Fordlandia is the sixth full-length studio album by Icelandic musician Jóhann Jóhannsson.
The album is thematically influenced by the failure of Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plant Fordlândia.
[3] On his official website, Jóhannsson explained the album's relation to the Henry Ford-owned location: One of the two main threads running through it is this idea of failed utopia, as represented by the "Fordlândia" title – the story of the rubber plantation Henry Ford established in the Amazon in 1920s, and his dreams of creating an idealized American town in the middle of the jungle complete with white picket fences, hamburgers and alcohol prohibition.
The project – started because of the high price Ford had to pay for the rubber necessary for his cars' tyres – failed, of course, as the indigenous workers soon rioted against the alien conditions.
Too much time and money were spent on recreating a beautiful, American town than working out how to successfully grow rubber in the Amazon, including building a 150-foot water tower (despite being in the middle of a rainforest).