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- Date Released: November 4, 2008
- Genre: Electronic
- Label: 4AD
Johannsson makes a big, timeless sound, brimming with power and ideas
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We Say...
Johann Johannsson makes extraordinarily moving music via time-tested means — and then makes it all the more moving by finding fresh ways to present it. The sound of Fordlandia is effectively classical, with swells of strings and orchestral weather provided by a 50-piece group whose playing always seems more important to Johannsson than his own occasional electronic processing. The effect of Fordlandia, however, is much more modern than "classical" might imply. The album was conceived as a direct follow-up to Johannsson's beautiful IBM 1401: A User's Manual, as the second part of a proposed trilogy about technology and iconic American ideas. Thus this album's opening track — an impossibly stirring series of dramatic string patterns delivered with utmost patience — takes its name from a rubber plantation that Henry Ford establish in South America in the 1920s. To similar ends, "Rocket Builder" attributes its haunting tone — strings again, and a cycling piano figure that tinkles like something out of a horror movie or a screen drama — to the story of John Parsons, an avowed occultist and rocketry expert who played a central role in setting up the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1930s California. The direct links between songs and their subjects are mostly implied and consigned to liner-note explanations, but the ideas add a lot of power to already-potent compositions. Johannsson's huge sound doesn't need a narrative backdrop to create drama, but the fact that it takes so well to one only makes it more ripe for revisiting.
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| 01. |  |
Fordlândia |
13:43 |
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| 02. | |
melodia (i) |
1:56 |
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| 03. | |
The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!) |
6:25 |
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| 04. | |
melodia (ii) |
1:49 |
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| 05. | |
Fordlândia - Aerial View |
4:33 |
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| 06. | |
melodia (iii) |
3:12 |
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| 07. | |
Chimaerica |
3:22 |
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| 08. | |
melodia (iv) |
2:45 |
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| 09. | |
The Great God Pan is Dead |
4:56 |
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| 10. | |
Melodia (Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device based on Heim's Quantum Theory) |
9:04 |
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| 11. | |
How We Left Fordlândia |
15:24 |
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11 Total Tracks, 67:09 Total Length
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