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01. BIOSPHERE - Nook & Cranny
02. BIOSPHERE - Le Grand Dôme
03. BIOSPHERE - Grandiflora
04. BIOSPHERE - Black Lamb & Grey Falcon
05. BIOSPHERE - Miniature Rock Dwellers
06. BIOSPHERE - When I Leave
07. BIOSPHERE - Iberia Eterea
08. BIOSPHERE - Moistened & Dried
09. BIOSPHERE - Algae & Fungi (Part 1)
10. BIOSPHERE - Algae & Fungi (Part 2)
11. BIOSPHERE - Too Fragile To Walk On
12. BIOSPHERE - When I Leave (Finely Tuned Version)
13. BIOSPHERE - Algae & Fungi (Candelaria Version)
14. BIOSPHERE - Minuarta
15. BIOSPHERE - Hoodoo
16. BIOSPHERE - Slowly Etching
17. BIOSPHERE - B9
ARTIST
TITLE
Cirque
FORMAT
3LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BIO 026LP BIO 026LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
1/27/2017

Triple LP version. Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen - a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalog of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his works on ambient techno and arctic-themed pieces, his use of music loops, and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His 1997 album Substrata (TO 050CD/BIO 005LP) was voted by the users of the Hyperreal website in 2001 as the best all-time classic ambient album. Cirque - originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere's first album for the UK label Touch. This reissue comes with six bonus tracks and new artwork.

Jon Savage in Mojo (UK): "Fourth full album from ambient pioneer. Coming to prominence with 1992's Microgravity (BIO 003CD/LP) - which along with the first couple of Aphex/Polygon Window CDs, defined the genre ambient - Geir Jenssen as Biosphere has made three of the '90s best albums, culminating with last year's near beat-less Substrata. The idea - as it always was thanks to Eno's On Land (1982) - is music as environment (reflecting, creating): working from his base in Tromso, Arctic Norway, Jenssen offers a polar, Apollonian exploration of the human psyche. Cirque is a perfectly constructed 47-minute sequence: cold clarity up against real depth of field, synth cycles dissolving into sudden moments of sonic revelation that sound like a waking dream - try the first 20 seconds of 'Black Lamb & Grey Falcon'. (And if you think that's pretentious - your loss). Inspired by the story of a young American, Chris McCandless, who walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness and perished, Cirque balances the tightrope between warmth and unease, resolving into a moon melody that leaves you a peace. What a good record!."