is the tenth album by Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh (German band)

Popol Vuh was a German electronic avantgarde band, in the mainstream-media so called Krautrock, founded by pianist and keyboardist Florian Fricke in 1969 together with Holger Trülzsch and Frank Fiedler...

. It was originally released in 1978 on Brain Records

Brain Records

Brain was a Hamburg-based record label prominent in the 1970s releasing several important Krautrock records by bands such as Neu!, Cluster and Guru Guru...

. In 2006 SPV

SPV GmbH

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 re-released the album with one bonus track that was originally released on the remix compilation Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves in 1993. The first two tracks from this album were used for the soundtrack of Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

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's film Nosferatu the Vampyre.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Florian Fricke, except tracks 3 and 4 composed by Florian Fricke and Daniel Fichelscher.

1. – 18:47
2. – 5:52
3. – 5:35
4. – 5:57

2006 bonus track

5. "Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves" – 4:15

Personnel

• Florian Fricke
  Florian Fricke
  Florian Fricke was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music using the Moog synthesizer within the Krautrock group Popol Vuh...
  
   – piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Daniel Fichelscher
  Daniel Fichelscher
  Daniel "Danny" Secundus Fichelscher, , is a German multi-instrumentalist who played a pivotal role in Krautrock band Popol Vuh, was a member of German group "Gila" and is currently Amon Düül II's drummer...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  , percussion

Guest musicians

• Robert Eliscu – oboe
  Oboe
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• Alois Gromer – sitar
  Sitar
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• Ted de Jong – tamboura
• A church choir ensemble from Munich
• Guido Hieronymus – digital instruments (on track number 5, 2006 bonus track)

Credits

Recorded at Bavaria Studio, Munich, on August 1978

Engineered by Rudolf Wohlschager, assisted by Peter Eichenseher

Produced by Gerhard Augustin for Gammarock Music

2006 edition bonus track, "Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves", recorded by Guido Hieronymus at New African Studio in Munich on December 5, 1992, and produced by Florian Fricke and Frank Fiedler.

External links

• http://www.popolvuh.nl/nosferatubds
• http://www.enricobassi.it release information
• http://www.venco.com.pl/~acrux/bruder.htm