Post by onelittlewarrior on Jul 12, 2017 10:14:15 GMT
(Translated into English by onelittlewarrior )
Pop sensation Aurora Aksnes has turned 21 and bought her first flat. She's also gathered strength after her most challenging year ever.
- I didn't really celebrate my birthday much, but I've become older. My ears are a little bit bigger. It's important to keep on to the child you have inside you. But with age come respect and experience. I feel I've gained 10 years of experience over two years.
Aurora Aksnes is sitting in the sun in Grefsenkollen to play the OverOslo festival, and she's all smiles. This week the festival season continues with a concert at Slottsfjell, while Moldejazz awaits next week. She's been home for a few months. And before that, one and a half year on tour. More than 200 concerts last year alone. TV shows with Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien.
- At the most extreme I visited seven countries in a week. Criss-crossing Finland, Budapest, France. It's something magical yet dangerous about that extra battery you muster when really you've run yourself flat. Often when I'm really tired and don't really want to be on stage I do my best shows. That makes me happy.
Tornado
- What was your experience of it?
- 2016 was my most difficult year ever. It was like being inside a tornado, being thrown about. You feel it in our stomach, you get bounced around, yet it's nice not being in control. You almost get addicted to it.
- It's given me a sense of pride, I know what I can accomplish if I set my mind to it, she adds.
Yet coming home afterwards was a relief.
Sleeping on the floor
- Last autumn I was thinking to myself that after 16 December I will have some time off. I clung to that date and was really looking forward to getting home to Mom, Dad and the rest of my family. When I finally got home I was so happy I just cried. And then a week went by before I went to Australia and Singapore. It was a lovely trip, when I was home after that I was getting restless.
- I feel I'm meant to do what I'm doing. Being able to hate and love something so much, which is fun and difficult at the same time.
She sighs, flipping her round sunglasses open.
Aurora has recently left home and moved into a new flat in the centre of Bergen.
- I feel like I've been living out of a suitcase for the last two years. Then it's nice that you're clothes are not all wrinkled, that not all clothes just smell the same. But I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for a while. My books have served as a bedside table. And then I have a few peacock feathers and a few cups.
She's already working on new songs for her next album. Some of them have been performed live.
- Yes, I'm trying out the ones I think can work in a festival setting, the ones that sound big and spectacular. It's a nice test.
Her new material is being described as more organic and pulsating than her debut album "All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend".
- I just want to make really nice music that makes you feel all the 19 emotions you need to feel over 60 minutes. And to cooperate with people who can contribute in different fields, and who have their own unique energy.
Sharing with Sigrid
Sigrid and Aurora are the biggest pop names coming out of Bergen at the moment. They share the same management and record company, and they're good friends.
- Being part of a group of friends is really a new territory for me, most of my friends are much older than me. But then there are a few artists at my age that I've come to know really well, and Sigrid is one of them.
- We have our own separate schedules, of course, but it's nice to be able to sharing this strange way of living with someone who understands. I envy her not being 17 or 18 years old when everything is happening around her. Still I'm happy I have the experience I have at the age of 21.
Outsider
Both in terms of style of clothing and manner Aurora is quite unique. She has said she in many respects feel like an outsider.
- I've always had a vivid imagination, which made me connect easily with others at school. But after some time I realised I got tired from being with people. After school it was nice to be able to go home, read or draw or just sit and watch the view. I was very up and down, and quite absent-minded at school. Even if I've always felt included it's been so much to take in and process so I've needed to be alone and just....think.
Now she's gathered strength for a new round of concerts.
- And I've also got used to being recognised, to people coming up to me. I relax a bit more and don't have to use all my energy to everyone all the time. I think that was one of the reasons I got so tired from all the attention; I was afraid of disappointing people. If there's something that provokes me, I just have to allow myself to react. That is something I've learnt recently.
Her band has changed since last year. Silja Sol, for example, is back after having worked with her own stuff.
- It's just a natural development, two in the band had a child together and one had twins after Christmas last year. And then there's a need for new impulses. I'm very happy about those who were in the band and the ones who are in the band now. But then there's something about having a break - after it everything has to be a bit better than before.
(Original article at www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2016-har-vaert-auroras-toffeste-ar---da-jeg-endelig-kom-hjem-var-jeg-sa-glad-at-jeg-grat/68493407 )
Pop sensation Aurora Aksnes has turned 21 and bought her first flat. She's also gathered strength after her most challenging year ever.
- I didn't really celebrate my birthday much, but I've become older. My ears are a little bit bigger. It's important to keep on to the child you have inside you. But with age come respect and experience. I feel I've gained 10 years of experience over two years.
Aurora Aksnes is sitting in the sun in Grefsenkollen to play the OverOslo festival, and she's all smiles. This week the festival season continues with a concert at Slottsfjell, while Moldejazz awaits next week. She's been home for a few months. And before that, one and a half year on tour. More than 200 concerts last year alone. TV shows with Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien.
- At the most extreme I visited seven countries in a week. Criss-crossing Finland, Budapest, France. It's something magical yet dangerous about that extra battery you muster when really you've run yourself flat. Often when I'm really tired and don't really want to be on stage I do my best shows. That makes me happy.
Tornado
- What was your experience of it?
- 2016 was my most difficult year ever. It was like being inside a tornado, being thrown about. You feel it in our stomach, you get bounced around, yet it's nice not being in control. You almost get addicted to it.
- It's given me a sense of pride, I know what I can accomplish if I set my mind to it, she adds.
Yet coming home afterwards was a relief.
Sleeping on the floor
- Last autumn I was thinking to myself that after 16 December I will have some time off. I clung to that date and was really looking forward to getting home to Mom, Dad and the rest of my family. When I finally got home I was so happy I just cried. And then a week went by before I went to Australia and Singapore. It was a lovely trip, when I was home after that I was getting restless.
- I feel I'm meant to do what I'm doing. Being able to hate and love something so much, which is fun and difficult at the same time.
She sighs, flipping her round sunglasses open.
Aurora has recently left home and moved into a new flat in the centre of Bergen.
- I feel like I've been living out of a suitcase for the last two years. Then it's nice that you're clothes are not all wrinkled, that not all clothes just smell the same. But I've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor for a while. My books have served as a bedside table. And then I have a few peacock feathers and a few cups.
She's already working on new songs for her next album. Some of them have been performed live.
- Yes, I'm trying out the ones I think can work in a festival setting, the ones that sound big and spectacular. It's a nice test.
Her new material is being described as more organic and pulsating than her debut album "All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend".
- I just want to make really nice music that makes you feel all the 19 emotions you need to feel over 60 minutes. And to cooperate with people who can contribute in different fields, and who have their own unique energy.
Sharing with Sigrid
Sigrid and Aurora are the biggest pop names coming out of Bergen at the moment. They share the same management and record company, and they're good friends.
- Being part of a group of friends is really a new territory for me, most of my friends are much older than me. But then there are a few artists at my age that I've come to know really well, and Sigrid is one of them.
- We have our own separate schedules, of course, but it's nice to be able to sharing this strange way of living with someone who understands. I envy her not being 17 or 18 years old when everything is happening around her. Still I'm happy I have the experience I have at the age of 21.
Outsider
Both in terms of style of clothing and manner Aurora is quite unique. She has said she in many respects feel like an outsider.
- I've always had a vivid imagination, which made me connect easily with others at school. But after some time I realised I got tired from being with people. After school it was nice to be able to go home, read or draw or just sit and watch the view. I was very up and down, and quite absent-minded at school. Even if I've always felt included it's been so much to take in and process so I've needed to be alone and just....think.
Now she's gathered strength for a new round of concerts.
- And I've also got used to being recognised, to people coming up to me. I relax a bit more and don't have to use all my energy to everyone all the time. I think that was one of the reasons I got so tired from all the attention; I was afraid of disappointing people. If there's something that provokes me, I just have to allow myself to react. That is something I've learnt recently.
Her band has changed since last year. Silja Sol, for example, is back after having worked with her own stuff.
- It's just a natural development, two in the band had a child together and one had twins after Christmas last year. And then there's a need for new impulses. I'm very happy about those who were in the band and the ones who are in the band now. But then there's something about having a break - after it everything has to be a bit better than before.
(Original article at www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2016-har-vaert-auroras-toffeste-ar---da-jeg-endelig-kom-hjem-var-jeg-sa-glad-at-jeg-grat/68493407 )
that is a great way to describe the mechanism I recognized and understand. 
