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FITZCARRALDO

LP 1982 ZYX Music 20.021, Germany
LP 1982 Polydor PDH-I-6363, USA
CD 1993 High Tide 9112
CD 1996 Spalax 14876, France
CD 2005 SPV Recordings 085-70202 (digipack)

  1. Wehe Khorazin Popol Vuh (Fricke) 5:34
  2. Scene from "Ernani" (G.Verdi) 5:53
  3. Engel der Luft Popol Vuh (Fricke) 2:37
  4. Ridi Pagliacci E.Caruso (from "I Pagligacci" - Leoncavallo) 3:11
  5. O Paradiso E.Caruso (from "L'Africana" - Meyerbeer) 3:38
  6. Kind mit Geige (Traditionnal) 0:56
  7. Im Garten dem Gemeinschaft Popol Vuh (Fricke) 2:25
     
  8. Blasmusik (Traditionnal) 0:42
  9. Tod und Verklärung (Excerpt) (Richard Strauss) 2:55
  10. Musik aus Burundi (Traditionnal) 1:50
  11. Il Sogno (from "Manon" - Verdi) 2:39
  12. Quartett (from "Rigoletto" - Verdi) 3:59
  13. Oh Mimi, tu piu non torni E.Caruso (from "La Boheme" - Puccini) 3:04
  14. Als Lebten die Engel auf Erden Popol Vuh (Fricke) 2:08
  15. A te o cara, amor talora (from "I Puritani" - Bellini) 5:49

Personel: Florian Fricke (piano, vocal), Daniel Fichelscher (guitar, drums), Renate Knaup (vocal), Chris Karrer (saxophone), Djong Yun (vocal), Susan Goetting (oboe), Alois Gromer (sitar).

Executive soundtrack producer: Gerhard Augustin


 

Booklet essay

Florian Fricke was born by Lake Constance in 1944. From 1959 till 1963 he studied music in Freiburg and Munich, where he was a pupil of Rudolf Hindemith, Paul Hindemith's brother. At the age of 19 he gave up studying, "just so that I could live", as he said. At the age of 25 he became acquainted with the Moog synthesizer, which led to the founding of Popol Vuh. Foreign travels took him, among others, to Africa and to the Curds on the Euphrates, to India and Nepal. And in the eastern Himalayas he studied Tibetan communal singing. He once described his hobbies as the epics and myths of the various as well as archaeology.
In 1978 Fricke founded the "Working group for creative singing" and became a member of the society for breathing therapy. He holds lectures all over the world on his work in this field.
Since 1972 Florian Fricke has been working with the director Werner Herzog, whose films acquired increased intensity thanks to Fricke's musical trademark. The film director's "audio interpreter" composed the sound-tracks to the films "Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes" (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), "Herz aus Glas" (Heart of Glass"), "Nosferatu", "Fitzcarraldo" and "Cobra Verde". The independent nature of his music has continually proved to be a great asset to Herzog's films, which often have a somnambulistic character. And this independence could already be seen in the film "Nosferatu" in 1978 was not marketed under the film name but as "Brüder des Schattnes - Söhne des Lichts" (Brothers of the Shadows - Sons of Light).

Manfred Gillig-Degrave

Reviews

First CD issue of the original soundtrack to the Herzog masterpiece (not to be confused with soundtrack compilation also issued under this name). Cosmic Popol Vuh tracks, mixed in with opera, classical and traditional musics...

Forced Exposure catalogue

This Herzog soundtrack contains four Popol Vuh tracks, some previously released. "Wehe Khorazin" is a great, darkly churning anthem unavailable elsewhere. Quite a good soundtrack otherwise, with some Strauss, Verdi, and Bellini rounding things out. OK, it's not exactly a "real" Popol Vuh album, I'm afraid. Somebody want it anyway? -MM

New Sonic Architecture catalogue

This is a sampler album of Popol Vuh soundtracks to Herzog's films, and therefore sounds abit disjointed due to the different styles the group went through at varying stages of their career.

Cranium Music catalogue

Long awaited issue of soundtrack to Werner Herzog's monumental film about an Irish cigar-puffing adventurer's vision to build an opera house in the middle of the Amazonian jungle and pull a paddle-steamer across a mountain is slightly disappointing. On previous discs 'So Still That I Am' (Spalax) and Milan's 'Best Of Popol Vuh/Werner Herzog' we've heard tracks like 'Woe To Khorazin', 'In The Garden Of Community' and 'As Though The Angels Walked On Earth'. On this new Spalax version of the 1982 soundtrack these are spiced up with endless operatic excerpts from Verdi, Puccini, Bellini and others. There are stacks of Enrico Caruso '78s scratching away in the background plus helpings of German and African folk music. Definitely the most bizarre release ever to feature Florian Fricke's group name. Still the photos are magnifico!

Mark J Prendergast, ALTAIR 5 album review
Herzog Sountracks

"Fitzcarraldo" and "Cobra Verde" have both been released. "Fitzcarraldo" contains opera music alongside tracks from various earlier Popol Vuh, not really worth having to be honest. "Cobra Verde" on the other hand contains all new PV tracks including a lot of droney ambient electronic music - all in all, very good. I have a rather battered vinyl copy (on Milan Records), so I don't know if it's ever been out on CD. Conincidentally, I recently saw a Herzog documentary, "The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner" (from 1974-75) which contained a great PV piece which definitely HASN'T ever been released.

tom_at_blackmultimedia.co.uk from Glasgow, UK , March 16, 1999