Auroraw. "Fiction"

The St. Petersburg group of Auroraw , in the achievements of which performances on Kazantip 2012 and warming up at Friendly Fires , is preparing to release the debut album "New Romance". For the group, this is not just a name, but a creative motto and at the same time stylish tag, radically different from that which was distributed in the 80s of the last century. The musicians describe their direction as follows: “Romantic and thoughtful pop music in the good sense of the word. Here is Michael Jackson, and Phil Collins, and DAFT Punk , or, for example, FRI E NDly Fires . Leaning harmony in combination with Russian lyrics give the effect of alternative Russian musical reality, where Viktor Reznikov could sympathize with “Kino”, and the whole country would sing the joint songs of the “quarter” and Vladimir Presnyakov. ” The clip for the first single from the album "Fiction" was shot by director Mikhail Yudchenko.

Maxim Kubbe, group soloist and songwriter

About the song

Work on the album was already in full swing, the entire rhythm section and keys were recorded, we were engaged in the recording of the vocals. On one of these days I got up in the morning and, as often happens, sat down at the piano. Literally after 10 minutes I already played the melody of the chorus, singing some kind of “fish” under it. Then I quickly wrote everything on the recorder and went for a walk, think about vocals. The music itself prompted images, and after a couple of hours I had a ready -made “science fiction”. He began to call all his and say: "I came up with the coolest song on the album!" To which everyone told me that I was moron and adding something is no longer relevant now, but I insisted on my own, and in the end at the last moment we managed to fix the most gentle and romantic song from the album.

About the video

Regarding the clip - this young man hung in my bookmarks for a long time - Misha Yudchenko, I often surfing his page, and I always liked what he was doing. So, I just wrote to him: “Hello, please take us a clip for our new song and make it the way you want.”

Three weeks later, I received this beautiful and atmospheric video. I approved him from the very first time. What is the essence of the video? It seems to me that Misha managed to perfectly create a certain “alternative reality” of the girl’s thoughts that is sung about in this song. Misha was perfectly able to show the condition into which a person flows, discarding the unnecessary fuss of thoughts and experiences. Left alone with you. Very concise and atmospheric work.