Extralife

Good to hear...still need to listen. Too. Much. Music.

Ooooooh!

Out today and sounding glorious. Highly recommended.

Boomkat write up: https://boomkat.com/products/angel-s-flight-e142b0c8-2529-444f-8e68-23803b0468dd Norwegian ambient maestro Geir Jenssen blurs Beethoven into a spectral haze on this disarming suite of eerie vignettes. Fans of Akira Rabelais' unmatched "Eisoptrophobia" need this one. On Gier Jenssen's 2016 album "Departed Glories", the Norwegian veteran used barely-audible samples of Eatern European and Russian folk music to illustrate a narrative that explored the Medieval history of Poland. These ghostly audio snippets were processed through Akira Rabelais' surrealist DSP software Argeïphontes Lyre and then smudged into echoes of a distant world. On "Angel's Flight", Jenssen takes a similar stylistic route, but uses Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 as the source material, allowing familiar traces of the German composer's favorite late work to peek through frozen drones and haunted pads. This music, whether you realize it or not, has been repeated thru our collective consciousness again and again since its completion in 1826, so hearing it stretched, filtered and crushed by Jenssen is a fitting way to reabsorb it. "Angel's Flight" sounds like time itself wrestling with musical hierarchies, as themes and tropes dance and heave through aural molasses, inspiring the memory to land on images of movies, ballrooms, music lessons or adverts. It's also strikingly sad and beautiful, and while it relies on elements we've been assured are sad - minor keys, spooky drones, distant strings - Jenssen handles the elements with a restraint that's way too rare. Somehow, "Angel's Flight" never descends into the realm of forced melancholy - rather it seeps into your pores slowly and affects you gradually, urging you to play it once more. Sadbient? Maybe, but this sounds strangely timeless.

Am I wrong in thinking he released most of the tracks off that in the Chronicles series? I though I read that somewhere.

Thanks! Love 7th Plain

It’s a perfect album.

I will vouch for this. Always enjoyed Badrich's tunes. Nice to see him releasing again.

Plus he met Obama.

Max is literally a perfect track.

Bump because I wish they’d make music like this again.

My favorite ambient album.

Bought. @auxien is getting better and better.

Nice recommendation. When is your record coming out?

The Predicting Machine is a personal favorite of mine. https://johntejada.bandcamp.com/album/the-predicting-machine I’m sure many will disagree, but I tend to enjoy his more recent albums on Kompakt than his earlier stuff.

Love Tejada. This one sounds like a turn away from his more straight ahead Orbital-esque tech house to something a bit deeper. Color me intrigued.

Really enjoying these sounds. One to save for Bandcamp day I think.

His stuff reminds me of this: One of the best trance-IDM tracks ever.

Not a fan but she composed the theme song to Hilda (which is the best kids show on tv right now).

Yeah this is real nice. Thx for bump.

Layers upon layers of sonic bliss.

I’ve been diving back into the Biosphere back catalog as a soundtrack to these dark winter days. I feel I have a newfound appreciation for Gier’s work lately. The Cirque reissue might be peak Biosphere for me. Excellent all the way through.

Instabuy. Nuron’s tunes are all timeless classics. Supposedly the remasters of all his Likemind works are right around the corner...

Love that song. I miss Broadcast.