

heh heh, it's a picture of Can

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:37 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i THOUGHT that was damo, but it's kind of small on my monitor

i saw that popul vuh werner herzog soundtracks box set for cheap a few years ago and i really regret not snapping it up

shit makes me feel immortal

i was just googling around to see when/if that big batch of reissues was released yet and i found this, which sounds almost exactly like "in deine hande" from LT-LN
what other greek music sounds like this??!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILSXxrLcSV4

(for comparison)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-sShP-TA4

Thank you for Nikos Xylouris! Listening to Youtubes now.

Also: "Psaronikos is a nickname as it is customary for people in Anogeia to have. His grandfather was Psarantonis. His grandfather kept company with a group of five or six men who stole from the Turks. As he was the fastest runner in the group, when they met with Turks he was running very fast and he could catch all of them as if they were fish. So, first he was given the name Fishturk (Greek: 'Ψαρότουρκος') and then the nickname Psarantonis. That is how all family male members after him were nicknamed Psaronikos, Psarogiorgis, Psarantonis etc."

(xp) I see what you mean!

ok two things:

1) the video interview with d fichelscher has been removed from youtube afaict; that was the closest i had gotten to knowing that he was still alive and well. my google alerts for him haven't produced much beyond news of upcoming reissues. does anyone know how to confirm that he is alive and well? i feel like this thread is more of a global hub of PV fans than i'm likely to find elsewhere, so why not ask.

2) what's up with those reissues anyway? waxworks was all excited about them, but i haven't seen anything since. i checked last week and just that instagram post came up. am i missing something? LT-LN is about to turn 40 next year :)

Hasn't he been playing with Amon Duul II recently?
He's mentioned here anyway : http://www.amonduul.de/main.html
WARNING website is Flash hell that will start playing music when it loads

ok well that's good news
i guess they only play european festivals?
also that is truly a hellish website

Yes, panic over, he seems to be playing with the current line-up...

https://gerhardemmerkunst.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/amon-dc3bcc3bcl-ii-milla-mc3bcnchen-2015-06-10-15.jpg

months ago i preordered the wah wah reissue of nosferatu because 1) i couldn't resist and 2) there is bonus material that i don't have
and it arrived today!! i am not into packaging but since i paid a zillion dollars for this, i'm glad that the posters (there are 2) are pretty cool (not just pics of the band, esp the ones i've seen a zillion times) and the LPs themselves are red

so excited!! no more weekly emails from phil at norman records about my order. i'll probably not miss deleting those too much but they continued to give me hope that the day would arrive when i could finally cradle my wampyr record
today!

looks like light in the attic is distro-ing the wah wah reissues, so they should be easier to get now?
http://lightintheattic.net/releases?all_labels=false&label_list%5B%5D=176
still pricey, but...

thanks for the heads up!

New reissues are all in at Fusetron, in case anybody was wondering. $31/32 for everything but the Nosferatu double, which is $45.

i still wonder what daniel f is doing right now, like at various points in the day.

this was posted on fb today -- is it same as the bootleg that was posted here a while ago? I am not on the same computer and don't remember what was on the other one. anyway, a good day is one that has a popol vuh surprise in it

i think it sounds like the same recording though fwiw

https://youtu.be/Kyi2KHZKYIQ

FYI

This is a soundboard recording of a live performance in 1973, probably late summer or early fall, in the church in Baumberg in Germany (which accounts for the beautiful natural reverb).
My guess is that this is just Daniel Fichelscher on guitar and Florian Fricke on keyboards and vocal (and may be the first recording of Fichelscher as a member of Popol Vuh - he would become co-partner with Fricke for all subsequent Popol Vuh albums. Vocalist Djong Yun did not sing here, because she was away in America at the time. Fricke's dissatisfaction with his vocals - heard here and on the studio album from 1973, "Seligpreisung" - would prompt him to later add another vocalist, Renate Knaup, whom he met through Fichelscher (both Fichelscher and Knaup had been members of Amon Duul II).

Tracklist: (all are extended versions of the following pieces from their 1973 album "Seligpreisung"):
00:00 Weinen und Lachen
04:55 Hungern und Dursten
11:59 Hungern und Dursten (2nd take)
17:48 Willig Arm
20:47 Leid Klagen