Geir Jenssen ‎– Cho Oyu 8201m Field Recordings From Tibet

Geir Jenssen ‎– Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings From Tibet
Label:
Ash International ‎– Ash 7.1
Format:
CD, digital, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
20 Nov 2006
Genre:
Electronic, Non-Music
Style:
Field Recording, Experimental

Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings From Tibet is an ambient album released by the artist Biosphere under his real name Geir Jenssen. Recorded in 2001, it was released in 2006.

Geir Jenssen is an active climber and mountaineer, a hobby which is an inspiration on his work as well as a source of natural sound samples. His highest feat was in September–October 2001 when he climbed the Cho Oyu (Himalaya, 8201 meters) without supplementary oxygen. Exactly five years later in October 2006, he released this album of field recordings made during the trip, as a "sources" companion of sorts to his album Dropsonde released in vinyl one year earlier, and which used some of those field recordings as raw material.

Read the full travel report including pictures here: http://www.biosphere.no/cho_oyu/cho_o...

The album includes the 12 page booklet "Only Krishna and I: With Adventure Peaks to Cho Oyu", a diary of Jenssen's climb.
credits
released November 20, 2006

p and c with a circle Ash International 2006.
Photography by Geir Jenssen.
Design by Jon Wozencroft.
Mastered at Skye.

Track 9 is a shortwave recording of "Blåne etter blåne", the theme tune of Radio Norway International. The title of track 9 is the English translation of the original title.

Equipment used:
Sony MZ-R30 minidisc recorder
Sony ECM-S959C microphone
Sony ICF-SW10 world band receiver
license

Tracklist

1 Zhangmu – Crossing A Landslide Area
2 Tingri – The Last Truck
3 Jobo Rabzang – A 6666 Metre Peak In The Cho Oyu Himal
4 Chinese Basecamp – Near A Stone Shelter
5 Palung – A Yak Caravan Is Coming
6 Cho Oyu Basecamp – Morning
7 Nangpa La – Birds Feeding On Biscuits
8 Camp 1 – Himalayan Nightflight
9 Camp 1.5 – Mountain Upon Mountain Written-By – Eivind Groven
10 Camp 2 – World Music On The Radio
11 Camp 3 – Neighbours On Oxygen
12 Summit – Only Slight Breeze On The Summit At 8201m

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