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Mar 23, 2018 · Englaborn launched the career of late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson and has now become the masterwork that caps it. First released in 2002, the album started off as the soundtrack to an Icelandic play, but quickly gained a life of its own, thanks to its emotional power and finely tuned, spare scoring.
Mar 23, 2018 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 CD release of "Englabörn & Variations" on Discogs.
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Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn - Odi et Amo (2) 4:06. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 Vinyl release of "Englabörn & Variations" on Discogs.
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Mar 23, 2018 · Jóhann Jóhannsson - Englabörn - Odi et Amo (2) 4:06. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2018 File release of "Englabörn & Variations" on Discogs.
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Mar 23, 2018 · These collaborative, genre-bending projects informed Jóhannsson's solo career, which launched with 2002's Englabörn. Based on the music he wrote for a play, its bittersweet miniatures paired a string quartet with percussion, keyboards, and electronics.
Apr 3, 2018 · Originally conceived as a set of cues for a play by Hávar Sigurjónsson, Englabörn became a standalone composition. It has all the hallmarks of the film scores that followed: the knack for finding a heart-stirring theme and developing variations, the suggestion of emotional complexity in a handful of notes, being traditional in his sound ...
Sep 16, 2002 · Englabörn is Jóhann’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.
