Aurora - Full performance (Live at The Current)

Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora Aksnes - known professionally as Aurora - had first imagined the songs she was working on would comprise three albums, then one, before she firmly decided on two. "I realized that with time, with a lot of thinking, I did realize that I have been writing about two very different parts, but of the same process I would say," she says. "So it makes very much sense spiritually and musically to split it into two parts, so it makes sense now."
That first part, Infections of a Different Kind - step 1, was released in September, 2018. The second part, A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) was released in June, 2019. While in town for a show in the First Avenue Mainroom in 2019, Aurora - along with bandmates Silja Sol, Fredrik Vogsborg and Magnus Skylstad - stopped at The Current for a session hosted by Mac Wilson.
Aurora is based in Bergen, a city on Norway's west coast that Aurora says is home to a thriving artistic community. "It is a very good place to become a musician or a producer or artist," she explains. "We're all very close; we all know each other and support each other. … There's a lot of indie music coming out from Bergen. It's a very good community; we're very lucky."
SONGS PERFORMED
00:00:00 "Animal"
00:03:38 "Churchyard"
00:07:32 "It Happened Quiet"
The second and third songs is from Aurora's 2018 album, Infections of a Different Kind (Step 1); the first song is from Aurora's next album A Different Kind of Human (Step 2), released in 2019. Both are released on Decca Records and distributed in the U.S. on Glassnote Records.
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PERSONNEL
Aurora, Magnus Skylstad, Silja Sol, and Fredrik Vogsborg
CREDITS
Production: Derrick Stevens
Audio: Cameron Wiley
Visuals: Minju Kim, Helen Teague
Feature: Luke Taylor
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