Fordlândia
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The second installment of a planned trilogy, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's new record is full of gorgeously sweeping strings aided by gently babbling electronics.
The second installment in Jóhann Jóhannsson's trilogy of albums about technology and iconic American brand names, Fordlandia expands on IBM 1401, A User's Manual by chronicling, among other things, the failure of Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plant with the power of a 50-piece string orchestra.
For an album with no lyrics, Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Fordlandia certainly has a lot of things to say.
Since his birth as the artist as we all know him, Jóhann Jóhannsson seems duly committed to the idea of making