Biosphere Live @ Spitsbergen Norway 1997

Ambient legend Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere

[@RealToOy]

What an experience it must have been for the people who where there to listen to Biosphere Live at this place. I can imagine it as life changing experience

[@AstonishingSodApe]

True. Norway is a beautiful place for this kind of music.

[@incremental_failure]

It's 2023 and this comes across as fresh as ever. I love the fact that Biosphere has great melodies. Drone ambient has its place but this is subjectively better.

[@violleauchrisantsa2025]

Great recording . The musician on top of his art...’move any mountains’ on the north . Love and support from madagascar.

[@llax222]

Beautiful, golden era. Can't imagine what it must have been like to hear this as a young person in 1997. I was just a toddler at that time but somehow, all the great ambient records from this era seem to trigger something very deep when I hear them today. Thank you for uploading this.

[@alanbryer6234]

It’s cos the Earth made you at this time. I feel the same way about music from 1970😃🙏🏽

[@llax222]

@alanbryer6234 yes, that's what I like to think as well :) it's the vibrations from that time! thank u for sharing

[@TerekkiTerekki]

21 years old - still sounds fresh

[@xavdex514]

👍

[@garysmithburg7358]

23 today over here, 100% true

[@kevinguy1499]

@@garysmithburg7358Where’s Danny green?

[@jonnyhead]

24 now 😎......still perfect

[@nikitakanishev]

Classic never dies

[@rubbadub]

Old school Biosphere still sounds otherworldly. Thanks for this recording.

[@vindizna5703]

One of the best sets I've ever heard. Every time I listen to it, I get new impressions, I never skip any part of this set, so it's definitely my favourite one

[@sukfu99]

Damn, Biosphere on Svalbard. Probably the most fitting location for his music

[@The800d00]

2021. Immortal ambient sounds!

[@biosphere1980]

incredible performance back in late 90ties ...

[@kurtwinter4422]

So far ahead of its time it sounds like the future 25 years later

[@kosmiksoul]

MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE

[@dr.d8957]

18:38 получаю данные

[@MachenLand]

a note for future posters/uploaders of fine ambient music.. DONT ENABLE ADS ffs.. ruins the mellow atmosphere.. changes the volume.. and its just common sense..

[@Botdu84]

that chukung live version is hella good too

[@katarzynaszczotka8165]

Track ID 45:00?

[@jeanfrancoisnelson]

This has aged like wine

[@visualdrone]

one of the most beautiful audio recordings ive heard

[@dantecreepypastero1687]

30:00 great atmosphere

[@alanbryer6234]

Next year it’ll be 30 years since I first heard Biosphere. Here’s to another 30😄🙏🏽

[@GameDev-Rainbow]

Theres a lot of activity, a LOT.

[@AZ-vv1rf]

What the kids fancily call Downtempo today - was Biosphere vibing to his own ambient tracks more than 20 years ago...

[@operationscomputer1478]

it was known as 'downtempo' 20 years ago brother

[@AZ-vv1rf]

@@operationscomputer1478 oh why good to know

[@dmbassa]

Haha! Little did they know! :)

[@jonpettet7085]

have most of biosphere cds.. love it.

[@g00zik97]

51:22

[@pfcompany885]

Что за альбом?

[@klaman1]

Substrata i Patashnik chyba tylko..

[@crash936]

Imagine this music played in this location. Loud all over the beatuy od landscape.

[@klaman1]

Amazing idea.

[@s_v6294]

Это космос

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

this picture on point..

[@lillehammerexperimental]

It's a cool picture but is the picture really from Svalbard? I thought there weren't any trees up there. Thanks for clarifying.

[@kalebashdon]

oh man this sounds like so much fun... and super ahead of its time

[@jjclasicas]

Esta gente me hace volar de verdad...

[@MicahBales]

This is very good.

[@interceptor9210]

nice ambient sound!!!

[@darkoina]

✨

[@alfonzo_]

I thought Chukhung was a little depressing when I first listened to Substrata but with a minimal beat it's👌

[@nekro7823]

LSD land ♥️

[@garysmithburg7358]

SET LIST PLEASE OMG

[@Beanmachine91]

reminds me of ulf soderberg

[@paultyrrell8060]

Track list ?

[@klaman1]

0:06 - 1:22 As the Sun Kissed the Horizon - Biosphere 4:07 - 7:00 Chukhung - Biosphere 8:14 - 10:00 Minuarta - Biosphere 20:30 - 21:05 The Seal & The Hydrophone - Biosphere 24:09 - 26:23 When I Leave (Version) - Biosphere 29:31 - 31:12 Uva-Ursi - Biosphere 36:02 - 37:59 The Things I Tell You - Biosphere 39:53 - 44:00 Kobresia - Biosphere 44:00 - 50:00 ? 50:00 - 56:00 - Biosphere patashnik 56:00 - 01:03 ? 1:03:09 - 1:04:39 - Poa Alpina - Biosphere

[@frydek75]

@@klaman1 56:00 Different version of the Shield biosphere.bandcamp.com/track/the-shield

[@strangelman]

I wonder if the name "Spitsbergen" originally comes from German. "spitz berge" means pointy mountains. Can anyone confirm?

[@cinnamon4]

It came from Dutch, has the meaning you pointed out. The name was given by Willem Barentsz, a Dutch seafarer.

[@Lookfishlamp]

this is very good!

[@obiterdictum3021]

nice

[@lynneymassey2855]

I love this music I'm 60 n going on 61 xxxx

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

40:15 Biosphere! Biosphere! Biosphere....

[@olaveivind]

music for the initiate people

[@polvstic8853]

Greate live biosphere❤️

[@loren-emmerich]

PHI, naturale sequence, math. A Loren Emmerich production.

[@anaranjadisimo]

fuck off man

[@contentecornutos]

voor cees krijnen....dat die jaar nog ......

[@pfcompany885]

Ambient space

[@StianVangsy]

GOOSEBUMPS!!!! Best Ambient artist EVER!

[@tokmindegynem6269]

OMG

[@AstonishingSodApe]

What's playing at 57:00 onward?

[@leofonseca8144]

Hey Diogo looks like he's mixed in some classic material from microgravity. I also got the impression that he's using some elements from Attalal when he did that remix for Download/SkinnyPuppy but then I thought I was also hearing lines from the Fires of Ork work. Just magic....

[@martinamelung4261]

outstanding

[@xavdex514]

1997, man time flies🕐 😎

[@klaman1]

Indeed. Too fast ..

[@xavdex514]

@@klaman1 😭

[@RAFAELLO077]

master at work

[@ri-zg7cv]

получаю данные один четыре восемь восемь

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

Данные мы получать не бросим - один, четыре, восемь, восемь! \о

[@ВячеславИльченко-б5п]

получаю данные

[@stephenpeacock8592]

One of the best from Biosphere I think, benefits from a second listen! Really enjoy the uplifting section that comes in about 56:30.

[@dmbassa]

Yes! The rendition is incredible!

[@DD-ku5tu]

What song from 56:30?

[@frydek75]

@@DD-ku5tu Different version of the Shield biosphere.bandcamp.com/track/the-shield

[@davidchapman3476]

@@DD-ku5tu The Shield (Vega Version). See Live at Vega, Copenhagen 96.

[@dodu8281]

he put some beats in there to please the crowd..?...

[@RobinKampschoer]

I think not, those are some elements/tracks from his Patashnik album.

[@Papa-tri]

it's all for you do du

[@AstonishingSodApe]

He always blends beats with his ambient stuff, listen to N-Plants and The Petrified Forest

[@WeltSchmerz1349]

@@AstonishingSodApe Not even mention Microgravity and Patashnik which are Ambient/Minimal Techno albums.

[@SatyrBarbarossa_Eleusis]

Amsterdam 1993, Ambient Weekend, Melkweg: Biosphere main room closing ceremonies .. blew the roof off with Seti Project ... and then some 😶

[@lovecat4everxxx401]

I saw him live in Oslo ca 2000 what a show < 3 3 3