To celebrate Johann Johannsson's 2009 tour of the US East Coast, this special CD was released of Johann's award-winning score for Marc Craste's acclaimed animated film Varmints. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Was previously only available for sale on the tour!

CD $9.99

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Like his previous album Englaborn (released on Touch in 2002), which was based on music originally written for the theater, Dis elaborates and expands on the musical themes used in the film. Unlike typical soundtrack recordings, however, Dis has the rare quality of being an impressive work that stands on its own. For the recording, Johann asked members of Reykjavik bands Funerals, Singapore Sling, Slowblow and Trabant to join him, as well as renowned Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jennsson a   [ read more ]

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A musical tapestry of hypnotic richness and surprising emotional depth. Johannsson makes stately, slow-building and hauntingly melodic music, which frequently combines electronic processing with classical orchestrations. Fordlandia is the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. A fascinating, immersive, and deeply rewarding web of ideas and melodies.[ read more ]

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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   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 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   [ read more ]

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Johann Johannsson composes a symphonic music which draws more from the present than the past. His works incorporate many unusual, possibly ironic, elements layered in with the familiar sounds and motifs of a classically outfitted string orchestra. His third CD IBM 1410 - A User's Manual (42'52") is a peculiar mixture of beautiful stringed harmonies, romantic building themes, overtly long crescendos and somber resolutions - vaguely tinged throughout by synthesizer rumblings, electronic drones, sparkling chim   [ read more ]

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REISSUE. Originally released in 2002 on the Touch label, this is an exceptionally beautiful record that has acquired a substantial cult status. Englaborn was derived from music Johannsson wrote for an Icelandic play of the same name. It was 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.

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The second installment in J=hann J=hannsson's trilogy of albums about technology and iconic American brand names, Fordlandia expands on IBM 1401, A User's Manual by chronicling, among other things, the failure of Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plant with the power of a 50-piece string orchestra. IBM, which included recordings of its titular computer, could have been gimmicky or overly conceptual, but the results were remarkably moving and personal. While Fordlandia is slightly more straight   [ read more ]

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Topping Englab÷rn's exquisite beauty was a difficult assignment and with Virthulegu Forsetar, J=hann J=hannsson doesn't succeed in doing so. The music presented here retains the same esthetics of simplicity, repetition and bareness, but this time around the composer opted for grandeur and length, instead of discretion and short tableaux. "Virthulegu Forsetar" is a 65-minute piece in four continuous movements, for 11 brass players, two organists, one bassist, one percussionist and one pian   [ read more ]

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