Been on a big Popol Vuh kick lately, but it's weird how like half of their albums are relatively easy to find, while the other half are a lot tougher (specifically prompted by looking for a CD copy of Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte that doesn't cost north of $50).
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2367863446 ?
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
I guess $35 is less than $50, still a lot...
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 18:18 (one year ago) link
for sure, I paid $10 in 2013 for that same edition
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
yea like a lot of overtly spiritual musicians who don't tend much to the business side their catalogue is a total mess. I never gave any thought to actually collecting the physical products until the recent box sets, which are not only very well pressed but also somewhat "definitive", assuming there's a 3rd and 4th one to come
― frogbs, Monday, 30 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
But even those boxsets skip around a little bit, no?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
they do but I think that's fine because PV doesn't really have 'eras' to me, each album is sort of its own thing and a lot of them incorporate elements of past albums. so like the first one has the Aguirre & Nosferatu soundtracks on it, which incorporate elements of Einsjager and Affenstunde, so it makes a little sense to put them altogether. Hosianna Mantra is also on there just to bridge the gaps a bit. idk I'm fine with it so long as they eventually get everything together.
― frogbs, Monday, 30 January 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah, my complaint is more minor, it's just interesting to see which of their albums are in plentiful supply and which aren't. When I decided to check them out more closely a few years ago, I didn't even have to go out of my way to get the first five I bought (Aguirre, Nosferatu, Affenstunde, Einsjager and Hosianna), but I've really slowed down since and stumbled across a used copy of Sei still, wisse ich bin in Michigan a few months ago.
But since then I only find copies of those same five albums. I don't think I've ever even seen Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte in the wild at all.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
I am still grateful to la lèchera for hooking me up with the Spalax edition of Letzte Tage which to me sounds much better than the remasters
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
:) that one remains one of my all time fave albums
i am satisfied with my current state of Popol Vuh releases
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
I have everything up to "Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts", what else should I check out? Cobra Verde? Fitzcarraldo?
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link
and man you wanna talk about a discographical mess, crosscheck the various bonus tracks between editions if you dare
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
TBH I almost never listen to those two but I do like Agape-Agape a LOT
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
ty!
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Sei still, wisse ich bin is really good too, imo
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah I dig that one quite a bit, was happy I found it.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
noted, hey the 2017 Wah Wah version of that isn't insanely expensive!
― sleeve, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
yea I mean Aguirre alone - a bunch of Side A is alternate takes from Einsjager, Side B is a long discarded track from the Moog era called "Vergegenwärtigung", but later editions replaced it with 3 other tracks from later albums, though on the CD it's still one long track called "Vergegenwärtigung". some editions have "Aguirre III" and others have the 3-part "Spirit of Peace" on it. very little of this was actually in the film, though one of the tunes that was (the bit at the end of the first title track) isn't even listed on the sleeve. so what, exactly, would the definitive edition be??
― frogbs, Monday, 30 January 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
This is from Agape-Agape and has the slow burn propulsion I love in this band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2WMsM-c4bY
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 30 January 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
Agape-Agape is good but the production is just so lo-fi, I don't know what that was about.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Monday, 30 January 2023 23:58 (one year ago) link
^^^
― Kim Kimberly, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 02:44 (one year ago) link
fourth'd
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link
just got the 2nd box. wow Seligpreisung is really good. sounds like Magma attempting Hosianna Mantra. sure wish Djong Yun was on it though!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 02:18 (eleven months ago) link
I love Seligpreisung. It sounds to me like a jammier Obscured By Clouds-era Pink Floyd. Fricke's vocals are definitely the weakest thing about it. I don't actually mind them that much, but I would have preferred Djong Yun to sing it too. But it's all good because we have Das Hohelied Salomos for that. I recently treated myself to a clean OG German vinyl pressing of that one for my birthday, and I couldn't be happier with it. I love everything about that record, down to the whimsical/menacing cover art--spiritual psych perfection.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
i adore that record.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 27 June 2023 19:34 (ten months ago) link
hosianna mantra
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Saturday, 9 December 2023 21:22 (five months ago) link
This thread is ilm at its best innit: knowledgeable, obsessive, in love with its subject in a way that can only make you go wandering.
Don't think it's actually linked here, but ended up at the 1996 Edw1n P0uncey interview this morning. https://popolvuh.nl/archive/bibliography/34-archive/bibliography/180-my-strange-life-florian-fricke-interview
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 16 December 2023 09:48 (five months ago) link
That's a great read, thank you!irl lol:
FF - Sometimes I think about this. There's only one person in Germany I like (except for Gerhard!), to sit together with him. It's Boris Becker! He's a good man. My son knows him. And he's sung for the disco
― willem, Saturday, 16 December 2023 10:19 (five months ago) link
Hehehe.
Also liked:
GA - Have you ever been in England, Florian?FF - Yes, I was very early in London in the 1960s .. .l met some people, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The London 'underground' scene ... the Pink Floyd.EP - Did you see Yoko in her gallery?FF - No, it was private. It was terrible. The doors had no locks on them; there was a chair. The chair was half. I had claustrophobia. I need closed doors. And so the first doors I (whoosh) opened them up and then no possible more come out this terrible woman out of the room.
FF - Yes, I was very early in London in the 1960s .. .l met some people, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. The London 'underground' scene ... the Pink Floyd.
EP - Did you see Yoko in her gallery?
FF - No, it was private. It was terrible. The doors had no locks on them; there was a chair. The chair was half. I had claustrophobia. I need closed doors. And so the first doors I (whoosh) opened them up and then no possible more come out this terrible woman out of the room.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 16 December 2023 10:52 (five months ago) link