Johann Johannsson – Sun’s Gone Dim

Subscribe to 4AD here: http://bit.ly/2TLt1l7

Jóhann Jóhannsson is Icelandic – he lives in Reykjavík – and is a musician, composer, producer and an active member of the country’s artistic community (as the founder of the Kitchen Motors label / think tank / art collective and also as a serial collaborator).

Jóhann’s stately and hauntingly melodic music has been quietly bewitching listeners for some time and his 2006 album ‘IBM 1401, A User’s Manual’ – was his most ambitiously-orchestrated composition.

Inspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which Jóhann’s father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 30 years ago, the piece was originally written to be performed by a string quartet as the accompaniment to a dance piece by the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album version, Johann rewrote the entire score, and it was recorded by a sixty-piece string orchestra. He also added a new final movement – a version of which makes up this single – and incorporated electronics alongside those original tape recordings of the singing computer.

Purchase the 2017 vinyl remaster of IBM 1401, A User’s Manual from 4AD: http://4ad.com/releases/862

4AD on the web:
http://4ad.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fourad/

#JohannJohannsson #4AD #4ADRecords