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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 Manual �" a work themed around early computer music; the sapling sine waves coaxed out of a 60’s model computer and the emotional attachment of those who worked on its creation.The themes flowing through Johann Johannsson’s latest release are equally ambitions and marginally less abstract. Johannsson themed the album around...