hello beautiful people of taiwan i'm
aurora and i'm chatting with joey chow
right here on icrtfm 100.
hello i'm joey you know today we have a
very talented singer songwriter here
joining us and she comes to us i believe
currently from northern europe but
there's no saying where she actually is
in europe right now and it's the
sensational and very talented aurora
what's up me thank you for that
wonderful introduction hello joey i am
doing wonderful how are you i am very
well aren't you on tour are you in
norway or are you in other parts of
europe that we don't know about your
magical census of my location was
completely correct i am in norway right
now yes
and i am in norway in my apartment right
now and but i'm going on tour soon and
then i hope that i'll be able to yeah do
all the shows that i've planned because
i i hate counseling
i know i know i think it was an
interview when you said the worst things
to happen to people
in this world is first off war secondly
childbirth and then canceling shows so
yeah we hate cancelling shows
oh that's horrible i'm sorry
yes
but i really i really um yeah it's it's
the worst thing ever because it means a
lot to
me and it means a lot to people it's
good for us to be connected in music
like that so yeah it's very important
especially during this very trying time
um that you don't get a chance to meet
with your fans too much right uh the
warriors and weirdos as we call them so
if you had to cancel show i'm sure you'd
be very good at but let's you know knock
on wood that's not gonna happen this new
album the gods we can't touch we
absolutely love it
so what's it like to sing this album for
your warriors and weirdos it feels
incredibly wonderful because the music
doesn't really come alive before i see
it
in the eyes of of
of my people you know they
make the music so much bigger than i
could ever make it
and and they give it meaning as well
without the fans the music doesn't
really come alive exactly yes it's my
favorite thing in the world because
people look so beautiful when they enjoy
music it's very easy to love people when
you stand on stage and you look at the
crowd it's so easy to just fall in love
with everyone because i see everyone in
the crowd very clearly and
yeah so it's very important so i i am so
excited to just do it more because it
means
the world for me and the music and this
album i think it is for everyone it's
for
a lot of different cultures a lot of
religious beliefs out there the gods we
can touch makes references to religions
and pantheons of gods rights
can you keep track of how many gods or
how many deities you made reference to
in this album well i think i've made a
reference to around 18 of them yeah and
but also i'm making a lot of references
to faith in in general i find faith a
really fascinating thing i find it very
beautiful because people
use it for a lot of beautiful things and
i also find it confusing because people
have also in history and in our present
time used it for a lot of
strange things and horrible things and
it's just weird how something so
beautiful can be used in so many good
and bad and bad ways in the hands of
people and it just fascinates me so i
started reading a bit about religious
history and people and how we have
changed through time and then i'm making
yeah and then i made an album about it
to try to understand it more so you read
up on it you did your research and then
um you talked about the good and bad
things of our beliefs is that what the
concept of this album is about well it
is not about people's relationship to
both power
and people's relationship to their god
to each other
and to
to
rules uh to freedom to freedom of
expression and freedom in in loving who
you are and expressing who you are and
what in the world
prevents us from
being happy and and what in the world
helps us in being happy
because i just want you happy
of course we all just want to be happy
and you know i think at the start of a
lot of folklores
it's always about happy things right for
example norwegian folklores there's a
lot of trolls fairies and you know
natural and happy spirits and then we
started to get deities that represent
concepts for example the greek or roman
gods or even norse mythology that some
gods represent say chaos war nature and
fertility now out of all these concepts
that gods or deities represent which
ones are your favorite ones that you
really are drawn to but what drew me to
writing or like letting myself be
inspired by a lot of these mythologies
in the first place was that they had
gods
who we could look up to and also see
ourselves in they weren't too perfect
and too almighty and all-knowing they
were kind of human and all of their
stores had both flaws and
beautiful things just like us and i and
i think we deserve to
worship something or someone that we can
also see ourselves in so maybe we could
worship ourselves easier so i love all
the gods and goddesses that represents
something that you don't see in modern
religion anymore like sexual desire like
ecstasy and and and dancing like like um
wine and fertility like um
um and the gods for
the greek even had a god for um that was
half woman half man
and they didn't have any any issue with
being a homosexual either
which i find very um interesting
it's just interesting how how times have
changed and how
you know 2 000 years ago we thought
about things differently than
many people do today if aurora were a
goddess and i'm not saying you're not
you are
but
if you were a deity that is worshipped
what do you think you would represent
like what's the concept that you would
represent well i think it would
represent self-love okay because that's
definitely the
the
the thing in this world i
i care a lot uh
the most about in people
just learning in this small life that we
have
to at least enjoy it the best you can
and waste less time in trying to change
yourself and hate yourself because
it doesn't really matter and
and
i think we we spend too much time in
hating who we are and it's it's not bad
um or maybe i would be like the goddess
of nature because i love
protecting mother earth because
i do love i do love that idea aurora the
goddess of self-love or the goddess of
nature but there's already a goddess of
nature right in fact she is in your
album artemis the goddess of hunt
fertility and nature
that song was it came uh to be very
special to me can you talk about what's
special about the song what is it
talking about all of my songs have
a lot of meaning and i love um looking
no watching people figuring out for
themselves so i'm always afraid to say
too much okay because that's the
songs you know that people but it's
about a very
um
it's about a very um
or for me it's about a very
very special and very
um
kind of scary but also fantastic
woman
okay so you obviously and like the
dangerous and mysterious uh spirits and
deities as well as the beautiful and
benevolent ones right like the haldra
the knock
to the elves and the fairies now you're
someone who does enjoy a lot of fantasy
world building i hear that you are also
a bit of a gamer and you do play a
fantasy game called the witcher is that
right yes i played the witcher 3. i must
admit i haven't played the witcher like
one or two but i love the witcher 3 it's
one of my favorite games i've ever
played i think and i've also read the
books and so
um yeah i really love the witcher and i
love gaming what do you enjoy about this
game like do you like the killing of the
monsters do you like talking to
different characters do you like making
the coin or do you like the party and
the batteries oh well i i kind of like
all of it my like my and my favorite
thing with it is the balance between
that you get to also have like fun and
things aren't as scary or serious but
then you jump into these dangerous and
kind of menacing situations
and i love both butchering the monsters
and i love the collecting coin and i
love the
the partying and drinking the ale and
talking to all the different characters
and and i just love the vibe i love the
vibrations of all games that are set
in that period of time i played a lot of
skyrim as well
yeah but i love playing games that's a
big name drop all right for all of you
fantasy aficionados or people who like
playing the witcher and all the of
course warriors and weirdos make sure
you uh toss a coin to aurora and
buy her new album uh the gods we can
touch please listen to this album
there's a lot of uh hidden messages that
you can extract from it the gods we can
touch and today we had the lovely aurora
joining us thank you so much
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