''City Raga'' is the eighteenth album by Popol Vuh which was originally released in

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on Milan Records. In this album, Popol Vuh plays a style of music which is similar to bands like Enigma, Deep Forest or Banco de Gaia, mixing electronic music and dance rhythms with ethnic chants and the sampled voice of singer

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rather than the

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of their previous releases. Because of this, ''City Raga'' remains generally a controversial release among Popol Vuh's fanbase.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Florian Fricke, Guido Hieronymus, and Maya Rose except where noted. # "Wanted Maya" – 7:00 # "Tears Of Concrete" – 5:30 # "Last Village" (Fricke, Hieronymus) – 7:10 # "City Raga" – 8:10 # "Morning Raga" (Fricke, Daniel Fichelscher, Hieronymus) – 5:40 # "Running Deep" (Fricke, Hieronymus) – 6:00 # "City Raga (Mystic House Mix)" – 6:41

Personnel

Florian Fricke Florian Fricke (23 February 1944 – 29 December 2001) was a German musician who started his professional career with electronic music using the Moog synthesizer within the krautrock group Popol Vuh. His music and that of the band however soon e ...

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* Guido Hieronymus –

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;Guest musicians *

Daniel Fichelscher Daniel "Danny" Secundus Fichelscher, (born 3 July 1953 in Berlin), is a German multi-instrumentalist who played a pivotal role in Krautrock band Popol Vuh, was a member of the German group Gila and is currently Amon Düül II's drummer. Fichelsch ...

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Credits

Recorded at New African Studio, Munich, on June - September 1994
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Produced by Florian Fricke and Frank Fiedler Product management by Hubert Hass

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20081029050641/http://www.furious.com/perfect/populvuh.html (Comprehensive article & review of every album, in English) * https://web.archive.org/web/20080119183134/http://www.enricobassi.it/popvuhdiscografia90.htm (featuring the original credits)
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