Aguirre

Music by Popol Vuh

 

 

 

 

 

Aguirre (1972) first partnership between group Popol Vuh group and director Werner Herzog, was a important work in the birth of electronic music as supporting soundtrack.

In the expedition adventure in search of Eldorado in the South American jungles the music (merging electronic and mantric corals) is the place where the expedition will never reach. Herzog ventures with cast, crew and equipment in search of the impossible image, of the adventurous realization, and the Popol Vuh music likewise surrenders to dazzle of the uncertain trajectory. In Herzog's work the trajectory is more important than the destination. The way is more important than the arrive. The guitar performance in some tracks (Morgengruss, Aguirre II), leads the music close to the progressive rock. The same relation to rock is heard in Agnus Dei, but is in the mystical climates Aguirre (in three versions) that the music reveals its fascinating courage to new sound terriotories. Some ideas of the spectral Vergegenwartigung (seventeen minutes!) would be reused in Nosferatu soundtrack.