This is Johann's (of Apparat Organ Quartet, Kitchen Motors, LHOOQ, Dip etc) first solo album. It is derived from music he wrote for an Icelandic play of the same name. For the cd release on Touch Records, the music was revised and restructured to make it stand as a work on its own and not simply fun... More

This is Johann's (of Apparat Organ Quartet, Kitchen Motors, LHOOQ, Dip etc) first solo album. It is derived from music he wrote for an Icelandic play of the same name. For the cd release on Touch Records, the music was revised and restructured to make it stand as a work on its own and not simply function as a collection of cues. The music is written for string quartet, piano, organ, glockenspiel and percussion. These elements were processed and manipulated, adding delicate electronic backgrounds to the otherwise entirely acoustic recordings. "Music, so beautifully that all words are simply redundant" - DeBug Magazine. "Englaborn is tremendously cute on the outside, but the emotions it carries have little to do with sweetness. The listener comes out of it with a heavy heart, drenched, happy but surprised by the manipulative power the music had on him or her. Highly recommended" - All Music Guide.