Last updated: 14. December 2011
AVAILABLE FROM DECEMBER 19TH.
BIOSPHERE: MYSTERIER 7" vinyl only.
[Touch # TS11]
Two tracks originally recorded for Hålogaland Teater, Tromsø, Norway in 2006 and remastered in 2011.
Track listing:
Side A:
Fluvialmorfologi 4:24
Side B:
Feber 5:50
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BIOSPHERE: SUBSTRATA 2xLP
Ltd. edition 1000 copies.
Contains one bonus track: Laika (14:35)
EUR 25 + shipping
BIO5LP, Biophon Records 2011
Re-mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
New artwork by David Coppenhall.
Signed copies available on request.
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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."
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BIOSPHERE: N-PLANTS 2xLP
Ltd. edition 1000 copies.
EUR 25 + shipping
BIO6LP, Biophon Records 2011
Re-mastered by Stefan Betke @ Scape Mastering, Berlin.
Cover image by Yusuke Murakami.
Art direction by Jon Wozencroft.
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| Brian Howe,
Pitchfork: "In early February, Biosphere's Geir Jenssen made an album
inspired by the architecture and potential instability of Japan's
nuclear power plants. A month later, a huge earthquake and tsunami
caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. It's healthy to be
skeptical about such claims to prescience, but dissembling isn't
Jenssen's style: Clearly stated intentions and ideas are a defining
feature of the Norwegian ambient-house producer's decades-long career.
Plus, N-Plants' sleek contours and foreboding atmosphere easily bear
out his theme. Having noted the eerie coincidence, we can dispense with
it and let the best Biosphere album since 1997's definitive Substrata
stand on its own." |
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and receive an exclusive MP3 download of unreleased track "Oma".
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| Boomkat
(UK): Okay so this is weird – in February 2011 Gier Jenssen finished an album that he had dedicated to the Japanese post-war reconstruction and, specifically, their futuristic nuclear program. After surveying photos he became fascinated by the idea that nuclear power plants could be built so close to seas and in earthquake-prone areas, and this slowly became the focus for the record. A few months later, hearing the album is a totally different experience – we are now in the aftermath of one of Japan’s most grave disasters and Jenssen’s findings have an eerie poignancy. The music itself is hardly melancholy, but has a damaged, cold, digital edge which mirrors the clean architectural perfection of these ominous structures, pre-earthquake of course. As Jenssen’s clipped, purposeful rhythms make their way slowly into the synthetic patterns they guide the record and give a very fitting stark Kubrickian sci-fi haze. ‘N-Plants’ almost reminds me of early SND (think ‘Stdio’ or ‘Makesndcassette’) but played at the wrong speed. These are slow, booming passages of sound and carried out with a masterful ear, and the razor sharp precision of a true veteran of the field. Lazy, lackadaisical witch-house this is not, but ‘N-Plants’ certainly shares threads with its purposeful slow-down of dance music tropes. Rather than doing this for a specific trend, Jenssen’s sound rather seems to be rooted in its subject matter; the visions of the future that remain entrenched in the past, and the hopes of our ancestors that simply end up dashed on the rocks of our mistakes. Without the context ‘N-Plants’ is an affecting, engrossing listening experience, and with the added air of melancholy it makes it all the more haunting. Huge recommendation. |
Biosphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12. November 2011
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Biosphere at the Moving Buildings Festival, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 10. november 2011
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Biosphere at Nødutgang Festivalen, Bodø, Norway, 28. October, 2011
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Biosphere at Insomnia, Tromsø, Norway, 20. Octobber 2011.
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Biosphere at TodaysArt, Brussels, 30. September 2011.
Visuals by Egbert Mittelstädt.
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Egbert Mittelstädt | Biosphere
Atelier Nord ANX, Olav Ryes plass 2, Oslo.
28. September, 20:00
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Jon Hassell + Biosphere at Le Festival d’Ile de France, Paris, 24. September 2011.
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Biosphere at the Up To Date Festival, Białystok, Poland, 23. September 2011
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Biosphere at Utsira lighthouse, Norway, Saturday, 10. September 2011.
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Biosphere in Hellissandur, Iceland, 6. August 2011
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Biosphere at Ozora Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2. August 2011
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Biosphere at Storåsfestivalen, Norway, Friday 29. July 2011.
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Biosphere at Nowe Horyzonty Festival, Wrocław, Poland, Wednesday 27. July 2011.
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Biosphere at Sajeta Creative Camp, Tolmin, Sotočje, Slovenia, 23. July 2011
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Seattle's Substrata Festival to Launch This July With Biosphere, Benoît Pioulard, and More.
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Nils Petter Molvær & Biosphere at Verdens Ende, Tjøme, Norway
3. July, 4 A.M.
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Festspillene i Bergen: Sundt Electric
28 May · 18:00 - 22:00
Location: Gesimsen på Sundt, Bergen, Norway
With the DJs Velferd, Bjørn Torske, Mental Overdrive, Annie and Biosphere.
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Biosphere in Paris, 25. March 2011
As a consequence of the earthquake in Japan: Biosphere has been asked to replace Otomo Yoshihide at PRÉSENCES ELECTRONIQUE in Paris next week...
