Departed Glories

Description

It’s easy to forget that Norway shares a short stretch of frontier with
Russia, right at the northernmost tip of the country. That region is where
Geir Jenssen, the Norwegian electronic producer behind Biosphere, comes from,
and where he has been composing his austere, disturbing and deeply textured
ambience since the early 1980s. Biosphere has released many albums to date
including ‘Substrata’, voted the greatest ambient album of all time on the
Hyperreal website, and has collaborated with Arne Nordheim, Higher
Intelligence Agency, Deathprod, Pete Namlook and Bel Canto. His 12th album
‘Departed Glories’ is his first in almost five years and marks a new deal with
the Oslo independent label Smalltown Supersound. On the cover is a photo of
the Russian landscape taken more than a hundred years ago. It’s part of an
incredible cache of recently discovered images by the photographer Sergei
Prokudin-Gorsky, who pioneered a form of colour photography using three sheets
of glass, and left us with a collection of hauntingly beautiful pictures of a
vanished world that could have been taken on an iPhone.

Features:

Product Details:

• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.53 x 5.04 x 0.31 inches; 2.24 Ounces
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
• Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2016
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 18, 2016
• Label ‏ : ‎ SMALLTOWN SUPERSOUND
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
• Best Sellers Rank: #367,118 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #4,730 in Electronica (CDs & Vinyl) #179,624 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
• #4,730 in Electronica (CDs & Vinyl)