Name: In the Gardens of Pharao/Aguirre
Brand: Celestial Harmonies
SKU: 42349
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In the Gardens of Pharao/Aguirre

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Album: In the Gardens of Pharao/Aguirre
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Aguirre
2)	In the Gardens of Pharao
3)	Vuh
4)	Spirit of Peace, Pt. 1 - 3: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Album: In the Gardens of Pharao/Aguirre

Song Title

Time

Aguirre

In the Gardens of Pharao

Vuh

Spirit of Peace, Pt. 1 - 3: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

Performer Notes

Recording information: 1972-1982.
Photographers: Edward Steichen ; Bettina Fricke.
This pioneering Krautrock release occupies the territory between soft-focus ambient music and Tangerine Dream-derived electronic experimentation. IN DER GARTEN PHAROS contains two extended instrumental pieces that mix the pastoral sounds of the natural world with unearthly synth tones. Florian Fricke is the band's center, and his keyboard work provides the bulk of the instrumental colors. He's surrounded throughout by atmospheric percussion and additional electronics that enhance the summer-vacation-on-the-astral-plane feel. Eventually, the new-agey aspect of the band's sound would take over and the group would venture into Windham Hill territory, but on this 1972 release the band is in its prime, striking just the right balance between the electronic adventurousness of the "cosmic rock" set and the gentle ambience that set Popol Vuh apart from so many of its harder-edged contemporaries.