#there's defo people i've forgotten i'm so sorry

[aurora-daily]

Hello warriors! I’m a recent fan & have been going down the rabbit hole on youtube. There are so many Aurora videos & documentaries (I felt very emotional watching the HAIK one yesterday) - so I wondered if you had any favourite ones to recommend?

I’m a music therapist based in Edinburgh (Scotland) & am finding her music just so moving. It’s so emotive & healing isn’t it? Although I work with music everyday, as a way to help & connect with people, I don’t think I’ve ever listened to music that’s had this effect on me before. And it’s becoming clear that Aurora has this effect on everyone who hears her music. I wonder if there’s a space anywhere where people share their own versions of her music, or collaborate together on covers? Just some ideas I had. Sorry if this is too many questions, I’m not very good at the internet!

Really enjoying your page, keep it up! 🎶 Lissy

Hello, lovely warrior Lissy! ♥☆✧

Your message really brightened up my evening, it's so great to see professionals seeing her music as a healing tool because it really is like a warm embrace from a person who heard you on things you went through and retold the story from such a persective so that you have a sparkle of hope and don't feel completely left out with your different maybe from majority feelings... There's this feeling of self-acceptance that only her music gives through being so complicated and multi-dimentional both lyrically and sonically, just like the essense of any person on this planet...

I'm really happy to see more people getting into her way of expressing her thoughts in music and resonating so much, really, you have so many great discoveries ahead! HAIK is indeed emotional, both performance and documentary part, it's defo on my top list! I recently was asked by anonymous warrior about my favourite live performances, and, the list will be the same (all titles are clickable and lead to the mentioned video!):

Nidarosdomen Christmas concert (church, orchestra, AURORA, what else to wish for, especially when Fredrik kicked off his best solo during My Universe), the Japan concert from the end of 2020 (acoustic renditions felt fresh), Somewhere Else Festival 2020 (lights! concept!), my all-time fave live Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2018 (aka the first KEXP: the best sound, the best Gentle Earthquakes, the best Forgotten Love, Vetle doing his magic all overon synths), “A Touch of the Divine” (ART), Live at St Michaelis Church / Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg (no professional recordings but chills all over from A Different Kind of Human alone), VIERLIVE live stream with Bergen Philarmonic Orchestra (she has grown so incredibly much as a vocalist since Nidarosdomen), COP26 (a huge portion of love here goes to Fredrik Svabø), and NRK P3 September last year (Magnus is the best backing vocalist for her confirmed)!

As for documetaries... "Once Aurora" will answer ALL your questions regarding her personality, tour and usual life, it's one of the most unique documentaries I've ever seen and a must-check for you, please, don't hesitate to watch! It'd be also important (also to you as a professional!) to check out Lifekeys Talks interview with her: a good insight into her childhood, influences in life and reasons to create music! "Nothing is Eternal" was a good short early documentary which holds a special sentiment to me as one of the first things I've watched while getting into her world! Also really love her small guide into happy life for Glasto 2019, so simple and so AURORA! Also really recommend "Sounds Like A Plan"podcast for getting some wisdom from her and, goodness, there are so many insightful interviews with her and this is all just off the top of my head! Also I have a special tag for the interviews [link] with many posts I stumbled ipon and articles I archived here, so, please, take a look!

As for the space where people share their own versions of her music... A lot of people do that on Instagram mostly tagging her and sometimes on TikTok, happens on YouTube too! Sometimes AURORA France [link] shares some of their favourite covers of AURORA on Sundays! Several years ago even Melbourne Indie Voices performed onstage a cover of The Seed! Also would say that AURORA herself makes wonderful covers, she really makes them in such unique and her own way, always astonishing!

Hope to hear from you here, please, do share more about your discoveries!

Have a magical day!

-Nikol

#ask #lissyukes

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I never thought the eating mummies would be considered medical cannibalism!! Even though it makes sense, yeah (fun fact: netflix advertised this show "yummy mummies" to me, and I thought it was a documentary show about people eating mummies. I guess not) I went to see the pocketbook made from William Burke's skin, that's in a museum in Edinburgh. But I guess I need to read more about what happened to the criminals. Death is sure interesting, especially all the myths and beliefs surrounding it. My cat died of old age last month and I got him cremated, so I ended up rambling about funeral practices with the person who worked at the crematorium. Have you read Mary Roach's Stiff?

I liked Bones and all!! I've also seen Raw, but for some reason, I think I have not seen Texas chainsaw massacre. Maybe there are others I've forgotten (the one American film that came out recently, with Sebastian Stan, I think...)

re: burke- ohhh it's cool u got to see that! I've heard about it :0 the whole anatomy/dissection issue that the burke and hare case is related to is so interesting. yeah the criminal-dissection(and other stuff) link is super fascinating to me tbh. eg back to medical corpse stuff there was a belief w hanged man's blood being a cure for certain things? n the like.

yeah! I find the different understandings and attitudes and beliefs around death in different cultures sooooo interesting, there's so many different ways of understanding/ thinking about it?

awh I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your cat :[ glad you could have a fun wee chat w the worker though 🤭

I have checked out Stiff! tho not as thoroughly as I'd like.

tbh feel free to message me off anon if you'd like! always happy to chat bout interesting stuff n this defo counts lol

#txt #death mention #animal death

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fav st blogs? :)

Hey my love!!! Sorry this took a while!! I mean I love SO many blogs so here’s some people I LOVE (some of these are multifandom but they post ST!):

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#there's defo people i've forgotten i'm so sorry #i tried to list as many people as possible!!!! #asks #Anonymous