Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts

Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts
Studio album by Popol Vuh
Released	1978 (1978)
Recorded	Aug 1978
Genre	New-age
Length	36:10
Label	Brain Records
Popol Vuh chronology
Herz aus Glas (1977) Brüder des Schattens - Söhne des Lichts (1978) Nosferatu (1978)

Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts (English: "Brothers of the Shadow - Sons of Light") is the tenth album by Popol Vuh. It was originally released in 1978 on Brain Records. In 2006 SPV re-released the album with one bonus track that was originally released on the remix compilation Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves in 1993. The first two tracks from this album were used for the soundtrack of Werner Herzog's film Nosferatu the Vampyre.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Florian Fricke, except tracks 3 and 4 composed by Florian Fricke and Daniel Fichelscher.

1. "Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts" – 18:47
2. "Höre, der du wagst" – 5:52
3. "Das Schloß des Irrtums" – 5:35
4. "Die Umkehr" – 5:57

2006 bonus track

5. "Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves" – 4:15

Personnel

• Florian Fricke – piano
• Daniel Fichelscher – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion

Guest musicians

• Robert Eliscu – oboe
• Alois Gromer – sitar
• Ted de Jong – tamboura
• A church choir ensemble from Munich
• Guido Hieronymus – digital instruments (on track number 5, 2006 bonus track)

Credits

Recorded at Bavaria Studio, Munich, on August 1978
Engineered by Rudolf Wohlschager, assisted by Peter Eichenseher
Produced by Gerhard Augustin for Gammarock Music

2006 edition bonus track, "Sing, for Song Drives Away the Wolves", recorded by Guido Hieronymus at New African Studio in Munich on December 5, 1992, and produced by Florian Fricke and Frank Fiedler.

External links

• Brüder des Schattens – Söhne des Lichts at Discogs (list of releases)
• http://www.popolvuh.nl/nosferatubds Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
• http://www.enricobassi.it release information
• http://www.venco.com.pl/~acrux/bruder.htm

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