Popol Vuh
Affenstunde
Label: Liberty
Released: 1970
Florian Fricke: Moog Synthesizer
Frank Fiedler: Synthesizer
Holger Trülzsch: Percussion
Producer - Bettina Fricke, Gerhard Augustin
Recorded at Bavaria Music Studio Munich.
Tracklisting:
Ich Mache Einen Spiegel
Dream Part 4 (8:40)
Dream Part 5 (4:50)
Dream Part 49 (7:35)
Affenstunde (18:57)
Popol Vuh
Hosianna Mantra
Label: Pilz
Released: 1972
Conny Veit: Guitar
Fritz Sonnleitner: Violin
Robert Eliscu: Oboe
Djong Yun: Soprano Vocals
Klaus Wiese: Tambura
Popol Vuh: Piano, Harpsichord
Technician - Toni Heudorf
Mixed By - Peter Kramper
Engineer - Hans Endrulat , Wolfgang Löper
Tracklisting:
Ah! (4:43)
Kyrie (5:20)
Hosianna - Mantra (10:15)
Abschied (3:10)
Segnung (6:00)
Andacht (0:40)
Nicht Hoch Im Himmel (6:17)
Andacht (0:35)
Popol Vuh
In Den Gärten Pharaos
Label: Pilz
Released: 1972
Florian Fricke: Moog Synthesizer, Organ, Piano
Frank Fiedler : Synthesizer
Holger Trülzsch: Percussion
Engineer - Gertig
Producer - Bettina, Popol Vuh
Notes: First edition
An Ohr & Pilz production
Tracklisting:
In Den Gärten Pharaos (17:37)
Vuh (19:48)
Popol Vuh
Aguirre
Label: PDU
Released: 1975
Soundtrack to the 1972 Werner Herzog film "Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes".
Tracklisting:
Aguirre I (7:15)
Morgengruss II (2:55)
Aguirre II (6:15)
Agnus Dei (3:03)
Vergegenwaertigung (16:47)
Popol Vuh
Seligpreisung
Label: PDU
Released: 1973
Tracklisting:
Selig Sind, Die Da Hungern.
Selig Sind, Die Da Dürsten nach Gerechtigkeit.
Ja, Sie Sollen Satt Werden (5:59)
Tanz Der Chassidim (3:12)
Selig Sind, Die Da Hier Weinen. Ja, Sie Sollen Später Lachen (5:07)
Selig Sind, Die Da Willig Arm Sind. Ja, Hier Ist Das Himmelreich (3:10)
Selig Sind, Die Da Leid Klagen. Ja, Sie Sollen Getröstet Werden (3:39)
Selig Sind, Die Sanftmütigen. Ja, Sie Werden Einst Die Erde Erben (2:30)
Selig Sind, Die Da Reien Herzens Sind. Ja, Sie Sollen Gott Schauen (2:33)
Ja, Sie Sollen Gottes Kinder Heißen. Agnus Dei, Agnus Dei (2:39)
Florian Fricke started playing piano as a child. He studied piano, composition and directing at the Conservatories in Freiburg and Munich. It was in Munich that, at 18, he dedicated himself to new kinds of music like Free Jazz. He also filmed some short amateur films. (He would later become a movie and music critic for the German magazine Der Spiegel and the Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung). It was also in Munich that he met Gerhard Augustin, who for many years would be his producer.
In 1967 he met German film director Werner Herzog and played a role in his first movie "Lebenszeichen". Fricke was later responsible for the soundtracks of several of Herzog's movies, among them Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (with Klaus Kinski and Bruno Ganz), Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Heart of Glass.
Fricke was one of the first musicians to own and use a Moog III synthesizer, with which he recorded Popol Vuh's first two albums "Affenstunde" and "In den Gärten Pharaos". His recordings with the instruments left an indelible mark on German electronic music. However, he later significantly gave his Moog to fellow German musician Klaus Schulze and renounced electronic music.