While composing haunting, elegiac concept albums of lost utopias and working for TV and film the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson 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, Jóhann Jóhannsson'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 the Young - Various Performers
9. The Navigators - Various Performers
1. The Sun - Various Performers
2. A New Doom - Various Performers
3. Task No. 1: The Scattering of Seeds - Various Performers
4. Task No. 2: Communicating With the Past - Various Performers
5. The Last Office of Humanity - Various Performers
6. Slow Destruction of Neptune - Various Performers
7. The Few That Prevail - Various Performers
8. The Last Men - Various Performers
9. Remembrance of the Past - Various Performers
10. The Universal End - Various Performers
11. Epilogue - Various Performers
