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
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.
Krautrock and other great prog rock music from 60/70s is being brought back to life over UA-cam, 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...
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...
This is filmed at the old Peterskirchen rectory in Peterskirchen/Bavaria. You can recognize it by the door frame and the large window. Florian and his group resided there for a while until they moved to Miesbach near Munich.
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
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!
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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... :-)
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?
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!
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
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.
@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!
"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
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 :)
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
this is wonderful. The track is part of the title track from their 1970 debut lp "Affenstunde".
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.
calm, cool, the isness of sound transcends into image. what inspiration
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
Krautrock and other great prog rock music from 60/70s is being brought back to life over UA-cam, 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...
It is not very often that music reminds me that I have ears, this is one of those moments.
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
really nice love it wish i had lived in that time
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...
Mitici i miei Popol Vuh 🖤
what a great video, good recording and excellent music, thank for the uploading.
Florian is a Deva guiding us now! Great stuff, Transcendental.
This is filmed at the old Peterskirchen rectory in Peterskirchen/Bavaria.
You can recognize it by the door frame and the large window.
Florian and his group resided there for a while until they moved to Miesbach near Munich.
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
That opening shot is wild. What a fun clip.
Popol Vuh made consistently great music for over ten years
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!
Sounds of sunrise at Stone Henge Summer Solstice Celebration back in the 70's... Beautiful and resonant together with the huge standing stones
Werner Herzog found the perfect composer to put into music what he (Herzog) put into images.
A great documentary of an era.
A spiritual game without frontiers.
Claudio Milano
thank you for posting this, LOVE Popul Vuh!
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!
Perfect! The keyboards don't have the dated feel/sound like most music of the 60s/70s/80s.
I have fallen in love with their music.
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.
Was das alles so gibt...
Ist ja enorm!
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
..great¡ very nice old video. Thank's
let's share an immense love to Germany for having created such a wonderful musical reality
No to im wyszło ;)
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.
Beautiful...
the first two from the 1970-72 period... check allmusic for the details...
Beautiful. Sounds like the back end of Affenstunde.
@ZeuhlEmgalai
This is an excerpt of the title track from Affenstunde
truly wonderful
No problem keep blabbering away :-)
Big fan of electronics and ethnics...
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.
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.
wonderful.
haha... horses for courses... I love this track... I also love early synth music
thanks for posting this, dude.
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.
reminds me that great music of tangerine dream, The afrodite Child or those great and obscure group om the 70's Amon Duul
Amazing!
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.
incredible.
still love it!!
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.
Thank you Thank Thank you Bliss
No idea... I got it from a WDR special on german rock music.. amazing what they have in the archives...
wow, check out this early early experimental dreamy and tribal electronica.
fro germany 1971.
cool building
Looks like something from a Jodorowsky film, love it.
love that old MOOG III
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^^
danke - eine kleine Zeitreise
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... :-)
Awesome!!!
me gusta!
Ami también
Absolute treasure
this is such a wonder
I love it
Bueno bueno
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?
was a broadcast off German TV in August I think..
Classic!
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!
Hypnotic maaaan
gnarly, thanks dude
i like what i'm listening to
Thanks STG! ;-)
Quién escucha Popol Vuh el 2020?
Me.
@@oliviertruchon5648 2023?
Eso no era necesario XD
this is so fuckin good . i like this kind of trip.. peace to all the peoplz who like this one
what about the video guy. amazing.
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 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?)
Pretty cool. Popol Vuh is the Mayan story of creation
Abuelos de la electrónica actual...
Popol Vuh is the bomb
Gr8!!!!!
Lovely stuff :-)
Just a comment. I will delete all negative hateful religious remarks....
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.
not off any CD/LP. Its an improv made for TV in 1971... though their first two LPs do kinda hint at this sound..
@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!
What is the colour of pills used??????
:)
The Red Pill
better pills, than bombs ;-)
Any colour you like
Yes
fricke was a fucking genius. r.i.p brother, you have no idea how many kraut bands u have influenced. love u.
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...
Hypnotic notic notic notic .....................
@diemythtruth I love Emeralds!
@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
@MikeAdupont Your comment is pure Truth, my friend.
florian fricke: genious
@UppruniTegundanna you could say the same thing for no wave music which was more experimental, more atonal, and more influential.
more infos about this film?