Aguirre

Our upload is titled only "Aguirre", so it may be the album or its opening piece, "Aguirre I", 7:22 on the album, written by Fricke. The film, Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, premiered in West Germany on December 29, 1972 by Wikipedia's date, with a US release in 1977. Herzog, dubbing in Rome, found nothing suitable from Ennio Morricone, and a mutual acquaintance recommended Fricke, who watched the film in Rome, composed in Munich, and Herzog liked it immediately. A contract dated August 24, 1972 refers to recordings from August 23 titled "Lacrime di Re". Herzog said he wanted a choir that would sound out of this world, like when he walked at night as a child thinking that the stars were singing, so Fricke used a choir-organ, which Herzog likened to a mellotron with three dozen tapes running in parallel loops; accounts differ on who built and owned it, and Fiedler said it had 60 to 88 loops in two plywood boxes.

The panpipe tune in the film derives from "Cholitas Puenas" by Moises Vivanco, sung by Yma Sumac, and Herzog paid the rights after a 1976 GEMA claim. Gary Lucas covered it as "Aguirre (Lacrime di Re)" in 1991, Mika Vainio and Haswell and Hecker remixed "Aguirre I" on Popol Vuh Remixes (2008), and Valerio Cosi covered it in 2014. No live performance was documented, and no charts or setlist counts were found.