What a great start of the day! Waking up to the news that there is a new digital Biosphere album waiting for me on Bandcamp. The album is called "L'incoronazione di Poppea" and the music is...
"...based on Claude Monteverdi´s opera of the same name, and is an Italian baroque opera first performed in Venice during the 1642–43 carnival season. The opera is also one of the first operas to use historical events and people rather than classical mythology, it adapts incidents from the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and others to recount how Poppea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nerone (Nero), is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress."
In other words, the album contains newly composed electro acoustic music by Geir Jenssen in combination with original music by Monteverdi. It is released by Biophon Records, and is commissioned by the Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt for their dance opera "Poppea" (watch excerpts of it after the jump).
enjoy! <3
from the vault
biosphere covers "blue monday" by new order
biosphere "1991-2004" - a compilation of hard to find track
ingun bjørnsgaard prosjekt "poppea" (excerpts)
