AURA LEGATO

Blackest Ever Black presents a new vinyl edition of Af Ursin's 2005

masterpiece Aura Legato. Af Ursin is the alter ego of Finnish autodidact composer/improviser

Timo van Luijk. His work is rooted in the use of acoustic instruments (wind, percussion, strings),

but his special sensitivity to the timbral qualities of each instrument, and his deft blurring of them,

results in a sound-world that is mysterious, amorphous and hallucinatory, full of suggestive

shadows, creaks and whispers. Van Luijk's process begins always with pure improvisation: music

played in an intuitive, sensual way, without the employment of conscious technique. He performs and overdubs each instrumental

component himself, and out of this process micro-structures and loose arrangements emerge: the piece becomes an improvised

composition. Aura Legato is one of van Luijk's darker and more acutely psychedelic offerings: a work of profound interiority, but

one that also conjures images of old Europe and fin-de-si cle decadence - dabblings in Thelema, the fog of the opium-den - and

has earned comparisons to Third Ear Band, Nurse With Wound, Mirror and HNAS. Fully remastered and housed in die-cut sleeve

with gold detailing and individually hand-glued labels.