A sad loss indeed. Re: Crowhurst, though, I think I’ll be sticking ith the classic book about him, Jóhannsson soundtrack or no Jóhannsson soundtrack – I’m with those who argue that the only way to begin to understand what was really going on inside the man’s head is to read his own words, intelligently interpreted.
ADDENDUM: The soundtrack to The Mercy is well worth listening to in its own right, although quite a lot of it appears to hail from earlier works by Jóhannsson, e.g. Orphée. Still not straying beyond the Crowhurst biography, though – quite apart from anything else, as Peter Bradshaw puts it, “[t]he problem is that Colin Firth looks like a natural leader, a natural winner: he is more of a Francis Chichester, not a Donald Crowhurst”. Also, as with Gesualdo, too much time spent in Crowhurst’s company can do very strange things to the mind…
Right, up next on my Jóhannsson-appraisal odyssey are Sicario (which I have seen, and which I recall has quite a powerful soundtrack) and IBM…
FURTHER ADDENDUM: I’ve commented far too much on here of late, potentially at others’ expense, but I just wanted to add that I’ve now listened to IBM, and agree that The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black is a stunning way to close an album…although certain similarities did lead me to wonder whether Jóhannsson had prior familiarity with the work of Spiritualized, and specifically this before he wrote it (not that I’m suggesting conscious plagiarism, I should stress)…
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A sad loss indeed. Re: Crowhurst, though, I think I’ll be sticking ith the classic book about him, Jóhannsson soundtrack or no Jóhannsson soundtrack – I’m with those who argue that the only way to begin to understand what was really going on inside the man’s head is to read his own words, intelligently interpreted.
ADDENDUM: The soundtrack to The Mercy is well worth listening to in its own right, although quite a lot of it appears to hail from earlier works by Jóhannsson, e.g. Orphée. Still not straying beyond the Crowhurst biography, though – quite apart from anything else, as Peter Bradshaw puts it, “[t]he problem is that Colin Firth looks like a natural leader, a natural winner: he is more of a Francis Chichester, not a Donald Crowhurst”. Also, as with Gesualdo, too much time spent in Crowhurst’s company can do very strange things to the mind…
Right, up next on my Jóhannsson-appraisal odyssey are Sicario (which I have seen, and which I recall has quite a powerful soundtrack) and IBM…
FURTHER ADDENDUM: I’ve commented far too much on here of late, potentially at others’ expense, but I just wanted to add that I’ve now listened to IBM, and agree that The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black is a stunning way to close an album…although certain similarities did lead me to wonder whether Jóhannsson had prior familiarity with the work of Spiritualized, and specifically this before he wrote it (not that I’m suggesting conscious plagiarism, I should stress)…