Dagný Valgeirsdóttir a tragedy indeed :(

well said.

😔

Well said, you echo my sentiments exactly

Yes... and I have wanted so much him to compose scores for the remake of Dune.... :(

I agree. We were robbed of something special, sounds of better world. I love his music.

He is one of the greatest of all time. There are a few that are up there but not quite the same level. Max Richter Hans Zimmer Ludovico Einaudi frequent collaborator Hildur Guðnadóttir

i love his music too, but greatest of all time seems like a bit excessive.

@@geoffreylamberts love hans zimmer but if you listen to his whole work, he is WAY TOO repetetive, and even sometimes he recycles his old melodies and publishes it again like a new song, dont think he fits alongside Einaudi. Sorry messy english not my first tongue.

@@colonelaugust1130 valid

So powerfull this coment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"l think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don’t think it’s necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion. There’s an emphasis, especially these days with social media, that everyone has to be this ecstatically happy person living this amazing life. Melancholy is a state that I very much enjoy being in, actually. It’s not the same as feeling sad. It’s a more complex emotion; it derives from a tragic view of the world, a tragic view of art." ~ Jóhann Jóhannsson.

The silence he left us is then all the more powerful.

is gonna be a long nap

Surely Is !

preciuos reflection

@@lotofagiaverboycarne amazingly well said!

Beautifully said. 😊

@@mikarylee8682 thank you 😊

Unbelievable

Insane. Way too young.

😢

flowers

Wait did he die?

geez. Me too. I just discovered this guy earlier this day. His works with Denis Villeneuve really admires me somehow, so i looked upon his works. Knowing he passed away a few years ago makes me gutted.

Saw him in Barcelona in 2018. It was the most beautiful, heartbreaking and emotional concert I’ve ever seen in my life, truly inspiring. Two weeks after he passed away. That was devastating, I still have the tickets in my Apple wallet as a memory, don’t want to let them go.

He is truly one of the greatest composers of the modern era! Jóhann with go down in the history books as a film score pioneer. He is one of my personal favorite composers alongside some of the greats like Ennio Morricone and John Williams. You can listen to his music, close your eyes, and get lost in the uniqueness of his style. From the relaxing melodies, Erie scores, and waltz ballads, he really combined every element of sound and feeling into his work.

Same here!. I'm like...wait, he died?!. There was so much beauty in his music that is needed for my soul. 😟😢😭 Watching him and knowing that he's in the past tense is really sad. It's like watching his ghost perform such amazing music.

Totally agree the profound sadness is one I express in my music and I always tell people you can’t write it unless you’ve suffered that immense sadness

I totally agree yet am thankful that his music is still with us.

You're missing Flight From the City at 37:02.

Thank you for the timestamps.

Very good u noticed, definitely my favorite by far, the video for Flight From the City has really captured my heart

hi, i think it's time to say that the film "Arrival" is based on the short story "Story of your Life" by the brilliant writer Ted Chiang - from his "Stories of your Life and others" collection. An absolutely wonderful book!

@@mikeg6748 Yes, I think so too, but that music enhances all the movie, gives it all that Denis Villlenueve couldn't explain with words, master soundtrack

Got you in the feels, eh? Me too. Been on repeat since I found this, and got the album on Apple Music too. I'm just gonna say it: he's the new Hans Zimmer.

I disagree. Johann is very different from Hans. Hans uses more classical roots with changing melodies and Stravinsky/Shostakovich peaks, while Olafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi and Johnannson all stick to a minimal composition, inspired by Philip Glass. All while Johann could be Hans 2.0, but minimal.

Alexander, I meant that in the sense of his foray into film more than his stylistic approach; I've no doubt you're correct about the latter, but as fare as the former is concerned, I feel that Jóhann is slowly but surely beginning to surpass Hans as a film composer. I love both, a lot, but I'm so much more excited about Jóhann scoring films than I am about Hans these days. Personally love all the work he's done with Villeneuve and I can't WAIT to see where he takes BLADE RUNNER 2049.

Hans got his place in Blade runner after all :)

@@EyeGodZA It's heartbreaking to read this 3 years later. We lost an amazing composer

:(((

What a beautiful requiem then.

A reply five years later - the voice is from many recorded short wave radio station broadcasts during the Cold War in Europe, the messages as repetitions of alphanumeric strings and musical notes were coded transmissions for agents, widley known as 'number stations'. A collection of these recordings called 'Conet Project' is a good introduction.

I also love how they "kill" some air time between Drowned World and Flight from the City in order to give everyone time to switch instruments!

yea man life is short and precious

Beautiful words

ólafur arnald vibe did you mean?

Ehhhh... Johann Johannsson is far senior to Olafur.... You mean, Olafur Arnalds sounds like JJ...

i get what you mean these sounds and harmonics are what i grew up hearing in tv and radio when i was a kid this always seems to stick with Icelandic ensemble music.

Jonsi/Sigur Ros & Bjork & JJ all from Iceland is absolutely amazing.

he is under heavy fire?

yes it will