Music
AURUS Presents a New Song Called “KUHU”
AURUS is a modern mirage. The embodiment of our contradictions.
After the transgressive polyphony of the 3somesisters, AURUS aka Bastien Picot distils Maloya from its roots in an orchestral and percussive pop setting, reminiscent of Nakhane, Peter Gabriel, or Woodkid. After notable performances at MaMa, SAKIFO, Bars en Trans and Francofolies de la Réunion, AURUS becomes Revelation Artist of the Chantier des Francofolies for the year 2021 and Coup de cœur of the Confédération desFrancofolies. His first album Chimera, is a chimera, a hybrid album. Conceived between Paris and Réunion, this opus is an intuitive and tribal journey in which what seems irreconcilable meets and merges: the melancholy atmosphere and the tribal or sometimes military rhythms, the lunar ballads, and the tonic light of the pieces inviting to trance, all of this. spoken in English and Reunion Creole.
At the origin of this album but also of the pseudonym of the artist: the eye of Horus, an Egyptian divinity half-man, half-hawk, symbol of intuition and spiritual antenna allowing to see beyond the palpable.
After the musical adventure of the 3somesisters of which Bastien Picot was one of the founders, AURUS was born as an almost dizzying power to return to oneself following an intense and hectic collective adventure, a deep questioning on its relationship to the world, to the other, to the society. It was in the twists and turns of her own melancholy and her luminous hopes that Chimera was born, like a vertical thread woven from its roots to the heavens.
AURUS has a keen eye on the society in which we live. He questions our relationship to animals (in a duet with Sandra Nkaké), to time, to the mental load or even the distortion of our perception of the world created by the screens that surround us … Chimera is akin to a hypnotic vigil, del dawn at dusk, where madness sometimes comes to tickle the heady riffs and vocalizations of this polymorphic singer.
Creole returned naturally to insinuate itself into the music, just like the traditional instruments of Reunion Island, the Maloya, but also the English-speaking pop which watered his childhood to reconnect with the forgotten teenager and his “American dream”, to the traveler-backpacker and his thirst for adventure, to the vacationer in need of rest or even to the entrepreneur and his myriad of ideas. Musically, it was Anthony Winzenrieth, producer of the 3SOMESISTERS EPs, who was the essential partner in the birth of this album.
After helping AURUS to clarify his vision, he mixed and produced this album by sublimating this chimera inspired by The Knife, Woodkid, Peter Gabriel, Tune-Yards, James Blake, or even Ry X …
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