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Opening / A Song for Europa (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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Jóhannsson, Ólafsson: Flight From The City (Víkingur Ólafsson Rework)
Víkingur Ólafsson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Yuki Numata Resnick, Tarn Travers, Ben Russell, Clarice Jensen & Christian Badzura
Flight from the City (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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A Deal with Chaos (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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Melodia (Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based On Heim's Quantum Theory)
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The Drowned World (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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De Luce et Umbra (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
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A Song for Europa
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra & Anthony Weeden
Fordlândia / Credits (Live at Funkhaus Berlin / 2016)
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About Jóhann Jóhannsson
Artist Biography
In both his solo albums and film composition work, Jóhann Jóhannsson paired avant-garde arrangements and organic instrumentation with majestic symphonic flourishes. Born in Reykjavk in 1969, Jóhannsson played trumpet and piano growing up, but he cut his teeth playing in various rock-oriented bands. He brought that background in popular music to full-lengths released under his own name—the 2004 instrumental album Virðulegu forsetar brims with solemn horns and keening soundscapes—and early film work, such as the equally haunting, brass-heavy The Miners’ Hymns. Jóhannsson’s film career took off as he worked closely and consistently with Denis Villeneuve on several movies, including the menacing, Oscar-nominated score for 2015’s Sicario, which boasted industrial-inspired, manipulated electronic sounds. His Golden Globe-winning score for James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything was also richly textured, as it weaved keyboards and electronic elements into elegiac piano and glacial strings. Jóhannsson died in 2018 of heart failure, right after finishing the score to Mandy, a stunning creative step forward that applied traditional classical motifs into an unsettling roar redolent of ambient heavy metal.
Hometown
Reykjavik, Iceland
Genre
Classical
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