Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Rocket Builder

Fordlândia is the latest release from Jóhann Jóhannsson. It's the second installment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names.

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[FuellingObsession]

Did Iceland EVER produce crapy music/crappy artists?! I truly wonder... Every musical piece that comes out of Iceland seems to have been touched by king Midas.

[aderussell455]

If you are looking for the segment used on Charlie Brookers Newswipe, it starts at 3:23

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

"This is played by my Icelandic string quartet, with Matthias Hemstock on percussion, and me playing piano, pipe organ and fuzz bass." Johann Johannsson, October 31, 2008, 3:54pm

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

"He researched rocket fuel for the government during the day and conducted pagan rituals at night, as head of a Pasedena, California lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis. The image of Parsons chanting Crowley´s “Ode to Pan” during rocket test flights is the inspiration for this track. Parsons died in an explosion in his garage under mysterious circumstances. A friend of mine said “this is an album about people who blew themselves up”, and he has a point." Johann Johannsson, October 31, 2008, 3:54pm

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

"So, doomed, failed utopias form one thematic strand and another one is rocketry. I read the biography of John Whiteside Parsons and was fascinated by this Aleister Crowley disciple and occultist who was also one of the fathers of space travel. In the 1930´s he invented the first truly successful rocket fuel, although he was basically a self-taught maverick, usually at odds with the government institutions in which he worked. He researched..." Johann Johannsson, October 31, 2008, 3:54pm

[ABitOfTheUniverse]

"So, doomed, failed utopias form one thematic strand and another one is rocketry. I read the biography of John Whiteside Parsons and was fascinated by this Aleister Crowley disciple and occultist who was also one of the fathers of space travel. In the 1930´s he invented the first truly successful rocket fuel, although he was basically a self-taught maverick, usually at odds with the government institutions in which he worked. He researched..." Johann Johannsson, October 31, 2008, 3:54pm

[doubleplussgood]

@FuellingObsession i'm pretty sure you'll get deported if you make crappy music

[MrLibertine84]

Apocalypse music. brilliant!

[asdfghjkl9260]

Great song from a broken country! :D