There are multiple bands named Popol Vuh: 1) A krautrock band from Germany.… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple bands named Popol Vuh: 1) A krautrock band from Germany. 2) A progressive rock band from Norway later renamed Popol Ace.
1) Popol Vuh was a proto-ambient / experimental / krautrock band from Germany founded by Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Conny Veit, Daniel Fichelscher and Robert Eliscu.
It began with an electronic approach as heard on first album "Affenstunde", inspired by the invention of the Moog synthesizer. This continued for only one more album, "In den Gärten Pharaos", before Fricke largely abandoned electronic instruments in favour of piano-led compositions from 1972's "Hosianna Mantra" forward. This album also marked the start of exploring overtly religious themes rather than a more generally spiritual feeling within the music. The group evolved to include all kinds of instruments: wind, percussion and strings, electric and acoustic alike, combined to convey a mystical aura that made their music spiritual and introspective.
Popul Vuh influenced many other bands from Europe with their uniquely soft but elaborate instrumentations, that took inspiration from Tibet, Africa, and Precolombian America. They created dream-like soundscapes along with psychedelic walls of sound, and are considered by some to be precursors of contemporary world music, as well of new age music and ambient.
The band contributed soundtracks to the films of Werner Herzog, including "Nosferatu", "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", "Fitzcarraldo", and "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser", in which Fricke appeared.
Florian Fricke died in Munich on December 29, 2001, and the group disbanded.
In October 2003 Klaus Schulze wrote "Florian was and remains to be an important forerunner of contemporary ethnic and religious music. He chose electronic music and his big Moog to free himself from the restraints of traditional music, but soon discovered that he didn't get a lot out of it and opted for the acoustic path instead. Here, he went on to create a new world, which Werner Herzog loves so much, transforming the thought patterns of electronic music into the language of acoustic ethno music."
2) Popol Vuh is one of the most infuential progressive rock bands from Norway. The band was formed in 1971, but had to change their name in 1975 because of a conflict with the German Popol Vuh. They later renamed themselves Popol Ace.
1) Popol Vuh was a proto-ambient / experimental / krautrock band from Germany founded by Florian Fricke in 1970 together with Holger Trulzsch (percussion) and Frank Fiedler (electronics). Other important members during the next two decades included Conny Veit, Daniel Fichelscher and Robert Eliscu.
It began with an electronic approach as heard on first album "Affenstunde", inspired by the invention of the Moog synthesizer. This continued for only one more album, "In den Gärten Pharaos", before Fricke largely abandoned electronic instruments in favour of piano-led compositions from 1972's "Hosianna Mantra" forward. This album also marked the start of exploring overtly religious themes rather than a more generally spiritual feeling within the music. The group evolved to include all kinds of instruments: wind, percussion and strings, electric and acoustic alike, combined to convey a mystical aura that made their music spiritual and introspective.
Popul Vuh influenced many other bands from Europe with their uniquely soft but elaborate instrumentations, that took inspiration from Tibet, Africa, and Precolombian America. They created dream-like soundscapes along with psychedelic walls of sound, and are considered by some to be precursors of contemporary world music, as well of new age music and ambient.
The band contributed soundtracks to the films of Werner Herzog, including "Nosferatu", "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", "Fitzcarraldo", and "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser", in which Fricke appeared.
Florian Fricke died in Munich on December 29, 2001, and the group disbanded.
In October 2003 Klaus Schulze wrote "Florian was and remains to be an important forerunner of contemporary ethnic and religious music. He chose electronic music and his big Moog to free himself from the restraints of traditional music, but soon discovered that he didn't get a lot out of it and opted for the acoustic path instead. Here, he went on to create a new world, which Werner Herzog loves so much, transforming the thought patterns of electronic music into the language of acoustic ethno music."
2) Popol Vuh is one of the most infuential progressive rock bands from Norway. The band was formed in 1971, but had to change their name in 1975 because of a conflict with the German Popol Vuh. They later renamed themselves Popol Ace.
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The King of Mojacar
Very beautifull psychedelic deep-impact sound from the German pioneers of electronic music, called Popol Vuh and later Ash Ra Tempel!
Popol Vuh was Mayas holy "manifest of the Council" where is told everything about all things (beginning, genesis, evolution, astrology until the end of time)....
The Mayas had an incredible high level of consciousness, culture, astrology and spirituality, taken in count the ancient times.... even there existed thoughts about the beginning, we are calling today the "big bang theory", this incredible power-start (explosion and expanding - the times of inflation, light and darkness) of our universe from just a singular neutrino-quarks-dimension growing up to an hiperdimensional space with distances of trillions of light years:
"In the beginning there was only empty space, quiet and silent, nothing moved.... suddenly everything began to quake with much tension, there was not only empty space anymore and the gods created the earth and all other celestial bodies (the Mayas thought that earth was the center of a kind of ciclic universe)....
Finally the gods created (after all plants and animals) in the 4. attempt the humans (homo "sapiens" - our actual version of humankind) which were similar to the gods, they saw and understood nearly everything and knew perfectly how to satisfy the gods - but with time there occured some misunderstandings (today it would be the destruction of life conditions on earth, the ecologic catastrophe and the greenhouse effect), so the gods got angry and demanded sacrifices, sometimes even a lot of humans from all different classes of society, but normally they sacrified the prisoners and slaves (today the poors, outlaws and minorities etc.)"....
Really INCREDIBLE level of advanced traditions and knowleges, in some aspects even on a similar level of modern science!
Kevin O'Neill
I'm shocked that there are no comments yet for this great piece of music by a unique band. Their later albums were very different to the first two, but they all had a kind of otherworldly feeling, or as some people put it, 'spirituality'. So sad that their main man, Florian Fricke, died so young.
Guillermo Sniezyk
A full power masterpiece. These massive organ chords + mellotron-like sound + the pedal note. Amazing,
Roberto Zao
it's not just music, it's the soul that vibrates
Enzo Galli
This is a masterpiece!! Florian Fricke was a genius....and Popul Vuh a sublime band!!!
Chris Hall
The greatest side of vinyl ever recorded .
Melómano
Me fascina este tema.
Los alemanes son unos genios, de verdad.
Empezar a escuchar krautrock fue la mejor decisión de mi vida.
Florian
I love listening to this with headphones to absorb everything
Kenneth Donnelly
Been looking for this for decades, now here it is--love it: out of time, out of space and out of mind, sheer classic space music!
Paulo Roberto Barros
Outra banda alemã incrível!
Paulo Roberto Barros
O rock progressivo alemão é único.