Au Revoir Borealis

New Au Revoir Borealis album done!!!

We just wanted to share our elatedness that at long last there is finally a new release that we can talk about in an official capacity. Though lots of information is still to come, we can reveal that it will be titled "Dark Enough For Stars." Right now we’re sorting out the final details of mastering, artwork, expected release date, etc. We’ll be posting our progress on the following sites:

http://www.aurb.org
http://www.myspace.com/officialborealis

Best regards,
Steve

Thanks for your note. I have reposted it at my playlist page to add "color" to the Waldorf Theft Song that still sits on top of my Epic/Experimental Sounds Playlist. Waldorf "theft" - what a gas! Even if it has a humorous background, it still belongs with this string of pearls in my collection.

Well, what can I say? Perhaps all I say wouldn't express my feeling about this beautiful piece of art.

All is great in that and the most beautiful name is given to it as one can really feel the breeze which is possibly coming down from the heavens when listening to this lovely music.
I shall thank "DifferentStars" for putting it in its playlist which made me move to it.
Last I can tell you that I listened to this amazing song several times and I found myself playing a piano keyboard (with my handicapepd unskilled fingers on D major scale just swimming the river you put me in. I wish I've selected a right scale, anyway.

Love you guys and will keep tracing you.

Best of luck.
Yours / Mehdi

Love your music! Welcome to my first mixtape :-)

Long time no speak. Happy New Year to you. I am taking the liberty to "copy and paste" below a note that I just wrote to Nixe who discusses in part a playlist that I put together that leads off with your defining piece, "Waldorf Theft Song". Your input about this piece and/or about the over-all compilation would be greatly appreciated as it would add significant insight to what we are enjoying. Many thanks.

[cc of my note to Nixe follows]

Nixe, you overwhelm me with your detailed comments on my playlist, Epic/Experimental Sounds. In truth, this complilation grew iteratively "like Topsy" after I put together three or four pieces that seemed to have a common theme that reasonated with one part of my minds-ear which is given to open spaces and limitless horizons. I then kept adding, re-arranging, and even dropping songs [as in the good old days on a rainy Saturday afternoon sorting through those vinyl round things called "records" now, sadly, in storage] to reinforce and add nuance to that feeling that I think is universal and hard-wired into our DNA. [You or listeners of this playlist may find of interest the link to a separate blog thread (just provided) that makes for thought-provoking reading, particularly as this playlist is all the while reasonating in the background!]

Your own perspectives will greatly aid the current and, hopefully, growing listeners of my "Epic Sounds" playlist [whoever they may be] in appreciating what was, to me, an intuitive effort to combine a sense of grandeur and adventure [caravans and sweeping vistas of the mind and spirit] with innocence [which was, indeed, why I added "Baibaba Bimba" - what an uplifting piece.] Both the "externalized and internalized sense of universal wonder" as you well describe the over-all intent of the playlist was created in positive counterpoint and marked contrast to much of what is dark and brooding in our music today - also, for a reason [but that is another subject].

Thank you for sharing such experienced aural and intellectual sensibilities with the listeners of these pieces who can now take their own view of the combined works of these artists to another level. To me, as I tinker with this list, it can only get better.

On my side, I will now try to pull in the artists who make up this evolving list to add commentary if they wish. I hope some of them will, but, of course, that will be up to them as I can appreciate that many artists prefer for each piece to speak for itself. To me, the "name of the game" to advance music in the web-based era, however, is increased, rather than diminished, engagement between artist and listener. Let's see what happens next here [if anything] as I "copy and paste" this blog thread on the artists' sites.

Again, many thanks.

Really nice music, very relaxing, totally awesome!
Cheers

Love "Heavens Downward", lucious guitar solo towards the end - very tasteful! My cup o' tea sir! for sure...

beautiful. but you know that already. but really, really beautiful.

I am liking the distinctive "big chord" epic sound of Au Revoir Borealis [a tongue-twister that] I've heard so far as a good counterpoint to other genres now finding a home here.

I will continue to explore the audio vision of your group. In the meantime, others here will find the Q & A of ARB group members posted as a link on their "other site" provides further insight in what one might hear in your mind's ear. Listen, enjoy, and see Link: http://www.somewherecold.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=75&page=1