Seligpreisung

Popol Vuh

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Spv U.S.
• ASIN: B00042YKU0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #159,533 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description
Amon Düül II's drummer and guitarist Daniel Fischelscher joined Popol Vuh for Seligpreisung, which was originally released in September 1973. Other artists featured on this album are Eliscu, Veit and Wiese. This was the first album of a mystic trilogy devoted to holy books: Seligpreisung, Einsjäger and Siebenjäger, and Das Hohelied Salomos. The bonus track, Be In Love, is a special performance enhanced with violin and oboe from the same line up as Hosianna Mantra in 1973. Be In Love and Maria (Ave Maria) were originally meant to be released as singles.

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Musical version of Sermon on the Mount, August 7, 2005

By	W. T. Hoffman "artist and musician" (Pennsylvania, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's difficult not to listen to any Popol Vuh music, and, after being seduced by the depth and spirituality of the piece, not feel the need to rate the music with a "5", or at least a "4". Even tho this piece is obviously strongly linked to "The Hohelied Solomons"(The Song of Solomon), it definately has a different sound overall from that LP. There is more electric guitar, and drums, more of a rock vibe going on, at least in some songs. Also, Florian is singing on this LP, unlike "Song of Solomon" which has the lovely voice of Djong Yun. The mood of the music, voices the "sermon" more than the actual words, which are barely sung once, (except for a Hallalujah chant at one point.) When the topics are hunger, or poverty, there seems to be a bit more of a righteous anger in the sounds--and the drums seem to pound that idea across fittingly. But, when the topic is "the Meek" or "those that suffer sadness", the songs become deep, dark, with those harmonic minor melodies so reminiscent of the middle east. Maybe because the topic is more "western", or christian, the sitar is missing from this album. Perhaps Florian saw different instruments as representitive of different cultures, and religions. For instance, this LP has an Oboe on it, an instrument that has a strong connection with the middle eastern Duduk, and Shanai. Even tho I'm attempting to analyse this peice, I have to say, that the intrumental tibres, the melodies and harmonic invention, and of course the piano that ties this work together, vibrate with an ineffable quality that precludes analysis. If you were inclined to find something to fault this LP with, you could mention the length. Even with a bonus track, the LP is less than 35 minutes long. However, this is definately one of those instances, where quality supercedes quanity. After all, the Sermon on the Mount wasn't the longest passage in the Bible, but it probibly summed up more about the true Christian spirit, than a thousand pages of Aristolean theology. Incidentally, the bonus track, sung by Djong, seems to reiterate melodic themes off the main album. So, it joins perfectly with the rest of the album. I enjoy this album as much as "Hossianna Mantra", "Das Hohelied Solomons", or "In the Gardens of Pharoah". I would guess, if you are into Popol Vuh's "new age" music of substance and grace, you would as well.