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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
how can you describe an album that's indescribable? I have heard many albums in my life, some were good, some were bad, some were brilliant...but none of them came even close to this one. Remember the black monolith in Kubrick's "2001: a space odyssey"? This is the musical equivalent, at least for me. It's so intense and mind-boggling that after you finished listening to it you are in another state of mind. And it's timeless music, although it was recorded over 30 years ago it will NEVER EVER sound dated. Unfortunately Popol Vuh's mastermind Florian Fricke died in 2001, but he left the world one of the very best music albums of all time.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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It is impossible to describe just how much this album can affect you. Yes, it's slow... and yes, not an awful lot happens in it (if you're used to the hard rhythms of Metallica...), but immerse yourself in Fricke's work and there's not an awful lot else like it in the world of music. From the tragic disorientation of Aguirre to the tear-inducingly beautiful piano melodies of the "Spirit of Peace" trilogy, this is not just an album of songs. It is indeed one of the great works of art of the last 50 years. No, the music itself cannot be compared to the likes of Mozart, Beethoven or Shubert, but the effect Popol Vuh's harmonies produce is almost unparalleled. Everything serves a purpose - the silence between the songs is just as necessary as the music itself. No motif is repeated without a reason, and no fade-out occurs too early or too late. I don't know what the album means, and probably will never know, but this does not detract in the least from one of the GREATEST musical works of our time.
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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Once upon a time, there was a man from Suffolk who 'invented' ambient music and everyone said what a genius he was and bought his albums and the press and tv bowed down at his feet and the king gave him his daughter's hand in marriage (okay, I made the last bit up).
Menawhile, a thousand miles away, the real inventor spent his time honing his skills, working with some of the most inventive musicians around. And only a few people had heard of him, but those who did realised what an innovator he was. And the inventor's name was Florian Fricke, and he had more invention, skill and talent in his hands and chords than most have in a thousand lifetimes. And one day, things changed... if sense has a role to play in music.
Frankly, these two albums are the predecessors of 30 years of music. They lay down the rules that everyone follows today, and if Eno, Budd, Laraaji, Winston, Nelson and the entire crew of the Wyndham Hill Record label don't owe him their entire careers, I'll eat my hat.
In short - superb and indispensible.
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