Biosphere - Inland Delta (BIO39LP)

BIO39LP,2xLP. Limited information for now.

Out on Nov. 24th. 2023

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From Rough Trade: Inland Delta contains nine new musical pieces recorded from 2022 to 2023, featuring mainly improvised performances on newly restored vintage keyboards.

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Pre-order's now up on bandcamp.

That sounds very good.

i will listen to this shit

Not too heavily into this on first listen. Let's wait and see what the rest of the album sounds like. Biosphere is always hit or miss for me even though I know he's very good at what he does, but that could maybe also be because I have to be in a very specific mood to muster up the will to listen to ambient music.

wish he'd go back to making sick tracks like this

  On 11/9/2023 at 12:49 PM, kichiguy said:

Pre-order's now up on bandcamp.

 

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excellent ambient destroyed by a bitter and boring piano

  On 11/9/2023 at 2:10 PM, blantchot1 said:

excellent ambient destroyed by a bitter and boring piano

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Conversely I thought the piano absolutely enriched the ambient drones. Reminded me of the Fennesz/Sakamoto collabs

Some of those piano motifs were pretty familiar, maybe reminiscent of Kobresia?! 

60 second previews. I like the piano piece linked already but I'm not sold at all on the rest - well, at least from these previews.

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/biosphere-inland-delta-vinyl/981733-01/

Out yesterday. Three listens, and I hate to say it, but a slight disappointment. On the positive side, it made me want to listen to old Biosphere records.

Fav track: Delta Funktion.

There are some nice bits, but the description of it being some improvs on old keyboards is very, very apt. Any of these tracks would be fine on an album, but as a whole album it's very lacking.

That said, I appreciate Geir's thing of each album taking a different approach, some being denser and more composed, some being stripped back and spontaneous. He remains interesting. But I doubt I'll be buying this particular one.

I'm quite liking it in places but yeah it's a bit of a step down from Shortwave Memories. The tracks are pretty variable and there's a couple of flat out duffers in there, cut it down a bit and it's a pretty good EP I guess.

Yep this sounds like a bunch of improvised synth noodles. Not his best work (IMO).

This an OPN's new album have been two of the biggest disappointments this year. They're not bad but they both have a lot of jumbled ideas that do not work very well, IMO.

  On 11/29/2023 at 5:29 PM, fumi said:

This an OPN's new album have been two of the biggest disappointments this year. They're not bad but they both have a lot of jumbled ideas that do not work very well, IMO.

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Unfortunately I have to agree.