POPOL VUH Nosferatu, The Vampire 2 x LP

POPOL VUH Nosferatu, The Vampire 2 x LP

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(Waxwork)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
      Who could forget what it felt like to fall into the fog-draped nocturnal dreamworld of Werner Herzog's 1978 masterpiece Nosferatu, The Vampire for the first time, hearing that intoxicating folk-flecked soundtrack from Popol Vuh rising from the opening moments like pungent incense as visions of ancient, desiccated bodies are paraded before the viewer. I sure can't. For me, Popol Vuh's score for Nosferatu is one of the finest pairings of cinematic and musical vision, achieving a dark synthesis that has yet to be replicated. The visuals alone from Herzog's mythic retelling of Dracula are enough to drown you in sensuous shadow, but Popol Vuh's music transforms them, creating an intimacy between image and viewer that is still just as affecting now as when the film was first released.
      The brainchild of Florian Fricke, Popol Vuh existed in the upper echelons of Teutonic avant-rock, bringing a more expansive folk influence compared to contemporaries like Cluster, Faust and Neu, along with a heavy dose of mysticism. Their work on Nosferatu was another in a long line of collaborations between the group and director Herzog; in actuality, the score is comprised of most of Popol Vuh's two 1978 albums Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts and On The Way To A Little Way, which were essentially combined to produce the soundtrack to this film. While the darkly enchanting "Brüder Des Schattens" only featured for a few minutes in the final film, the full eighteen minute composition is featured here on the score. In addition, the reissue of Nosferatu is expanded to included the additional material that Popol Vuh provided for the film. And it all casts a powerful spell. "Bruder Des Schattens" lilts across the opening credits as a haze of spectral male choirs and a simple, mesmerizing two-note orchestral dirge, drifting over minimal percussion, juxtaposed with Herzog's images of antediluvian rot; when that song softly slips into a solemn, pastoral folk melody, flecked with bits of piano and sitar-like buzz makes for one of my favorite Popol Vuh moments ever. There is a strange alchemy behind all of Popol Vuh's score, as they transform elements of Eastern European folk music, medieval music forms, Indian classical, and krautrock into elaborate washes of sound. Each track slowly unfolds into beautiful repeating patterns of light and shadow, all lush and enveloping, formed from gorgeous acoustic guitars, winding lysergic melodies, passages of somber, sorrowful psychedelic rock, shimmering raga-style drones, tambourines and hypnotic tabla rhythms, murky electronic murmurs and those somber liturgical voices, eerie synthesizers floating like ectoplasmic smoke through moonlit streets, all woven around a handful of chilling, intoxicating melodic phrases that will haunt the listener far beyond the final scenes. One of the spookiest and loveliest scores I've yet heard from the realm of horror cinema.
      Popol Vuh's darkly lyrical masterpiece just received a stunning vinyl reissue from the folks at Waxwork, beautifully packaged in a gatefold jacket that features newly commissioned artwork and a printed insert with liner notes from illustrator Jessica Seamans of Landland.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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