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Polaraura

by Broken Deer

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For the Winter of 2010, Broken Deer was living with her dog in a tiny, off-grid cabin outside Whitehorse, Yukon. She spent her days hauling water from the nearby frozen river, and the long nights recording on a battery-operated, analogue tape recorder, and keeping the woodstove stocked.

As the Winter progressed, Deer's waking world and dream world began to merge. Animals began coming to her. A lynx. Then owl. Then a black wolf. The forest and the billowing steam from the pot on the stove seemed to be alive with spirits.

Deer documented the feelings surrounding this reality (or non-reality) musically, which has now become Polaraura. Along with songs of longing, sounds of the river, wolves, snow, wind, forest spirits, owls and, even, northern lights all appear on Polaraura – an album exploring one woman's emerging spiritual world in the context of a beautiful but undiscerning landscape.

Moving from Winter darkness, longing and hunger to the insight and relief of Spring, the sonic journey explores the wisdom of a northern landscape, and how that might mirror a place within, waiting to be discovered. A temporal piece that dissolves the surface associations we have with wild sounds.

In Broken Deer's signature lo-fi sound, Polaraura takes the listener on a journey to anotherworld - a forgotten wilderness - within themselves.

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released January 1, 2010

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"The music sounds like it came from some other, remote time and place—hushed, fragile, inspired by dreams and memories... Listening to Broken Deer’s music is an enchanting and often unsettling experience—distant, lonely, but also alluring." - Stereophile ... more

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