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BIOSPHERE: INSOMNIA
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Urban Sounds, USA:
"Insomnia
was released at roughly the same time as Geir Jenssen's debut
Biosphere recording for
All Saints, Substrata. Because of its label's obscurity (the Norwegian
Origo Sound), however, it hasn't received half the attention. Shame,
since
it's a gorgeous album, in line with Jenssen's recent work with Higher
Intelligence
Agency's Bobby Bird on the collaborative PolarSequences and the more
subdued
of Substrata's glacial movements. As that implies, you won't find quite
the track development here that the best of Jenssen's work is known for
(Insomnia is mostly drones, repeating figures, and occasional sparse,
non-acoustical
percussion). But then take into account that it's a soundtrack
recording
(for the Erik Skjoldbjaerg film of the same name) presented in vignette
form and it should be clear the music is meant to serve a different,
less
diffuse purpose.
Nonetheless, the material
-- split into 17 tracks ranging from 1.5 to 5 minutes, with most
hanging
around the mean -- is uniformly accomplished, and is on the whole an
engaging,
dynamic listen, even without the reference of the film to fill out its
sparse framework. With Substrata and Pulusha's "Isolation," among some
of the best (mostly) pure ambient to appear this year. Rating: 8 "
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