Englabörn

Johann Johannsson is one of the most active participants in the new Icelandic music scene. He has one of the founders of Kitchen Motors. Johann has produced and written music with artists as diverse as Marc Almond, Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic, The Hafler Trio, Magga Stina and many others. Englaborn is Johann's first solo album. It is derived from music he wrote for an Icelandic play of the same name. For the CD release on Touch, the music was revised and restructured to make it stand as a work on its own and not simply function as a collection of cues. The music is written for string quartet, piano, organ, glockenspiel and percussion. These elements were processed and manipulated, adding delicate electronic backgrounds to the otherwise entirely acoustic recordings.