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With their commitment to quality and artistic integrity, they have garnered a loyal fan base who eagerly anticipate each new release from the label.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"substrata","title":"Substrata","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the all-time classic ambient albums. This edition of Substrata is released by Geir Jenssen's own label Biophon Records. It comes as a double gatefold album with the bonus album Man With A Movie Camera. Biosphere is widely regarded as one of the legendary names in ambient \/ electronic music. Residing in Norway, near the Arctic Circle, he has found the focus to slowly and steadily create a self-contained aural universe, made up of reflective and immersive sound sculptures. For almost fifteen years he has released a string of critically acclaimed albums. Substrata, which marked Jenssen's embarkation towards an intensely minimal style, is not only often considered to be Jenssen's best work to date, but is also seen as one of the all time classic ambient albums. David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 1997: \"The best ambient album I've heard in an ice age, an album of terrifying, desolate and all-enveloping beauty\". New artwork by David Coppenhall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biophon","offers":[{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50383837200715,"sku":"1004422","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50434152202571,"sku":"1158027","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fc9e9046-7114-4697-9be0-e52146f2aff7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726277458"},{"product_id":"dropsonde","title":"Dropsonde","description":"\u003cp\u003eDropsonde was originally released by Touch (UK) in 2006. This is a reissue with seven previously unreleased recordings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDropsonde' 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[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. 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His 1997 album \u003cem\u003eSubstrata\u003c\/em\u003e was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album. \u003cem\u003eCirque\u003c\/em\u003e - originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere's first album for the UK label Touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new re-issue comes with a 6-track bonus album and new artwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMojo (UK): Fourth full album from ambient pioneer. Coming to prominence with 1992's \u003cem\u003eMicrogravity\u003c\/em\u003e - which along with the first couple of Aphex\/Polygon Window CDs, defined the genre ambient - Geir Jenssen as Biosphere has made three of the '90s' best albums, culminating with last year's near beatless \u003cem\u003eSubstrata\u003c\/em\u003e. The idea - as it always was thanks to Eno's On Land - is music as environment (reflecting, creating): working from his base in Tromso, Arctic Norway, Jenssen offers a polar, Apollonian exploration of the human psyche. Cirque is a perfectly constructed 47-minute sequence: cold clarity up against real depth of field, synth cycles dissolving into sudden moments of sonic revelation that sound like a waking dream - try the first 20 seconds of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. (And if you think that's pretentious - your loss). Inspired by the story of a young American, Chris McCandless, who walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness and perished, Cirque balances the tightrope between warmth and unease, resolving into a moon melody that leaves you a peace. What a good record! 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After following an Aphexian trajectory with his releases on Apollo, the ambient sublabel of Belgium's R\u0026amp;S; Records, Jenssen veered from the padded sci-fi-inspired techno of Microgravity and Patashnik with 1997's Substrata, a genre-defining exploration of drifting soundscapes. Substrata remains for many the album that perfectly expresses the serenity and intensity of Arctic wildernesses, a landscape Jenssen knows intimately, having spent much of his life in the Norwegian Arctic Circle. In 2000, Jenssen nearly eclipsed the success of Substrata with Cirque, a frequently frosty submerging of excerpted conversations and found environmental sounds that rivals Wolfgang Voigt's Gas project in its rumbling, gauzy beauty. Jenssen again relies on found sound as source material for Shenzhou, but this time, the found sound is old vinyl recordings of the orchestral works of French Impressionist composer and ambient precursor, Claude Debussy. Jenssen lifts fragments of these scratched records in a similar manner as he did for Cirque's \"Black Lamb Grey Falcon\" and \"Iberia Eterea\". The ten tracks (out of the dozen on the album) that follow this model all begin as a barely audible hum, like a small electrical transformer, out of which the dust-dappled loops of Debussy's woodwind, brass, and strings emerge, condense, and fade out into pink noise rustles. Unlike Steve Reich's phase pieces or Brian Eno's Discreet Music, though, Jenssen doesn't set his loops against each other to produce juxtapositions and piquant dissonance; he uses them to describe imagined terrain, at first glance monotonously flat and barren, but on concentration, replete with minute detailing. The overall effect of these pieces is a sense of immensity. The orchestral loops sound distant, abandoned in a vast wilderness, and strenuously battling against Arctic winds. Jenssen sets the listener down in this wilderness as an aloof observer, a witness to the music's futile struggles against entropic forces. The two tracks not derived from Debussy share the same hypnotic aesthetic. The brief interlude \"Bose-Einstein Condension\" is a loop of piano chords lolloping in search of coherence, while \"Gravity Assist\" is a longer voyage into woofer-quaking low-frequency manipulation, bell-like drones, and contrails of subdued noise. I can't help but feel that these tracks fit awkwardly and break up the conceptual flow of the album. This, however, is a minor quibble given the power of this music. Shenzhou is unquestionably a magic vessel, but one that reveals its enchantment only to those who pay close attention.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biophon","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50435429007691,"sku":"1022852","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e42a22dc-d204-426a-b6dc-79e14d19476a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726903408"},{"product_id":"patashnik","title":"Patashnik","description":"\u003cp\u003eBiosphere 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. Patashnik was originally released by R\u0026amp;S Records\/Apollo in 1994. It was number 1 in NME´s Independent Chart in March 1994 and reached number 50 in the UK official album chart. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biophon","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP.","offer_id":50452228276555,"sku":"2000028","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50452228571467,"sku":"2000030","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Substrata_Alternative_Versions_20bf0e44_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727144550"},{"product_id":"shortwave-memories","title":"Shortwave Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIconic Norwegian producer and composer Biosphere follows up his evocative \u003ci\u003eAngel's Flight\u003c\/i\u003e. 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