A short overview and some excerpted opinions of Microgravity for those
thinking of checking out Geir's earlier work.
"In the autumn of 1991 Geir's second solo-album Microgravity appeared on the
Norwegian label Origo Sound, under the banner Biosphere. The album came to
the attention of R & S Records in Gent, who licensed it for worldwide
release on their then newly-founded ambient division Apollo. Hailed by many
as a trance dance revelation, Microgravity consisted of an intriguing
combination of found noises, atmospheric layers of sound and trance patterns
with hi-tech dance beats, meandering elegantly through the borderland
between ambient enchantment and rhythmical hypnosis.
An official U.K. release in late 1992 stretched the attention span for
Microgravity, but it was on the European continent that the record was first
appreciated, with many reviews stressing the timelessness of the album.
Here's a selection:
"Microgravity can probably be associated with names like Brian Eno and
Stanley Kubrick, but the album places itself beyond time, tradition and
fashion. A sonic space odyssey and a science fiction dream in colours..."
(Puls, Norway)
"Forget The Orb. This is lightyears better. Chill-out trip of the year."
(Oor, Holland)
"A brilliant album, high in orbit, weightless beyond the clouds,
soundscaping of the highest order." (Independent Catalogue, U.K.)
"Gliding, percolating electronic epics from the world of ambience." (i-D,
U.K.)
"The dog's nuts of ambient dance music from Norwegian maestro Geir Jenssen,
of such quality that others pale to insignificance." (Ride, U.K.)"
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