Name: Aura Legato
Brand: Af Ursin

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Bonus disc: No

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Download code: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-03-28

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Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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5055869540537

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

blackestcd012

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Af Ursin

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Modern Composition

Label GB

Blackest Ever Black

Blackest Ever Black is a London-born music label that was founded by Kiran Sande in 2010. The label operated until 2019 and during its existence, it became known for its diverse range of musical genres and styles. Initially based in Berlin, the label later relocated back to London in 2016. With an impressive roster of artists and a commitment to pushing boundaries, Blackest Ever Black has left an indelible mark on the music industry.
Throughout its lifespan, Blackest Ever Black consistently showcased innovative and boundary-pushing music from various genres including electronic, experimental, industrial, and beyond. Under the guidance of Kiran Sande, the label cultivated a reputation for releasing thought-provoking and challenging records that pushed the boundaries of conventional sound.
With a strong emphasis on quality over quantity, each release from Blackest Ever Black was meticulously curated to offer listeners a unique sonic experience. The label's dedication to artistic integrity earned them respect within the industry and garnered a dedicated following of fans who appreciated their uncompromising approach to music.

Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition, and the first CD and digital editions, of Af Ursin's 2005 masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser Timo van Luijk. His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings), but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them, results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive shadows, creaks and whispers. Informed by years of intensive listening to various types of free music, exploratory drug use and especially the "irregular organic forms" of the Belgian countryside where he resides, van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised composition. Over time he has evolved his own richly poetic musical language, full of allusions to drone, acid folk, classical, Musique concrète and jazz, but beholden to none. Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-siècle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered and housed in die-cut sleeve with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels.

Aura Legato

Music GB