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Dropsonde (album)

Dropsonde (album)

See dropsonde for the weather reconnaissance device

Dropsonde
Studio album by Biosphere
Released January 30, 2006 (CD)
Genre Ambient
Length 69:52 (CD)
Label Touch
Biosphere chronology
Autour de la Lune
(2004)		 Dropsonde
(2006)		 Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars [1]

Dropsonde is an ambient album by musician Biosphere (alias Geir Jenssen). Unlike his previous output, there is a notable jazz influence present on this album.

Contents

Overview

The title refers to a dropsonde, a device designed to be dropped at altitude by parachute to collect data as the device falls to the ground (on Earth or sent to another planet.)

A Dropsonde sampler was pre-released on vinyl as a mini album on September 27, 2005, and the full album released on compact disc in January 2006 (though the track "In the Shape of a Flute" remained exclusive to the vinyl sampler).

Unlike Jenssen's previous output, there is a notable jazz influence present on this album (such as on the tracks "Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings" and "In Triple Time"), evocative of Miles Davis's 1970s jazz fusion works.[2] Some tracks also integrates material Jenssen recorded in late 2001 during his climbing of the 8201 meters mount Cho Oyu in Himalaya. (The raw material itself was released some months later as Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet.)[3][4]

Track listing

LP pre-release

Side A

  1. "Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings" - 6:24
  2. "Fall In, Fall Out" - 7:13
  3. "Daphnis 26" - 6:44

Side B

  1. "Altostratus" - 5:11
  2. "Sherbrooke" - 5:41
  3. "In the Shape of a Flute" - 6:17

CD release

  1. "Dissolving Clouds" – 4:28
  2. "Birds Fly by Flapping Their Wings" – 6:35
  3. "Warmed by the Drift" – 6:50
  4. "In Triple Time" – 5:50
  5. "From a Solid to a Liquid" – 5:19
  6. "Arafura" – 5:10
  7. "Fall In, Fall Out" – 7:10
  8. "Daphnis 26" – 6:45
  9. "Altostratus" – 5:11
  10. "Sherbrooke" – 5:55
  11. "People Are Friends" – 10:39

Credits

All tracks written and performed by Geir Jenssen. Photography by Jon Wozencroft. Mastered by Denis Blackham.[5]

References

  • Dropsonde CD notes, Touch Music, TO:66CD

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r821485
  2. ^ Cf. the Allmusic review.
  3. ^ CD notes: "Birds on "Birds Fly..." recorded in Cho Oyu Base Camp (5700), Tibet, Oct. 2001."
  4. ^ Sources at the Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet article.
  5. ^ CD notes
v · Biosphere
Albums as E-man
Likvider (1984)
Albums as Bleep
Albums as Biosphere
Microgravity (1991)  · Patashnik (1994)  · Substrata (1997)  · Cirque (2000)  · Substrata² (2001)  · Shenzhou (2002)  · Autour de la Lune (2004)  · Dropsonde (2006)  · Wireless: Live at the Arnolfini, Bristol (2009)  · N-Plants (2011)
Soundtracks and sounds
Eternal Stars (1993)  · Insomnia (1997)  · Man with a Movie Camera (2001)  · Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet (as Geir Jenssen, 2006)

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