Very nice clip of Popol Vuh in the electronic era. Florian Fricke on the moog modular that would later be owned by Klaus Schulze. Very nice film style too...
These guys do soundtracks for several of Herzog's films and they are great at it. The tracks to 1979's Nosferatu are eerie and perfect for the film. Beautifully done.
@@Sr19769p I saw Aquirre…when they still had great video stores when they had about 6000 movies. Netflix and rest have just a few good flicks with rest as filler. I liked Island records so I used to look on back and see all other albums on the Island and buy whatever I could.
It says Florian did the music for Rescue Dawn, but that movie was released 7 year’s after his passing away- interesting. Popol Vuh did 1/2 the music for at least in all the Thomas Mauch-Herzog-Fricke-Kinski collabo’s (only saying half cuz hearing other music within a scene / maybe you’ll hear Monteverdi or something amid the Vuh tracks, besides that collaboration- At leasst 1/3rd/4th of film’s the first 30 years of Herzog’s filmography included Florian Fricke
I've been coming here since they uploaded this video it's amazing 15 years has passed, and this is still as fresh as ever. whenever I am having musical writers block I just come to something like this and it always puts things in perspective. surrender and the sound will come to you
yes surrender can break the block. I often am overwelmed by too many thoughts. musical and otherwise. A cluttered mind also makes me forget that i need to surrender
Equally amazing that nobody's found and uploaded the uncut film yet. And/or located the audio in stereo. It's been almost a whole generation and still no dice.
In my opinion the music in this clip lies somewhere between the first and the second album (In den Gärten Pharaos) soundwise. Not as cut up and un-melodic as the highly experimental pieces on the first more avantgarde-oriented album, but more in the droning eastern tinged wein of their second one. This is so good!!! Thanks for posting whoever did it. Sorry for blabbering, can go on forever about this...hehehe/Andreas from Sweden
i LOVE this band ... all the iterations of it. truly unique vision and art. the world has always been a better place for them being here. thanks for sharing! eternitypoet
Krautrock and other great prog rock music from 60/70s is being brought back to life over RU-vid, we can already feel that influence coming to life with some of the new bands that are showing up all over the world, which have very similar sound and are really pushing over the limit of what mainstream audience was confined, people are not even aware of these bands since media don't give a fuck (same as in 60/70s) but they are here already. For example channel Stoned Meadow of Doom is a good start...
Guys just thought I'd mention, since yesterday seems like a few of my videos are getting taken down for "copyright violation"... however I am told that the family of Florian are happy about this one being here. Indeed I've had many posts from the artistes themselves about the videos and how they love the fact they are reaching a new audience (selling new/old CDs, gigs and so on) because of it... so I guess its more to do with the publishing companies...
The music is from the last part of Affenstunde, the first album. It makes more sense when heard as part of the whole recording - a journey from darkness into light. Apparently inspired by the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I love this video and wish there were 10 hours more of Popol Vuh from this period.
This is amazing! I always look at the picture on Popol Vuhs first album (Affenstunde) to get the vibe of the moment so to speak. This is the first time I see live material from the same era .Purely amazing!!!! I am speechless...
Just discovered Florian Fricke recently on a video called, "Sodom and Gomorrah" by Alessandro Bavari. I've not come across a more twisted collaboration than this - pure genius!
indeed, beautiful music,and i want also to notice that its one of the best videos that i ever seen, plain, minimalistic and very hipnotic.The point probably that this video take you inside of music. Best regards to one who made this video and to one who put it in utube
I just recorded a short piece, in honor of this video. Called it "Galactic Humaya, space invaders". Thank to all artists who inspire each other, and use our gifts to create our planet's harmonic overtone! I will post up my inspired piece soon. Ollin
Those of you who like this also want to check out Terry Riley. "Persian Surgery Dervishes" and the "Poppy Nogood all night flight" b-side on his classic "Rainbow in Curved air" (which I think is rather dreadful, since i am into darker, more haunting and eerie tones). I just came to think of Terry Riley so much when hearing this.
Some here said this was an excerpt from Affenstunde, but it also struck me as strongly resembling the body of In den Garten Pharao, the first track on the eponymous album, at least in structure. Wish the video had shown more of the performers themselves. Thanx so much for this!
thanks a lot,ditto to captainjjb comment though i still listen to this stuff, all the good early experimental stuff came out of germany for those of us with inquisitive minds. Took my mates to see CAN in 70 they left but they blew me away still do to this day. CHEERS
Theres a difference between noodling and playing. Noodling is when theres no thought involved... Theres a certain vibe going on here with the indian like drone and a real nice repeating arpeg pattern, the congas and the indian-esque lead. Wether the guy went from mayan myth to christianity is irrelevent to me. All I can say is that it floats my boat and has been an influence on me without me having to do drugs or anything... :-)
Late 60s/early 70s Germany produced some of the most creative and vital music of all time. The Krautrock bands influenced modern mainstream music in profound ways that most of the audience are totally unaware of. It's such an injustice that the musicians of that time aren't better known today, and even worse that most people would dismiss it all as atonal rubbish.
very well said. I am a big fan of bands and artists ranging from Godspeed you black emperor to notorious B.I.G., not trying to claim any elitism in name dropping merely stating that I can hear A LOT of where the bands I love have gotten their inspiration from in this sort of music. If you haven't already, check out a band called Grails.
You are so right about Persian Surgery Dervishes. I would say PSD is way more minimalist (which explains why I can easily fall asleep listening to it). This tune from Popol Vuh has more variability but is indeed similar. I wish there was more classic synth just like this. Plus I'd love to find this track in stereo!
Fassbinder was a German director who made most of his films in the 70s, including Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Wenders is still around and he did Paris, Texas. Riefenstahl was a famous German documentary director who did Triumph of the Will. Ophuls, Lubitsch and Sirk were American but came from Germany. Schlondorff did The Tin Drum.
Several Popol Vuh compositions appears as soundtracks from Werner Hertzog movies such as "Aguirre the Wrath of God", "Nosferatu", "Fitzcarraldo", and also I think it was with "Green Cobra". Herzog, was one of the initiators of the Neoexpresionist German Cinema which started at the end of the sixties and expanded until the beginning of the eighties.
@orangefunk It's great to see this online. Let's share the world. It's funny how companies will push what they sell at their convenience and for free but, when it's convenient for you to consume their product, they'll want to charge for it. They don't sell cultural products but the satisfaction of certain cravings instead!
Thankyou for the video. I've been interested in this music genre for a while now. Can especially. Electronics and hypnotic beats (I've just discovered Boredoms - they are tribal beat(Seadrum)/krautrock explorers). Being a Herzog fan - this video does have that contemplative/meditative/reflective quality that some scenes in Herzogs early films have. Was this a Herzog music video?
