Published
Tue, Dec 5, 2017, 19:07
- The triple-LP remaster also includes a bonus collaborative album, The Samphire Tower, produced with Jony Easterby for a 2005 sound installation.
Biosphere's 2002 album Shenzhou will come out on vinyl for the first time this week via his own Biophone Records label.
The remastered triple-LP release also includes a nine-track bonus album, called The Samphire Tower, that was originally commissioned as a 2005 sound installation for a coastline tower in Dover. Biosphere, real name Geir Jenssen, produced the music in collaboration with the tower's designer, Jony Easterby, using field recordings supplemented by electronics.
Jenssen, the prolific Norwegian artist known for ambient music as well as early techno experiments, wrote Shenzhou over a decade into his career, and saw it first issued via Touch. He composed its minimal, loop-based tracks using short samples of classical music, primarily Claude Debussy's orchestral works.
Shenzhou's vinyl pressing follows the release of Jenssen's synth-focused album from this year, The Petrified Forest, and last year's Departed Glories LP.
Listen to The Samphire Tower's "Griz Nez Windy."
Tracklist
Shenzhou
01. Shenzhou
02. Spindrift
03. Heat Leak
04. Ancient Campfire
05. Houses On The Hill
06. Two Ocean Plateau
07. Thermal Motion
08. Path Leading To The High Grass
09. Fast Atoms Escape
10. Green Reflections
11. Bose-Einstein Condensation
12. Gravity Assist
The Samphire Tower
01. Griz Nez Windy
02. Dover Ferryport
03. Kent Country Train
04. Lorry Shuttle Shaft
05. Sea Cat
06. Shuttle Hiss Tunnel
07. Calais Ferryport
08. Shuttle
09. The White Cliffs Of Dover
Biophon Records will release Shenzhou and The Samphire Tower on December 8th, 2017.