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Geir Jenssen’s concept album “The Way of Time” is a glacial, stark, and minimal ambient work exploring sonic stillness and decay made with vintage synthesizers. Moreover, the 41-minute recording, like Biosphere’s recent albums, rejects melody in favour of tone space and mood. The outcome draws loose inspiration from Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ novel “The Time of Man” about rural life, incorporating snippets of dialogue from the 1951 radio play adaptation featuring Joan Lorring. Biosphere’s signature ambient loops, soothing Arctic synths, unyielding sound pads, and occasional brittle drum machines lie at the core of the six cool, synthetically sounding pieces, where looping tones and field recordings slide over subtle pulses like melting ice echoing in an Arctic void. “The Old Way has Gone” is the stand-out track for me on this cinematic, rather contemplative release. |
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