Florian Fricke

Florian Fricke ( born February 23, 1944 in Lindau on Lake Constance; † 29 December 2001 Munich) was a German electronic music pioneer the first hour and founder of the band Popol Vuh.

Biography

Florian Fricke began in childhood, playing the piano. He studied piano, composition and conducting at the music academies in Freiburg and Munich. Already at the age of 18 he made ​​short films. He wrote as a film and music critic for the mirror and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

To 1967, he met the director Werner Herzog, in his feature film debut " sign of life", he played a role. Fricke wrote in 1971 the music for several films by Werner Herzog, among others for Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht ( with Bruno Ganz and Klaus Kinski ).

Florian Fricke was among the first musicians who used a Moog III synthesizer since 1969. His publications using this significant instrument to 1972 should dominate the electronic music in Germany. Fricke said in 1970: " The music that you can do with a Moog, simply includes the sensation possibilities of man."

Together with Holger TRÜLZSCH and Frank Fiedler 1970 he founded the group Popol Vuh, which is assigned to the Krautrock. The name is borrowed from the Mayan culture and recalls the story of creation of man. The band, which often transposed Christian or mystical motifs in her music and largely abandoned in favor of an ethereal sound on electric guitars, however, continually defied categorization. They called their own style as " poetry -rock ", " Magic Music " or "Cosmic Space Rock". By 1997, over 20 albums have been released.

Besides working with Popol Vuh Fricke has worked with numerous musicians. He was heard in 1972 on the album "Time " of the group Tangerine Dream, another collaboration with Renate Knaup consisted of Amon Düül II Together with Daniel Fichelscher ( who was involved also in Popol Vuh and Amon Düül II) was Fricke 1973-1974 at the band Gila. In addition, he has taken verschiedentliche solo projects, including 1992 recording of Mozart's compositions.

Florian Fricke devoted himself since the late 70s and intensive music therapy or sound therapy. From bits and pieces of Yoga and Tibetan singing he developed his own form of therapy, which he called the alphabet of the body.

Together with the Popol Vuh - combatants Frank Fiedler, who was an accomplished cinematographer, Fricke took spiritually inspired film productions in the wilderness of Sinai, Israel, Lebanon, on the Euphrates and Tigris, Morocco, Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet. From the 1990s onwards scenic audio video installations have been developed also in the Italian Molfetta.

Florian Fricke died on 29 December 2001 at the age of 57 in Munich at a stroke.

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