Sunday, April 3, 2011

Popol Vuh's Aguirre

This is the greatest score to any movie that wasn't scored by a soundtrack composer (i.e. Williams, Shore, Elfman, etc.).  This album features six songs, three of which are from the movie Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.  This film, directed by Werner Herzog, is considered by Roger Ebert to be one of the greatest movies ever made in the history of the world.  The performance given by Klaus Kinski is ... Kinskian.  There's really no other way to describe it.  Popol Vuh is a "krautrock" band.  I have no idea what krautrock is, but what I do know, is that Popol Vuh is awesome.  Morgengruß II and Aguirre II are my favorite tracks on the album.  The linked album has a couple extra files (split versions of Aguirre I into L'Acrime di Rei / Flöte, etc.) so I've put the track listing here so you can reference it and make sure you just pick the right ones and in the right order, etc.

Track Listing:
  1. Aguirre I                         7:22
  2. Morgengruß II                2:55
  3. Aguirre II                        6:15
  4. Agnus Dei                       3:03
  5. Vergegenwärtigung       16:51
  6. Aguirre III                       7:16

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