Biosphere (musician) - Meanings of His Album Titles

Meanings of His Album Titles

All Biosphere album titles allude to the cold environments of space or ice, and their exploration:

• The Biosphere 2 project intended to explore the possible use of an artificial biosphere (a closed ecosystem) for space colonization. The Russian Biosphere 3 too. Both were detached, self-sufficient environments, like a space ship or a submarine.
• The North Pole explored by a submarine, which may be lost like a ship in space.
• Microgravity is the imperfect state of weightlessness in a space ship.
• The word "patashnik" is allegedly Russian cosmonaut slang for "a traveler" or "a goner", a cosmonaut who didn't return from a space mission because his security cable disengaged and he was lost in space.
• Substrata is, among others, a glaciology term (always plural) for the nature of a glacier's bed. .
• A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. It also refers to the death of Chris McCandless, a sort of "patashnik" who explored self-sufficient survival in a cirque in Alaska and lost himself.
• Shenzhou refers to the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft.
• Autour de la Lune (1870, French for Around the Moon) was Jules Verne's followup to From the Earth to the Moon and dealt with the launching and actual space travel to and around the moon.
• A dropsonde is a device designed to be dropped at altitude to collect data as the device falls to the ground – in this context, it's a sonde sent through space to another planet, it's another "patashnik" explorator intended to be lost.
• N-Plants is probably a shortcut of "Nuclear Plants", also, the CD booklet of the album includes writing in Japanese that has this meaning.