Longform electronic psychedelia evocative of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, both made years later. Hard to get a fix on Popol Vuh or Florian Fricke, the German composer behind them. Their first album, this one, is prophetic electronic music, incorporating a Moog synthesizer and world music polyrhythms. The rest of PV's albums, or the ones I've heard, anyway, are piano or guitar based. Fricke was pals with filmmaker Werner Herzog. I want to call Popol Vuh a great soundtrack band but, really, only five of the over twenty albums they've put out are identified as soundtracks. What I've heard, though, is always cinematic, unfurling bucolic ambient settings, often dark, somber, spooky, radiating an earthy beauty, religious piety, peasant fertility rites, dark premonitions, etc.
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