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Fordlandia (2LP)

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內容簡介 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. IBM, which included recordings of its titular computer, could have been gimmicky or overly conceptual, but the results were remarkably moving and personal. While Fordlandia is slightly more straightforward musically, its concepts and emotional impact are much more involved and ambitious. Fittingly, ambition is one of the album's major themes, along with failure, mortality, immortality, and technology's potential for creation and destruction. Jóhannsson depicts these dualities with portraits of great heights and, mostly, deep losses. Ford's doomed project -- which he envisioned as a utopia but ended in disaster, with rioting workers and the development of synthetic rubber, ultimately costing him millions of dollars -- provides the thematic backbone for the album's major pieces. "Fordlandia"'s strings and subtle electric guitars are never less than majestic, but move gradually and naturally from hope to bittersweet doubt over the course of 13 minutes, keeping the intimacy that Jóhannsson's work has shown since Englaborn. That bittersweetness wells into sorrow on "Fordlandia -- Aerial View"; recorded in a Reykjavik church with no edits, its aching strings and low-rumbling percussion sound equally devastated and beautiful. Tracklist A1 Fordlandia 13:43 A2 Melodia (i) 1:56 B1 The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!) 6:25 B2 Melodia (ii) 1:49 B3 Fordlandia - Aerial View 4:33 B4 Melodia (iii) 3:12 C1 Chimaerica 3:23 C2 Melodia (iv) 2:45 C3 The Great God Pan Is Dead 4:56 C4 Melodia (Guidelines For A Propulsion Device Based On Heim's Quantum Theory) 9:04 D1 How We Left Fordlandia 15:25

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最佳賣點 : Contemporary Music, Neo-Classical Music, Post Classical Music

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