Etherea Borealis by AURAH

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The inspiration to record music as an emotional backdrop, a painting of sounds if you will, allowing us as well as the listener to undertake a journey of day dreaming and imagination, was born out of reading the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.

We told ourselves, “Let's forget everything we learned about traditional songwriting, about catchy song forms, hooks, 3 min. 30 second time limits, etc” and we created from intuition and heart. Without being fully aware of it

at first, it just happened. The music wrote itself. Yes, we still had to put it all together, but it was effortless. Just like the difference between a task you feel you have to perform and something you love to do.

Out of this came our eclectic CD entitled Songs of the Alchemist. Some songs were ethnic and organic, while some were instrumental and electronic. Some had vocals but no lyrics. Some were reminiscent of a film-score.

Why not take it a step further? Judith took paint brushes, her diaries of poetry and recorded dreams and emotions,and started looking for sounds to create and all encompassing and multi-sensory experience. We called it Kismet.

It is as much an art project as a record. How can you separate one art form from the other anyway...; sometimes they just merge together. We came to understand that in order not to dictate what a listener should feel or think, the music should have a certain amount of room. This consequently resulted in a very meditative and placid record. We described it as "exploring the space between sound and silence".

This brings us to Etherea Borealis where we combine songs with the elements of ethereal soundscapes we had learned to love with the last two records. Some tracks are extended cues from the feature film score Loving Annabelle, which we recently composed, and others were written over the course of the last years.

The creative process is an interesting and unpredictable one, sometimes one cannot explain what makes something ready and ripe to be released into the world. We feel this music to be a true reflection of who we are today, knowing that tomorrow a new truth will be born again. We hope you will enjoy it, too.

AURAH - Marc Dold & Judith Martin

BIOGRAPHY:

Originally from Switzerland, both Marc Dold and Judith Martin created Aurah as a musical journal of their quest to experience life’s alchemy.

"We love songs and improvisations alike." Emotional guitar sounds

and scintilating vocal arrangements are part of the essence

of music that is as much pop as transcendental as meditational

and electronic. The twin sound clouds of film scores and songs

that reflect their personal journey. Each one of

their albums has a completely unique sound and purpose.

As a producer, Dold has given both Enya and Celine Dion number one hits, has worked with Peter Gabriel, Cindy Lauper, Nelly Furtado, many artists of the pop music world. He says of his experiences: “Some of the greatest leaps in music evolution have been made by artists like Gabriel, Sting or Pink Floyd who refuse to be pigeonholed.”

As a vocalist and producer, Judith Martin has lent her skills to numerous Television shows from Sex In The City to Queer Eye for A Straight Guy and more. Her mystical style

After Aurah’s release SONGS OF THE ALCHEMIST Martin took pen and paper on the grassy knolls of Griffith Park and began writing what would become KISMET. “I thought it would be great to bring the music together with journal poetry, images, high end Balinese incense for a complete introspective experience. Aurahs music share the reflective essence and rare quality of being both intimate and universal.

In 2006 Aurah composed the fiml score for the award-winning feature film

Loving Annabelle, and short film Never After. They're songs are heard on

Little Miss Sunshine, Blood Diamond, Blood & Chocolate, to name the ones of the recent month

Aurah's new release Etherea Borealis is a reflection of the merging of their soaring and psychedelic soundscapes with new songs.

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