Search - Popol Vuh :: In Den Garten Pharaos

Death to Music Snobs

12/18/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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 musicThere 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."

"Popol Vuh at their best!!!"

Tofikk | Katowice, Poland | 12/10/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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."