Don’t know what Aura is? Well, let me educate you. Five Japanese ladies with amazing voices, some great classical music, and that’s about it. In all seriousness, I knew nothing about the group before their latest album, Toccata und Fuge showed up at our office, but I am quite happy to have been turned on to their work. As it turns out, Aura is a female a cappalla group from Japan that sings some amazingly impressive renditions of some of my favorite classical tunes, including pieces by J.S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi, to just throw a couple out there.
More specifcially, Aura is Mao Hatakeyama, Emi Harashima, Etsuko Sato, Kaorine Kikuchi, and Norikoi Hoshino. I can’t find out much more about them (information in English is considerably lacking), but based on what little I was able to discern from their official website, I see that Tocatta und Fuge is their fourth album, so they’ve been at it for awhile. Still, if you’re a fan of classical music, choral music, or just curious to see what what the human voice is capable of, you might want to look into their music.
Let us introduce you to Aura in our review of Tocatta und Fuge after the jump. (more…)
