Renaissance Man Reaction to AURORA - A Soul With No King (Live Performance) | Vevo Amazing!!

[@nobodi817]

Aurora has a way of stealing a piece of your being and you will never tire of her voice. I have been a fan since 2016 and she never disappoints.

[@markryder8488]

for me the best live singer on the planet right know. Shes upped her game and has progressed in the last year to something on a global stage,

[@mistercointreau5247]

Her lower register is so good now. Great vocalist, great dancer and I reckon she would be an amazing actress if she decided to go in that direction.

[@TveitenRampBryggeri]

I don't understand how she isn't even more popular than she is. There are not many artists (if any) like Aurora in this world we live in.

[@franktorejohansen7874]

Because of the way the industry is, and everything that doesn't fit in the "mainstream" has to squeeze into the "alt" box. And considering how bad "mainstream" is these days it is a really bad situation.

[@SaraKvammen-tx7qc]

​@@franktorejohansen7874 yes,the same with Dimash, Tori Amos, Loreena Mckennitt, Susanne Sundfør, Røyksopp....the lust goes on and on

[@Tarkus_]

I have so many favorite live performances of hers, I'm hesitant to place anything new near the top, but this certainly deserves it. Her voice and vocal ability has matured so well. Even though she's always had a gorgeous voice, she's better than ever. And yet, she's never looked more at ease, just having fun.

[@charlesgoodwin-k1x]

The way she shines on camera makes me wish she would try acting.

[@Oldperson-wt3ui]

Yes, great reaction to the best multi talented ARTist alive, IMO. She is just the complete package of what an artist should be, and on to top it off, she is just so caring, authentic and wonderfully weird. The is one of my many top favorite live performances of hers, thanks.

[@johndennison3140]

I’ve followed Aurora now for 7 years seen her live on 3 occasions and I’ve no hesitation in saying she is the best live performer that I’ve had the pleasure of seeing,never has any artist moved my emotions like Aurora seriously lyrically she never writes a bad song,it’s hard to believe that she never intended to become an artist it was her mother who after hearing her sing told her that her music is a medicine for everyone “what a wise mother”I only have one word to describe Aurora GENIUS ❤️

[@liamstrain]

She has a loop pedal you can see her hit for the breathing beat.

[@AztecHusBone]

She is something else man

[@maxsteiner1964]

She really is something else isn't she.

[@rolfjamne8922]

Every little thing she does is magic Check out he liver cover of Teardrop (Massiv Attac) Imo one of her best vocal performances.❤

[@noorieiversen]

I’m in love with this performance, but also her live performance of exhale inhale and potion for love. ❤❤❤

[@CarlD70]

Just simply an amazing artist, in the truest meaning of the word. Aurora's uniqueness will forever set her apart from any other artist. Do not believe you shall ever see a "comparison" with Aurora as there are none. Thanks Ken. Another great song and great reaction. Cheers, stay well.

[@rune123674]

yet another mesmerising performance by AURORA 🌹🌹🌹

[@heidifarstadkvalheim4952]

You are watching a genius at work ♥- called Aurora Aksnes

[@lillm6874]

Really nice reaction👍 Love this song and this live performance is so good (mind blowing)😍 And yes, she’s looping👍😍 Aurora and Fredrik (guitarist) wrote and produced this song together, and in the studio version Aurora plays both piano and percussion👍 I highly recommend “The dark dresses lightly” live at the Roskilde festival “Some type of skin” live at Vevo A stripped down version It was filmed on the same day as A Soul a With no King😊 Both are songs from her new album😍

[@TheAkal]

Beautimus!!!❤

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I use that word myself quite often. Nice choice

[@RunarNyrud]

I 100% agree, she looks at YOU, it is the same at her concerst for me; it feels like she is preforming for a crowd of friends and familiy.

[@piscean5376]

Hi Ken, great reaction ,Aurora is totally unique in this crazy world ,always fantastic performances. Checkout all of her Vevo especially SOME TYPE OF SKIN..........

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Will do!

[@WhiteTiger333]

She uses that studio in several of her videos. It's cool how it can be so radically transformed with lighting and costume color. I saw your thinking that Fredrik should have worn light green pants to blend in. I hadn't noticed, but it made me wonder if the idea was for him to not blend in. Aurora's detail is so meticulous, it must have had a purpose. Yes, that song surprised the heck out of me. It's really something how she has absorbed so many different kinds of music and matches music to lyrics so perfectly.

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

This is the VEVO New York Studio. There is also a VEVO London studio, and that's the one with the unique ceiling (Exhale, Inhale and A Potion For Love).

[@RabRab-q5u]

It's my favorite Aurora song. It has strength and delicacy at the same time, although the intention is challenging and so is its look. I highlight three things: the war cry (or nature's complaint), the piano arpeggio which is a delight, and those two little screams at the end, which according to what I read are used by Nordic shepherds. The lyrics are devastating. Of all the reactions I saw about my favorite song, this is the best, because you don't miss anything. 10/10

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Thank you for saying that. It means a lot.

[@foghornleghorn809]

As Brian Eno said in an interview: The Norwegian singer Aurora, who's one of the most extraordinary people i've met. Absolutely original human being. You just think, who designed her ? She is ... she's such a oneoff wonderful person. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJTWiHSge715hdE

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

It is no surprise Brian Eno would be intrigued by her. He had a unique approach as well.

[@TheVirtualWatcher]

@@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl Eno has done an official remix of the album version of this song, incorporating 'sounds of nature': A Soul With No King - Remix (feat. NATURE) : kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIGWfmWMetFnpa8

[@art_by_accident]

Yes, Fredrik controls the looping with foot pedals. You see it a lot better in the "sister" video to this, Some Type of Skin. Not just the breathing, but also one or two piano chords when Aurora is off the keyboard. You see it even better in a few of the small presentation gigs she did when the album came out, like e.g. the Pryzm in London. The point is, it's all done live.

[@TheVirtualWatcher]

I was at PRYZM and my attention was draw to Fredrik, for two reasons:- Firstly, he was seated and he usually stands and moves about. Secondly, he had no shoes on, so I watched him and saw he was spending a lot of time and effort operating various foot-switches ... whilst playing immaculately.

[@art_by_accident]

@@TheVirtualWatcher Yeah, Fredrik is underrated. A fantastic musician all around. I wonder what he did before Aurora hired him.

[@notvochkin]

Same or similar set for her Vevo performances of "Inhale Exhale" and "Heathens".

[@afrisv]

One of my favorites on her latest album 😊. I know very little about how it's done, but sounds like some looping, and some added sounds from Fredrik's pedals. I love these live stripped Vevo versions, and sometimes even more than the album versions. Initially a bit lukewarm to "A Temporary High", but the melancholy Vevo live version made me fall in love with the song.

[@BeateGuldbjørnsen]

She sings from the voice of mother earth? Good lysics❤ I love this lady, no makeup, the sister make her dresses and what a naturual talent from our land. We are blessed whit Aurora and Angelina. Must be the fresh air😂 Love from Norway❤

[@Josian-ps7fb]

The overall simplicity of this kind of set up showcases her brilliance so much (to me, it's even some sort of enhancement or something, like some sort of awesome and almost unreal synergy, but hey). Personally, I've been eveytime blown away by that, for years, and I still am... to the point soliloquizing about it in the comments sections far too often, I guess... But hey, after all, "like, comment, suscribe!", right?😀 Great reaction, don't hesitate to come back in the Queendom and to share it with us.🙂👍

[@peterjack840]

in one shot of this session at Vevo, this song and "Some Type of Skin", you can see a whole row of pedals in front of Fredrik, the guitarist. I think he's controlling some of the effects such as sustained keyboard tones and her looped breaths, because I could occasionally see him step forward at times just off camera.

[@sapphosmuse1243]

Loved this!!! Will you please do the vevo live performance of “some type of skin” by Aurora?

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Yes.

[@markstuartwakeley]

Top man ❤❤❤❤

[@jjmail1971]

I think the guitarist controls the looping pedal because she looks directly at him while doing the breaths. I have seen him in live performances with a six pedal foot pedal array.

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Makes sense.

[@user-bn2uh2cr6t]

Please do full album what happened to the heart

[@tx0h]

it's such a good song. if you haven't heard the nature remix by brian eno you might be interested to listen to it, it has a good ending. thanks for this and upcoming aurora reactions.

[@Geralt26]

Stunning performance and I love it very much. Yes it looks like looped breath + there are some keys on the very end. We don't know if guitarist uses something or it was added (you noticed some moving sound, maybe it is connected). Anyway thank you for reaction for this amazing artist and a breathtaking performance.

[@luisantonioguarin9162]

In fact, there's a loop pad on the floor that Frederic controls, and in this video, you can see him moving his feet to operate it. Additionally, you can also spot it in another performance of "Some Type of Skin" where the camera pans out far enough to reveal it

[@stephenbarlow2493]

Thank for you reaction. There is just something about this performance, it has bewitched me in a good way. It's just breathtaking. Aurora gives it her all, not just vocally, but in her movement, and general visual performance. Frederick does his thing on the mandolin, seamlessly, but a also big shout out to the camera operator, who is so synchronised with Aurora, in this one take, that you wonder how it was done. Was there some choreography worked out between Aurora and the camera operator beforehand. But not forgetting Aurora's spectacular vocals, and interpretation, which is different than on other versions of this song. Overall, I just cannot believe how good it was.

[@Casin]

If you want to see more of her piano playing: Life on Mars live at NRK. Just her alone with a keyboard.

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I have seen that one several times because it was one of my favorite Bowie songs and she just made it even more special.

[@user-bn2uh2cr6t]

Thank you for sharing your reaction to us🍀 keep continue 🍀❤

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

Aurora = Liebe ❤ Moin aus Schleswig-Holstein.

[@dlbwoodbury]

I just watched you other AURORA reactions, and thanks for that! Now, please do yourself and us a favour by reaction to her performance of ‘The Dark Dresses Lightly’ life at Roskilde Festival. She appears to be summoning the wind in her hair and gossamer garments to embody a neoclassical painting of a goddess! Enjoy!

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

That sounds right up my alley. Adding it now

[@GhostlyEcheveria]

Aurora does looping on both of the new VEVO performances. I've always loved when people do live looping so it made me really happy. Owen Pallett is one of my favorite composers, and he started out looping violin and piano live.

[@paulkossak7761]

If you concentrate on the lyrics to this song, it's pretty damn dark. He's playing a mandola, a large mandolin that is tuned differently than a conventional mandolin.

[@WhiteTiger333]

Not a bouzouki?

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I knew it looked and sounded different and a little larger but I couldn't find what it was in the info on the song on the internet. Thank you for letting me know. One more fact to fill the large empty space where my knowledge lives. 😊😁

[@WhiteTiger333]

@@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl Ha! On the CD, the liner notes list the instruments and who plays them on each track. That track claims it's a guitar, which it clearly is not - LOL! So, no help there.

[@lennarthedlund9783]

Mandolin - violin. Mandola - viola. A viola is tuned a fifth under a violin. Could also be a modern rendition of the mandolin, an octave mandolin, sometimes called a mandola.

[@lennarthedlund9783]

@@WhiteTiger333 Probably an octave mandolin. An octave mandolin is tuned in fifths, a bouzouki in fourths.

[@itallo.raphael]

Thx❤ sooo good reaction We need more of aurora plsss

[@dlbwoodbury]

🌹🌹🌹

[@silversong4VR]

Good catch, sustain and looping, easy to do and beautifully done.

[@danielparrott8339]

Great review of this amazing performance and song. To help with the mandolin stuff, it is actually in a slow 4 beat, but very syncopated across this. However, at the beginning of the album version it starts alternating one bar with four beat, then two of three, one of four, two of three. It does this It happens in this version at 5mins 40secs into your reaction whilst she holds the long, loud high note. It takes a bit of work to work out what is going on!

[@michaelpeel7699]

Dude your aurora reaction videos are so good 😊

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Thank you so much 😁

[@michaelpeel7699]

@@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl honestly man,the way you break it down is so insightful. She is utterly compelling to watch. Looking forward to the next one ✌🏻

[@gracchi132]

Great reaction and really honest. Got a new follower

[@foghornleghorn809]

You should listen to this,I think you will like it . Aurora tribute to Mari Boine. Golle Máze. Aurora live at NOPA's (Norwegian Song Writer's Association) award show 15.10.24. Performing her take on the Sami yoik "Golle Máze" for honorary award winner, Sami artist and legend, Mari Boine sitting in the audience

[@paulkossak7761]

You should check out her cover of David bowie "life on mars". It just her doing vocals and playing a vintage Fender Rhodes piano. It's frigging amazing.

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I have seen it before I started doing reactions. Life on Mars is one of my favorite Bowie songs and, I agree, she did an amazing version.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

I really like the album studio version but this one blows the socks off it. That sung yell in the middle knocks me side ways. The overall simplicity is what makes it. As usual with Aurora, every song different, every performance new.

[@franZisPaOlo]

You have to check out.... AURORA >Live "It happend quite" at the Current > Live "Through the eyes of a child" at the Nidarosdomen Cathedral Concert >Live "Murder Song 54321" at the Noble Peace Price Concert >Live " I went too far" at Honda Stage >Live "Heathens" in Vevo >Live " Exhale Inhale" in Vivo >Live "Temporary High" in Vevo >Live " All Soft Inside" at KEXP >Live "Churchyard" at KEXP >Live "Warrior" on HAIK >Live "Animal Soul" at NRK P3 >Live "Conqueror" for Baeble Music "AURORA" :-) PURE ART AS CAN BE!!! ... and other Soundtracks Songs like from, One Piece " My Sails are Set" on Netflix , Frozen 2... Aurora also has Covers of... Boney M s- Rasputin, Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel, LaLaLa by Naughty Boy, Thank U by Alanis Morissete, Beatles - Across the Universe, Oasis - Half the world away, David Bowie - Life on Mars, Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat, Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man, Wrecking Ball by Miley , Massive Attack- Teardrop, Believer by Imagen Dragons, God is a Woman by Ariana Grande, Golden by Harry Styles, You have to check out Auroras Concerts, >Live at the Nidarosdomen Cathedral Concert AND >Live at the Noble Peace Price Concert AND >Live at the Honda Stage Concert AND >Live on KEXP FROM AURORA :-) PURE ART AS CAN BE!!!

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I have seen some of those but have plans to check out some of the others.

[@franktorejohansen7874]

Yeah a few things seems to be looping a bit

[@paulaspiro7158]

My goodness...I'm not even sure she evolved here on earth...!!! Beautiful music...!

[@ΠαναγιώτηςΠαπακωνσταντίνου-φ7μ]

My God,led Zeppelin vibes from the greatest pop artist of our times.....

[@garybridges9482]

actually think the blue strides offer a cool contrast within the surrounding main tone?🤔😎got allow the man-dolin to be noticed a little at least🙋‍♂🧞‍♂💃

[@Tarkus_]

It occurs to me that you haven't seen (or at least reacted to) the Vevo performance of "Exhale Inhale." I think it's the best live studio performance she's ever done.

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I don't think that was even on my list but I will add it.

[@Tarkus_]

@@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl Oh, you're gonna love it!

[@elisabethstermo9396]

Has anyone noticed parts of A Soul With No King sound exactly like Big Love by Fleetwood Mac?

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I did not but that was never one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.

[@Mina-sn5qg]

I think he plays a lute 🙂

[@TonyVeijalainen]

Did you mean doing Your Blood next?

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

Yes. I only just added it to my list and was thinking of something else. My failure is only exceeded by my hubris. 😁

[@TaylorClarke-jh6fu]

React to the song Scarborough Fair by Aurora please 🙏

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I will. If she does to Simon and Garfunkel what she did to Life on Mars by Bowie, I'll be thrilled, I'm sure.

[@TaylorClarke-jh6fu]

@@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl Thanks 😊

[@leesiddall4886]

Please react to sleep token- take me back to Eden

[@adegliangeli]

It's not mandolin, it's a bouzouki

[@jongu71]

Neither, it’s a mandola, basically a bigger mandolin.

[@pmbbmp]

I remember when Aurora used to actually perform live. This is heavily produced. All you need to do is go listen to an actual live performance recorded from someone iphone to know that. She is such a disappointment to me. Just another phony pop-star

[@isamaryna3415]

You can't seriously expect a concert with people screaming/talking/singing in the background with the instruments sometimes overpowering the singer's voice to sound the exact same as somethings fimed and recorded in a controlled space such as a studio. I saw AURORA live a month ago and this is how she sounds like. Plus, every single interpretation, whether it is live or filmed in studio will be different everytime.

[@onlyme064]

You really need to react to her official videos of "Runaway", "The Seed" and " Excist for Love" They are a must.

[@ige-individualgroupeffort-kenl]

I've already seen, but wasn't reacting then, to The Seed and Runaway videos as well as a couple lives of those. The other one is in my list to do though.