![]() Do you have any pets?ĪURORA: I really want a pet, and I really love animals. ![]() TINKHAM: On Facebook, you recommended that fans share your track, “Running With the Wolves,” with a pet. I always feel that I’m safe at home, near my family, the forest as well. “Runaway” kind of fits my situation ’cause it can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. Were you having premonitions of the touring lifestyle when you wrote them?ĪURORA: It’s weird-these songs fit my situation better now, because I’m traveling a lot, at least once a week. Last night, Aurora previewed songs from her forthcoming debut LP (due this fall) at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, and tonight, she will preview them once more at Rockwood Music Hall, marking her first return to New York since CMJ last year.ĬHRIS TINKHAM: Your songs “Runaway” and “Awakening” both express a yearning to return home. Martin and Magnus Skylstad, while also incorporating bits of nature through field recordings. Although she was upset by this at first, it led the singer-songwriter to her current management. Since then, the now 18-year-old has been developing her sound in the studio: producing with bandmates O. ![]() Shortly thereafter, in December 2012, a friend posted her brooding track, “Puppet,” to a Norwegian website for unsigned artists. Before the release, in March, Katy Perry tweeted a link to the wintry video for the EP’s lead track, “Runaway,” telling her 60 million followers that she finally found new music that made her heart flutter.įor most of her life, Aurora was too shy to share her music with others, even her family, and it wasn’t until her last day of 10th grade that she performed in public for the first time. “I was quite strange as a kid, even more than I am now.”Įarlier this month, Aurora (who drops her surname as an artist) released her debut EP, Running With the Wolves, a four-song collection that showcases her world-weary storytelling, adorned by elegant folk melodies and sparkling electronic instrumentation. “I understand that people find me a bit strange, but I don’t think about it that much,” she says. Her first composition, “I Had a Dream,” addressed how harsh the world can be when she was 11, the sight of a drunken man sleeping on the streets of her small, coastal hometown of Os, Norway, saddened her to the point of feeling compelled to write about him. She was signed to the agency Made Management and soon after to record labels Glassnote and Decca in October 2014.Ever since Aurora Aksnes began writing songs at age nine, melancholy has steadily seeped into her music. Aurora made her first performance broadcast to the masses through a television channel in her hometown. ![]() A friend of hers heard the song, asked for a copy, and then posted it on a Norwegian streaming site without her knowing. Music to her is the best way to feel anything.Ī year after her debut performance at her school, Aksnes caught the media’s attention. It was never a dream to become ‘Aurora.’ She says she just likes to compose songs. Her family didn’t know about this until she was 14. She began playing the piano at age six and writing music at age nine. She decided to start performing her songs publicly when her mother suggested that they could help people - not to gain fame with her work, but to make people see around them, realize their own importance, and how they can affect the world. She cites renowned songwriters Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan as influences, as well as an affinity for Björk’s style. Her parents, May-Britt and Jan Øystein Aksnes, encouraged her to pursue music not as a career or hobby, but for growth. Aurora Aksnes’ earliest musical memory is of finding a piano in her attic and being fascinated by the music it could produce.
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