Johann Johannsson - The Jewish Cemetary on Mollegade
Jóhann Jóhannsson did the soundtrack work for Max Kestner's film Copenhagen Dreams, about Copenhagen, but there is an earlier work that this piece seems to have an affinity with, and it's not a film, but it is, similarly, about the interaction between people and a city (Rilke's "Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge," which is all late-night elegy, man vs. city, aimless yearning, mournful appreciation of what remains and what was lost). What's so impressive about Jóhannsson's work is that it stands as a piece on its own, separate from the film, which is somewhat tough to do, especially for work that's within the classical/electronic/modern music spectrum--think how many 'scores' are just limply there in the background of movies (e.g. I could never, and still refuse to, understand how a friend in college could listen to the Braveheart soundtrack over and over again while studying. I suspect that would be a shortcut to an onrushing type of dementia). This soundtrack, much like Max Richter's soundtrack for Henry May Long, is beautiful by itself and haunting too. This is the time to listen to this, in cool weather.[BUY Copenhagen Dreams]