New signing to the JOHANN JOHANNSSON is an Icelandic musician composer, producer and an active member of the country's artistic.

This highly anticipated release truly must be heard to be believed! Imagine a cross between HENRYK GORECKI's empathic holocaust masterwork 'Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs' and the work of fellow Icelanders SIGUR ROS, with a little ENO thrown in for good measure and you're somewhere in the vicinity of this amazing sonic experience.

Johann's stately and hauntingly melodic music has been quietly bewitching listeners for some time and his new album, 'IBM 1401, A User's Manual' - his most ambitiously-orchestrated composition to date - is sure to expand his audience still further.

The piece was inspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which Johann's father, Johann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 30 years ago.

For the album version, Johann rewrote the entire score, and it was recorded by a sixty-piece string orchestra. He also added a new final section and incorporated electronics alongside those original tape recordings of the singing computer.