{"product_id":"biosphere-cirque-2025-reissue","title":"Biosphere - Cirque (2025 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCirque \u003c\/em\u003e- originally released in 2000 - was Biosphere's first album for the UK label Touch. This reissue comes with a 6-track bonus album and new artwork.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMojo (UK): Fourth full album from ambient pioneer. Coming to prominence with 1992's Microgravity - which along with the first couple of Aphex\/Polygon Window CDs, defined the genre ambient - Geir Jenssen, as Biosphere, has made three of the '90s' best albums, culminating with last year's near beatless Substrata. The idea - as it always was thanks to Eno's On Land - is music as environment (reflecting, creating): working from his base in Tromso, Arctic Norway, Jenssen offers a polar, Apollonian exploration of the human psyche. Cirque is a perfectly constructed 47-minute sequence: cold clarity up against real depth of field, synth cycles dissolving into sudden moments of sonic revelation that sound like a waking dream - try the first 20 seconds of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. (And if you think that's pretentious - your loss). Inspired by the story of a young American, Chris McCandless, who walked alone into the Alaskan wilderness and perished, Cirque balances the tightrope between warmth and unease, resolving into a moon melody that leaves you a peace. What a good record! [Jon Savage].\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BIOPHON RECORDS (NORWAY)","offers":[{"title":"3LP with Bonus Album","offer_id":53021399810390,"sku":"MRM-00380","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/3dfd76a771958889e55edbca6aa85bac.jpg?v=1775187637","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/biosphere-cirque-2025-reissue","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}