World album of the day (#168): In Den Gärten Pharaos
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- Posted: 02/07/2013 15:00
- Post subject: World album of the day (#168): In Den Gärten Pharaos
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Today's world album of the day
In Den Gärten Pharaos by Popol Vuh (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1971.
Overall rank: 1704.
Average rating: 76/100 (from 18 votes).
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Tracks:
1. In den Gärten Pharaos
2. Vuh
About world album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com world album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours, but not including albums from Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom or United States. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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Yourselfisntsteam
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- Posted: 02/07/2013 15:36
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Currently #8 on my chart, one of my absolute favourite albums.
Some Popol Vuh releases may be more immediately pretty, but the layers and contrasts of sounds on this hold up really well to repeated listens. The way the two songs contrast the world music percussion (supposedly african and turkish) against spacey synth sounds, noodling keyboards (sometimes with a middle eastern touch, sometimes jazzy) and church music (the organ on Vuh obviously) is just really really cool and smart and brilliant and perfect.
The two songs really contrast well with each other, as if they were two different approaches to spirituality; the first being tranquil and meditative, the other being colossal, sublime and overwhelming.
The Kha-White Structures bonus tracks that show up on reissues are pretty cool as well.
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- Posted: 02/07/2013 15:44
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I love this album 😁
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