s/d popol vuh

I was at Lands End National Park in San Francisco last weekend, where it was a beautiful sunny day and I listened to Einsjäger & Siebenjäger on my headphones amongst the cypress trees.

I guess it's not really from that album originally, but Wo Bist Du? is an all-time great rambling tune, it makes any straight path into a labyrinth that pleases and soothes a troubled mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bguDZdGj9gI

you are a person who knows how to live, f hazel!

Wow, that is a great track. And it's not on my earlier CD issue of E&S (damn!) so I'll need to find a copy of the expanded remaster.

Wah Wah for the win there, nice of them to add those two tracks to the vinyl reissue

xp that track was originally released on their "Die Nacht Der Seele" album.

is the version that was added to E&S a different recording?

haha, I was thinking "LL would approve of this choice" when I decided what to listen to! Last night I was lying on picnic bench in a state park in Arkansas looking up at the stars through towering pines and shivering, but I was listening to Music for the Age of Miracles by the Clientele. It wasn't a Popol Vuh moment.

As for Wo Bist Du? the bonus track on the E&S SPV CD (the one I have) is identical to the one on Die Nacht Der Seele, as far as I can tell. Why it ended up as a bonus track on E&S I cannot fathom.

i was having religious / sacred kinds of feelings listening to hosianna mantra while driving through the mojave over the weekend. i think it just repeated 4-5 times because i couldn't think of anything else i wanted to listen to.

that sounds dreamy

See America by Popol Vuh!

The music wasn't very loud, the worst noise pollution came from the back of the hall where they were selling cans of beer - lots of popping, clanking and fizzing. Problem solved by moving nearer the front!

― Matt #2, Thursday, 13 May 2010 15:52 (eight years ago)

Hahaha.

I went to this. Probably a very crappy idea to begin with but the 'bar' was just one of the cuntiest things possible in the circumstances. In the same (reverberant) room as we were supposed be quietly listening to this music (In Den Gärten Pharaos) the guy was literally tossing bottles into a bin of other bottles.

ha i was just reading this thread earlier today, been listening to a bunch of the 70s albums this week

good move

has this been posted before? new to me: https://sanjindumisic.com/florian-fricke-1981-interview-by-sandy-robertson/

Great interview!

I love his explanation of the band's name:

"It describes the music," says Florian. "The good soul of the good person, the feeling. Like now people call themselves the B52s and you know what the music will be like".

Presumably he was thinking about Cold War bombers rather than beehive wigs

https://i.imgur.com/KQjcriu.gif

my secret travelogue for popol vuh fans part 4: listening to Im Garten des Ruhe, a bonus track from Die Nacht der Seele, on the 148th-floor outside observation deck of the Burj Khalifa. we stayed late until everyone else left and lay along the glass looking at the city fade into unlit desert

best travelogue, never stop!

heard "aguirre 1" playing between sets at a show recently
i looked around to see who else noticed and saw nothing :-/
(this doesn't mean no one noticed, just that PV fans don't tend to emote publicly, lol)

this is the second time i've heard PV between sets at a show. last time was probably about 8 years ago.

You mean no-one punched the air and went, "Well, awwllllriiiiight!!!"

aside from me, no

ha i think i would have given a big smile. "aguirre!!"

the correct reaction is to pull a plush toy monkey out of your bag, and then loudly recite the soliloquy at the end of Aguirre about how you're going to marry your daughter and found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen, then shout WHO IS WITH ME

the worst possible ending to that would be that it was not actually a song from Aguirre and was actually from Nosferatu and you have to crawl away and change your props real quick

Lol

now i am second guessing which track it was but seriously, i knew within a few notes WHO it was and that is what mattered to me

the correct reaction is to pull a plush toy monkey out of your bag, and then loudly recite the soliloquy at the end of Aguirre about how you're going to marry your daughter and found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen, then shout WHO IS WITH ME

all of a sudden I can see this as DJT's next SOTU speech

i put on Einsjäger & Siebenjäger at the bookstore where i work this morning, my boss came in and asked what jam band it was - "the Dead?" - i told him it was a German guy who did the soundtracks for Werner Herzog's movies and he said "keep it up" lol.

lol yes my wife has also mistaken PV albums for the Dead

more than just one guy!!
still active in my quest to get fichelscher the respect he deserves

i do see some upsetting similarities between klaus kinski & DJT now that i think about it

respect for the distinctive PV sound of the albums he was on, i mean
djong yun too
i wonder if she is still in north korea?!!?

I made a painting of Djong Yun once but it turned out so badly I threw it away. I must attempt again one day.

Speaking of Daniel Fichelscher, is there actually any difference at all between Morgengruss on E&S and Moregengruss II on Aguirre?

idk -- i would have to listen to them side by side and am not prepared to do that atm
report back and tell us!

that's such a good song they put it on 2 albums just in case

Yes, the second has more, or different at least, (electric) lead guitar on it, it's not as good.

it sounds to me like no, but all I did was sync them up and let them play, if the latter has an electric lead it might just be overpowering the former

the backing tracks seem identical tho

playing along with that song is one of life's small joys

Der Ruf from Herz aus Glas is also great Fichelscher, would be OK with like a 29-minute version of it

the guitar tone make it sound like a song off the Real Ramona

Oh yeah herz aus glas could have every song extended to lp side length and I’d be happy

i still haven't been able to find that interview that used to be on youtube -- the one where fichelscher is basically talking to the camera and he tells the story of how he brought his bongos to a music festival as a teen and joined amon duul II. it was the closest i have come to learning more about the popol vuh history/sound/process than i have found anywhere else and i can't find it!

one thing that stuck with me was when he picked up his guitar and just started noodling a little -- that's when i realized that what i loved about PV was at least 50% (prob more) fichelscher.

is that the one where he's shirtless and the interview pauses so he can go get cigarettes?

Yes, he's absolutely not what you might expect someone in Popol Vuh to be like, he's a kind of rock 'n' roll dude.

I was telling someone about that DF interview / monologue recently and trawled back through this thread to find out when it first appeared. I think he must have taken it down himself? Dude needs to get a memoir out there IIRC.

Is he still playing with ADII?

last i heard he was still playing with ADII -- i have a google alert for him so i am aware of any developments and i can't say much has come through

i would like to meet/converse with him more than any other living person of that place/time (now that Jaki is gone :( )
would also enjoy a convo with irmin but i do have the can book so that's something

the info on fichelscher is so scanty -- i want him to know that there are people out here who care! so he can spill while he is still with us!

Where is he living? If I find myself in Berlin this Christmas I'll look for him

he must live somewhere in europe -- i know ADII has toured around europe and played festivals and whatnot but i don't think they have made an appearance in the states/this continent that i am aware of
look him up! send him to me!

I'm sure he's not that old btw, I think he was a teenager when he joined ADII, so hopefully he'll be with us for a while yet.

He started young:

http://www.popolvuh.nl/d/files/DF_15.jpg

listen folks no one lives forever and i have been on this quest for some time

Where is he living? If I find myself in Berlin this Christmas I'll look for him