City Raga Explained

City Raga
Type:	studio
Artist:	Popol Vuh
Cover:	City raga.jpg
Genre:	Electronic, trance, worldbeat, new age
Length:	46:24
Label:	Milan
Prev Title:	For You and Me
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Shepherd's Symphony – Hirtensymphonie
Next Year:	1997

City Raga is the eighteenth album by Popol Vuh which was originally released in 1995 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 Maya Rose rather than the krautrock, psychedelic rock and ambient music 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.

1. "Wanted Maya" – 7:00
2. "Tears Of Concrete" – 5:30
3. "Last Village" (Fricke, Hieronymus) – 7:10
4. "City Raga" – 8:10
5. "Morning Raga" (Fricke, Daniel Fichelscher, Hieronymus) – 5:40
6. "Running Deep" (Fricke, Hieronymus) – 6:00
7. "City Raga (Mystic House Mix)" – 6:41

Personnel

• Florian Fricke – piano
• Guido Hieronymus – keyboards, electric guitar
• Maya Rose – vocals

Guest musicians

• Daniel Fichelscher – acoustic guitar (on 5)
• Children's choir from Kathmandu

Credits

Recorded at New African Studio, Munich, on June - September 1994
Product and sound consulting by Johannes Fricke and Gerhard Augustin
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)

http://www.venco.com.pl/~acrux/cityraga.htm