Substrata

by Biosphere

Substrata cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Origo Sound
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 2:06:43
  • Community rating: 4.29/5 from 16 ratings

Artists on this release: Geir Jenssen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Considered a benchmark of the ambient genre, 'Substrata' creates its signature chilling atmosphere through a blend of looped melodies, deep synthesizer drones, and field recordings of wind and creaking ice. Geir Jenssen's production eschews rhythm in favor of pure texture, using heavy reverb and unsettling vocal samples to build immersive, desolate soundscapes that explore themes of cold, isolation, and vast geological expanses.

Genres

Descriptors: ambient, minimal, droning, shimmering, slow

Tracklist

  1. As the Sun Kissed the Horizon (1:47)
  2. Poa Alpina (4:11)
  3. Chukhung (7:34)
  4. The Things I Tell You (6:28)
  5. Times When I Know You'll Be Sad (3:44)
  6. Hyperborea (5:45)
  7. Kobresia (7:12)
  8. Antennaria (5:04)
  9. Uva-Ursi (3:01)
  10. Sphere of No Form (5:47)
  11. Silene (7:53)
  12. Prologue (0:19)
  13. The Silent Orchestra (7:52)
  14. City Wakes Up (5:58)
  15. Freeze-Frames (6:46)
  16. Manicure (4:43)
  17. The Club (1:57)
  18. Ballerina (7:50)
  19. The Eye of the Cyclone (7:22)
  20. Endurium (10:47)
  21. Laika (14:34)

Credits

  • Geir Jenssen - written-by, producer, photography
  • Harald Lervik - design [cover design - at origo design]
  • Peter Tubaas - design [cover design - at origo design]
  • David Coppenhall - design [cover design], artwork [ z-one]
  • Aleksandar Stojanovic - edited by [digital editing assisted by]
  • Audun Strype - mastered by [additional eq's by]
  • Stefan Betke - remastered by, lacquer cut by
  • Biosphere - Primary Artist

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