Aurasvera - Aureola #1
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Since Riverside’s debut, there has been no such excellent album ever recorded in Poland yet! The fact that none of the major labels has offered itself to release this music confirms it, somehow. Is that so because the lyrics seem too ambitious? Or because these electronic tones generate too many emotions and richly patterned soundscapes instead of easygoing bare beats? Or maybe because the album itself affirms a certain French saying?
Male-female duos have always been known for their great effectiveness. Also in the field of music. AURASVERA is a project, which in the years 2004-2006 performed under the name Aura. Its line-up includes Joanna Lakomska (vocals, violin) and Krzysiek Palich (music, vocals, lyrics). The band’s musical space is a combination of their likings for several seemingly separate genres, such as dark wave, electro-pop and cold wave. The album “Aureole – part 1” features a few potential smash hits, among which the ones surely worth mentioning are “Black Rainbow”, “The Great Imponderable”, “An Ugly Love Song”. The climax of their perfection fit for a single can be found in the track called “An Ideal World” – mainly because of its melody, energy and hypnotic sounds. The most essential question now is which radio stations you can hear songs like this one from.
AURASVERA was founded as a result of “a spontaneous need to express sincere emotions and a natural desire to communicate with those who feel it all in a similar manner” [as the band informs us on its various webpages linked to some music-and-society portals]. Someone might say “a sad love story for emotional freaks…” All right! Why not?! The lyrical aura of these tracks either touches or has touched almost every man and woman. Does anyone dare to deny this?… “An Ugly Love Song” is the core. Perhaps, nobody has ever sung so cynically about this feeling before! This wasted feeling. Probably belonging to the past. The one that still hangs around half-slain in the present day, like a nightmare. Strange, but the lavatory noises throughout the last seconds of the track do not seem to be a blasphemy against this most beautiful feeling a human being can get… Just because “An Ugly Love Song” is like a reminder. The next question is whether you are going to draw a conclusion from this lesson.
The duo’s musicians treat the importance of music and the importance of lyrics as one. Their vocals sound like voices from another world. The female vocals make you think of those classic 4AD incantations and never let the listener feel indifferent to them. The male vocals, balancing on the verge of depression and dreaming, are a concrete portion of reflection in the “blue-empty” style. The sunshine-and-rain (or -rainbow?) cascades of electronic sounds take the listener on a journey into the deepest corners of man’s soul and provoke you into asking yourself some important questions. And it is for you to know best what sort of questions they are… It is out there where there is rain, where there is a rainbow, and where “we try to find what may not exist for real” (“A Few Moments (7 Days)”). Fans of dark electronic sounds and the 80’s style (meaning the grey zone of Eighties music, not the pink zone, beyond any doubt!) should without fear get familiar with this album. And yet another circle of fans of the 80’s might ask: is that how Cocteau Twins could sound in the 21st Century?
By listening carefully to the music of the project AURASVERA, you can guess some of the band’s inspirations, but identifying them in its music would certainly prove much more difficult. It is so because the album “Aureole” itself constitutes an individual quality. A brand-new brand. The one and only in our country, and may it be hopefully discovered by a good label and festival organizers. All in all, AURASVERA shows a huge musical and vocal potential that has been recognized and appreciated only by the few, so far. Sadly, this proves to be a norm in our country. A norm complying with one principle: if there is an album with lyrics that deeply deal with the most common (and at the same time, most essential) human affairs in life, far from verbosity and all that blah blah blah, it cannot be easily promoted. What can you do? You cannot change your idea. And what can be said about the music on this album? A release worth a contract should include simple beats and be full of nice melodies. Well, there are some beats here… And melodies as well… It is just a question of making an appraisal. So taste it. And make your appraisal.
PS. That French saying is: Les plus belles chansons ce sont les plus tristes.
Tracklist:
01. Moment pierwszy
02. Black Rainbow
03. Świat idealny
04. Mimo wszystko
05. 2005 rok (Aureola-Mix)
06. Wielka niewiadoma
07. As A Matter Of Fact
08. Unhappy X-Mas
09. Początek & koniec (October mix)
10. Brzydka piosenka o miłości
11. Innym razem
12. Kilka chwil (7 dni)
13. Absurd
14. Cicho & ciszej (Monument mix)
15. Casper Deveraux (Repryza)
http://www.myspace.com/aurasvera
Male-female duos have always been known for their great effectiveness. Also in the field of music. AURASVERA is a project, which in the years 2004-2006 performed under the name Aura. Its line-up includes Joanna Lakomska (vocals, violin) and Krzysiek Palich (music, vocals, lyrics). The band’s musical space is a combination of their likings for several seemingly separate genres, such as dark wave, electro-pop and cold wave. The album “Aureole – part 1” features a few potential smash hits, among which the ones surely worth mentioning are “Black Rainbow”, “The Great Imponderable”, “An Ugly Love Song”. The climax of their perfection fit for a single can be found in the track called “An Ideal World” – mainly because of its melody, energy and hypnotic sounds. The most essential question now is which radio stations you can hear songs like this one from.
AURASVERA was founded as a result of “a spontaneous need to express sincere emotions and a natural desire to communicate with those who feel it all in a similar manner” [as the band informs us on its various webpages linked to some music-and-society portals]. Someone might say “a sad love story for emotional freaks…” All right! Why not?! The lyrical aura of these tracks either touches or has touched almost every man and woman. Does anyone dare to deny this?… “An Ugly Love Song” is the core. Perhaps, nobody has ever sung so cynically about this feeling before! This wasted feeling. Probably belonging to the past. The one that still hangs around half-slain in the present day, like a nightmare. Strange, but the lavatory noises throughout the last seconds of the track do not seem to be a blasphemy against this most beautiful feeling a human being can get… Just because “An Ugly Love Song” is like a reminder. The next question is whether you are going to draw a conclusion from this lesson.
The duo’s musicians treat the importance of music and the importance of lyrics as one. Their vocals sound like voices from another world. The female vocals make you think of those classic 4AD incantations and never let the listener feel indifferent to them. The male vocals, balancing on the verge of depression and dreaming, are a concrete portion of reflection in the “blue-empty” style. The sunshine-and-rain (or -rainbow?) cascades of electronic sounds take the listener on a journey into the deepest corners of man’s soul and provoke you into asking yourself some important questions. And it is for you to know best what sort of questions they are… It is out there where there is rain, where there is a rainbow, and where “we try to find what may not exist for real” (“A Few Moments (7 Days)”). Fans of dark electronic sounds and the 80’s style (meaning the grey zone of Eighties music, not the pink zone, beyond any doubt!) should without fear get familiar with this album. And yet another circle of fans of the 80’s might ask: is that how Cocteau Twins could sound in the 21st Century?
By listening carefully to the music of the project AURASVERA, you can guess some of the band’s inspirations, but identifying them in its music would certainly prove much more difficult. It is so because the album “Aureole” itself constitutes an individual quality. A brand-new brand. The one and only in our country, and may it be hopefully discovered by a good label and festival organizers. All in all, AURASVERA shows a huge musical and vocal potential that has been recognized and appreciated only by the few, so far. Sadly, this proves to be a norm in our country. A norm complying with one principle: if there is an album with lyrics that deeply deal with the most common (and at the same time, most essential) human affairs in life, far from verbosity and all that blah blah blah, it cannot be easily promoted. What can you do? You cannot change your idea. And what can be said about the music on this album? A release worth a contract should include simple beats and be full of nice melodies. Well, there are some beats here… And melodies as well… It is just a question of making an appraisal. So taste it. And make your appraisal.
PS. That French saying is: Les plus belles chansons ce sont les plus tristes.
Tracklist:
01. Moment pierwszy
02. Black Rainbow
03. Świat idealny
04. Mimo wszystko
05. 2005 rok (Aureola-Mix)
06. Wielka niewiadoma
07. As A Matter Of Fact
08. Unhappy X-Mas
09. Początek & koniec (October mix)
10. Brzydka piosenka o miłości
11. Innym razem
12. Kilka chwil (7 dni)
13. Absurd
14. Cicho & ciszej (Monument mix)
15. Casper Deveraux (Repryza)
http://www.myspace.com/aurasvera
