Norwegian ambient producer Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere comes from the town of Tromsø, located above the Arctic Circle (at the same geographic latitude with Alaska and Siberia), where the midnight sun reigns in the summer and the sun does not rise above the horizon due to the polar night in winter. A special environment, and it cannot be otherwise than that the influences of this can be heard in
… Jenssen's work. On his album Dropsonde, successor to the 'moon project' Autour De La Lune (2004), you can mainly hear other striking influences, namely that of jazz music. Although Jenssen still allows calm and hushed carpets of sound and sounds detailed to a microscopic level to flow into one another, he also incorporates jazz rhythms in some songs. No ferocious drum solos, but restrained, gently shuffling cymbals or drums, that do create a suggestion of 'beats' between the soundscapes. Only once in a while, as in the song Daphnis 26, do the rhythms come to the fore, resulting in exciting industrial sounds. (IV)more
