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Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia download free
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Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia download free

Album:
Fordlandia
Country:
Released:
Style:
Abstract, Modern Classical, Experimental, Contemporary
MP3 archive size:
1981 mb
FLAC archive size:
1197 mb
WMA archive size:
1364 mb
Other formats:
XM VOX WAV DXD MPC APE MOD
Rating:
4.8
Votes:
431

Tracklist

1 Fordlandia 13:43
2 Melodia (i) 1:56
3 The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!) 6:25
4 Melodia (ii) 1:49
5 Fordlandia - Aerial View 4:33
6 Melodia (iii) 3:12
7 Chimaerica 3:23
8 Melodia (iv) 2:45
9 The Great God Pan Is Dead 4:56
10 Melodia (Guidelines For A Propulsion Device Based On Heim's Quantum Theory) 9:04
11 How We Left Fordlandia 15:25

Notes

Printed CDr. "For promotional use only. Not for re-sale", in printed card wallet.

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
CAD 2812 CD Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia ‎(CD, Album, Dig) 4AD CAD 2812 CD UK 2008
none Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia ‎(CDr, Album, Promo) 4AD, Beggars Japan none Japan 2008
NTOV7 Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia ‎(2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, Cle) NTOV NTOV7 US 2013
WPCB10097 Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia ‎(CD, Album) 4AD WPCB10097 Japan 2008
CAD 2812 CD Jóhann Jóhannsson Fordlandia ‎(CD, Album, Promo, Adv) 4AD CAD 2812 CD US 2008


  • Norway is a bleak, desolate country with vast stretches of ice fields. It is nearly all daylight during the summer and nighttime during the winter. Even though Jóhann Jóhannsson is Icelandic, he does record in parts of Norway and such a sense of melancholy can be heard in Fordlandia. He builds layers of ambience through arpeggiating strings (violins and cellos) with piano notes, to make music that sounds like a movie score. If anything, the music resembles that of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Geir Jenssen’s Biosphere, or maybe Angelo Badalamenti soundtracks. It might even follow Steve Reich formulas without being as experimental or Ulrich Schnauss in a less pop-oriented direction. This “concerto” progression resembles classical music structure, where sections are like movements, but he also uses the Pink Floyd method of naming them (part 1, part 2, etc.). Fordlandia is part 3 of a trilogy, but I have not had a chance to listen to the others. Jóhannsson uses The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra And Chorus on the 1st and last 3 tracks. Although listening through from beginning to end gives the maximum effect, the tracks that garnered my aural attention were 10, Melodia (Guidelines For A Space Propulsion Device Based On Heim’s Quantum Theory), and 1, Fordlandia, in that order. Just to note, Burkhard Heim was a German physicist who wrote a paper about a method of faster-than-light space travel. Fordlândia, also by the way, is an imaginary town that Henry Ford hoped to build around a rubber plantation in the Amazon for his company’s car tires.