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[aurora-daily]

AURORA's Infections of a Different Kind and A Different Kind of Human are making their way back on vinyl but this time in black!

Official release date is 29th September

Pre-order is open now [link]

[c-kiddo]

sorry if this is mean but aurora needs to get a new producer so bad bro :(( i still think her voice is so good but the production is so bad i can't listen to her new music . its so pitchy and the synths are so sharp and her voice is half drowned out in the mix when she's got such an icy clear voice it kind of needs to be heard clearly too. if its competing then it gets harsh and like sore to listen to lol. her vocals would be so amazing with real strings and percussion etc etc too , like it could be so interesting (and we already know she's better live, i think thats pretty common opinion) but the extremely digital instruments and synth in her songs just ruin so many of them to me. imagine if cure for me didn't have the horrible synth keyboard that sounds so cheap and textureless and instead had some percussion T_T

[psychedelic-ink]

Posted the chapter early becasue I got too excited and I’m also bored, enjoy bbys 💜 🚂

[haysillustrations]

Bagged this on Vinted, so happy 🥺 Now I just need IOADK to add to my record collection! 🥰

[kamariya]

wait wait what if we do matching icons as in one of us does the album cover of ioadk and the other does adkoh

OMG OMG YES

so who's gonna do which

[visualpixelbit]

IA London's Beautifully Broken runway show at London Fashion Week today 2022

@aurora-daily

[yngridsarts]

🩸 It Happened Quiet 🩸 @auroramusic

(i made this short animatic as an assignment for uni)

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[doodleblueart]

i don’t need a cure for me!!🎭 here is my new drawing of aurora to celebrate her new song. instead of aurora wearing the mask, i decided to make her the mask.

[flexxandra]

Everything I have lost, I have loved

[aurora-daily]

We Are Walking Portals: Aurora Interviewed by Monica Uszerowicz

Interview for BOMB Magazine by Monica Uszerowicz (January 6th, 2023).

The music artist on giving live concerts in the world of video games.

When you play Sky: Children of the Light, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) by independent game developers Thatgamecompany, the first and last sound you’ll hear is Aurora. Tapped by Thatgamecompany co-founder Jenova Chen to provide the soundtrack for two of the game’s pivotal moments, the Norwegian singer, writer, and producer becomes an invisible guide, her preternaturally sweet voice navigating players through Sky’s most poignant scenes. Sky is wondrous, an inclusive game that incentivizes touch and communication with a narrative rooted in ancestral memory, communal care, and sacrifice. In addition to its foundational storyline, Sky features themed seasonal adventures, often involving unique collaborations; the last month and a half was the “Season of Aurora.”

On December 8, Sky presented a virtual concert during which a winged avatar of Aurora led an audience of nearly four thousand players on a journey of immersive music videos, call-and-response, and storytelling. We became butterflies, fish, manta rays encircling Aurora in a kind of fey, digital mosh pit. It was unlike anything I’ve witnessed, somewhere between a virtual reality, an online concert, and a cyber-choir—a brief, charged experience of togetherness. It was repeated throughout the day for the next several weeks. Aurora, who often sings and speaks about the importance of caring for each other and the planet in the face of real grief, is an apt choice for a game that emphasizes tenderness as the antidote to loneliness.

— Monica Uszerowicz

Monica UszerowiczYou care deeply for the planet, and you speak often about the magic in this world. You’re also a bit of a gamer. Do you find magic in virtual worlds too?

Aurora

Absolutely. I’ve always been a huge fan of games. I think it’s so cool to be able to live many lives and go on adventures with people. What I need from video games has changed. I’ve been gaming since I was eleven. When I was a bit younger, I found a lot of online friends and belonging in these worlds. I think I also learned most of my English from gaming. Now, I feel more at peace in my own skin, my own self, and in the world. The real world is as exciting to me as the gaming world; it’s healthy.

MU

The themes of Sky remind me of the themes in your music. I’m curious about how you connected with Sky and came to work with them.

A

I connect with the soul of Sky: Children of the Light. It’s about connection and feeling at home—like you belong somewhere. I know many of the people who play Sky play it for this reason. The spiritual side of it; death, to me, is a very spiritual thing. It’s inevitable, and it colors the way we live our lives because we know it’s going to end, and that loving comes with loss. It’s just the entire soul of the game. I have a love for the people who play Sky and the creators behind it. They’re a beautiful, beautiful couple [Jenova Chen and his partner]. It’s impossible to not want to be included in what they create when you meet them. The first thing I did for them was a few years ago — the intro for the game and the ending song. I met them on tour, I think. They said hi, talked about their connection to me and how they think I would fit into this game. It was just us meeting. It was meant to be. I love them, and they love me. It’s based on nothing else: They are people, and I am people, and we like each other, and then we want to do something together. It’s very organic, this collaboration.

MU

You’re written into the storyline as one of the ancestor spirits players get to meet. Did you design or write some of the quests that we play—set to your music—during “Season of Aurora”?

A

I wanted there to be someone to help in each song and chapter. There’s this reminder that you must help each other out, be good to each other, and then help yourself. I talked about what colors I think my songs have, and we chose the songs together, songs we felt had enough darkness and light. I figured out which characters and which small story fit with each song. We talked about it together and sent emails until we were happy. It’s been a very easy collaboration because we agree so much on most everything.

MU

By the time this interview is published, you’ll have given a virtual concert in Sky.

A

Everyone’s going to be able to have a part in making magic. I think it’s going to be an emotional, beautiful moment for all of us. I’m very excited about it — I love the people. It’s very much about how you experience it and how it makes you feel. It’s a very individual thing, but I hope it’s going to feel like we’re a big family even though we’re all playing it from different corners of the world. I hope there will be a moment of true connection with all of us sitting in our homes and being lonely, but lonely together, which is very cool.

MU

You’ve spoken at length about the title of your latest album, The Gods We Can Touch (2022), and the inspiration of Greek mythology. What happened in the space between your two most recent albums? What were you thinking about and researching in the quiet?

A

For my first album, I had space from people because I spent a lot of time alone in my house writing those songs. My second album was very full of people. It became more political because there were things I was discovering as a traveling human being, wanting to use my voice, wanting to make good warriors of light of myself and my fans. With this album, I had a break again. The biggest core of this album is playful, childish, but also divine and kind of grand. It talks a lot about religious, God-like images.

The album’s about this issue I have with modern religion, which is very modern because it hasn’t even existed for a smidgen of time. I wonder why we removed God from the earth, from ourselves, from the water, from things we could touch, and put him up in the sky far away and let him, or her, judge us for who we are. The Bible says a lot of things, and it’s up to every person who reads it to use it, hopefully in the best way they can. But when mixed with power, and the potential of having power by the way you interpret a book written by people you don’t know, there’s a lot of risk there. People have found weakness and exploited it. It’s a conundrum for the history of mankind and how we live now: what’s happening in Iran, women’s abortion rights, the way we turn against ourselves and against women again, the way that we go back and forth, in and out of progress as we please. Well, we don’t; but it seems that many of the men who rule the world choose to, and they drag us with them. It’s a complicated life, a complicated world, and this album is me just dealing with all of that, trying to remain free and playful within all the mess of how it is to be a human.

I think as long as we keep our inner child untouched as much as we can, as long as we don’t give anyone space or permission to touch what is inside of our soul, we’ll be okay. You see a lot of progress. You see people raising their voices for good for each other. There’s a lot of beauty that blossoms out of what happens in the world.

MU

I'm glad you mentioned how important it is to maintain our inner children, that sense of self, as truthfully as we can.

A

The world can do a lot to us. It can hurt us in many ways. But our soul, our mind, is ours entirely, and can never be sold. It gives me strength, at least in moments, to think about what I do carry in me. We even carry the possibility of life within us, not because we should do it or have to do it, but just because we are a magical bridge between life and not existing, between new life and the world. We are walking portals. It doesn’t surprise me that the world is scared of that. It’s incredibly magical.

I do have hope for the planet, for the world, as long as we don’t get too overstimulated by the internet. As long as we remember that we do exist here together and that our ability to care goes beyond just the people we know. We are all here together. It’s a very Western-world idea to only care about your own cloud. The world is hard to understand, but luckily I can make albums and try to understand it a bit better for myself.

[kuutamokukka]

Here are two of Aurora’s Apple Tree- music video lockscreens i made 💓

Feel free to use!

[griefpool]

Sometimes I plant my feet in the earth and put my headphones as high as they go, i turn my palms outward. This is when i listen to Infections of a different kind. i open my mouth to the sky and I close my eyes and each and every time I am surprised to open them and find myself still on the earth

[psychedelic-ink]

OKAY OKAY. pls imagine me typing this with my one working hand and the middle finger of the poorly hand. because it's a sight to imagine, and a thing of beauty in person. ANYWAY. congrats on 9k, you utterly deserve it all bby. ✉️ AMA - what the one plot idea that sits rotting in your head you've not had chance to get out yet? ✨

bby I love you so much for typing all of this with one hand 💗💗💗 and thank you ILYSM

okay okay so honestly if I hadn't had a goal of posting a chapter of sib and finishing ioadk i would've been working on this, here's the preview of the masterlist under the cut

basically it's a husband's brother!dave york fic and the brother aka your husband is pretty awful towards you, after a night of accidental passion unbeknownst to you dave has recorded the whole thing, and now he's blackmailing you so you'll continue to keep him close

it's going to be a trilogy just like the stripper!jack series

[carvifox]

✨🌙🌞  Hellº!! Any AURORA fans here? I’m selling these stickers  🌞🌙✨

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