Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999

As a tribute and homage to German Progressive Rock Band Popol Vuh, SPV records announces a special record release: in memory of the 10th anniversary year of the death of the band´s founder Florian Fricke, “Popol Vuh Revisited & Remixed (1970-1999)“ combines selected Popol Vuh tracks, new bonus material and eleven remixes of Popol Vuh by Avant-garde bands, electronic musicians and DJs of the day. It will be available and released as CD and digitally in June 2011.

“Popol Vuh: Revisted & Remixed (1970-1999)" is a double album: Side A contains original Popol Vuh tracks, highlighting their Ambient- and Electronica oeuvre, including 1970´s Moog III Synthesizer tracks and selected soundtracks of Werner Herzog´s movie-classics “Aguirre“, “Nosferatu“ and “Cobra Verde“, Popol Vuh is now the second German Progrock Band after Can getting remixed by a younger generation: Elevating Popol Vuh´s music into the 21st Century, Side B introduces their music to a younger audience: It includes tribute remixes by Vienna ´s Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister), Berlin based electronic Combos Mouse on Mars and Stereolab, Dub experts A Critical Mass, Moritz von Oswald, Thomas Fehlmann (The Orb), deep housed Roland Appel and Alex Bark (Jazzanova), and minimal specialists Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic) and Haswell / Hecker. They have remixed Popol Vuh original electronic albums such as “Affenstunde“, “In den Gärten Pharaos“, and their soundtracks including “Aguirre“, “Nosferatu“ “Heart of Glas“, “Cobra Verde“. Remixes of more lyrical, progrock-oriented, classic Popol Vuh albums like “Hosianna Mantra“ ,“Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte“ recall the typical Popol Vuh sound including piano journeys, cosmic guitars strings, hypnotic conga drums and lyrical rides.

With a new rebirth of Ambient and Progrock, over the past decades, Popol Vuh´s music has inspired a younger generation of composers, bands and electronic musicians including Aphex Twin, Stereolab or Mouse on Mars. Currently new “Kosmische“ mouvements are rising in Berlin, London and New York. Produced by Edition Popol Vuh, Johannes Fricke, and technoproducer and DJ Roland Appel, this album is a deep listening journey into Popol Vuh´s Electronica and Soundtrack world.

Popol Vuh are considered one of the most influential German “70s progressive rock” Avant-garde acts of the Seventies and are also known as a a pioneering band in Ambient- Electronica and Progressive Rock Music. Their records "Affenstunde" (1971) and "In the Garden of Pharao" (1972), played with the Moog III Synthesizer, are claimed to be fundamentally influencing works in Electronica. They went down in the annals of German film music history with their soundtracks for legendary cinema classics by director Werner Herzog and composed more than 15 soundtracks, with the majority of them for Herzog´s feature films with Klaus Kinski as the leading character. From 2004 on, SPV reissues the complete back catalogue of 20 original Albums by Popol Vuh.