Popol Vuh - Kyrie 1973

[seventeenboi]

my favorite band.

[spaceytutor]

i want to put a label here, but i won't

[methaphisic]

Hey, Look up!!! Florian Fricke is amazing! Don`t waste time on comments...

[MrPragalv]

7 people love justin beiber

[VIVESCO100]

I love it!

[EndlessNot1]

when Nirvana, pearl Jam etc. became more popular in the late 80's early 90's, the industry began marketing new acts as "alternative, but all of a sudden, they all had to sound and look "alternative" according to the music industry record executives version of safe bland version of alternative thus killing the true meaning of the word..so when really diffierent sounding pop bands and rock bands rolled around, they didn't fit into that mold...all of a sudden..goodbye true creativity

[DeadlyDreamerX]

What music should sound. I can't believe this is from the 70s

[EndlessNot1]

@divinityboy wasn't meant as reinforcement, but if it makes you feel better, then by all means, you're reinforced

[EndlessNot1]

@divinityboy likewise, i'm sure divine one!!

[DeadlyDreamerX]

This is called music.

[vergolaga]

mi gustar escuchar rolon poca progenitora mucho bueno, ectasi coloidal de la reaccion sinergetica de la anorexia colombina.

[Ghoopty]

Popol Vuh always seemed to me to be more spiritual than the other German bands of the '70s. Especially the track off this album called "Abschied"....I was listening to that on the way home from work one day and cried, because I felt so much simple gratitude and love in it. Absolutely beautiful.

[retrofaboo]

Outerworldly vibrations.

[monkaa32]

fabelhaft !!

[claudemalade]

plus Klaus Wiese, Tambura, Robert Eliscu, Oboe

[PabzGLRP]

If anything, this genre has been labelled the most appropriately, detracting the least from their musical dexterity. The term is applied as they're all German rock bands of the post-war era, which has little do with their music; more their identity on an international basis. Much better than pinning them with a tag that reflects upon their overall sound, but I suppose that simply wasn't fathomable, due to the sheer breadth of each significant band's sound - they were all too experimental.

[mobile513]

@PabzGLRP

When I get fancy about it, i just think, "early 70s Germany".

[mobile513]

@PabzGLRP

This is why I say we should sort everything by time and place. Early 70s, Germany.

[palteonato]

 This is KOSMISCHE MUSIK !

[TheTrancemaster90]

@palteonato No, cosmic music was Tangerine Dream or Cluster. This is early instrumental New Age!

[ClubdelosVoladores]

Fenomenal ¡¡¡

[lksj]

When you learn to capture the feeling from the music, the barrier of genres disappear.

[Straichen]

@lksj That's what I tell my friends when they make fun of me for listening to Dragonforce

[swineburn]

nice music

[liverawkstar]

Krautrock is a broad term--

Faust is Krautrock-

I personally detest Faust

Popul Vuh is always pure emotion, pure wordless emotions

thee only thing all Krautrock has mainly in common is it is all very new and innovative: Klaus Schulze Tangerine dream, Neu, Kraftwerk, Guru Guru, (dreaded) Faust, Cluster , Conrad Schnitzler, Ash Ra Tempel

[MrLaurence19]

this is so very hot.

[lachompon]

He estado en los bosques,frente a las grandes piramedes  mayas,en logares remotos observando las estrellas siempre escuchando popol vuh,ha macado mi vida para siempre.

Y lo conoci viendo las peliculas de herzog y kinsky.

[CidadelaDoCaos]

Popol Vuh fits like a glove in Werner Herzog movies.

[SpaceBambino]

@CidadelaDoCaos it fits a bit TOO good, which is probably why every other herzog movie OST without these guys is meant to sound exactly like them

[Sandyhendry]

It's similar to Indian classical music cos you have some repetitive looping stuff and then improvisations over the top. What is cool is that A.R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) and other modern Indian composers got into synths and copied dance styles that were copied from Kraftwerk that were copied from Indian music that inspired Krautrock...That's just my BS theory.

[Sandyhendry]

Wait a guy there playing a sitar. That explains the link.,

[hawkcwg]

So beautiful

[1tigerblood]

very good make with your piano

[nakedhand]

Beautiful music. Great band, period!

She creeps me out though...

[g0pi3]

Oooh, a bit creepy.

I'm liking it.

[Sandyhendry]

Sounds like Cocteau twins!

[andrewcramer13]

@Sandyhendry yup, popul vuh and most krautrock bands were very influenced by them

[Sandyhendry]

@andrewcramer13. You mean the other way around. This was 10-years before the

Cocteau Twins.

[andrewcramer13]

@Sandyhendry NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

[MacKlaus71]

I Like it

[BohemianConspiracy]

no proper style... for some ... for others its surely an original approach of music ...popol vuh used many (ethnically and culturaly) different colours of music from their travelling Bag ...for and with the surprised silences of the others and me.

[Benjamin666face]

yes, that totally proves it. I guess that must mean that deep down I'm probably a jehovas witness or something

[fujivoo]

I can see how Germans could take Krautrock as derogatory....i'm Italian American and probably wouldn't appreciate the term "Wop-Rock" referring to Italian alternative music...

[BurningSpear213]

"Kosmiche Musik" was the term coined in Germany for the wave of bands that begain emerging in the late '60s there, many of which had completely different styles and backgrounds, but all shared a strong experamental bent, and varying degrees of fondness for psychedelia. In Britain, the term "Krautrock" was used by the press for the more popular groups such as Can and Faust which made their way across the channel. Some German musicians still think of it as derogatory, and I can't blame them.

[UniweriaZekt]

Djong Jun (apologies to my Korean friends out here for spelling)!

Never thought I would see this!

[fujivoo]

if you look at the so called "Alternative" bands of the 90's and early 2000's, ther's a sameness that can't be overlooked, sure there are a few exceptions, Wilco etc.. but compared to the New Wave/Alternative groups of the 70's and 80's which pretty much all ahd their own style and sound, what a difference, sorry if i'm going off on a tangent but it's an observation i can't ignore...Popol Vuh is a good example of that creative freedom you don't see anymore...bands are in a chokehold nowadays...

[fujivoo]

you're right, Krautrock is a more general term that can fit different music styles...like Tangerine Dream was very different from Amon Duul II who were very different from Can all under the Krautrock label....but when they started using the term Alternative to define a certain sound / style of rock, that pretty much killed the true meaning of what Alternative Rock was which was something different from the norm, the music industry knew what they were doing and all "Alternative" bands had to fit

[fujivoo]

but once you start labelling, you expect it to sound a certain way all the time, sometimes the artist won't want to change their style...look what happened with the "Alternative" label, once it became a marketing term, everybody expected "Alternative" rock to have a certain sound, thus killing the meaning of the word until all the so called "Alternative" bands look and sound the same, it is true though, we'll never get away from labelling...

[orangefunk]

I don't thnk about it too much to be honest. I mean I know many people call this Krautrock but I don't exactly know what that is.. seems like a catch all phrase for a lot of different styles (e.g. Can/TD/Amon Duul II all sound totally different). but at least it gets people listening to a lot of different styles... so I think calling this krautrock is ok as it gets people here in the first place... otherwise how would they find it? Accidentally perhaps... at least it speeds up the process.. ;-)

[KingCrimson776]

@fujivoo Certainly Popol Vuh should be thought of first and foremost as "Popul Vuh music". The term "Krautrock" is useful when we are looking at the broader musical world and want to make sense of it.

[EndlessNot1]

@KingCrimson776 agreed

[DeadlyDreamerX]

@KingCrimson776

With Krautrock as label, we can look for the old 1970s experimental and avant-garde music, not necessarily new kind of rock.

[cpereira1345]

@fujivoo "alternative" was always a marketing term, it was created for that only purpose. when you talk about krautrock, you are referring to music that was made in a certain context under more or less the same premises concerning the making of the music. of course when that is developed by different people with different means the style results diverse, but the core remains. i think labellin is useful.

[ffaustt]

@fujivoo even Faust recorded one song called Krautrock, we all know that. I guess what happened to the "alternative rock" label didnt happened to "krautrock", cause all these german bands are too good and diverse that it makes it really dificult to banalize them into just one word and even harder to have new bands copying what they sound like and making "krautrock" just another musical industry repetitive style

[fujivoo]

Why must we always put labels on music....just listen and either you like it or you don't...personally i like this whatever you wanna call it...just my opinion

[orangefunk]

unfortunately 'labels' are part of the process... otherwise how would people find the music... I daresay many people found this using the label krautrock.. even though its not particularly in that vein...

[DJEricBliss]

@orangefunk I think it sounds kinda new agey/folky to me. When I think krautrock I think Can, ADii, early Kraftwerk, stuff that had that really driving rock beat and hypnotic music. Thanks to that tag it got me to this though and im loving what im hearing. This doesnt sound like the Kyrie I know from letzte tage letzte nächte at all though which I think i like a lot better. scuze me but im kind of a PV newb

[honeypower]

@fujivoo I always say the same thing, can't understand these people obsessed with putting things into boxes

[EndlessNot1]

@honeypower once music is labeled and packaged ...creativity becomes constricted

[carcasion]

Awesome

[Behnjamin]

beautiful

[EisforEmpty]

dope song, my fav. krautrock song has got to be 'Can - Halleluhwah' though

[YuriDante]

what about Djong Yun today? Is she still singing?

[fatherfocus]

yo ya he tocado todo tipo de musica TODO pero algun dia espero tener mi banda celestial

[orangefunk]

you have good taste in music my friend!

[TASSOPENSATORE]

splendido! una vera gioia per la mente. om jaya namo vasudevajee !

[chelito19play]

Prog Rock?

Neo Prog?

Jazz?

=S

Help me!

[MrLubolupo]

Simply Krautrock !

[didascalion]

German Krautrock

[twilightdimension]

its 1973 it cant be neo prog

[kosmischesynth]

My top five are:

Selbstportrait I and II ~ Roedelius

Fritz Muller Rock ~ Fritz Muller

Viva ~ La Dusseldorf

La Nordica ~ Roedelius

Goldregen ~ la! NEU?

BUT CAN WE PLEASE GET BACK TO THE POINT: POPOL VUH!

[goblindigital2]

Popol Vuh: 100% intellectual music and 100% alternative music!

5 stars!

[carrietide]

Wonderful music

[TextFreeley]

Very wild and freaky stuff.

[Strombolifan]

Words cannot describe the beauty of Popol Vuh. They were truly unique, quite possibly the best band to emerge from Germany. My "In the gardens of Pharao/Aguirre" compilation CD will always remain the holy grail :-)

[siebenjager]

Amazing, and by far my favorite era of PV...

[templemu]

Wonderful - didn't they work with Tangerine dream on Zeit?

[gurusaguru]

Florian Fricke contributed the moog syntheziser to one track from the zeit album and its the best one on there "birth of liquid plejades", fantastic.

[namaste91]

Popol Vuh ist so göttlich!

Popol Vuh is so divine!

[pamphish]

Beauty is so fleeting.

[pamphish]

This feels so comfortable, the room, music, the people - exactly the kind of "seventies" gathering I grew used to in the 70's. We were a different lot. Oh, how I miss the seventies, and the people I knew then.

[Endimione17]

I understand deeply what you're saying... seems to be past a thousand years from then

[hidalgo2211]

DOUBLE WOW!!!!!!

[GodOfChaosX]

wow

[Hindenzog]

It's such a shame that there is very little footage available of them at all, but in a way it keeps the mystery. This is a stunning album, one of the best of the 70's.

[flirdy776]

magical voice, sounds and spirit

rip florian

[meinLiebsterFeind]

What the!? THIS STUFF IS AS GOOD AS CAN !

[benmcmanus]

not quite. but its still good

[EMG1992]

No, I prefer Popol Vuh, definitely. This music is just amazing, Can is alright, but they cannot do this.

[MikeAdupont]

I like that your comparing krautrock bands, but the two are not really goin for the same thing, although Future Days does try to be more ambient, and the results of that one are quite nice, check it out if you'd like.

[posthumanhero]

popol vuh weren't as layered as and physical as can -- plus popol vuh could be mistaken for several electronic artists whereas can were (perhaps) more authentic......popol vuh seemed to have more to do with what later got termed 'new age' but more interesting.

[robwyattfan]

Popol Vuh at their best are far more austere and erudite than any of Can's material. Later electronic artists may sound "like" Popol Vuh, but at their time, at their height, their unabashedly spiritual, meter and timeless sound was the most innovative turn in rock music since Tangerine Dream. Can were still quite derivative in spirit, if not sound, to American psychedelia (from the Dead to Red Crayola). Not to knock Can. They were one of the greatest for how far they pushed the "trip" in rock.

[posthumanhero]

so off-the-mark to me......can were highly sophisticated and original (not a trace of the influences you speak of ) and they had ideas, many of which confound me as a musician.....popoh vuh, however, was a vehicle for florian fricke evolving around [an] idea (the beauty of the major scale applied to various textures)....i like them but never viewed them as pioneers of anything -- i just don't think they're that special, but that's just my opinion.

[robwyattfan]

There is certainly a trace of those things simply in terms of Can's format (dense, largely instrumental, mostly tonal jams laced with the occasionally noisy interlude and fusion turn).

Fricke's willingness to discard any notion of rock rhythm while keeping the psych aspects of length and repetition alive were indeed very unique. Further, on a conceptual level, he merged the music of acid culture with the austere, spiritual ruminations of Christian music.

[posthumanhero]

i guess, having grown up with electronic music in the 90s as something readily available on friday late night radio, i lack the historical context to properly place popol vuh...and wasn't aware of the christian influence (as a musician i just think of it as 'playing in one key')..i have one popul lp and it sounds like three grateful dead instrumental jams playing together from transister radios..the other stuff sounds roughly like newage music, which (i'll take your word) was 'avante' it's time.

[robwyattfan]

Yep. The quality of Fricke's output was largely inconsistent. I think his best works, which were also the most innovative upon release, are In Den Gaerten Pharaos, still electronic, but casting off most of those instruments in favor of a combination rock-chamber ensemble, and Hosianna Mantra (what this track is from), which is mostly acoustic instruments and does away with rock rhythm entirely. Both are also touched by chromatic flourishes that punch them up, IMO.

[posthumanhero]

thx for the reccomendation.

[papajoveth]

yet another piero scaruffi super fan quoting everything he says

[robwyattfan]

I can't lie. I've read Scaruffi, but it's difficult to disagree on this one. However, I dare you to find a "quote" exactly. You can simply say my opinion on this one is in alignment. That which is, is.

[papajoveth]

no you quote him exactly

il find where you have

and where you havent you've translated his ratings into sentance... i like a lot of frickes other works

granted hosianna mantra is pretty much the most complete

and im not that much of a radiohead fan... my drummer just likes the beats :)

at least you admitted you'd read him

some people claim to have never heard of him and put trout mask rock bottom faust vu and the doors as their top 5 albums

coincidence..

[robwyattfan]

I definitely didn't mean to quote in an exact way, but it is true that Fricke's music was a merger of religious worlds. He said as much, too.

I think Scaruffi is a great jumping off point for people so long as they then listen to the records and come to their own conclusions.

My top five probably:

This Heat's self-titled (but Health & Efficiency is my fave song of all-time), PIL's Flowers, the Boredom's Super AE, Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain, and yep, Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom.

[papajoveth]

gna be honest here pal rock bottom is probably the greatest "rock" album ever made. I reckon scaruffi thinks so aswell but thinks trout mask is the most important yeah nice top 5 like all them and cheers for the cover comment! my top 5 are frusciante-smile from the streets you hold vu- vu an nico mbv-loveless tim buckley-starsailor tom waits-rain dogs the only reason i stopped liking scaruffi is cause his jazz reviews are awful an im more of a jazz musician

[Tshea13]

I disagree that Fricke's music was inconsistent. I think Popol Vuh left behind an amazing varied body of music, most of which is great stuff. Perhap you confuse inconsistency with diversity. It's true that Fricke attempted many different musical styles and not all of it was successful but it makes for a fascinating discography and many gems--Herz aus Glas and Nosferatu are just as good.

[andrewcramer13]

@robwyattfan can you suggest some of the electronic artists similar to popul vuh?

[Tshea13]

Aside from both being German bands who incorporated electronic instruments into their music, I don't see Can and Popol Vuh as having much in common. I love them both but for very different reasons.

[posthumanhero]

popol just isn't very tonally diverse or texturally challenging, in my opinion........historically it predated newage music.......great.........can are the sashimi deluxe and popol are an ok boxed flounder....but this is just my opinon.

[Hawkwise]

Thank you Thank you from one my all time Fav Albums wonderul thank you so much for posting this little gem

[eulenspygel1917]

so beautifull!

[gurusaguru]

majestic and perfect

[mkl62]

I am an ELCA Lutheran from South Carolina. We have several Kyrie's in the Service Music section of Evangelical Lutheran Worship. They are in the Service Music section (#151-158). They are by: Dinah Reindorf, Franz Schbert & Richard Proulx, G.M. Kolisi, Avon Gillespie, Russian Orthodox, Plainsong, Marty Haugen, & Swee Hong Lin. Just thought I'd share.

[eulenspygel1917]

I have more than 400 cd's and Hosianna Mantra is my favoured of all!

[GianlucaSpace]

Hosianna Mantra it's a maserpiece of contemporary music. Amazing

[qadmos]

Orangefunk, man where do you get all this ultra cool footage from ? Do you have a secret access to the West Deutsche Rundfunk archives or what :-D ?

[orangefunk]

Hehe.. nah not really... just an obsessive :)

[spookysaurus]

liniquin - I'm at the other end of the time spectrum to you - have been listening to Popol Vuh for 30+ years. Their music remains as unique and as special as way-back-when.

[liniquin]

I have only just discovered these guys. Way before my time, but they are so dam good. I have got to get my hands on Hosianna Mantra.

[elephanta2]

Two of them are people in heaven now.

[ThatsEwalds]

Just beautiful music,played by sensitive people.

[aghorimaschine]

Florian Fricke & Conny Veit rules !!!

[aghorimaschine]

Florian Fricke R.I.P.

[RadioDept]

amazing!!!

[RadioDept]

amazing!

[Giovy46]

Popol Vuh....a legendary band of mantra music.....Fantastic videodream !

[sergioDGO]

I read the popol vuh in highschool, I can tell this is no insult to the book, this is like a tribute. Hermosas canciones de Popol Vuh, hermosa fué la civilización Maya.

[Geppoprog]

Un suono senza tempo, senza luogo, una catarsi che libera l' anima dal corpo, una voce della madre di tutte le cose che ci prende per mano e ci porta in emozioni che mai e poi mai ci lasceranno....un abbraccio a tutti i cuori che hanno amato Hosanna mantra, un giorno nel suo grande cuore ci incontreremo....Ciao Geppo.

[scandys]

love to now more any imfo

[EkBalam707]

Nice

[Alfarouc17]

Nice style, intelligent and original, just like Mayans (beautiful and intelligent civilization, eventhough according to them our end is near).

[freeform83]

Why was this filmed -- for a movie or a TV show?

[sakalak]

Looks like it was just 8mm stuff shot around Fricke's house or someone's studio. Very cool. Also: boners. Sorry, I just wanted to test out the audio preview thing.

[cathscribe]

Hosianna mantra is my favorite Popol Vuh album, plus I like the Nosferatu soundtrack.

[redmask5487]

J'aimerais tant avoir encore d'autres images de Popol Vuh.

[gordolfo23]

mafaldita no seas pendeja, creo que te saliste del contexto. El grupo se llama Popol Vuh y ellos admiran enormemente la cultura maya.

[bambalandaus]

Woa buen video, Aunque que no es Kyrie en su totatildad suena muy bien, al final creo acaban con un trozo de "Abschied" hermoso Oboe.

[cvp1969]

Good to see early Yoko footage, thanks!

[emersonballa2]

I hope you are kidding, Yoko was about 40 in 1973

[piainto]

Music of THE Soul. In my opinion they influenced (in particular sense the Singer) the great Artist Enya. Davvero un grande gruppo. Egidio

[zimbra67]

The vocalist is Yun Jung, the daughter of Yun Yi Sang.

He was one of the greatest German contemporary musicians.

[mafaldiita]

The Popol Vuh is a ancient book that tells the main believes of the maya civilization.

The song can't be named like that!!

Is insulting!!!

[orangefunk]

Popol Vuh is the name of the band.

[qeimapa]

mafaldiita, don't worry: popol vuh was a great, great band and they honored the Maya culture like no other. nobody could love maya as florian frieke did (popol vuh leader)

[demonication]

No mames mafaldita, que pendeja...

[PZawn]

Orangefunk, you're a hero!

[LADYxGORE]

i love drugs lol

[thedistinctroom]

Florian Fricke looked all beaten up! :(

[kawok]

thanks thanks thanks thanks gracias amigo.

[comfyft]

AMAZING...THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING

[psyramundo]

Amazing! It's footage like this that is quickly turning me on to a band I knew very little about. Thank you!

[evansad]

Beautiful!

[adewolf]

Pretty cool stuff. Thanks