Popol Vuh - Hosianna MantraThe third album by Popol Vuh, a collective of musicians founded in Germany by Florian Fricke in 1969. Hosianna Mantra was a departure from the bands first two records. Leader Florian Fricke abandoned the use of the Moog synthesiser and instead employed acoustic instrumentation such as piano, oboe and tambura. The record also featured evocative vocals by Korean singer Djong Yun and guitar contributions from Conny Veit. The resulting album was one of

These 4CD sets centred on 1940-1944 attempt to pinpoint records typical of the various strands of music which coalesced into what can now be seen as a historically definable form of black popular music

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A quarter century since their 1998 debut

They signed to Warp in 1997 as Plaid

Dwyer mixed the record and it was passed onto old friends the Austrian Label ROCK IS HELL (Oh Sees fans will note early releases by Thee Oh Sees appeared on Rock is Hell a whiles back)

The Drones

arranged and conducted by Coltrane herself) and its refined

which find Washington confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes

Despite popular belief

a perpetual wow

No break between Hand of Doom and Rat Salad

‘Suspirium’