There are a number of different gaming web sites that are currently active. However, a lot of these will compromise your computer in varied ways. There are a few good sites out there, and it is these sites that should be bookmarked. Say that you want to play plants vs zombies; there are a whole [...]
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 [...]
N de Nuclear, uma visão pós-Fukushima curiosamente pensada pré-Fukushima por um nome nuclear na música contemporânea. Geir Jenssen é um homem curioso. Para quem o vê, é curioso pela atracção que tem pela solidão e zonas áridas de gente, carácter reclusivo inerente à sua alma de norueguês, talvez. Para quem o ouve, isso não é razão de queixa, Geir é reponsável por um conjunto de obras marcantes na música electrónica na sua vertente mais ambiental, obras-primas como Substrata , que perduram e perdurarão para sempre neste planeta, de ouvidos humanos em ouvidos humanos e [...]
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 [...]
The Sinister Turns are led by their beautiful voiced bassist, Sophie Besl, and make piano-driven indie pop/rock. Their tunes are thoughtful and moody, but never melancholy, and have a subtle emotional intensity. And they're strong by nearly any category of pop songwriting: lyrically, melodically and structurally interesting, without becoming burdened by their artistic efforts. Many of the songs riff heavily on Ben Folds—with coursing, robust piano lines underlining highly articulate and heartfelt lyrics—but the likeness never becomes a detriment. The most striking thing about The Sinister Turns is how little affectation [...]
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 [...]
Plants Plants are a mix of electronic soundscapes and synth pop vocals that are getting quite a few people excited. Produced by Jas Shaw, one half of Simian Mobile Disco, they are friends Stuart Francis and Howard Whatley. They've been together just a year or so honing their sound and have just put out a self-titled four track EP. To start, the whole EP, except the percussion-less 'Dandelion', is filled with some of the smoothest beats and warmest synth work I've heard this year. It needs to be though as it's a downtempo ride - in the [...]
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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As a rule, I'm firmly on the side of bands who ride roughshod over 'cool', and all of the associated horrors that accompany such a label. One of the primary dangers of being cool - or worse, aiming to be cool - is that your posturing ages with a rapidity that spins the mind. Plants Plants seem to have found a wry median point to occupy: their music is part polyrhythmic laptop-jitter and part synth-heavy, spoken-word epic pop. In combining these two disparate elements - the nowness of the former and the faintly [...]
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So, it turns out having the government on your side re: people pirating material has been working out for the RIAA: Thanks to new legislation in California, the RIAA, and federal investigators, no longer need warrants to seize pressing plants that are making copyrighted material. That's right, the laws of the U.S. don't mean anything if the RIAA thinks you're making unlawful copies of Fast Five. I guess we should be trying to stop illegal pressing plants, but if we can't shutdown corrupt bakers on Wall Street because they can legally wrangle their way out of it, then [...]
I know it is very late for me, but I have all sorts of reasons. Last night I went to bed quite late, or early depending upon your perspective, and so I slept in until 10. At the CARE Center, an emergency 24-7 animal hospital, there was a plant sale, and I wanted to go. The money from the sale is for the Sampson Fund which helps people who can't afford to pay vet bills and it also pays for the vet bills of abandoned, hurt animals. I filled my trunk with herbs and plants. My next stop was Dunkin' [...]
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MUSIC NEWS - Robert Plant has added an eleven concert North American tour to his current itinerary. The run starts up in San Diego, CA and ends on the East Coast at the Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. The concerts on previous legs of his tour have been some of Plant's most inspired live performances in years. Nearly one year into playing together, the Band of Joy has found a rare sweet spot where composition and improvisation come together to create a firey and soulful brand of rock & roll. These [...]
Music For Your Plants - Tour Peru [ mp3 ] a new tropical jam from a voyage expedition adventure band Music For Your Plants the band is currently situated in a medieval disneyland called Tallinn, Estonia go and check out the rest of their stuff on Bandcamp page
Music For Your Plants - Tour Peru Estonian "voyage expedition adventure band" Music For Your Plants just dropped a new mind-melting track called... (Visit my blog for more!)
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