Vogue Scandinavia Interview | November 23, 2022

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Unfortunately the interview is behind a paywall, but here are the links and what I could grab from them:

www.voguescandinavia.com/tags/music

Photo by: David Torch

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Muted clip (full video below), direct link

www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/norwegian-singer-aurora

Watch: Other-worldly Aurora explores Scandinavia’s great outdoors

By Anna Clarke
November 23, 2022


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The ethereal Norwegian singer shares how nature and Mother Earth inspires her music-making...

www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the-aura-of-aurora

“Earth is my favourite place I’ve been”: Enter Aurora’s alternative universe

By Doris Daga
November 23, 2022


Silk dress. Made by Viktoria Aksnes. Vintage corset from the 1930s. Photo: David Torch

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Though angelic pop anomaly Aurora hails from Norway, it can feel like she was beamed here from another planet, an alternate universe, or at the very least, another time. A superstar with an otherworldly aesthetic, a special bond with nature and millions of followers on Instagram, Aurora is so enigmatic, decoding her is an almost impossible task. Still, we cannot help but try...

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The photo from the opening post a bit bigger, by David Torch



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There is an option of buying a physical copy of the issue: www.voguescandinavia.com/store/magazine-issue-9

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She's also on the soundtrack of Issue 9:
www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/the-curated-soundtrack-of-the-october-november-issue-of-vogue-scandinavia

Higher quality photos:

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The video has also been posted by AURORA Stuff:

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Posts from Vogue Scandinavia's Instagram

http://instagr.am/p/ClYYOfyOhXf

Though angelic pop anomaly Aurora hails from Norway, it can feel like she was beamed here from another planet, an alternate universe, or at the very least, another time. Discover her story and how “Earth is the favourite place she's been” through the link in our bio.

Words by : @dorisdaga
Photographer : @davidbtorch
Stylist : @viktoriaaksnes
Makeup and hair artist: @mirandaaksnes
Talent : @auroramusic

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http://instagr.am/p/ClYvMbmsvhG

Watch through the link in our bio an exclusive video where other-wordly Aurora explores the vast existence of Scandinavia.

Director: @olemh
DoP: @jarlrobert

Stylist : @viktoriaaksnes
Makeup and hair artist: @mirandaaksnes
Talent : @auroramusic
With special thanks to Botanisk Sage

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Post by director Ole Martin Halvorsen (backup)

http://instagr.am/p/ClYyRRiK8kL

Had the pleasure of directing a short film with @auroramusic for @voguescandinavia

DoP @jarlrobert
Styling @viktoriaaksnes
Make up @mirandaaksnes
Talent @auroramusic
Location Botanisk Hage

Thanks to @beastusbengtsson and @sheremetmargarita 🙌🏻

Watch the entire film on voguescandimavia.com

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Photographer David Torch posted some of the photos on his Instagram

http://instagr.am/p/ClY9PHaJnlW

AURORA for VOGUE Scandinavia

I had the unforgettable pleasure of shooting @auroramusic for the Dec/Jan issue of @voguescandinavia a couple months ago at Botaniske Hage before it got too cold and dark.
Story’s in their Dec/Jan issue now. You have to pay for it but you can have my discount. Off to brag to my niece now (BIG Frozen 2 fan, still some real ones out there) but before I do

Just want to especially thank @auroramusic for asking me,

the amazing @viktoriaaksnes for styling

@mirandaaksnes for makeup and hair

@olemh for helping with location (he also shot video, see that on his insta or @voguescandinavia

@kimpauls for making it happen

and wonderful @callehuth for the extra hand once it did.

🙏 @voguescandinavia
@amelielangenskiold
@korneliaeklund
@robert_r_rydberg

🌀✌️🙃

#aurora #vogue

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Here is the text - grabbed from r/auroramusic at reddit:

The recent article from VOGUE SCANDINAVIA - snatched from Aurora-daily tumblr

Though angelic pop anomaly Aurora hails from Norway, it can feel like she was beamed here from another planet, an alternate universe, or at the very least, another time. A superstar with an otherworldly aesthetic, a special bond with nature and millions of followers on Instagram, Aurora is so enigmatic, decoding her is an almost impossible task. Still, we cannot help but try

Aurora is sitting in her bedroom, drinking a dark liquid from an elaborate chalice. “This is cola, by the way, not wine,” she clarifies, giggling. The Norwegian artist’s signature viking-meets-anime haircut frames her angelic face, which fills my screen. Behind her, beaded vintage purses and a dramatic silver gown cascade from the wall. Also in frame: a cabinet full of teas and spices and a picture of what appears to be Mary and baby Jesus.

Aurora is six minutes late, which she is profoundly apologetic for. She had been on top of a mountain in the rain and had to blow-dry her trademark cut before meeting with me. “It’s such lovely weather today. Really small raindrops from the sky,” she says. It’s fortuitous that she likes the rain; Aurora, born Aurora Aksnes, lives in Bergen, the rainiest place on Earth. It also happens to be the birthplace of the majority of Norway’s musical talent – DJ-producers Kygo and Alan Walker, electronic duo Röyksopp, even groundbreaking composer Edvard Grieg all hail from the city.

But Aurora’s story begins on the west coast of Norway, in a village next to the Lysefjord, also known as the Fjord of Light. “A lot of nature, a lot of forest, and little people,” she says. “So I grew up quite sheltered.” A self-described introvert, Aurora spent more time as a child within her own imagination than she ever did in school. She did, however, find a great companion in nature, spending hours walking in the forests close to her home. “Nature, she belongs to all of us. And she offers so much tranquillity and peace and silence,” she says, noting that these days we tend to get “very affected by so many worthless things”. “Nature offers some peace. It doesn’t matter who you are when you’re in the forest.”

After coming across her older sister Miranda’s piano in the attic at just six years old, Aurora started writing music . As she explains it, it was her calling because she felt that she’d never heard a perfect song. At nine, she started to write lyrics in English, and at sixteen, after a video of her singing went viral online, she quit school, and went on her first tour. At 20, she released her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, launching an international career. The record features the song “Runaway”, which, despite being six years old, has enjoyed a recent resurgence via TikTok. Today it has more than 500 million streams on Spotify.

This year, at 26, Aurora released her latest album, The Gods We Can Touch, to critical acclaim. While one would certainly identify Aurora as a pop star, she is hardly mainstream. Her music reflects her ethereal essence, somehow embodying the fjords and the mountains around which she grew up. Characterised by dreamy harmonies, her sound both transcends space and time and is rooted firmly in the modern internet pop landscape. Perhaps it ’s this dichotomy that allows her music to live both in the world of Disney’s Frozen II and in the popular video game Assassin’s Creed.

Though Aurora doesn’t recall much from her childhood, aside from “the things I was dreaming about and thinking about”, she does fondly remember her cat, Septimus. It’s the same name she’s given all of her pets – to her mind they’re all the same creature, reincarnated again and again. “To deal with pets dying, it was good for me. I was a sensitive little bean,” she says.

I reveal that I have a pet dog named Doggy, who is nearly 15 years old. As soon as I mention him, Aurora starts to cry, tapping into my impending heartbreak. These days she doesn’t have a pet herself – the lifestyle of an internationally touring pop star doesn’t suit animal companionship. She has, however, made a connection with a crow in the park next to her home. Aurora brings him shiny things, and he brings her gifts sometimes, too.

In addition to Septimus, Aurora also found companionship in her two older sisters, Viktoria and Miranda. She says they are among the few people who understand her, granting her the space and freedom to be herself. “I was very disconnected from people as a child,” she says. “I learned to love most people in my life when I grew up and understood what the essence of family is, and love, and coexisting. Because I was really overwhelmed by just learning to exist in myself as a human.”

Today, Aurora and her sisters are not only best friends, but close collaborators; Viktoria is a stylist and costume designer and Miranda is a hair and makeup artist. The sibling trio collaborated on our editorial. Later, I ask Viktoria over text message what it’s like to work with her superstar sister. “She knows when to leave it to me, and I know when to shut up and do what she wants even though it kills my pride or ego,” she says, adding that Aurora is a “very relaxed boss”. Even over text message, the sisterly bond is apparent – Viktoria signs off with a plant leaf emoji.

“I hate the fashion industry,” Aurora boldly declares when we start to discuss her eight-year long collaboration with Viktoria. “Fashion is important to me – it’s art, and it’s beautiful – but I hate the sad, hidden part of it. It’s so un-transparent and secretive.” Rather than wear items with a nebulous history, she prefers to ask Viktoria to make her clothes. Sometimes she explains her vision, sometimes they draw up designs together. “It’s very loose and free,” she says.

A conversation with Aurora can spontaneously divert to musings on space and time, philosophy, and the human condition. It strikes me that she could have become anything she wanted, but she says she quickly settled single-mindedly on music. “I understood the importance of music quite early, and I connected it in my mind with nature,” she says. “Music is a way to pool what nature is for our souls into something we can hold in our hands, and kind of shape it into something more comprehensible.” Aurora speaks of nature and music as if they are an extension of herself or a language that she speaks fluently. As the thoughts tumble out, the cogs in my mind shift as I try to keep up.

The music she was exposed to early – Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Enya – is a sanctuary for Aurora. These artists offer both a means to self-understanding and a portal for escape. “My brain has sometimes been a good thing and sometimes been a bad thing. It depends on what situation,” she says. “Since I became an artist, it’s always been my goal to offer the same kind of escape.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Aurora is not one to focus on the superficial or mundane. “It doesn’t matter if you get likes or if you’re one centimetre skinnier in your arms. Or if you have a pimple on your forehead. We know it doesn’t matter, but we still let it affect us so much,” she says (for the record, Aurora gets many likes – she has 2.3 million Instagram followers). Instead, she spends her free time studying big ideas: our perception of time, reincarnation and the meaning of life.

Aurora has a charming habit of pointing out concepts she doesn’t understand, as if she’s an alien observing human behaviour. Take, for instance, the way in which we tend to view our lives in a linear series of events - engagement, marriage, children. She chuckles and says that she doesn’t grasp any of it. “I always think of life as me being here, and then life just happens around me all the time and you’re in the middle of the now, which you always own. The now is always yours,” she says, gesturing her hands around her in a circular motion.

“Life is just all a round us, all the time. And we capture the right things sometimes, the right people and the right moments and opportunities.” She pauses to stare out her window towards the mountains, cloudy skies, and miniature raindrops she loves so much, adding, “Earth is my favourite place I’ve been in my life.”

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8 essential Aurora songs you need to add to your playlist

By Yvonne Dewerne

November 28, 2022

Photo: David Torch

From Runaway, penned at just 11 years old, to Oasis covers and activist anthems, here are 8 must-listen tracks to soundtrack your winter

If the Northern Lights could make music, it would sound like the songs of Aurora. With beautifully crafted, nature-inspired lyrics and an ethereal voice to match, Aurora touches upon topics such as environmentalism, love, personal loss and death. After a traumatic funeral for a family friend, she developed a speech disorder that encouraged her to learn sign language. She has lost friends to suicide and a loved one was killed during the Utøya massacre in 2017. All of these experiences find their way into her music.

Related: “Earth is my favourite place I’ve been”: Enter Aurora’s alternative universe

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter taught herself to play the piano at the age of just six. Since celebrating her debut in 2015, she has received critical acclaim and even inspired a then 12-year-old Billie Eilish to make her own music. If you're still sleeping on Aurora, let us enlighten you with eight outstanding songs to work into your playlists.

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'Conqueror'

This is your musical reminder that you can conquer anything in life. With all the devastating news around us, the world can feel like a depressing place and sometimes it all feels like too much. Aurora wrote this song to encourage us to be the hero in our own story. We don’t need someone else to rescue us. All we need is already within us, so just look a little deeper.

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'Running with the Wolves'

This song needs to be on your workout playlist. Written under the blood moon of 2014, Aurora envisioned a world where we humans give in to our primal, animalistic instincts, without being burdened with rules, technology, and materialism. The song comes with a powerful howling melody that only intensifies as the song progresses.

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'Half the World Away'

True, this isn’t her song, it's an Oasis cover, but Aurora masterfully makes it her own. A few years ago, her version was chosen to soundtrack the always anticipated John Lewis Christmas advertisement – and that is serious business in the UK. Of course, her take on the song received some criticism as well, mainly from Oasis fans, but be assured, she did it justice with a version that doesn’t take away the soul of the original. A must-listen.

4

'Runaway'

With 480 million views on YouTube, this is officially Aurora's most popular tune. In the video she is running through a gorgeous snow-laden forest and singing atop a mountain with a spectacular view. The setting makes your mind drift off to wintery Narnia or lust after that snowy winter escape in Lapland. And the most astounding notion of all, Norwegian singer wrote 'Runaway' when she was just 11 years old. It's a beautiful song about wanting to escape.

5

'The Seed'

While listening to Aurora's songs, you cannot help but envision Norwegian fjords, enchanting forests and misty landscapes. And the nature-loving singer wouldn’t want it any other way: the Scandinavia wilds play a vital role in her music. In this song, she focusses on the environment around us, really driving home the message that we can’t eat money. She advocates for immediate climate action and the change necessary to preserve our world.

6

'Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)'

This song from 2016 showcases Aurora’s voice like no other. The ballad tells a dark tale of a man who kills his lover “for mercy" and who "didn't mean to do no harm." The one note in the last chorus is hauntingly beautiful – trust us, you’ll know what we mean, when you hear it.

7

'The River'


Sometimes it just feels good to cry, doesn’t it? And yet, there is this misconception that emotional expressions by males are a form of weakness. This tune shines a positive light on crying. While the inspiration for the song came from Aurora reading about high male suicide rates, the song itself is freeing and joyous. So if you're looking for the soundtrack to your next blub session, you just found it.

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'Everything Matters'

Earlier this year, Aurora released her latest captivating album, The Gods We Can Touch. On it, she sings about shame, guilt, sex, love and forgiveness: in every track we get to meet a new god. Aurora has stated that she is very into mythology and admires the Greek gods for their diversity.

Souce: www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/8-essential-aurora-songs-you-need-on-your-playlist

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The video is available on director Ole Martin Halvorsen's official website

Here is a downloadable link of the video: vimeo.com/747045381/99e148c863

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Feb 2, 2023 22:12:16 GMT leaves said:

The video is available on director Ole Martin Halvorsen's official website

Here is a downloadable link of the video: vimeo.com/747045381/99e148c863

Sadly the downloadable link isn’t working anymore, are you able to post another one by any chance? Thank you so much

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Feb 19, 2023 1:17:08 GMT thegodswecantouch said:

Feb 2, 2023 22:12:16 GMT leaves said:

The video is available on director Ole Martin Halvorsen's official website

Here is a downloadable link of the video: vimeo.com/747045381/99e148c863

Sadly the downloadable link isn’t working anymore, are you able to post another one by any chance? Thank you so much

The link  worked fine for me, but I'm not sure if I can download it.

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Feb 19, 2023 1:17:08 GMT thegodswecantouch said:

Feb 2, 2023 22:12:16 GMT leaves said:

The video is available on director Ole Martin Halvorsen's official website

Here is a downloadable link of the video: vimeo.com/747045381/99e148c863

Sadly the downloadable link isn’t working anymore, are you able to post another one by any chance? Thank you so much

The link still works. There is an arrow symbol under the video on the right side, when you click the arrow button a list of several qualities of the video will appear which you can download.

But in case it won't work, here is a download link of the highest qualities:

Original/1080p: we.tl/t-11LraJ3bWx