JHANN JHANNSSON : Last and First Men (Re-Issue)

While composing haunting, elegiac concept albums of lost utopias and working for TV and film the Icelandic composer Jhann Jhannsson was thinking about a project on an even larger scale since 2010 – a multimedia work that would include his own visual concept, direction and music. Based on the cult science fiction novel by Olaf Stapledon, Jhann Jhannsson’s opus magnum ‘Last and First Men’ artfully combines music, film and narration from Tilda Swinton, sitting somewhere between fiction and documentary to form a poetic meditation on memory and loss.

Track Listing:
1. Prelude – Various Performers
2. A Minor Astronomical Event – Various Performers
3. A Move to Neptune – Various Performers
4. Physical Description of the Last Human Beings – Various Performers
5. Architecture – Various Performers
6. Supreme Monuments – Various Performers
7. Telepathic Unity – Various Performers
8. Childhood/Land of th