Search for   wildcard searchword search With search mode ANDOR in allband specialsreviewsarticlesmp3 section(s) And sort the results by BandnameAlbumtitle/Articletitle/SongDate show articles written by All authors Niels van Rongen Andreas Oelke Sander Hordijk Jacob Avlund Justin Faase Aldo Quispel Dan Felch François Monti Jeff Jacobus David Bauwens Roger Batty Patrick Toepoel John Pusieski Duncan Simpson Erwin Michelfelder N.S. Endebo Nicholas Szczepanik Delirious Insomniac manuel pereira Russell Cuzner Sven Klippel Serdar Yegulalp Josh Landry Lawrence J. Patti David Bourgoin Viktorya Kaufholz Andy Ortmann Various Justin Marc Lloyd Martin P James DC Todd Robinson Nicola Vinciguerra Bill Too Ross Baker Richard T Williams Paul Casey Hal Harmon Dave Biddulph Michael Cunningham Jean-Paul Garnier Tyler L. Julien Skrobek Cory Strand Adam Skyes Darren Charles James Shearman Sergey Pakhomov Johan Strömvall Hammarstedt Lob Instagon Jennifer Wallis Jan Warnke Damien De Coene A. Cooley Manuel Armida-Honner Julien Skrobek Karl Grümpe Colin Lang Alex McLean Cavan Gilbey Sarah Gregory    Review archive:  # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn [Touch - 2002] I had never heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before this album. When surfing the net finding some background info on the Icelandic musician I found that I probably saw him perform live with Apparat Organ Quartet. The music on his first solo-album music can’t be compared to that loud and energetic combo though. He also worked with Marc Almond, Barry Adamson and Pana Sonic among others. His resume also features a lot of music for theatre, documentaries and soundtracks for 3 feature films. Englabörn is a collection of music written for a stageplay of the same name and revolves mainly about one melodic theme. The sound is situated somewhere between the new romanticism of composers like Arvo Pärt and with a touch of microsound and glitch of for instance Fennesz (I can't think of anything better). It’s very delicate, emotional and dramatic music, to counter the violent nature of the stageplay according to Jóhannsson. The stringquartet is most prominent on the album. They get some rhythmic backup in Þetta gerist á bestu bæjum but the theme also recurs on piano and celeste for instance. During the whole album electronic enhancements and alterations occur, but always subtle and hardly noticable. The album’s opener (and also closer, only slowed down) has ‘vocals’ which sing the famous Odi et Amo poem by Catullus written in the first century about being torn between love and hate. The synthetic countertenor (in other words: a speech program for computer) is as endearing as the computer reciting Fitter Happier on Radiohead’s OK Computer. I have to say I’m a bit lost for words with the breathtaking beauty of this album. I can’t describe the sound more precisely and I urge everybody to just try and find this album. Jóhannsson at first felt somewhat naked with this emotional piece he got more recognition for it (up to hugs by strangers in the middle of the street) than for any music he wrote before, so that should say something. This desolate and delicate masterpiece sure is something special. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn I had never heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before this album. When surfing the net finding some background info on the Icelandic musician I found that I probably... 260424   Marco Baldini/Apartment House... 250424   Intruder - Psycho Savant 250424   Hot Spur - Hot Spur( Blu Ray) 250424   Happy End - Happy End( Blu Ray) 250424   Electronicat - Saturation 240424   Soma - Me Dais Mucho Asco 240424   Koobaatoo Asparagus - Onna-musha 240424   Magda - And Suddenly, Just L... 230424   Andrea Taeggi - Nattdett 230424   Seedpeople - SeedPeople(Blu Ray) The Music of Clay Ruby & Burial H... Over the last couple of decades Wisconsin native, Clay Ruby has been creating some of the world’s finest dark electronic music under the Burial Hex mon... 280324   The Music of Clay Ruby & Buri... 290224   Sutcliffe No More - Normal Ev... 100124   Occlusion - The Operation Is... 181223   Best Of 2023 - Music, Sound &... 051223   Powerhouse Films - Of Magic, ... 181023   IO - Of Sound, Of Art, Of Exp... 210923   Lucky Cerruti - Of Not so Fri... 290823   The Residents - The Trouble W... 110723   Yotzeret Sheydim Interview - ... 250523   TenHornedBeast - Into The Dee...

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