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Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia -
For those unfamiliar with Johann Johannsson’s output, he works equally comfortably with symphony orchestras and samplers to create impossibly expansive, moving, often desolate and unerringly beautiful compositions. Fordlandia is the second in a proposed trio of aural delights from Icelandic composer Johann Johannson. The first was IBM 1401, A User’s...
Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia -
Iceland is alive with the sound of string composers of late. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ã"lafur Arnalds and Amiina have all released lovely albums celebrating the pomp and melancholic circumstance of the North. Note for note though, Jóhann Jóhannsson manages to hover a few centimetres above them all. Fordlandia, his second release...
Johann Johannsson -
or an album with no lyrics, Johann Johannsson's Fordlandia certainly has a lot of things to say. Narrative grandeur abounds: a Fitzcarraldo-like Brazilian jungle scene, a 19th-century poet mourning a fallen god, an unlucky rocket scientist, the mysterious work of a deformed German physicist. Lumped together, these ideas, expressed...
Englaborn - Dealing in down-tempo, orchestral soundscapes with smatterings of electronic flourishes, Icelands Johann Johannsson has created a collection of songs that are cinematic in scope and brimming full of natural beauty. Originally released in 2002 on the tiny Touch label, 4AD have made a departure from their traditional US indie-rock stable...
Max Richter -
riginally released in 2002, Max Richter's out-of-print debut, Memoryhouse, gets a long overdue re-release, shedding light on a blank spot in the composer's career. The album is a formative, somewhat derivative experience, one filled with half-formed ideas and moments of exquisite beauty, a clear omen of the better work to...
Eluvium - Similes -
Ambient music suffered terribly at the hands of a late-90s boom in chill-out compilations, ostensibly assembled to bring one down after a night of hackneyed gesticulating to the sounds of the Gallaghers and their laddish ilk. Bands you knew, remixes you didn’t, but the end products always much of a...
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