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[Richard Todd <servalan!rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>]

Subject: Re: Werner Herzog and HOL
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
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In rec.music.gaffa dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith) writes:

>I believe the attribution to Werner Herzog is for the singing (Sorry, I
>don't know the technical style) that makes _Hello Earth_ so distinctive - 
>the male voice parts are apparently from, or closely modelled on, part of
>the soundtrack of _Nosferatu_, a Herzog film (Starred Klaus Kinski)

Hmm, this is interesting.  The soundtrack for _Nosferatu_ (and, I gather a
good many other Werner Herzog films) were done by the German musical group
Popol Vuh.  Popol Vuh was founded around 1970 by pianist Florian Fricke and
has been making what would nowadays be called "new-age" electronic music
for the past two decades.  Alas, their albums are particularly hard to find
in America.  I don't have _Nosferatu_, but I do have the _Hosianna Mantra_
album as well as a sampler that contains part of the soundtrack they did
for another Herzog film, _Fitzcaraldo_, and the vocals done on those albums
do sound a whole lot like the male vocal parts on "Hello Earth".  I guess
Kate Bush is a fan of Popol Vuh's music; it's worth noting that Florian
Fricke also appears in the attribution list on _Hounds of Love_...  
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