For You and Me
Popol Vuh
Producer: Florian Fricke, Frank Fiedler
SPV, 2006
1 CD
Catalogue #: 7027
EAN: 0693723702728
UPC: 693723702728
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Popul Vuh: Florian Fricke (vocals, piano), Renate Knaup-Aschauer (vocals), Daniele Fischelscher (guitar).
Additional personnel: Guido Hieronymus (guitar, keyboards), Ann-Marie O'Farell (Irish harp).
Recorded at G/H-New African Studio and Sound Farik, Munich, from January to April 1991.
All songs written by Florian Fricke.
Popul Vu was created by Florian Fricke who is best known for his film score collaborations with director Werner Herzog ("Fitzcarraldo," "Nosferatu," and "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"). He is also considered a pioneer in new age and world music.
Popol Vuh: Renate Knaup (vocals); Daniel Fichelscher (guitar); Florian Fricke (piano).
Recording information: 1991.
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Popol Vuh
With their early experiments in sky-touching electronic music, German group Popol Vuh are sometimes lumped in with the Krautrock bands of the 1970s, but they had been working their own territory from the beginning. Less interested in classical forms and intellectualism, keyboardist/composer Florian Fricke crafted mind-expanding ambient Moog pieces supported by tribal percussion that mimicked Indian ragas, African drum circles, and other ethnic influences. It was one of the first examples of "world fusion," uniting the best aspects of Western technology with second- and third-world sounds and forms. The band pursued this track into the '90s, and released 22 albums, including soundtracks to several Werner Herzog films.
