Coeur De Verre (Dig)

Popol Vuh | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spv U.S.
• ASIN: B0009A6N7U
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,728 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s 1976 film is one of the true masterpieces from Popol Vuh. Coeur De Verre (Heart Of Glass) is based on traditional East Indian classical music and from there Florian Fricke takes the listener (viewer) on a slow and concentrated blissed out trip through the spiritual and emotional psyche of the human heart. Features Daniel Fichelscher (guitar & percussion), Alois Gromer (sitar) and Mattias Tippelskirch (flute). Sheer beauty and often citied as the finest of Popol Vuh’s works.

Popol Vuh was founded by mastermind Florian Fricke in Munich in 1970 and are known as pioneers of electronic music as well as the predecessors of the 90's ambient and trance genre. Florian Fricke was one of the first German musicians who worked with a MOOG III, an instrument which created a very new and special sound which was profiled on Affenstunde. This album quickly became a milestone and practically created a whole new genre. The name and the book Popol Vuh stems from Incan mythology and is the memory of the evolution of humanity. Florian Fricke doesn't like to catagorize his music; "Music is a form of law for me." He died on December 29, 2001 in Munich. Kraut Rock at the highest level made by, and for music fans !

All Popol Vuh re-releases are manufactured as high quality collector's series with stickers indicating the bonus tracks. The Digipak spines have a design and when all are put together they form one big picture.

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long time coming, August 17, 2009

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MT (Santa Monica, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Coeur De Verre (Dig) (Audio CD)

I first heard music from this soundtrack 25 years ago. Had a low intensity desire for it all along. Glad I looked it up and bought it. I don't know how to describe this music. Metallic, semi-trance-like, ??? Super enjoyable.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars coeur de verre-Popol Vuh, December 26, 2009

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Stavroula Avgousti (Athens Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coeur De Verre (Dig) (Audio CD)

This is the soundtrack of Werner Herzog film 'Coeur de Verre', another beautiful collection of Popol Vuh tracks, the best of all being, in my opinion, 'Huter der Schwelle'. There are other nice tracks as well, like 'Engel der Gegenwart', 'Singet, denn der Gesang vertreibt die Wolfe' and 'Gemeinschaft'.The album contains also two alternative versions of 'Auf dem Weg' and 'Hand in Hand in Hand', as bonus tracks.