A remastered version of Biosphere´s debut album Microgravity on triple vinyl and double CD with a bonus album of unreleased tracks.

released April 23, 2015

BIO3D, Biophon Records 2015.

All tracks written and produced by Geir Jenssen.
All tracks on CD2 are previously unreleased.
Recorded in Skippergata 42, Tromsø, Norway between 1990 and 1991.
Mastered by Stefan Betke.
Artwork by Philip Marshall.

The music is based on Claude Monteverdi´s opera of the same name.
L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) is an Italian baroque opera first performed in Venice during the 1642–43 carnival season. The music, attributed to Claudio Monteverdi, is a setting of a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. One of the first operas to use historical events and people rather than classical mythology, it adapts incidents from the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and others to recount how Poppea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nerone (Nero), is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress. The opera was revived in Naples in 1651, but was then neglected until the rediscovery of the score in 1888, after which it became the subject of scholarly attention in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the 1960s, the opera has been performed and recorded many times. (Wikipedia).

released June 16, 2012

Commissioned by Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt.
Produced by Geir Jenssen.
Mixed by Chevalier de Ballibari.
Painting: 16th century, unknown painter of the Fontainebleu School.

Thanks to Ingun Bjørnsgaard, Thomas Björk, Kirre Arneberg, Lone Torvik, Erik Rulin, Mattias Ekholm, Ida Wigdel, and Aleksandra Sende.
Special thanks to Akira Rabelais for his Argeïphontes Lyre software.

The Petrified Forest mini-album is inspired by the movie of the same name, released in 1936 and directed by Archie Mayo. Alan Squier, a failed, world-weary British writer, hikes into an isolated, weather-beaten desert diner in Arizona owned by Jason Marple. Jason's daughter, Gabrielle is immediately taken with the disillusioned intellectual, since they share idealistic dreams of escaping the stark reality of their lives. (IMDB)

released May 12, 2017

All tracks written and produced by Geir Jenssen
Mastered by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering.
Designed by Joanna John

The Senja Recordings is a collection of various outdoor recordings and studio improvisations recorded on the island of Senja, Arctic Norway, between 2015 and 2018.

Boomkat: "Geir Jenssen yields a most Biosphere of Biosphere recordings with this new album recorded on a Norwegian island within the arctic circle

Leading on from recent years’ ‘Departed Glories’ and ‘Petrified Forest’, the 66 minute long and 17-track wide suite of ‘The Senja Recordings’ arguably amounts to the most significant Biosphere outing of this decade. Taking its title from Norway’s 2nd largest island, where it was conceived, the album features outdoor sounds and improvisations made during Jenssen’s stays between 2015-2018 and finds the artist more porous than ever to distorted, granular textures along with his trademark palette of elemental electronics. It’s essentially the artist getting closer than ever to his surroundings and cutting down the space between there and your ears.

From the sounds of it, one can only imagine Jenssen had a quietly blissful time making this record. There’s the expected darkness for sure, but it always resolves with strong pangs of isolationist melody, cropping up Conet Project-like in ’Strandby’; glowing like a dawn aurora behind a granite cliff in ‘Berg’; or harmonising with the birds and air in ‘Fjolhogget’ and the Aeolian harp-like tones of his ‘Bergsbotn’ trio, so named after the small village facing out to harsh North Atlantic. factor in the natural yet unearthly sounds picked up by his hydrophone in ’Skalbrekka’, and the gloaming solitude of his sublime closer ‘Ha’, and you have a top class Biosphere album, if you like this sort of thing."
credits
released June 7, 2019

All tracks written and recorded by Geir Jenssen.
In memory of Knut Fjortoft (1960-2017).
Thanks to Lea, Azja and Tara.

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