Biosphere: Cirque - COMPACT DISCS

Biosphere: Cirque - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Cirque Artist: Biosphere Label: Biophon Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 7090029000207 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2016 11 11 Number of Discs: 2 Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalog 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

Title: Cirque
Artist: Biosphere
Label: Biophon
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 7090029000207
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2016-11-11
Number of Discs: 2

Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen - a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalog 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 (TO 050CD/BIO 005LP) was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album. Cirque - originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere's first album for the UK label Touch. This reissue comes with six bonus tracks and new artwork. Jon Savage in Mojo (UK): "Fourth full album from ambient pioneer. Coming to prominence with 1992's Microgravity (BIO 003CD/LP) - 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 beat-less Substrata. The idea - as it always was thanks to Eno's On Land (1982) - 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 & 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!. "

Tracks:
1.1 Nook ; Cranny
1.2 Le Grand Dôme
1.3 Grandiflora
1.4 Black Lamb ; Grey Falcon
1.5 Miniature Rock Dwellers
1.6 When I Leave
1.7 Iberia Eterea
1.8 Moistened ; Dried
1.9 Algae ; Fungi (Part 1)
1.10 Algae ; Fungi (Part 2)
1.11 Too Fragile to Walk on
2.1 When I Leave (Finely Tuned Version)
2.2 Algae ; Fungi (Candelaria Version)
2.3 Minuarta
2.4 Hoodoo
2.5 Slowly Etching
2.6 B9