Post by AURONRA on Jun 22, 2016 11:09:23 GMT
(interview with Bergen magazine, translated with Google Translate from Norwegian)
Road trip through the United States
Aurora visited 13 US and Canadian cities during the US tour, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Minneapolis and Montreal. - It was a wonderful experience, although it was very extreme driving on to the new city every day, and conduct nightly. Sometimes we drove for seven hours, she says.
Do you remember the scene in the television series True Blood, where a puzzled Sookie Stackhouse discovers the entrance to the Elven kingdom? A meeting with Aurora Aksnes has something of the same by itself, only with the opposite sign. It's as if her gaze coming from somewhere far away.
Bergen magazine meets our new world star on Roll & Rock in Skostredet. This is a restaurant with a purebred American retro style, and the perfect environment for an artist who has just added the United States for their feet. Eyed assume she the particular premises, and Quick stops in the middle of the floor.
- A spider! she says, and bends down to look for the little rascal.
Unfortunately it disappears under a bench, so she did not get helped it out on the street.
Cute Creepy Crawlies
- I love insects and bugs. Everyone hates those, but I think they're cute. Some of them are also very important, she says, and explains that she wanted to have wings ever since she was little.
Once she jumped from the garage roof with an umbrella as a parachute. When she settled in "pure."
- Look what I found out! I love moths, she says, and takes up a small container from the bag.
Inside lies a dead moth, rich colors on the wings.
This causes me to think both on the album cover, which looks like something Odd Nerdrum could make on a good day, and on the mill in Björk's debut video, Human Behaviour (1983).
- I've always known about Björk, and is a big fan of her as a human being, I have not heard so much of her music, she says.
- It must be nice to be so associated with spirituality. She reminds me of my family. I look forward to that time comes, when I also can do everything that I want.
Aurora has still some way to go before she is there, despite the fact that she has delivered what must be the year's most-piece pop album so far.
Two days in Texas
- Things happened fast?
- I do not know. This is my first job, my first experience, so I have nothing to compare with. But I and everyone around me has run for ourselves over the past year. It has been hard work. Things do not just happen; it has more been a steady increase.
- You know the pressure after to perform?
- Absolutely, but I can not think about it. It has been pretty extreme. Both I and management are trying as best we can to set limits on how much I can contribute.
- You played two concerts at this year's SXSW in Austin. How was it?
- It was two long days with a lot of work. We also played on two closed events, and did many interviews. Although it was really fun, it was a stressful experience. I enjoyed the people of Austin, which is slightly more liberal than in the rest of Texas. There were also many fine trees there, but a little too hot for me.
Speechless
Overall, she was stopped by 13 US and Canadian cities during the US tour, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Minneapolis and Montreal.
- It was a wonderful experience, although it was very extreme driving on to the new city every day, and conduct nightly. Sometimes we drove for seven hours.
Along the way she also forced to cancel two shows. This happened after a brief interlude in the tour, where she flew home to Norway to make a private appearance.
- I went on stage shortly after I had landed and had to get up at. 06 to go back. Hour rhythm was completely wrong, and I speechless. It was very unkind. Fortunately arranged it, and I was back as soon as I got a bit of voice back.
Although she still had to be careful with her voice, she appreciated being back where she thrives, and not least, being able to ask for pictures with fans, the so-called "warriors", after the concerts.
- You did a special thing to commemorate Prince, who died a few days after you played in Minneapolis.
- Yes, it's strange times we live in. All the major disappear, one by one. Bowie was great for me, and Prince was almost as big. The news came just before our concert in Washington, which was the last on the US tour. So we finished playing Purple Rain. The entire hall sang and I played drums. It was a nice moment, even though it was sad.
Met Jimmy Fallon
- Did you experience anything out of the traveling and concerts?
- A little. I pinpointed some bookstores that not only had the latest books. Such things make me happy.
- What was it like to greet Jimmy Fallon?
- He was very nice and let me have the whole band. I do not like backing tracks.
- The song you played on The Tonight Show was Conqueror. Was it meant symbolically?
- Hehe. No, I chose it mostly because the drums on it gets me in a good mood. The text is one of the least personal. It's about what does not work, you must do it yourself and not wait for others.
Auroras songs are very evocative, stressed that Running with Wolves was recently selected as introlåt the television series Wolf Blood (after three seasons with Lisa Knapps more Celtic-sounding "A Promise That I Keep").
- Would you like to make more film music?
- I would really like it. As little I wrote many instrumentals, and I like good fantasy.
A wild cat in the woods
- Do you follow in Game of Thrones?
- Yes, although I think it is a bit dark. It makes me think that things like enough has happened; the existence of such evil people.
- You reminiscent of Daenerys. Cheering you on her?
- Hehe. You say that just because we have the same hair color. I actually enjoy the best Arya Stark.
- You shoot with bow and arrow?
- When I was little, I made my own. I've always been fond of Robin Hood, and as a child I was a wild cat that roamed the woods.
- On track Lucky you sing that "not everybody knows That I am lucky to be alive." Is it about an actual event?
- It can be interpreted in many ways. I am hyper sensitive and very sensitive to everything around me sounds, light and tone. When I discovered that not all children are as good as me, I thought it was heavy; I thought about how sad it was, and that I am just lucky to be born right here. It feels so random, like a fluke, like something I could easily come to lose. There is much in the world that one can feel threatened by, things that can get you to think, "That I'm not going to survive."
British Christmas campaign
- Was it your choice to interpret Oasis song Half a World Away?
- No, it was department store chain John Lewis. Nor do I want to tie my own songs for advertising. It felt a little strange; they chose our interpretation in front of around fifty others. We were only one of the candidates to be included in their annual Christmas campaign. But the video was very nice.
The song reached the 4th place in the Scottish single list and 11th on the English, and the UK have undoubtedly seen advertising video. Revenues from the campaign went to Age UK, a charity that works to improve the situation for many of Britain's lonely and needy elderly, especially during the Christmas season.
- That's why I said it was okay. The work they do is very important. I find it strange how many lose respect for people as they get older.
- The campaign was the also important to you, with high chart positions?
- I do not care about such things; it's not something I think so much about, or asking for. But I've got with me that my album reached the top spot on both the VG list and iTunes. I'm good at pulling me away. Before there was a weakness, but now it's a strength. Noisy airports I've never liked. Eventually I learned to just go where I get positive energy. I hate shopping malls, and always try to shop early in the morning.
- Do you experience being stopped on the street by strangers who want to take selfie with you?
- Yes, and then I feel like an animal in a zoo. I do not like to be a person that people want proof of having met, without having "met" me. Unfortunately, it's part of the game. I never had any desire to be known.
Need long mornings
- Can you beat the world?
- That I learned to do when I was 11 years old. I did not like school, and would rather stay home and dance. As I grew older, I'd rather be home alone and write music than to go to a party with friends. I've never been young. If someone invites me out to celebrate a birthday, I am always the first going home.
- So you're not a moth, such as the album cover?
- No, it goes more that I have a feeling person. I like to cry. When I wake up in the morning, I laugh a little and cry a little. I have long mornings. First I do yoga for half an hour, then I meditate for ten minutes. When I started with meditation, it was hard to get it. Now I can sit down, in the middle of an airport, zone out, and write a song.
Draws songs
- I've read that you do not write songs, but they draw.
- Yes, some songs start so without text. I can see for myself a lake, and a small tree. So you see that there is a dead deer there. Then you have the darkness inside the idyll. However, it is kind of nice too, where it is wrapped in nature, with flowers around; that there is something nice about it ugly. I like that, then it becomes a song.
- What's this song?
- Just the, I have not written yet. But I have another song, which is about a garden with white paper flowers. It is beautiful and a bit special, although there is only artificial flowers. Then comes someone who will set the color of the flowers, but when they see how good it is, they do not anyway. The song I've just recorded. It is called The Secret Garden.
A magical world
- It reminds me of a scene from Alice in Wonderland.
- Oh, I love the book and I love cartoon. It's a pity the children who grow up without with the classic Disney films. Children are so much wiser than you think they are. I learned a lot of Disney movies, she says, and disappears for a moment into his own world of thought.
- Remember The Hunchback of Notre Dame? she asks.
- He was the kindest, while the priest, who was supposed to be the good, had sinister motives.
- Like Frost?
- Yes, but I'm not so fond of the soundtrack to it. It gets a bit too easily. Then it's more class of Hunchback. You can be intellectual to hear those songs. Imagine how nice it is for children to learn something about the world through watching these movies. If I have children, I'll tell they all stories. I love to make the world a little more magical.
Aurora is currently on an extensive tour, with concerts including the Glastonbury Festival (24/6), Roskilde (29/6), Palmesus festival in Kristiansand (1/7), Bygdalarm in Øystese (2/7) Kongsberg Jazz Festival (7/7), Vinjerock (21/7), Olav Festival (3/8), Øya Festival (10/8), Sildajazz (11/8) and the bastion of Bergen (18/8).
The band consists of Magnus Skylstad (drums), O. Martin (bass), Selma Frida Stang (synth bass) and Alf Lund Godbolt (synth).
More information: aurora-music.com
Source: bergensmagasinet.no/aktuelt/norsk-alv-new-york
Road trip through the United States
Aurora visited 13 US and Canadian cities during the US tour, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Minneapolis and Montreal. - It was a wonderful experience, although it was very extreme driving on to the new city every day, and conduct nightly. Sometimes we drove for seven hours, she says.
Do you remember the scene in the television series True Blood, where a puzzled Sookie Stackhouse discovers the entrance to the Elven kingdom? A meeting with Aurora Aksnes has something of the same by itself, only with the opposite sign. It's as if her gaze coming from somewhere far away.
Bergen magazine meets our new world star on Roll & Rock in Skostredet. This is a restaurant with a purebred American retro style, and the perfect environment for an artist who has just added the United States for their feet. Eyed assume she the particular premises, and Quick stops in the middle of the floor.
- A spider! she says, and bends down to look for the little rascal.
Unfortunately it disappears under a bench, so she did not get helped it out on the street.
Cute Creepy Crawlies
- I love insects and bugs. Everyone hates those, but I think they're cute. Some of them are also very important, she says, and explains that she wanted to have wings ever since she was little.
Once she jumped from the garage roof with an umbrella as a parachute. When she settled in "pure."
- Look what I found out! I love moths, she says, and takes up a small container from the bag.
Inside lies a dead moth, rich colors on the wings.
This causes me to think both on the album cover, which looks like something Odd Nerdrum could make on a good day, and on the mill in Björk's debut video, Human Behaviour (1983).
- I've always known about Björk, and is a big fan of her as a human being, I have not heard so much of her music, she says.
- It must be nice to be so associated with spirituality. She reminds me of my family. I look forward to that time comes, when I also can do everything that I want.
Aurora has still some way to go before she is there, despite the fact that she has delivered what must be the year's most-piece pop album so far.
Two days in Texas
- Things happened fast?
- I do not know. This is my first job, my first experience, so I have nothing to compare with. But I and everyone around me has run for ourselves over the past year. It has been hard work. Things do not just happen; it has more been a steady increase.
- You know the pressure after to perform?
- Absolutely, but I can not think about it. It has been pretty extreme. Both I and management are trying as best we can to set limits on how much I can contribute.
- You played two concerts at this year's SXSW in Austin. How was it?
- It was two long days with a lot of work. We also played on two closed events, and did many interviews. Although it was really fun, it was a stressful experience. I enjoyed the people of Austin, which is slightly more liberal than in the rest of Texas. There were also many fine trees there, but a little too hot for me.
Speechless
Overall, she was stopped by 13 US and Canadian cities during the US tour, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, New York, Minneapolis and Montreal.
- It was a wonderful experience, although it was very extreme driving on to the new city every day, and conduct nightly. Sometimes we drove for seven hours.
Along the way she also forced to cancel two shows. This happened after a brief interlude in the tour, where she flew home to Norway to make a private appearance.
- I went on stage shortly after I had landed and had to get up at. 06 to go back. Hour rhythm was completely wrong, and I speechless. It was very unkind. Fortunately arranged it, and I was back as soon as I got a bit of voice back.
Although she still had to be careful with her voice, she appreciated being back where she thrives, and not least, being able to ask for pictures with fans, the so-called "warriors", after the concerts.
- You did a special thing to commemorate Prince, who died a few days after you played in Minneapolis.
- Yes, it's strange times we live in. All the major disappear, one by one. Bowie was great for me, and Prince was almost as big. The news came just before our concert in Washington, which was the last on the US tour. So we finished playing Purple Rain. The entire hall sang and I played drums. It was a nice moment, even though it was sad.
Met Jimmy Fallon
- Did you experience anything out of the traveling and concerts?
- A little. I pinpointed some bookstores that not only had the latest books. Such things make me happy.
- What was it like to greet Jimmy Fallon?
- He was very nice and let me have the whole band. I do not like backing tracks.
- The song you played on The Tonight Show was Conqueror. Was it meant symbolically?
- Hehe. No, I chose it mostly because the drums on it gets me in a good mood. The text is one of the least personal. It's about what does not work, you must do it yourself and not wait for others.
Auroras songs are very evocative, stressed that Running with Wolves was recently selected as introlåt the television series Wolf Blood (after three seasons with Lisa Knapps more Celtic-sounding "A Promise That I Keep").
- Would you like to make more film music?
- I would really like it. As little I wrote many instrumentals, and I like good fantasy.
A wild cat in the woods
- Do you follow in Game of Thrones?
- Yes, although I think it is a bit dark. It makes me think that things like enough has happened; the existence of such evil people.
- You reminiscent of Daenerys. Cheering you on her?
- Hehe. You say that just because we have the same hair color. I actually enjoy the best Arya Stark.
- You shoot with bow and arrow?
- When I was little, I made my own. I've always been fond of Robin Hood, and as a child I was a wild cat that roamed the woods.
- On track Lucky you sing that "not everybody knows That I am lucky to be alive." Is it about an actual event?
- It can be interpreted in many ways. I am hyper sensitive and very sensitive to everything around me sounds, light and tone. When I discovered that not all children are as good as me, I thought it was heavy; I thought about how sad it was, and that I am just lucky to be born right here. It feels so random, like a fluke, like something I could easily come to lose. There is much in the world that one can feel threatened by, things that can get you to think, "That I'm not going to survive."
British Christmas campaign
- Was it your choice to interpret Oasis song Half a World Away?
- No, it was department store chain John Lewis. Nor do I want to tie my own songs for advertising. It felt a little strange; they chose our interpretation in front of around fifty others. We were only one of the candidates to be included in their annual Christmas campaign. But the video was very nice.
The song reached the 4th place in the Scottish single list and 11th on the English, and the UK have undoubtedly seen advertising video. Revenues from the campaign went to Age UK, a charity that works to improve the situation for many of Britain's lonely and needy elderly, especially during the Christmas season.
- That's why I said it was okay. The work they do is very important. I find it strange how many lose respect for people as they get older.
- The campaign was the also important to you, with high chart positions?
- I do not care about such things; it's not something I think so much about, or asking for. But I've got with me that my album reached the top spot on both the VG list and iTunes. I'm good at pulling me away. Before there was a weakness, but now it's a strength. Noisy airports I've never liked. Eventually I learned to just go where I get positive energy. I hate shopping malls, and always try to shop early in the morning.
- Do you experience being stopped on the street by strangers who want to take selfie with you?
- Yes, and then I feel like an animal in a zoo. I do not like to be a person that people want proof of having met, without having "met" me. Unfortunately, it's part of the game. I never had any desire to be known.
Need long mornings
- Can you beat the world?
- That I learned to do when I was 11 years old. I did not like school, and would rather stay home and dance. As I grew older, I'd rather be home alone and write music than to go to a party with friends. I've never been young. If someone invites me out to celebrate a birthday, I am always the first going home.
- So you're not a moth, such as the album cover?
- No, it goes more that I have a feeling person. I like to cry. When I wake up in the morning, I laugh a little and cry a little. I have long mornings. First I do yoga for half an hour, then I meditate for ten minutes. When I started with meditation, it was hard to get it. Now I can sit down, in the middle of an airport, zone out, and write a song.
Draws songs
- I've read that you do not write songs, but they draw.
- Yes, some songs start so without text. I can see for myself a lake, and a small tree. So you see that there is a dead deer there. Then you have the darkness inside the idyll. However, it is kind of nice too, where it is wrapped in nature, with flowers around; that there is something nice about it ugly. I like that, then it becomes a song.
- What's this song?
- Just the, I have not written yet. But I have another song, which is about a garden with white paper flowers. It is beautiful and a bit special, although there is only artificial flowers. Then comes someone who will set the color of the flowers, but when they see how good it is, they do not anyway. The song I've just recorded. It is called The Secret Garden.
A magical world
- It reminds me of a scene from Alice in Wonderland.
- Oh, I love the book and I love cartoon. It's a pity the children who grow up without with the classic Disney films. Children are so much wiser than you think they are. I learned a lot of Disney movies, she says, and disappears for a moment into his own world of thought.
- Remember The Hunchback of Notre Dame? she asks.
- He was the kindest, while the priest, who was supposed to be the good, had sinister motives.
- Like Frost?
- Yes, but I'm not so fond of the soundtrack to it. It gets a bit too easily. Then it's more class of Hunchback. You can be intellectual to hear those songs. Imagine how nice it is for children to learn something about the world through watching these movies. If I have children, I'll tell they all stories. I love to make the world a little more magical.
Aurora is currently on an extensive tour, with concerts including the Glastonbury Festival (24/6), Roskilde (29/6), Palmesus festival in Kristiansand (1/7), Bygdalarm in Øystese (2/7) Kongsberg Jazz Festival (7/7), Vinjerock (21/7), Olav Festival (3/8), Øya Festival (10/8), Sildajazz (11/8) and the bastion of Bergen (18/8).
The band consists of Magnus Skylstad (drums), O. Martin (bass), Selma Frida Stang (synth bass) and Alf Lund Godbolt (synth).
More information: aurora-music.com
Source: bergensmagasinet.no/aktuelt/norsk-alv-new-york
