Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s 1926 novel The Time of Man told the story of Ellen Chesser, an itinerant young farm worker tending the fields in rural Kentucky in the early 20th century. The book made Roberts a literary sensation and earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In 1951, the story was adapted into a radio play starring the actor ​​Joan Lorring; that recording in turn found its way into the orbit of Geir Aule Jenssen, aka Biosphere. His amorphous, textural strain of ambient music has traditionally gone hand-in-hand with snippets of dialogue; so it is with The Way of Time, which slips fragments of Lorring’s girlish Southern twang in amongst pale synth washes and the implacable tick of drum machines.
On paper, it’s an unlikely pairing.

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