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A list by Count5Categories: unknown descriptor [List185408] |  This page is devoted to one of Krautrock's most unique, mysterious and under-appreciated bands. Over the years, Popol Vuh's discography has been a complicated labyrinth to navigate--the band explored many different styles, recorded for several labels and many of their albums are/were hard to find. This has lead to a fascinating back catalogue of diverse and wonderous still-yet-to-be-discovered treasures. Feel free to share your impressions of Popol Vuh's music and what it means to you. |
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 | Popol Vuh Dutch fansite: http://popolvuh.nl/ Italian fansite: http://www.popolvuh.it/ Discography/Credits/Reviews: http://www.venco.com.pl/~acrux/discogr.htm Articles, Links and Reviews: Popol Vuh on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/popolvuh Interview with Florian Fricke: http://www.eurock.com/features/florian.aspx SPV Records Reissue Campaign: http://www.spv.de/eng/popolvuh/default.html The Transcendent Music Of Popol Vuh: http://www.furious.com/perfect/populvuh.html Resonant Frequency #30: In the Garden With Popol Vuh: http://pitchfork.com/featu...-frequency-30/ Popol Vuh: Not Of This World: http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/287_200607.html Ambient Music Guide to Popol Vuh: http://www.ambientmusicguide.com/pages/P/popolVuh.php Admirers: Brian Eno, Cul de Sac, Dead Can Dance, Deathprod, Enigma, Flying Saucer Attack, Jarboe, Kate Bush, Stephen Malkamus, Six Organs of Admittance, The Swell Season, Bobb Trimble Featured Videos: |
| Florian Fricke's Bio (Wikipedia) Florian Fricke (February 23, 1944 in Lindau am Bodensee, Germany – December 29, 2001 in Munich) was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music using the Moog synthesizer within the Krautrock group Popol Vuh. His music and that of the band however soon evolved in a completely different direction, and he almost completely abandoned synthesizers in favor of the acoustic piano. Fricke started playing piano as a child. He studied piano, composition and directing at the Conservatories in Freiburg and Munich. It was in Munich that, at 18, he dedicated himself to new kinds of music like Free Jazz. He also filmed some short amateur films. (He would later become a movie and music critic for the German magazine Der Spiegel and the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung). It was also in Munich that he met Gerhard Augustin, who for many years would be his producer. In 1967 he met German film director Werner Herzog and played a role in his first movie "Lebenszeichen". Fricke was later responsible for the soundtracks of several of Herzog's movies, among them Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht [Nosferatu the Vampyre] (with Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz), Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [Aguirre, the Wrath of God] and Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass]. Fricke was one of the first musicians to own and use a Moog III synthesizer, with which he recorded Popol Vuh's first two albums Affenstunde and In den Gärten Pharaos. His recordings with the instruments left an indelible mark on German electronic music. However, he later significantly gave his Moog to fellow German musician Klaus Schulze and renounced electronic music. In 1970, together with Holger Truelsch and Frank Fiedler, he founded the group Popol Vuh. The name is taken from a Mayan manuscript. Fricke was the leader of the group until his death, almost always together with guitarist and drummer Daniel Fichelscher. Fricke also recorded an album of Mozart compositions. Besides working on his own music, Fricke collaborated with many German musicians. In 1972 he played in the Tangerine Dream's Zeit double album and collaborated with Renate Knaup of Amon Düül II. Together with Fichelscher, from 1973 to 1974 he was a member of former Popol Vuh guitarist Connie Veit's band Gila. In 1992 he recorded an album of Mozart compositions. In the 1998 he organized audio/video installations, among them Messa di Orfeo in the Italian city of Molfetta. Beginning in the '70, Fricke dedicated himself to musicotherapy. He also developed an original form of therapy called the "Alphabet of the Body". Together with former Popol Vuh member Frank Fiedler, who was a competent cameraman, Fricke produced a series of films of spiritual inspiration set in the Sinai desert, Israel, Lebanon, Mesopotamia, Morocco, Afghanistan, Tibet and Nepal. Fricke died of a stroke in Munich in 2001, at the age of 57. In October 2003 Klaus Schulze wrote: "Florian was and remains an important forerunner of contemporary ethnic and religious music. He chose electronic music and his big Moog to free himself from the restraints of traditional music, but soon discovered that he didn't get a lot out of it and opted for the acoustic path instead. Here, he went on to create a new world, which Werner Herzog loves so much, transforming the thought patterns of electronic music into the language of acoustic ethno music." | |
| Definition of Band Name The band took its name from the Popol Vuh, a manuscript of Mayan mythology that is the Quiche Mayan Indians' equivalent of the Bible. Florian Fricke : "When I read the book for the first time, I got ideas all of a sudden by which I was able to define other old books. I found a key in the book of Popol Vuh. I was able to understand the way people in the very early days described the creation of Earth. And the way of human evolution. I was touched like by a thunderstorm. In those days, in the late '60s, when musical groups were looking for names, they were usually looking for a name that was expressing their music within the name. Otherwise it doesn't have any particular meaning." Read: Popol Vuh - The Sacred Book of The Mayas/The Book of The Community: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/academy/7286/popolvuhmain.html | |
| Soundtracks for Werner Herzog Films Aguirre (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [Aguirre, the Wrath of God]) Herz aus Glas (Herz aus Glas [Heart of Glass]) Fitzcarraldo (Fitzcarraldo) Nosferatu: Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts & Nosferatu (On the Way to a Little Way) (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht [Nosferatu the Vampyre]) Cobra Verde (Cobra Verde) | |
| Film by Florian Fricke and Popol Vuh Sinai Desert (1981) | |
| Remix Albums Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves Future Sound Experience Nachts: Schnee / Aguirre I Remixes | |
| Listen: Hear more: http://www.last.fm/music/Popol+Vuh#shoutbox |