Biosphere - Live at The Arnolfini, Bristol

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Recorded live at The Arnolfini, Bristol, 27th October 2007 by the doyen of sound recordists, Chris Watson, using 2 x Sony ECM 77s with a Nagra P11 Ares flash card recorder, and from desk to hard drive. The recording was mixed, edited and mastered by Touch stalwart BJNilsen, in Berlin during March 2009.

 

This concert was part of Touch 25 Live, which also featured a performance of Storm [by Chris Watson & BJNilsen]. Biosphere is Norwegian composer and performer Geir Jenssen, and this is his sixth release for Touch. 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. His last album, Dropsonde, wasn't a soundtrack like the interwoven Substrata, nor an episodic journey in the way that Autour de la Lune is. It pushed new directions towards the jazz colors of Miles Davis and Jon Hassell, while re-invigorating the pulse and projection of his signature sound: a hypnotic combination of pleasure and dread. Here Geir Jenssen takes this further, incorporating samples of field recordings by Jony Easterby and trumpet by Anders Karlskås, invoking a sparser, more arresting sound. A landmark release for Biosphere, his first live album, heralding new beginnings without jettisoning the past...

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Finally something new from Geir! Will preorder it tomorrow..

Ace, cheers for the heads up. Pre-ordered !

Yes heard about this yesterday, can't wait to hear what he's doing.

Pre-ordered as soon as I got the Touch newsletter.

so is it a bunch of original material? I'm not familiar with his live sets, anybody know of any bootlegs?

will check it out! thanks

http://www.discogs.com/Biosphere-Wireless-...release/1701275

tracklist from the discogs page

1. Pneuma (2:13)

2. Shenzou (6:22)

3. Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings (6:45)

4. Kobresia (6:37)

5. When I Leave (6:20)

6. Warmed By The Drift (7:23)

7. The Things I Tell You (9:39)

8. Moistened And Dried (3:07)

9. Sherbrooke (6:11)

10. Calais Ferryport (5:39)

11. Pneuma II (1:56)

seems like most of the tracks aren't new, but dunno how much they are changed live. should nonetheless be a nice one. can't wait to get it.

its really good, a long flow of northern ambient (and perfectly recorded & mixed)

  k h o v said:

its really good, a long flow of northern ambient (and perfectly recorded & mixed)

indeed, I received mine a couple of days ago and it's an enjoyable listen.

I like it a lot. But I don't think it's such a new direction or anything hinted at in the press release. Just a good overview of a great artist.