Recorded partly during a Norwegian winter, Geir Jenssen's masterwork draws Antarctica and arctic isolation into every carefully placed frequency. Field recordings — aircraft, distant voices, ice — surface and dissolve beneath slow-moving synth pads that feel geographically specific, like cold air pressing against glass. The album moves with the unhurried logic of glacial drift, each track bleeding into the next with minimal interruption. It's a high-water mark for isolationist ambient. Hearing it in sequence lets those voices, field recordings, and tones build a world of their own.
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