Shenzhou

by Biosphere

Shenzhou cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 June 2002
  • Label: Touch
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 56:35
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Geir Jenssen meticulously constructed this ambient masterpiece almost entirely from micro-samples of Claude Debussy's orchestral works. By stretching and heavily looping these brief classical fragments, he created a deeply unsettling, hypnotic, and profoundly haunting spatial environment.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, sampling, atmospheric, instrumental, ambient, minimal, droning, orchestral

Tracklist

  1. Shenzhou (5:04)
  2. Spindrift (4:36)
  3. Ancient Campfire (7:45)
  4. Heat Leak (4:57)
  5. Houses on the Hill (5:43)
  6. Two Ocean Plateau (3:10)
  7. Thermal Motion (4:27)
  8. Path Leading to the High Grass (3:55)
  9. Fast Atoms Escape (3:29)
  10. Green Reflections (3:32)
  11. Bose-Einstein Condensation (2:47)
  12. Gravity Assist (7:04)

Credits

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