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Iceland's composer Johan Johannsson specialized in grandiose constructs for orchestra, choir and electronics. After Englaborn (Touch, 2002), a droning soundtrack for a stage play scored for chamber instruments, percussion, electronics, piano, harmonium and voices, he found his true calling with the hour-long solemnly melodic piece Virthulegu Forsetar (Touch, 2004) for eleven brass players, keyboards, percussion and electronics. After the film soundtrack Dis (Worker's Institute, 2005), devoted to a Michael Nyman-esque take on orchestral kitsch, the wall of (orchestral) sound further increased on
IBM 1401 A User's Manual (4AD, 2006), an "opera" about a historical computer, and
the looping symphonic adagio a` la Pachelbel of
Fordlandia (4AD, 2008), the first parts of a planned trilogy about technology.
His greatest invention, however, was the
Apparat Organ Quartet (founded in 1999), consisting of four organists and a drummer, who
debuted with the futuristic pop of
Apparat Organ Quartet (Skelt, 2006) in the Icelandic tradition of
Sigur Ros and
Mum.
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