03 Biosphere - Warmed By the Drift [Touch]

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Album: Dropsonde [ALBUM]
Track: 3 of 11
Title: Warmed By the Drift
Artist: Biosphere
Label: Touch
Cat#: TO66CD
Formats: CD
Digital Release: 30th January 2006
Physical Release: 30th January 2006

About This Release:

Biosphere is Norwegian composer and performer Geir Jenssen... You may recognise his work without knowing it, so frequently does it crop up on TV trailers and idents. In the early 1990s he was a pioneer of
so-called 'Ambient Techno', but since then, he has refined his sound into something more magnetic and enduring.

Dropsonde' isn't a soundtrack like the interwoven 'Substrata' nor an episodic journey in the way that 'Autour de la Lune' is. Here Geir Jenssen is pushing new directions towards the jazz colours of Miles Davis and Jon Hassell, whilst re-invigorating the pulse and projection of his signature sound: a hypnotic combination of pleasure and dread.

The spatial aspects some have dubbed 'Arctic sound' but it summons strong feelings, or as Exclaim from Canada put it, 'in order to climb higher, you must first go deeper'. Jon Savage adds: 'As with all of the Biosphere albums, the music draws you in and makes you want to listen and feel. Jenssen's work acts on a very emotional level, one that encourages you to drift away into a haze of images and scenes brought
to you by the music, where spectacular beauty hides unseen danger. Intense and moving, but comforting and soothing at the same time.'

[A 'dropsonde' is a weather reconnaissance device designed to be dropped from an airplane or similar craft at altitude to take telemetry as it falls to the ground. It typically relays information to a computer in the dropping airplane by radio. The fall may be slowed by a parachute. Information collected by a typical dropsonde may include wind speed, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.]

This is Biosphere's 5th release for Touch, after 'Cirque' [Touch # TO:46, 2000], 'Substrata 2' [Touch # TO:50, 2002], 'Shenzhou' [Touch # TO:55], and 'Autour de la Lune' [Touch # TO:62, 2004]. He has also
contributed to various Touch compilations, including 'Spire - Organ Music, Past, Present & Future' [Touch # Tone 20, 2004), and more recently to the Storr walk on Skye, Scotland, a guided tour through
stunning landscape accompanied by illuminations and sound recordings.'

Reviews for This Release:

"One of the most organic sounding electronic albums to emerge so far this year" - The Milk Factory

"Jenssen's most accomplished record to date" - The Wire

"One of the "electronica albums of the year"" - the wire

"Everything just floats out of you, anger-tension-worry-energy, and you are left to bob up and down with the slow ebb and flow of his sonic waves. Trance has never been so interesting and peaceful."

"Warm, envoloping and comforting" - Rock Sound

"Tremendous ****" - Touching Extremes (Italy)

"Sorf, expansive ambient tones and occasionally menacing and otherworldly feel" - Earplug (USA)

"Like listening to radio waves from space" - IDJ

"?the most talented musician around able to create such beautiful and intense music out of arid sources *****" - The Milk Factory (Norway)

"Like observing a collection of pure crystals surrounded by a light fog or recollecting childhood memories" - Touching Extremes