Popol Vuh

 

 

There's Oriental ritualistic feeling in it, but the music is quite heavy (not in metal sence of this word) to listen to it too much.

Truely Florian in the beginning of this song is citing Russian Orthodox choral - probably that's why it seems interesting for me.

 

 

Ambiental Popol Vuh of the 90s

 

Agape-Agape and Spirit of Peace are continuation of the sound from the second part of the 70s.

Cobra Verde - truely the music is much more impressive in the film by Werner Herzog (with Klaus Kinski, of course) - there are short floating ambiental tracks, long Afro-ethnic peace - it works if you saw the film.

For You and Me - well-recorded old and new tracks with more light sound - choral singing, guitars.

City Raga and Shepherd's Symphonie - electronic beat tracks with ethnic samples in style of Deep Forest, Banco da Gaia etc. For a start it's better to see the film Kailash on Youtube - ambient tracks from this film were developed to tracks on both these albums.

 

And I'm still buying books. If I would buy LPs - in my room would live CDs, LPs and books

When I'm listening to Popol Vuh I'm always having feeling that there's something behind this music.

You could call it atmosphere, spirit, energy.

It creates positive feeling even if you are listening to music from Nosferatu.

What do you like in music by PV most of all?

And I read the opinion that last albums were mainly work by Guido Hyeroniumus, but if you compare Shepherd's Symphonie or City Raga with Guido/Frank Fiedler's post-Popol Vuh records, it's obvious that music by Guido is quite different.

Truely, it a mystery for me how PV worked in studio in the 90s.

 

And yeah, there are many persons who are wanting to take Big money for their items on eBay, Musickstack etc., but if you are constantly hunting for somrthing - it's usually possible to find your price and your CD/LP sooner or later.

Of course, not in all cases

 

That's the reason why local stores and what not, are losing customers and revenue.

 

The tastes have widened and it is impossible for any store to handle enough material to be able to sell it to the folks that come in ... that is, btw, the main reason why "top ten" and "hits" are so important to the "economy" ... so you DO GO TO THE STORE, and also buy a drink along the stuff you get, which helps the economy go around!

 

But if your tastes differ, the chance of getting it locally in a small town? ... not very good at all!

Looks like I'm gonna have to spend a few more bucks on the version I actually love. And hey, thanks for the link, by the way, and it's always great to hear from other Vuh fans.

That one has "Aguirre III" for the bonus track, and unfortunately I'm not a big fan of that one. I have two copies of this version (second one was purchased due to miscommunication). Plus, it has a version of "Vergegenwartigung" (that I really didn't fancy) that is different from the one I heard first (which I thoroughly enjoyed). But I hope you will feel differently about it.

I just don't know where I can get that one version that I love. I probably should hit Discogs.com or some place else.