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Jóhann Jóhannsson
IBM 1401, A User's Manual

Album UK 2006 on 4AD label
Electronic and Classical (Modern Classical)

Comes in a four-panel digipak with a liner notes paper sticked inside. The orchestra was recorded at Barrandov Studios, Smecky Soundstage in Prague in September 2005. Additional recordings were made in Reykjavik, Skálholt, Florence, Madrid, Zurich, Piran and Rennes during the period 2003-2006. Mixed in Syrland, Reykjavik in February 2006. Mastered in Abbey Road. Tracks two and three feature the voice of "an unknown instructor from an IBM 1401 Data Processing System maintenance instruction tape found in my father’s attic." All electronic sounds were derived from the IBM 1401 Data Processing System and the Hammond B3 organ with Ring Modulator, Distortion and Filter pedals. The music and sounds of the IBM 1401 Data Processing System were recorded by Jóhann Gunnarsson, Örn Kaldalóns and Elías Davídsson in Reykjavik in 1971. The musical fragment played by the computer is from the hymn "Ísland Ögrum Skorid" by Sigvaldi Kaldalóns, used by kind permission. (P) 2006 4AD Ltd (C) 2006 4AD Ltd Manufactured in the UK

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	Jóhann Jóhannsson p, org, key, 1969-2018 IS orchestrated by, piano, celesta, bells, organ, hammond b3, written by, arranged by, producer, album by, voice
	Mario Klemens , *1936 CZ conductor
	James Fitzpatrick , US contractor, orchestra
	The City Of Prague Philharmonic , orchestra
	Arnar Bjarnason orchestrated by
	Elías Davídsson recorded by, ibm 1401 data processing system
	Jóhann Gunnarsson , recorded by, ibm 1401 data processing system
	Örn Kaldalóns recorded by, ibm 1401 data processing system
	Sigvaldi Kaldalóns , written by, musical fragment played by the computer from the hymn "island ogrum skorid"
	Erna Ómarsdóttir alp, voice
	Dorothy Parker , 1893-1967 US lyrics by, text based on a poem by

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