Krautrock

Hosydi wrote: Jacob Schoolcraft wrote: Hosydi wrote: moshkito wrote: Hosydi wrote: ...  In particular, I mentioned that a number of contemporary bands are referred to as krautrock in addition to other tags like "experimental," "avant rock," "improvised music," etc., only in favor of describing their sound, which is partly inspired by 70s krautrock; the quality of many of those modern bands is indisputable.  ... a drummer strictly doing the time thing, is more the American way than it is "krautrock" ...  Do you mean the confederate way? Redneck Rock? CCR SWAMP ROCK? Is that the kind of drum beats you're talking about? The kind in amateur bar bands or in dive bars...where people would think that GREENSLADE is a crayon company...Ange is a fruit from Brazil...Pulsar is a stop watch....Atomic Rooster is the Jersey Devil...Art Zoyd is a serial killer...?? The Yorùbá dùndún ensemble, Lagos, Nigeria: The dùndún drum is often described as a 'talking drum,' which means it has the capability to mimic the tonal patterns of spoken Yoruba language. The talking drum has been used historically for communication over long distances. In modern times, the dùndún continues to be celebrated in popular music genres such as Jùjú and Fuji music:

cstack3 wrote: kirk782 wrote: cstack3 wrote: Kraut Rock bands like Popul Vuh were instrumental to the amazing atmosphere conveyed by these films!  What would be the ideal diving point into Popul Vuh's discography or one should just listen from the debut? Regarding German films, and this is off topic, but I really liked Fritz Lang though he worked in the halcyon silent era. Thanks!  I'm not an expert on Popul Vuh's discography, what I do when presented with a "new" band is I go to YouTube and sample different postings.  This enables me to skip around and get an idea for the flavor of of a work of music.   This is one of my favorite of their works, and it sets the tone for the movie beautifully!

This is just an amazing album! Totally timeless for me!! For many years I had the Celestial Harmonies versions of Popol Vuh . There was no indication that their music had been for film and basically not noted as such that they were on the Celestial Harmonies album covers. I generally didn't acknowledge that aspect to their career and grew used to the idea that their music was not attached to that working concept and to be honest...you really wouldn't have known the difference or ever had reason to distinguish between the two. I remember years ago seeing a film of Florian Fricke walking into the mountains. Supposedly the Himalayas. He seemed so genuine to me. He was definitely a very unique artist. The music that came out of him was unlike anyone I ever heard. There were certain people that had that uniqueness such as Terry Riley, David Parsons, Peter Michael Hamel, David Hykes Harmonic Choir, Stomu Yamashta, Jade Warrior ( Island period), Mike Oldfield....but Florian Fricke was in touch with a very unique style and I've always separated him from others in those times. I really appreciate the music he gave us!

kirk782 wrote: ... Krautrock had originality, I believe. Wasn't David Bowie enchanted by this sound [and the likes of Neu!] when making his Berlin trilogy?