Dropsonde [Reissue with bonus album]

by Biosphere

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Mamaxabras This album is composed of an excellent mixture of the usual drone ambiance and uplift jazz loops making for superb tracks. It is almost as if each track tell a story in an "audio-film" fashion. Favorite track: Lost Horizon.

Matty C. A great summer album to accompany Cirque's winter. Rain instead of Snow. Favorite track: In Triple Time.

davechappeurs This feels musically connected to Cirque in a lot of ways; probably the use of jazz percussion on a number of tracks. Like all great Biosphere records, there's humanity under the samples, drones and loops. Favorite track: Lost Horizon.

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1.	Dissolving Clouds 04:28	buy track
2.	Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings 06:35	buy track
3.	Warmed By The Drift 06:50	buy track
4.	In Triple Time 05:50	buy track
5.	From A Solid To A Liquid 05:19	buy track
6.	Arafura 05:04	buy track
7.	Fall In Fall Out 07:10	buy track
8.	Daphnis 26 06:45	buy track
9.	Altostratus 05:11	buy track
10.	Sherbrooke 05:55	buy track
11.	People Are Friends 10:39	buy track
12.	In The Shape Of A Flute 06:17	buy track
13.	Fair Winds For Escort 05:31	buy track
14.	Windscale Piles 05:29	buy track
15.	Insolate 05:34	buy track
16.	La Caldera 06:30	buy track
17.	Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings v2 06:40	buy track
18.	Warmed By The Drift v2 06:33	buy track
19.	Lost Horizon 06:40	buy track

about

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.]

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released June 5, 2020

All tracks written and produced by Geir Jenssen.

1-12 Mastered by Denis Blackham.
13-19 Mastered by Geir Jenssen.

Vinyl mastered by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering.

Artwork and photography by Geir Jenssen.
Design by Joanna John.

Published by SM Publishing Scandinavia AB.

Biophon Records 2020
Cat. no. BIO33 / BIO33CD / BIO33LP

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