Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance & Visual Art returns to Seattle, Washington from September 26-30th. This year's lineup boasts acts like Carl Craig, Fennesz, Matthew Dear, Actress, John Talabot, Dixon, Dragonette, Kimbra, Juliana Barwick, CFCF, Baths, Emancipator, Monolake, Ariel Pink, Nina Kravitz, Andy Scott, Lusine, Anenon, Houses, Loscil, and Biosphere, among others. The rest of the musical lineup (60 more acts out of 120) will be announced on June 27th, while the full schedule of educational programs, film screenings, after parties, and boat parties will be announced on July 11th. Early-bird general admission passes [...]
We cool? Cool. RULES for uninitiated noobs: I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not [...]
Het is frappant dat de beste albums van de maand februari - afgezien van Jozef van Wissem en Jim Jarmusch - terug grijpen naar het verleden. Om te beginnen twee re-releases van essentiële albums, in twee uiteenlopende genres. Niente van Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (met helden als Ennio Morricone en Egisto Macchi in de gelederen) werd in 1971 opgenomen, maar krijgt nu pas een vinyl release. Het is een fantastisch document die de groep laat horen op top van hun kunnen; ongedwongen freejazz, ingewikkeld en spannend doch ook enorm [...]
Destroyer – "Leave Me Alone (New Order cover) Mojo Magazine is releasing a special album with this month's issue, a covers compilation of New Order's classic Power, Corruption and Lies which features contributions from The Golden Filter, Walls, Fujiya and Miyagi, Biosphere and more (quite the diverse bunch!). But my favorite of this collection—which also includes covers of the B-sides accompanying the album—is Destroyer's tight and propulsive take on "Leave Me Alone". It's an appropriate move for Dan Bejar and co., considering the cornucopia [...]
Biosphere's ninth studio album is a stunning piece of ambient music, both in its own right, and because its theme of potential nuclear calamity in Japan seemed to predict the Fukushima tragedy only a month earlier. Here's one for the creepy file: In February, 2011, Biosphere's Geir Jenssen became concerned that several Japanese nuclear power plants were at risk of being hit by natural disasters, and wrote an album that focused on several facets of these majestic structures, including the human cost of nuclear radiation if such disasters ever came to pass. One month later, the Japanese power plant [...]
Keeping things minimal. This is how Geir Jenssen captivates his listeners. No flashy, explosive percussion; no heavy synths. Just a straight to the point minimalist approach that is eerie, yet intriguing. Jenssen (whose "Novelty Waves" was used for the 1995 campaign of Levi's) and his chilled-out, spaced-out (the guy uses sci-fi samples) ambient ear candy has been present since 1991. Now, Jenssen is back with his latest release, N-Plants . Inspired the Japanese post-war economic miracle, each track on N-Plants is named after a Japanese nuclear plant. Songs such as "Sendai-1," brews a melting pot [...]
I was given the opportunity to review a rather revered figure in the Ambient music community; Geir Jenssen AKA Biosphere. Since 1991 Biosphere has released a number of records, each defining the boundaries of Ambient music, and then going on to break said boundaries. The album i'm reviewing, N Plants, is one of great substance. It pertains to the post-war economical miracle of Japan, and as a writer with Japanese roots, this record spoke to me on multiple levels. Though I did not let this detract from the technical aspects I will be reviewing. This record was inspired by the [...]
I was going to write a long-winded state of the nation blog today. However, my plans were scuppered by my father who had me out with a digital camera taking surreptitious photographs of neighbours' driveways all morning. It seems that while all the neighbours got lovely new driveways when the council fixed the road, ours was made out of sherbet and powdered twig, causing it to crumble away to shite in a couple of months. So instead my state of the nation mega post, I'll share some bite-sized chunks of words and music. Which is all I ever really do, [...]
Geir Jenssen uses science fiction as a source of inspiration for his music behind the recording name Biosphere. But the lines separating fiction from non-fiction are being freakishly blended in his newest release N-Plants. Besides the fact that it sounds like it could be the soundtrack for the Twilight Zone, N-Plants comes close to predicting the future. Produced in early February it was inspired by Japanese nuclear power plants - architecture, design, and location. Questioning, at same time, the potential danger of them, seeing that they were so close to the shores that had been swept by tsunamis in the [...]
Als je mij vraagt naar mijn favoriete albums aller tijden, dan is de kans groot dat je namen als Microgravity , Patashnik of Substrata tegenkomt. Platen die op naam staan van de Noor Geir Jenssen, die vooral onder de artiestennaam Biosphere actief is. Als geen ander wist hij met minimale ambient muziek een eigen geluid te creëren, hoe moeilijk dat ook mag klinken, opererend in het genoemde genre. Dropsonde was – een live album uitgezonderd – zijn laatste wapenfeit, nu meer dan vijf jaar geleden. Hij zal wel weer wat [...]
[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Slowly this Homework is becoming my summer house jam, once it gets going its hard not to dance in your seat. Are you sick of the average sounding vocals of summer time or want a different take on the darker side of that VHS to tape 80s sound? 18 Carat Affair is your go to then. Biosphere is back with another lush album, I keep forgetting how big of an influence he has been on my taste for ambient music [...]
A hopeful refry of LMYE's ultimately unsatisfying earlier attempts (also this ) at 'curatorial' posting: an aide-memoire compilation of 10 mostly new releases ( plus one for luck) that I've yet to hear but want & mean to, by artists I - &, in some cases, we - rate or am interested in hearing - fixed here against the relentless onward rush of time & tasks, preserved for chewing over later ... [...]
Vijf jaar na de veelgeprezen ambientplaat Dropsonde verrast de Noor Geir Jenssen met kraakheldere beats. N-Plant s is uptempo, melodisch en daarmee een wat toegankelijker album dan Dropsonde . De eenzaamheid straalt nog altijd van zijn muziek af, maar wel op een andere manier. Verstilling heeft plaats gemaakt voor een repetitieve, nogal Duitse sound. Hadden beats op het met dromerige klanktapijten gevulde Dropsonde sporadisch een rol op de achtergrond, op N-Plants spelen onvermoeibaar doorpulserende ritmes en synths een hoofdrol. De industriële sfeer roept een vergelijking met To Rococo Rot regelmatig [...]
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When it comes to deep, dreamy ambient electronic music there can be little better than Norwegian producer Biosphere . Albums such as Substrata, Shenhzou and Microgravity are masterpieces of the genre. The music is a rich mix of real work sounds, sci fi samples and string and wind instrumentation that can carry your mind away, floating, drawing you into the soundscape. We have some tunes from his albums for you to check out as well as some freebies. Check out his website for even more goodies! [...]
A year after finishing his second graphic novel Space Cadet , Kid Koala is going to play a series of shows we'll wager are unlike anything 99.9 percent of people have yet experienced. For starters, they're going to take place in a unique venue, an environmental museum called the Biosphere in Kid Koala's hometown of Montreal, Quebec. That's the boring part. The audience will sit in floating "space pods," listening to the shows on headphones. Kid Koala will be armed with seven turntables and a piano, and the music will serve [...]
Ægteparret Keith og Hollie Kenniff har været initiativtagere til en fantastisk kompilering til støtte for ofrene af jordskælvet i Japan med en række af de mest toneangivende og talentfulde navne indenfor ambient/eksperimental/neoklass isk musik. Navne som Hammock, Peter Broderick, Rhian Sheehan, Dustin O'Halloran, Goldmund, Helios, Keith Kenniff, Olafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, Ulrich Schnauss, Balmorhea, Max Richter er alle kunstnere, jeg beundrer for deres kompositoriske evner og sans for melankoli. For kun $20 får du 38 numre, hvoraf de fleste er komponeret eksklusivt til denne udgivelse eller tidligere uudgivet. [...]
I usually try not to lump together similar genres of music together in one post because that usually singles certain listeners out which I don't want to do but on the other hand I dislike posting low level style music among uptempo songs because listeners might not spend the extra time to search for the detail or take in the soft yet intricate sounds that are being offered. I do my best to find the least moody and harsh sounding ones in hopes of finding new fans to the low level genre. Here are a few recent favorites, note the [...]
Télécharger LV – Aural Winter Blanket Tracklist Biosphere – From a solid to a liquid Pole – Taxi Hieronymus – Honeydrops Conjoint – Earprints Oskar Sala – Klangfarben Caprice [V] Burnt Friedman and the New Dub Players – Cassock Attack Klaus Roeder (LV mix) – Kristalisation 9 Sigha – Prayer Asusu – Taurean Untold – Yukon (FMF remix) Flying Lotus – Auntie's Lock/Infinitum Zomby – Digital Flora FaltyDL – [...]
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