Popol Vuh

   
Artist: Popol Vuh

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   Electronic
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Messa Di Orfeo Live

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 9


   
 Shepherd's Symphony

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 7


   
 City Raga

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 7


   
 Sing, For Song Drives Away The Wolves

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


   
 Future Sound Experience

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 8


   
 Cobra Verde

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 8


   
 Hosianna - Mantra

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 For You And Me

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


   
 Florian Fricke Plays Mozart

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 8


   
 Spirit Of Peace

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 4


   
 Agape Agape

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 8


   
 Tantric Songs

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 8


   
 Sei Still, Wisse Ich Bin

   Year: 1981   
Tracks: 7


   
 Die Nachte Der Seele

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 11


   
 Nosferatu [soundtrack]

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Nosferatu On The Way To A Little Way

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 10


   
 Bruder Des Schattens, Sohne Des Lichts

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 4


   
 Coeur de Verre [soundtrack]

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 7


   
 Coeur De Verre

   Year: 1977   
Tracks: 7


   
 Yoga

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 2


   
 Letzte Tage - Letzte Nachte

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Aguirre [soundtrack]

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Aguirre

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 8


   
 Einjager and Siebenjager

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 6


   
 Das Hohelied Salomos

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 9


   
 Seligpreisung

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 8


   
 In Den Garten Pharaos

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 2


   
 Affenstunde

   Year: 1971   
Tracks: 4


   
 In The Gardens Of The Pharao

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 3

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Of the many now-legendary artists to emerge from the Krautrock move, few anticipated the rear of modern electronic music with the same prescience as Popol Vuh -- the first German band to use a Moog synthesist, their act non only hoped-for the egress of ambient, just also proven pioneering in its absorption of worldbeat textures. At a lot the same time Popol Vuh was formed in Munich in 1969, another mathematical group, of Norwegian descent, adoptive the same name, an endless beginning of discombobulation in the age to follow; both were inspired by the sanctum book of Guatemala's Quiche Indians, and according to Mayan researchers the title rough translates as "merging place." Keyboardist Florian Fricke was profoundly immersed in Mayan myth at the time he formed the chemical group with synth player Frank Fiedler and percussionist Holger Trulzsch, and his interests were reflected in the spiritual themes of their 1970 debut, Affenstunde.


The follow-up two old age later, In den Garten Pharaos, was Popol Vuh's creative breakthrough, an intensely contemplative work fusing ambient textures with constitutional pleximetry. In its inflame, nonetheless, Fricke born-again to Christianity, a go which sparked a rejection of electronics in favor of traditional pagan instrumentation including guitars, oboe and tamboura; he then tapped korean soprano Djong Yun to lend vocals to 1972's lovely Hosianna Mantra. Fricke following teamed with onetime Amon Duul II drummer Daniel Fichelscher for the following Popol Vuh LP, Seligpreisung; its follow-up, 1975's Einjager und Siebenjager, remains widely considered among the group's most stunning efforts. That same year, they began a protracted creative partnership with the storied movie maker Werner Herzog which yielded soundtracks for features including Aguirre, Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu.


Throughout the latter half of the seventies, Popol Vuh's fascination with worldwide sounds and instruments continued, with the prominence of sitars, tablas and tamboura rhythm section on LPs like 1977's Herz aus Glas and 1979's Die Nacht der Seele: Tantric Songs earning their latter-day sound descriptions like "raga rock candy." In 1978, Fricke founded the Working Group for Creative Singing and likewise became a extremity of the Breathing Therapy Society, traveling the earth to lecturing on both subjects; in the end, his away passions began to dwarf his make in Popol Vuh, and as the 1980s dawned the grouping began losing steam, calling it quits after 1983's splendid Agape Agape. After reuniting two eld later for Emotional state of Peace, Fricke over again reassembled Popol Vuh for the 1997 LP Shepherd's Symphony.