#bioshere

Chamber music says Pitchfork. Reflecting a psychological trauma, says the label Smalltown Supersound about Biosphere, AKA Geir Jenssen, and his new album Departed Glories, released 23rd of september. 

Many times before Biosphere has made use of samples taken from popular culture in Russia and Eastern Europe. No exception this time but he now uses more of folk music recordings from the eastern hemisphere.

Biosphere is probably the most famous ambient musician, being true to the genre for more than 20 years. 

Aside from this album 2016 Geir Jenssen has also put out a new EP and reissue his second album, Patashnik, via his own label Biophon.

Update: The new album was available via Youtube, but now its gone. Support Biosphere and buy the album via Bandcamp. 

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. Tao Te Ching v76 Soft and Yielding   Christ Consciousness and Humanity We are still…

DIY biosphere AKA ecosphere

I fell in love with the idea of enclosed ecosystems when I went on vacation and saw one in a gift shop. The idea is that this miniature system will be able to feed itself with very little intervention from the outside. The plant and marimo will take the CO2 and waste from the inhabitant and filter it while producing oxygen. The inhabitants will eat the waste matter and algae from the plant while…