12. Jóhann JóhannssonOrphée
I was on a trip to France when I first heard this record. I was going to Lourdes with my mum, looking for new music to put on, and this record came on.
Before that, I was very much a Jackson Pollock, throw-stuff-at-the-wall composer. Hearing [Jóhansson’s] work, everything felt like it was placed like a delicate flower arrangement; at any moment it could break. That was a big, big draw for me. It was so simple, so beautiful, and so still – some of the best string recordings I’ve listened to. I haven’t put out too much stuff with strings yet, I have a lot of string material that I’ve written that’s going to come out eventually, but that’s the goal in terms of how strings sound. He’s probably the composer I listen to the most.
