Label: Touch
Catalog#: TO:50
Country: UK
Released: 21 May 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Ambient
Format: FLAC
Size: 199 MB + 251 MB

Credits:
Artwork By [Design] - Jon Wozencroft
Edited By [Digital Editing Assitant] - Alexander Stojanovic (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Featuring - Per Martinsen (tracks: 2-1 to 2-7)
Featuring [Additional Eq], Mastered By [Remastering] - Audun Strype (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Mastered By - Denis Blackham (tracks: 2-1 to 2-9)
Photography - Heitor Alvelos , Jon Wozencroft
Producer, Written-By - Geir Jenssen

Notes:
First disc is remastered version of the original Substrata (ASCD33). Second disc contains Biosphere's soundtrack to Man With A Movie Camera movie, done in collaboration with Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive, and two bonus tracks for the Japanese version of Substrata.

Substrata
1-1 As The Sun Kissed The Horizon (1:47)
1-2 Poa Alpina (4:11)
1-3 Chukhung (7:34)
1-4 The Things I Tell You (6:28)
1-5 Times When I Know You'll Be Sad (3:44)
1-6 Hyperborea (5:45)
1-7 Kobresia (7:12)
1-8 Antennaria (5:04)
1-9 Uva-Ursi (3:01)
1-10 Sphere Of No-Form (5:47)
1-11 Silene (7:53)

Man With A Movie Camera
2-1 Prologue (0:19)
2-2 The Silent Orchestra (7:52)
2-3 City Wakes Up (5:58)
2-4 Freeze-Frames (6:46)
2-5 Manicure (4:43)
2-6 The Club (1:57)
2-7 Ballerina (7:50)
2-8 The Eye Of The Cyclone (7:22)
2-9 Endurium (10:47)

Substrata 2 is not a sequel to Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere's critically acclaimed 1997 CD, but a generously engrossed reissue. Following the success of Cirque, the artist's first album for the highly regarded U.K. label Touch, and coinciding with a string of live dates around England, the company decided to give this classic a complete overhaul. New artwork was produced by Touch artist Jon Wozencroft, the 11 original tracks were remastered, and a second CD was added. Of Substrata itself, little need to be said: The music is clearly into ambient domain, dominated by soft field recordings and lazy guitar lines (think of Loren Mazzacane Connors, Low, or even Godspeed You Black Emperor!). The techno element has been relegated to electronic manipulations and discreet events of glitch. A monologue in Russian appears as a watermark in "Kobresia," bringing Biosphere's music surprisingly close to Tibor Szemzö's. Disc two contains over 50 minutes of music. First is the soundtrack to Man With a Movie Camera, a Russian silent film by Dziga Vertov dating back to 1929. Jenssen was asked to create a soundtrack using the director's instructions for the accompanying piano player. The results are very cinematic -- which is not that easy to accomplish. Eerie atmospheres, dominated by synthesizers this time, are interwoven with snippets of speech. In this project the music paradoxically moves into both more conventional techno domains, with the return of pulse, even constructed linear beats in "City Wakes Up" and "Ballerina," and electro-acoustics verging on musique concrète ("Manicure"). "Freeze-Frames," with its short looped samples acting like a gallery of half-remembered images, provides the highlight. This second disc also contains two bonus tracks from the Substrata sessions, previously available only on the Japanese edition. "The Eye of the Cyclone" and "Endurium" are the most beat-driven music of the whole set, clearly club-oriented (especially in the first case). One easily understands why they were left off the original album.

Each album includes cut .flac; .cue; . m3u; .log

Substrata:
http://rapidshare.com/files/49724402/Bi … .part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/49733447/Bi … .part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/49734624/Bi … .part3.rar

Man With A Movie Camera:
http://rapidshare.com/files/49745695/Bi … .part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/49760199/Bi … .part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/49794096/Bi … .part3.rar

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