In Den Garten Pharaos

In Den Garten Pharaos

Track Listings

1. In den Grten Pharaos

2. Vuh

Tracks:

In Den Gen Pharaos
Vuh
KHA-White Structures 1 (Bonus Track)
K-White Structures 2 (Bonus Track)

Album Description

This is the second of the legendary Moog albums of Popol Vuh, following the debut Affenstunde and was first released back in 1972. Originally released with just two tracks, the remastered version tacks on more than 20 additional minutes, featuring two previously unreleased Moog bonus tracks recorded in 1970/1971. In Den Gärten Pharaos has always been considered a classic cult album amongst those in the Krautrock know. And for good reason.

Album Details

This is the Second of the Legendary Moog Albums of Popol Vuh after their Debut "Affenstunde" and was Released in 1972. Originally Just with Two Tracks and Now for the First Time with More Than 20 Additional Minutes. And this by Adding Two Previously Unreleased Moog Bonus Tracks of 1970/1971. This Has Been a Cult Album and Will Become a New One.

Customer Reviews:

Lost among the stars... drift forever..........2006-08-20

First off, I can't say anything about the two bonus tracks. I'm going to review the original release, which is what I own (on Spalax, probably). Experimental or ambient music gets a bad rap, maybe because any schmuck can burn up studio time twiddling and noodling and producing a halfway decent set of sonic textures. So many of these albums fall into the "meh" category; meaning that the music might be nice enough, but is somehow lacking. Lacking guts, lacking a really serious approach, lacking honesty. Fear not: Florian Fricke back in 1971 had his finger on the pulse of the cosmos, and this album is like the field notes from some very far-out explorations. Not overly psychedelic in a tacky way, the two songs here don't feature broad sonic strokes, but rather an accumulation of muted rhythms, buried washes of lovely old Moog noises, some clattery and strangely menacing drumming, and go on long enough to let you settle in and enjoy the spaces being created. In a way this is a precursor to New Age music; but somewhere along the way this ill-fated genre lost its focus on human experience in all its forms and decided (for the most part) to focus on feel-good pap. This is music made by a thinking passionate man, made to be heard with humility and awe. "Vuh" in particular is simply beyond beautiful. It's the soundtrack of a spacecraft crash-landing in a lush, green jungle, filled with natural but alien sounds, but somewhere beneath the bird cries and animal chatterings is the hum of distant machinery... humming louder... approaching?... the colours of the jungle are changing now, greens to blues to flame red and searing yellow, and your companions seem to have disappeared... but you're strangely unafraid. And then - - -

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In den Gärten Pharaos
Popol Vuh
Manufacturer: Disk Union Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000K15KI6
Release Date: 2007-01-01

Tracks:

In Den Garten Pharaos
Vuh
Kha-White Structures 1
Kha-White Structures 2

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating:

"Popol Vuh at their best!!!"
Great stuff
Death to Music Snobs
You don't own this album already!!????

In den Gärten Pharaos
Popol Vuh
Manufacturer: Ohr
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ASIN: B00000IOBZ
Release Date: 1999-07-12

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In den Grten Pharaos
Vuh

Customer Reviews:

"Popol Vuh at their best!!!".......2003-12-10

It is Popol Vuh at their best!!! I will not compare this album to any other because there is no point... "In Den Garten Pharaos" is almost completely electronic as it employs moog synthesizer to paint dark soundscapes, so lovely and so Vuhish at the same time. Taking a closer look at this masterpiece i may say that ...

... "In Den Garten Pharaos" is a stunning moogish beauty that creates an utterly hypnotic atmosphere enhanced by pseudo-african drumming which strikes us with a feeling of terror. As the seventh minute of the first track begins all evil starts to speak with one voice. Beware of lurking shadows in your "castle". Night is the rightest time to play it loud. So switch off the light and dream of pharaos` gardens...

"Vuh" is a huge and massive wall of organ sounds played in a passionate mood, so magnificent in tune that you cannot compare it with anything else in the world. The ground-breaking sound like a thunderous God-influenced preacher`s voice rolls over you making you feel like a little worm, totally and wholly out of help. What strikes me most is a constant stream of church organs vibrating strongly for twenty minutes with no regret as if they were trying to bring down all the sinners of this world on their knees.

Popol Vuh "In Den Garten Pharaos" is a must for everyone who likes such an avant-gard playing as Florian Fricke used to create with his moog in the early seventies. Notes compression and "soundbursting" is a key to Florian`s success. "In Den Garten..." is the second and perhaps the best Vuh`s album though as i said before there is no point in comparing anything which is of a different kind. I will not speak further then. Well, just take IT and let IT take YOU!!!

This comment will soon be rearranged and uploaded on the best Polish Popol Vuh site. I hope so ... :-)

Again i would like to thank my dearest alter ego Tommyknocker whose help was invaluable for me to create quickly this rough piece of writing.

Great stuff.......2003-01-23

Now this is quite different from the piano-oriented Popol Vuh albums that were to follow. Although Florian Fricke claimed to be never a fan of synthesizers and electronics, he seemed to have no problem with it on this album, In den Gärten Pharaos, which is their second album, originally released in 1972 on the Pilz label (same German label that gave us groups like Emtidi, Virus, the obscure bluesy/jazzy prog rock band McChurch Soundroom, and many more). Apparently Fricke turned to religion some time after Tangerine Dream released Zeit (he guested on that album) and so he turned away from electronics and gave us Hosianna Mantra which sounds so different from it's predecessor (In den Gärten Pharoas) that it's basically a different band (which basically it was). On In den Gärten Pharaos, the band was all-instrumental, and consisted of Fricke, of course, on Moog synthesizer, organ, and Fender Rhodes electric piano, Holger Trülzsch on percussion, and Frank Fielder on additional Moog. The album consists of only two side length cuts. The first one tends to be calmer. Most of it tends to the experimental spacy variety common to the Krautrock scene of the time. I can't help but be reminded a bit of what Tangerine Dream was doing around the same time (I guess that's why Fricke guested on Zeit). The last few minutes consists of mostly Fricke on the electric piano. The last cut, "Vuh" is a largely organ-dominated piece. It mostly consists of one long drone with some really mindblowing, noisy and intense use of percussion that never seems to end. The lengthy droning organ makes me think of Klaus Schulze's work, particularly on the album Cyborg. Basically In den Gärten Pharaos is one of those "what if" albums. That is, what if Florian Fricke decided to stick to the synthesizer on following albums? It's too bad that there were only two Moog albums this group done, this one, and their previous one, Affenstunde, in which In den Gärten Pharaos is regarded as the best of the two (I hadn't heard Affendstunde yet, although reactions are supposed to be mixed). This album later received an American released as In the Garden of the Pharoahs on the Celestial Harmonies label, with totally different packaging. So if you like electronic/experimental Krautrock not unlike early Tangerine Dream or early Klaus Schulze, then get this album.

Death to Music Snobs.......2000-12-18

Don't listen to the smartass below, there is considerably more to Popol Vuh than this album, good as it is. I would roughly section their career as follows:

1970-72 - electronic 1972-73 - "new age" style devotional music 1974-77 - electric guitar based "rock" 1978-87 - acoustic/vocal based 1987- return to electronic music

There are great albums in all of these periods, except the final and current period. Try these for size: "Einsjager und Siebensjager", "Herz aus Glas", "Tantric Songs", "Sei still...wisse ICH BIN", "Agape-Agape". And be assured that many more people than Mr. Moon below and the irritating Mr. Cope have heard Popol Vuh and this album.

You don't own this album already!!????.......2000-11-27

Although Popul Vuh is legendary, they are always legendary for the wrong reasons. Don't bother with any other album--THIS IS THE ALBUM. Only 35 minutes long or so, In Den Gaerten Pharaos is genre defining, transcendent, an utter psychedelic masterpiece. That the album can even be acquired without hefty import surcharges is amazing. One of the best albums of the last 50 years that no one except me and Julian Cope have heard.

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