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Inland Delta

Biophon Records

Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen, a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his works on ambient techno and arctic themed pieces, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His 1997 album Substrata was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album.

Inland Delta contains nine new musical pieces recorded from 2022 to 2023, featuring mainly improvised performances on newly restored vintage keyboards.

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Barry says: You know you're in for a treat when Jenssen is at the controls, and 'Inland' once again shows that this musician is at the forefront of atmospheric ambient music, soaring between dub, modern classical and electronica with ease. Perfect.

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1. Surface Tension
2. Delta Function
3. Franklin´s Dream
4. Wolfgang´s Wave
5. Brownian Motion
6. Random Walk
7. The String Thing
8. Florian´s Flute
9. Jane´s Lament

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Substrata (Alternative Versions)

Biophon Records

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BIO37LP

Release date
21 Oct '22

Substrata was the third studio album by the Norwegian electronic artist Biosphere, released 25 years ago by All Saints Records in London.
In 2016, Pitchfork ranked it at number 38 on its list of the 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time.
Here are ten alternative versions picked from the Substrata recordings sessions that took place between 1995 and 1996.

David Stubbs´review of the original album in Melody Maker ,July 12th 1997.

Biosphere, aka Norwegian Geir Jenssen, is transmitting from a cold, polar outpost of the imagination. "Substrata"
is the best ambient album I've heard in an ice age, an album of terrifying, desolate and all-enveloping beauty, the
music of a man who's stared too long and too hard at the Northern lights, a music of distant rumbles, tremors
underfoot, stray radio signals, yawning chasms and indistinct, grainy images in the half-light when the mind begins to play tricks. "Poa Alpina" reminds me of recent, frightening TV footage of vast chunks of iceberg cracking and falling away into the sea under the duress of global warming. As for "The Things I Tell You", imagine what Oasis would have sounded like had they been born Eskimos. "Sphere Of No Form" is shot through with a frantic peal like the Mayday song of the world's last whale and, best of all, "Kobresia" looms with a vast, mournful, symphonic motif, like the ghost of the Titanic. Chill out has never been this chilling.

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1. Poa Alpina (Allternative Version)
2. Chukhung (Alternative Version)
3. The Things I Tell You (Alternative Version)
4. Times When I Know You´ll Be Sad (Alternative Version)
5. Hyperborea (Alternative Version)
6. Kobresia (Alternative Version)
7. Antennaria (Alternative Version)
8. Uva-Ursi (Alternative Version)
9. Sphere Of No-Form (Alternative Version)
10. Silene (Alternative Version)

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Biosphere

Shortwave Memories

Biophon Records

Iconic Norwegian producer and composer Biosphere follows up his evocative 'Angel's Flight' release with a new album set for release early in 2022. Shortwave Memories is an album inspired by the post-punk electronic music of the late 70's and early 80's, especially the productions of figures like Martin Hannett and Daniel Miller.

"The last few Biosphere albums have all been made using samples and software, but Shortwave Memories is a return to vintage analog hardware from the late 70s and early 80s. Most of these instruments do not have any presets or memory storage, so all the sounds were programmed from scratch. The idea was not so much to make music that sounds like it was written in the same period. It's more like what would happen if I had the chance to use the same instruments, and applied the same meticulous attention to detail as the producers mentioned above."

Presented as a continuous sonic journey, this stunning record unequivocally manifests a world of it's own and already feels like a timeless addition to the rest of the Biosphere catalogue.

TRACK LISTING

1. Tanß
2. Interval Signal
3. Night Shift
4. Formanta
5. Shortwave Memories
6. Infinium
7. Shruthi-12
8. Transfigured Express

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Dropsonde

Biophon Records

Dropsonde was originally released by Touch (UK) in 2006. This is a reissue with seven previously unreleased recordings.

Widely regarded as one of Norwegian electronic music's most important artists, Biosphere's [Geir Jenssen] career spans nearly two decades, several albums, lots of remixes, various sound installations, commissions, soundtracks and even the odd Himalayan summit.

You may recognise his work without knowing it, so frequently does it crop up on TV trailers and idents. In the early 1990s he was a pioneer of so-called 'Ambient Techno', but since then, he has refined his sound into something more magnetic and enduring.

Dropsonde' isn't a soundtrack like the interwoven 'Substrata' nor an episodic journey in the way that 'Autour de la Lune' is. Here Geir Jenssen is pushing new directions towards the jazz colours of Miles Davis and Jon Hassell, whilst re-invigorating the pulse and projection of his signature sound: a hypnotic combination of pleasure and dread.

The spatial aspects some have dubbed "Arctic sound" but it summons strong feelings, or as Exclaim from Canada put it, "in order to climb higher, you must first go deeper". Jon Savage adds: "As with all of the Biosphere albums, the music draws you in and makes you want to listen and feel. Jenssen's work acts on a very emotional level, one that encourages you to drift away into a haze of images and scenes brought to you by the music, where spectacular beauty hides unseen danger. Intense and moving, but comforting and soothing at the same time."

A 'dropsonde' is a weather reconnaissance device designed to be dropped from an airplane or similar craft at altitude to take telemetry as it falls to the ground. It typically relays information to a computer in the dropping airplane by radio. The fall may be slowed by a parachute. Information collected by a typical dropsonde may include wind speed, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.

TRACK LISTING

1 Dissolving Clouds
2 Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings
3 Warmed By The Drift
4 In Triple Time
5 From A Solid To A Liquid
6 Arafura
7 Fall In Fall Out
8 Daphnis 26
9 Altostratus
10 Sherbrooke
11 People Are Friends
12 In The Shape Of A Flute
13 Fair Winds For Escort
14 Windscale Piles
15 Insolate
16 La Caldera
17 Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings (v2)
18 Warmed By The Drift (v2)
19 Lost Horizon

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