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.
Krautrock and other great prog rock music from 60/70s is being brought back to life over RUclips, 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...
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.
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
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...
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
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...
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
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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
@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?
Stars Of The Lid ??? Omfg They Straight up SUCK compared to Popol Vuh.There;s no substance anymore. Everything is a washed down version of the group that came before it.I have hundreds of classic ambient / space music from all the classic musicians and thousands more electronic / electronica and it kills my soul when I hear some wanna be a DJ (because nobody is an actual musician anymore), take a n awsome track by a pioneer of this music and put added bleeps n beats over it and call it a remix. BOOO!!! LEAVE MUSIC ALONE!! Your'e unable to create anything original so you think wrecking a classic piece of standing music.Its like drawing a pair of sunglasses on the Mona Lisa and calling it .Theres gotta be somthing you could muster up on your own. Stop being lazy and get inspired and listen to the classics AS IS PLEASE and get Inspired and create your OWN masterpiece.
@UppruniTegundanna- My thoughts exactly- But I have a twist to add- The pioneering brilliance of the Germans as they formulated new ways of musical expression- was refined and refined by the mainstream resulting in the purest distilled essence of crap that production line producers serve up today
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"Let's warm up before our improv gig tonight. I brought my 6000 $ state of the art Moog modular synthesizer. What did you bring?"
"The bongos, man"
A perfect combination nevertheless.
Hahahahaha!!
Dude, take your shoes off! What are you thinking?!
“Far out....”
dsskater539 sckupty in an old news clip they said 80.000 DM, would be around 40.000 € today
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.
That's how I got into them, through Herzog. Heart Of Glass & Aguirre, Wrath Of God. Amazing music
@@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.
Same, dog
some of the godfathers of electronic musik. only hardcores know them. fricke is a genius!!
I was looking for his Mozart album but it's nowhere :)
calm, cool, the isness of sound transcends into image. what inspiration
Krautrock and other great prog rock music from 60/70s is being brought back to life over RUclips, 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...
this is wonderful. The track is part of the title track from their 1970 debut lp "Affenstunde".
It is not very often that music reminds me that I have ears, this is one of those moments.
really nice love it wish i had lived in that time
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.
Yes, the last min of Affenstunde.... love this track and this video
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
thank you donald from 15 years ago, hope you are doing well in sweden.
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...
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
Mitici i miei Popol Vuh 🖤
Werner Herzog found the perfect composer to put into music what he (Herzog) put into images.
Sounds of sunrise at Stone Henge Summer Solstice Celebration back in the 70's... Beautiful and resonant together with the huge standing stones
Florian is a Deva guiding us now! Great stuff, Transcendental.
That opening shot is wild. What a fun clip.
what a great video, good recording and excellent music, thank for the uploading.
Popol Vuh made consistently great music for over ten years
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...
A great documentary of an era.
A spiritual game without frontiers.
Claudio Milano
let's share an immense love to Germany for having created such a wonderful musical reality
No to im wyszło ;)
thank you for posting this, LOVE Popul Vuh!
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
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!
I have fallen in love with their music.
And that modular synth helped Tangerine Dream take the music to a whole different level.
Yep, and Klaus Schulze and Isao Tomita, all famous IIIP users.
Perfect! The keyboards don't have the dated feel/sound like most music of the 60s/70s/80s.
I love this thanks for posting
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
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!
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.
..great¡ very nice old video. Thank's
This beautiful peice of music could be the soundtrack to one of my favorite books...Olaf Stapladon's cosmic masterpeice Starmaker.
God yea! Know this was posted a while ago but...Amazing book! Loved the world with the living ships, apparently capable of breeding.
truly wonderful
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... :-)
Was das alles so gibt...
Ist ja enorm!
Beautiful...
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.
haha... horses for courses... I love this track... I also love early synth music
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.
No problem keep blabbering away :-)
Big fan of electronics and ethnics...
Beautiful. Sounds like the back end of Affenstunde.
I love german music so bad! Thanks to WDR I can see live concerts from cool and the gang and such bands at 3 am^^
Looks like something from a Jodorowsky film, love it.
thanks for posting this, dude.
Awesome!!!
Amazing!
still love it!!
incredible.
wonderful.
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.
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
Im watching a program on the Great Lodges of the National Parks. Being Zion, Bryce and the Grand Canyon. The music here fits the scenery.
the first two from the 1970-72 period... check allmusic for the details...
No idea... I got it from a WDR special on german rock music.. amazing what they have in the archives...
gnarly, thanks dude
danke - eine kleine Zeitreise
Thank you Thank Thank you Bliss
Absolute treasure
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!
Thanks STG! ;-)
this is so fuckin good . i like this kind of trip.. peace to all the peoplz who like this one
Just a comment. I will delete all negative hateful religious remarks....
Quién escucha Popol Vuh el 2020?
Me.
@@oliviertruchon5648 2023?
Eso no era necesario XD
love that old MOOG III
Classic!
reminds me that great music of tangerine dream, The afrodite Child or those great and obscure group om the 70's Amon Duul
wow, check out this early early experimental dreamy and tribal electronica.
fro germany 1971.
was a broadcast off German TV in August I think..
what about the video guy. amazing.
Lovely stuff :-)
@ZeuhlEmgalai
This is an excerpt of the title track from Affenstunde
not off any CD/LP. Its an improv made for TV in 1971... though their first two LPs do kinda hint at this sound..
i like what i'm listening to
First two LPs are much like this, then they got more into acoustic instruments as in the Kyrie clip. Great band, don't think they played live much...
this is such a wonder
Hypnotic maaaan
cool building
Pretty cool. Popol Vuh is the Mayan story of creation
I love it
Bueno bueno
Gr8!!!!!
@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!
The old mentality sings the dragon. To reveal the meaning.
Popol Vuh is the bomb
fricke was a fucking genius. r.i.p brother, you have no idea how many kraut bands u have influenced. love u.
me gusta!
Ami también
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?
Hypnotic notic notic notic .....................
you sure? I thought they only ever did one live gig and that was in Munich... though maybe that was just a certain line up of Popol Vuh (with Djong?)
@jcallegari I don't agree, but...just in case: Frike has the merit of being one of the first..he was a true artist as he was not afraid of creating
Check out Stars Of The Lid.
Stars Of The Lid ??? Omfg They Straight up SUCK compared to Popol Vuh.There;s no substance anymore. Everything is a washed down version of the group that came before it.I have hundreds of classic ambient / space music from all the classic musicians and thousands more electronic / electronica and it kills my soul when I hear some wanna be a DJ (because nobody is an actual musician anymore), take a n awsome track by a pioneer of this music and put added bleeps n beats over it and call it a remix. BOOO!!! LEAVE MUSIC ALONE!! Your'e unable to create anything original so you think wrecking a classic piece of standing music.Its like drawing a pair of sunglasses on the Mona Lisa and calling it .Theres gotta be somthing you could muster up on your own. Stop being lazy and get inspired and listen to the classics AS IS PLEASE and get Inspired and create your OWN masterpiece.
Abuelos de la electrónica actual...
Shouldn't that be more like "Brian Eno is a bit Popol Vuh" given the year ;-)
@MikeAdupont Your comment is pure Truth, my friend.
florian fricke: genious
@UppruniTegundanna- My thoughts exactly- But I have a twist to add- The pioneering brilliance of the Germans as they formulated new ways of musical expression- was refined and refined by the mainstream resulting in the purest distilled essence of crap that production line producers serve up today
TED where ya at!
69 boyz where ya at
right here brother
oops thought it qasnt me it was me homeboy... SCAT