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“Flight from the City” is the opening track from Orphée, the tenth and final solo album by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969-2018) *Jóhannsson is perhaps best-known for his last few years in the music industry, as a film score composer. His scores for both The Theory of Everything (2014), and Sicario (2015) were nominated and won prestigious awards. As well as his highly acclaimed film scores, Jóhannsson’s discography is full of incredible music, that is both experimental, yet accessible for all. It came as a welcome surprise, that after focusing on film scores for so long, that Jóhannsson returned to composing his own solo music again. Released in September 2016, Orphée takes inspiration from the various tales of the Greek prophet, Orpheus. The album deals with musings on changes in the world, destruction and creation, and the motion of life. Jóhannsson explains further: “Orphée is, for me, about changes: about moving to a new city, leaving be
