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Last And First Men

Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman

2020 · Electronic, Classical

Rare pressing on Gatefold

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Last And First Men by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman

Last And First Men is a Classical album by Jóhann Jóhannsson & Yair Elazar Glotman, originally released in 2020. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.

About

At the time of his death in 2018, at just 48, Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson left his sci-fi film <i>Last and First Men</i> unfinished. Now completed by friend and fellow composer Yair Elazar Glotman, the 70-minute movie unites atmospheric shots of former Yugoslavia’s “Spomeniks”—mysterious Cold War monuments to the Soviet country’s fallen—with passages from Olaf Stapledon’s 1930 novel that gives its name to the film. Jóhannsson’s underlying soundtrack conjures vast horizons and the stretch of billions of years with keening strings and vocals, haunting effects, and dusky textures. Each track moves in and out of being, from the menacing “Architecture” to the awe-inspiring “The Navigators” and an “Epilogue” that stutters and fades into eternity.

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Tracklist

Side CD

  1. CD-1Prelude2:35
  2. CD-2A Minor Astronomical Event3:40
  3. CD-3A Move To Neptune3:48
  4. CD-4Physical Description Of The Last Human Beings4:37
  5. CD-5Architecture5:01
  6. CD-6Supreme Monuments1:48
  7. CD-7Telepathic Unity1:59
  8. CD-8Childhood / Land Of The Young5:36
  9. CD-9The Navigators8:09
  10. CD-10The Sun1:29
  11. CD-11A New Doom2:54
  12. CD-12Task No. 1: The Scattering Of Seeds1:56
  13. CD-13Task No. 2: Communicating With The Past1:06
  14. CD-14The Last Office Of Humanity2:11
  15. CD-15Slow Destruction Of Neptune4:25
  16. CD-16The Few That Prevail2:01
  17. CD-17The Last Men3:19
  18. CD-18Remembrance Of The Past2:35
  19. CD-19The Universal End1:23
  20. CD-20Epilogue5:09

Side BD

  1. BD-1Prelude3:50
  2. BD-2Introduction3:50
  3. BD-3A Minor Astronomical Event1:21
  4. BD-4A Move To Neptune2:41
  5. BD-5Physical Description Of The Last Human Beings4:47
  6. BD-6Architecture6:42
  7. BD-7Childhood / Land Of The Young6:15
  8. BD-8Telepathic Unity2:07
  9. BD-9The Navigators6:11
  10. BD-10A New Doom3:43
  11. BD-11Two Tasks1:42
  12. BD-12No. 1: The Scattering Of Seeds1:29
  13. BD-13No. 2: Communicating With The Past4:28
  14. BD-14Slow Destruction Of Neptune8:49
  15. BD-15The Universal End8:25
  16. BD-16Credits4:19

Sound DNA

  • Classical
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • cavernous
  • brooding
  • cinematic

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

The original score recording on CD and the film on Blu-ray.
Blu-Ray has DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack and English subtitles.

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 3 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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