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Sverre Knut Johansen's latest ambient electronic project PRECAMBRIAN brings Earth's earliest eons to life via musical poetry and found natural sounds, each representing significant geological periods and evolutionary events. Together with noted electronic artist Robert Rich, Johansen's dynamic approach to orchestrating the epochs spanning from the formation of Earth to the industrial and technological era breathe heart and realism into the music.

Highly detailed sound worlds recreated with synthesized and organic sounds - at times atonal, but often rhythmic and melodic - form a mood-based landscape full of dramatic changes where life is created, and evolves, in-step with the extreme shifts on our planet.

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Bonus Materials

• Deluxe 6-panel gatefold package that includes all artwork, liner notes, and a 20 page booklet.

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• Since the 1980's, Spotted Peccary Music is North America’s finest independent record label with a focus on deep, vast and introspective soundscapes.

Press Quotes

'Sonic visions of a planet in constant change.' That's the press materials' characterization of this eerie, rich, complex exercise in ambient tone poetry, a suite of pieces divided by periods of the Earth's geologic history: there are tracks titled 'Hadean Eon,' 'Cenozoic Era,' 'Anthropocene,' etc. Johansen's idea was to 'create an album around the concept of the Earth's geological timescale,' trying 'to convey with nature sounds what might have hapened on Earth, creating moods around certain events that have taken place.' Johansen is a master at creating the impression of sonic space, and he fills that space with chords, pulses, chirps, otherworldly moans and sighs, and sounds of dripping water and soughing wind. This is the kind of thing that tends to get marketed as ambient music, but I'm not sure it really fits that description; it's more like complex sound sculpture, and it's very well done.

     —Rick Andersen, CD HotList August 2019

Precambrian simply must be experienced in all its illustrative audio visual glory.

     — Jonathan Widran, The JW Vibe

Precambrian is an ambitious project, and it works.

     —Robin B. James, Robin B. James