s/d popol vuh

Lol hope so

wow. about a decade ago i briefly did music searches for an ad agency and every single time would include a popol vuh track but never got a bite.

Man that’s (tied for) my favorite pv jam, too
Does that make me basic

The use of the song in Herz aus Glas (starts at 32:47) shows that Herzog also knows that Popol Vuh make the best hiking soundtrack:

https://youtu.be/G9Zp4zOGHS8?t=1967

I know this might come across as a big ask, but someone might really enjoy it?

(Like, I made a similar request a few years ago for Tangerine Dream, and Elvis Telecom both graciously and enjoyably for both of us, went to town on it!)

Popol Vuh has a huge catalogue of which I'm familiar with only a tiny portion - I could dig through this thread for suggestions of places to dig further, but it is like 800 posts long.

Does any kind krautlover fancy making a Spotify playlist of about, 10-12 songs pointing where to dig further?

I'm not a Popol completist, but here's a Vuh playlist I've put together over the last year or so (19 tracks): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lsjsa1cubAUFZFT8ekEst?si=p9iMcFsSQN6MhywBBoz3Vw

A little bit country, a little bit rock n' roll.

https://youtu.be/xZHCxG_XyL8

Ah, excellent! Thank you so much, Chinaski - that's a perfect mix of songs I am familiar with and new (to me) stuff to explore :D

The three "UNREASONABLY SUBJECTIVE GUIDE TO POPOL VUH" posts at the top of the thread are a helpful guide to their albums.

There was a compilation a few years back with 1 cd of original popol vuh stuff and another done by electronica artists

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revisited-Remixed-1970-99-Popol-Vuh/dp/B004UBB3QU

(few years = 9 years)

Dang that was 9 years ago?? Time flies.
I listened to Agape Agape today and it really hit the spot.

my last vuh listen was cobra verde

(Like, I made a similar request a few years ago for Tangerine Dream, and Elvis Telecom both graciously and enjoyably for both of us, went to town on it!)

Sorry, Stevie - it was IIRC pre-Spotify era, and he actually uploaded a bunch of MP3s to his server for me to check out - an activity which has since become quite frowned upon to do openly.

Also, I had pretty bad insomnia last night, and I forgot that I was skimming ILX while half asleep.

But in the early hours of this morning,I *DREAMED* that I had and was listening to this amazing compilation which had one disc of original Popop Vuh tracks, and one disc of electronic artists covering said tracks, and I was delighted to see that The Shamen were one of those acts!

This morning, reading this thread, I am delighted to see that Koogs posted exactly such a thing (which must have worked its way into my dreamstate) :D - and yet gutted that my current Special Interest of Crushing are not on it. :(

Btw Spotify also includes a couple of albums by the Norwegian Popol Vuh/Popol Ace on the same page, in case you’re wondering why Florian Fricke would be writing songs called “Sucklin’ Pig” and “Leavin’ Chicago.”

Bran, no worries, I’ll check w Elvis and see if he still has a list somewhere

I am delighted that most if not all Popol Vuh albums are available on US Spotify, which they were most certainly NOT a few years ago. I saved all of the VERY SUBJECTIVE album recommendations and have gotten through “Einsjäger” and “Brüder des Schattens” so far, both excellent

This is one of those bands that I really love and I’ve listened to most of their albums at least once, but not focused on enough to actually familiarize myself with anything, tho hopefully for not much longer.

Bruder is tied for my favorite PV album along with Herz aus Glas

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

Woodcarver is excellent but the fact that the only protection anyone ever uses is a wooly hat boggles my mind.

I'd once again like to thank Tom D. for his amazing reviews above. I've used them a couple of times now as a guide.

BTW, I own the soundtrack boxset people drooled over upthread. It's not amazing. The music is great of course, but the book is pretty flimsy content-wise and each of the CDs contains exactly the same booklet, which includes some of the content included in the book.

i've had "letzte tage - letzte nächte" and "das hohelied salomos" on repeat for the last few weeks. they sound amazing in the autumn evening.

Dadaismus' reviews upthread are all-time

A couple of weeks ago I listened to all the albums 1971-1977 and then had to listen to them again, and then again ... I think Einsjäger und Siebenjäger is my favorite right now

― Brad C., Friday, September 30, 2011 12:42 PM (nine years ago)bookmarkflaglink

what dadaismus did up top is inspiring. this band deserves that quality of attention

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, September 30, 2011 1:25 PM (nine years ago)bookmarkflaglink

Yes, those reviews are GREAT and I refer to them a lot!

BTW Dadaismus = Tom D.

― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Friday, September 30, 2011 1:54 PM (nine years ago)

this was helpful for me, maybe it will be helpful for someone ese

this was also helpful for me!

Herz aus Glas (1977)
Throughout this period in Popol Vuh's evolution, Florian Fricke's piano playing recedes further and further into the mix until, with this album, it disappears altogether! Although he's credited as playing piano on this album, I cannot make out a single note of piano - and as the album is all-instrumental this effectively makes this a Daniel Fichelscher solo album. The compositions are still recognisably Fricke's though (one Fichelscher piece aside), the soloing guitars of the last few albums are placed further back WITHIN each track, which makes this album considerable less easy to date precisely. Also worth noting that hardly any of the music on this album actually appears in the Herzog film it’s nominally the soundtrack to – in fact, most of the music on the film is from “Letzte Tage, letzte Nächte”. 9/10

lol, the one popol vuh LP i own barely features his own playing!

listening to the first track of city raga on a whim after wondering what 90s popol vuh sounds like and... it's good!

returned to this thread to thank Tom D for his famous guide above, which I probably think about even more than I actually listen to Popol Vuh! (trying to remedy that on long drives)
but I see others have -recently too- had the same urge so I'm happy to be a part of that wave - thank you Tom D!

I had a dream last night that I was in a radio station, and in their dumpster were a number of 60s easy listening albums, Percy Faith etc. There was an album on Ranwood Records (Lawrence Welk's label) of the "hits" of Popol Vuh done easy listening style, and now I want one.

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/324550623374_/The-Exotic-Guitars-Holly-Holy-LP-Vinyl-Record.jpg

can't find much info, but looks like there is now an essential collection volume 2 out there (or at least on its way!)

That showed up today! Mostly these look like vinyl versions of the SPV releases. The only real surprise is "Earth View" from Kailash showing up at the end of Cœur de verre as a bonus track (looks like there's a new CD that does the same thing). Guido Hieronymus is credited as the sound supervisor for Cobra Verde, though that might just mean the bonus track. Haven't listened yet.

anyone grab one of those new vinyl boxsets?

Can't remember if Jon posts here any more? But he just wrote up a great looking guide for Shfl

https://theshfl.com/guide/popol-vuh

thanks for sharing!

whenever I see the cover art for In den Gärten Pharaos it blows my mind that it's from 1971. the design of it feels like 25-30 years ahead of its time

yeah i've thought that too. the cover of hosianna mantra has fundamentally a similar design but that one looks of its time. just goes to show the effect a typeface and color scheme can have.

is this by jon dale from melbourne or a different jon?

that was great ned, thank you! also, why have i never listened to 'spirit of peace' before?

stirmonster: definitely the former

"Florian Fricke" sounds like the sort of name Longmont Potion Castle would come up with

Einsjager & Siebenjager (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLz3ssCsdg

lol

what's the deal with 10 minutes of "Brüder Des Schattens" just being lopped off on all the Nosferatu releases? it's not like there isn't room for it. weird how nearly all the PV soundtracks are like 25% retreads from other albums, 25% aimless Moog stuff, and 50% the most beautiful music you've ever heard in your life

Apparently Herzog used to rummage around in tape boxes to find bits of music that fitted what he was after. Almost all of the music in Herz aus Glas isn't from the Herz aus Glas soundtrack but from the album before it, for instance.

The moog stuff in Nosferatu was almost certainly recorded in the early 70s and not recorded for the film itself.

one of the tracks is just an excerpt from "Vergegenwärtigung" from Aguirre - which is also (I assume) not in the film. (the original Vergegenwärtigung, not the one that cobbles together stuff from a previous album)

isn't there a site which sorts this all out? back in the old days of the internet there would've been a www.popol-vuh.freak which would break down the lineage of each album in 30,000 words

The bonus tracks on their CDs are all over the place, there's no indication of when anythinng was recorded and the titles are often totally misleading.

I was wondering abt that, I have some weird ones from a CD version of the 1st LP

This is a defining feature of Popol Vuh — there are really only a handful of motifs that keep emerging in different forms in different places.
There are outliers (LT-LN for example) and I feel like its bc they’re heavily Fishelscher.

Here's a PDF I've consulted to make more sense of what's on which record, what is a remix/repeat from earlier albums, what pieces are in which film, etc.:

http://www.venco.com.pl/~acrux/misc/disc7.pdf

oh wow...that is a lot to sift through

and yeah sleeve if you're talking about "Train Through Time" on Affenstunde that is an all-time weird bonus track. not only was it actually recorded for the LAST Popol Vuh album (3 decades later!) but it also sounds nothing like any of the other material on the album

there is also this perfect sound forever article that is quite detailed -there are 4 parts to it