BIOSPHERE Wireless : Live At The Arnolfini, Bristol

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Format: CD [TONE38CD]
Shipping Weight: 0.09lbs
Label: Touch

2,322円

'The Touch label releases the first solo live album by Norway's Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere. Recorded live at The Arnolfini, Bristol on October 27, 2007 by the doyen of environmental 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 of 2009. This concert was part of Touch 25 Live, which also featured a performance of Storm (by Chris Watson & BJNilsen). This is Biosphere's 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 Karlskas, invoking a sparser, more arresting sound. A landmark release for Biosphere -- his first solo live album -- heralding new beginnings without jettisoning the past.'

Tracklist
1 Pneuma 2:13
Trombone ? Anders Karlskas
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
Trombone ? Anders Karlskas

Credits
Cover ? Jon Wozencroft
Mixed By, Mastered By ? BJNilsen
Recorded By [Additional Field Recordings] ? Jony Easterby
Recorded By [Live At Arnolfini, Bristol 27 October 2007] ? Chris Watson

Notes
Mix of elements from previously released tracks, performed and recorded live as one track, later divided into eleven index points at mastering.
Recorded live at Arnolfini, Bristol, 27th October 2007 by Chris Watson using 2 x Sony ECM 77s with a Nagra P11 Ares flash card recorder, and from desk to hard drive. Mixed and mastered by BJNilsen, Berlin, March 2009.
Thanks to Marie-Anne & Mark. This performance was part of Touch25 Live, which also featured a performance of Storm by Chris Watson & BJNilsen.
? & c Touch 2009
Published by Touch music [MCPS]
MADE IN THE EU
Issued as a standard Digipak.
Track 2 actual title is "Shenzhou", it is incorrectly printed as "Shenzou".