Aura
Flora Carbo - saxophone
Audrey Powne - trumpet
Helen Svoboda - contrabass
Kyrie Anderson - drums & cymbals

Four friends paying homage to the chord-less quartets from Ornette Coleman to Sonny Rollins, a harmonious approach to making music.

Individual prowess, strong improvisors and different musical voices - a quartet of dynamic young female musicians taking Australia by storm
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'Aura' is a quartet of 4 female jazz musicians, each an emerging name in Australian Jazz and Improvised Music.

The ensemble met serendipitously in 2019 while attending the Banff Centre's renowned Workshop in Jazz and Improvised music directed by masterful improvising musicians and composers Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey.

Amidst the velocity of the workshop experience and the formations of their friendship and musical relationship the quartet found a window of a few hours to record in the Telus Recording Studio at the Banff Centre studio with acclaimed Engineer Todd Whitlock resulting in their debut, self titled album together “Aura."

Aura pays homage to the great chord-less jazz quartets of Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins, while drawing on contemporary Australian artists like Andrea Keller, The Necks and the Australian Art Orchestra. Different musical voices and improvisatory strengths come to the fore in works by each ensemble member. This harmonious approach in combination with the individual prowess of each artist presents a definite aura of magic from this youthful band.