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Polar Sequences

The Higher Intelligence Agency | Biosphere
Year
1996
Genre
Ambient & New Age

Liner Notes

Original issue, limited edition of 5000, released on Beyond in 1996. Re-issued on Headphone in 2003 both on CD and digital. In October 1995, as part of the annual Polar Music Festival, Geir Jenssen of Biosphere and Bobby Bird of The Higher Intelligence Agency, were commissioned by Nor Concerts to collaborate together on a musical project to take place in Geir's home town of Tromsø, Norway. The brief was for them to perform three concerts, using sounds sourced from the area as the basis of the music - the machinery of the local mountain cable lift, the snow, the ice etc… The performances from which this recording is taken, took place on top of a mountain above Tromsø, in a cabin reached by the cable car, in which the audience were transported up the mountain in turn.

A1 — B2

Tracklist

  1. A1 So What 9:22
  2. A2 Freddie Freeloader 9:46
  3. A3 Blue In Green 5:37
  4. B1 All Blues 11:33
  5. B2 Flamenco Sketches 9:26
Personnel

Credits

Trumpet
Miles Davis
Alto Saxophone
Cannonball Adderley
Tenor Saxophone
John Coltrane
Piano
Bill Evans
Producer
Teo Macero
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