The Senja Recordings

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janghun dark, and cold, beautiful album. Favorite track: Gilberg.

jw Subtle, gentle, soothing.

Rick von D I've been interested in ambient techno since the early 80's with eno, j-mj, tangerine dream, klaus shulze, robert shröder etc. and when Patashnik came out in '94 I got onto Biosphere and have followed him since. I tend to like the beatless long compositions that gradually evolve and transform. The ones that have this northern, arctic, clean and eerie feel to them. Like submerging into deep cold water crossing the north pole like captain Nemo in Nautilus.

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1.	Skålbrekka 02:44	info	buy track
2.	Strandby 04:17	info	buy track
3.	Bergsbotn I 04:52	info	buy track
4.	Bjorvika 02:02	info	buy track
5.	Berg 08:20	info	buy track
6.	Kyle 01:13	info	buy track
7.	Fjølhøgget 04:50	info	buy track
8.	Stordjupta 03:08	info	buy track
9.	Bergsbotn II 03:50	info	buy track
10.	Bergsbotn III 03:12	info	buy track
11.	Lysbotn 05:28	info	buy track
12.	Straumen 01:00	info	buy track
13.	Steinfjord 01:55	info	buy track
14.	Gilberg 04:29	info	buy track
15.	Alteret 02:54	info	buy track
16.	Geatkejávri 02:47	info	buy track
17.	Hå 08:40	info	buy track

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The Senja Recordings is a collection of various outdoor recordings and studio improvisations recorded on the island of Senja, Arctic Norway, between 2015 and 2018.

Boomkat: "Geir Jenssen yields a most Biosphere of Biosphere recordings with this new album recorded on a Norwegian island within the arctic circle

Leading on from recent years’ ‘Departed Glories’ and ‘Petrified Forest’, the 66 minute long and 17-track wide suite of ‘The Senja Recordings’ arguably amounts to the most significant Biosphere outing of this decade. Taking its title from Norway’s 2nd largest island, where it was conceived, the album features outdoor sounds and improvisations made during Jenssen’s stays between 2015-2018 and finds the artist more porous than ever to distorted, granular textures along with his trademark palette of elemental electronics. It’s essentially the artist getting closer than ever to his surroundings and cutting down the space between there and your ears.

From the sounds of it, one can only imagine Jenssen had a quietly blissful time making this record. There’s the expected darkness for sure, but it always resolves with strong pangs of isolationist melody, cropping up Conet Project-like in ’Strandby’; glowing like a dawn aurora behind a granite cliff in ‘Berg’; or harmonising with the birds and air in ‘Fjølhøgget’ and the Aeolian harp-like tones of his ‘Bergsbotn’ trio, so named after the small village facing out to harsh North Atlantic. factor in the natural yet unearthly sounds picked up by his hydrophone in ’Skålbrekka’, and the gloaming solitude of his sublime closer ‘Hå’, and you have a top class Biosphere album, if you like this sort of thing."

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released June 7, 2019

All tracks written and recorded by Geir Jenssen.
In memory of Knut Fjørtoft (1960-2017).
Thanks to Lea, Azja and Tara.

℗+© 2019 Biophon Records

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