Popol Vuh - Kyrie 1973

Classical ambient folk mantra from 1973. Featuring the late great Florian Fricke on piano and Djong Yun (vocals), Conny Veit(guitars, percussion).. among others...

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[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.. ;-)

[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...

[Paola Rivas]

un privilegio escucharlos!

[Conner Fields]

No, there should be two or three revisionist stations. One for Prog/Psych/Funk/Soul another for Singer-Songwriters, and another for Glam/Hardrock/Velvet Underground. Hardrock might be too ambiguous a term. Led Zeppelin, The MC5, The Allman Brothers and Blue Cheer are all hard rock groups but they're different from eachother.

[Conner Fields]

There should be a revisionist classic rock station that fills in the gaps commerical classic rock stations miss. It would play Kosmiche Muzik, Progressive Rock/Jazz Fusion, Funk, Glam Rock, along with uncommercial rock and singer songwriters.

[hushamouse]

Absolutely right. Perhaps the answer is not to abandon classification, but to understand it's function and not lend it too much importance. Krautrock is as much a philosophical leaning as it is a musical description; most of it seems like a regimental and courageous march into oblivion. A sort of joyful excursion into nothingness.

[thealtarboys]

onesto!

[58kaldyr]

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