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Aukai

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Mark mungkey Vicente Everything is amazing! Thanks Aukai !!! Favorite track: Alto Paraíso.

Jeff Kliment Deep emotional resonance, tight arrangements, beautiful ensemble playing. What's not to like?

Ines Simply beautiful! Love it. Favorite track: Agua Azul.

Nathan Hatton There is enough piano, strings, and , of course, finger-picked acoustic guitar to keep any listener of ambient, neo-classical musoc coming back to it again and again.

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1.	Last Day 03:53	info	buy track
2.	Alto Paraíso 02:26	info	buy track
3.	Agua Azul 04:03	info	buy track
4.	Colors Of Dawn 03:49	info	buy track
5.	Cachoeira 03:28	info	buy track
6.	Hidden 03:19	info	buy track
7.	Snow 03:15	info	buy track
8.	First Of March 02:19	info	buy track
9.	Wind Runner 03:57	info	buy track
10.	Feather 03:19	info	buy track
11.	Fled Away 03:15	info	buy track
12.	Childhood 02:20	info	buy track
13.	Night Rain 02:15	info	buy track

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Picked for BEST OF ECHOES 2016 !

"...an exquisitely delicate work..."
The Independent

"Think Gustavo Santaolalla cavorting in a landscape of Ludovico Einaudi while sitting on the Champs-Élysées with the Penguin Cafe Orchestra...In its matrix of mood and emotion, intelligence and sensuousness, Aukai could not be more perfectly pitched."
John Diliberto, Echoes, USA

"...magnificent works and pieces..."
Fractured Air Media

"...Think of this disc as a more consciously melodic backward glance at Brian Eno’s ambient LPs. It’s quiet charms add up to something deceptively substantial."
The Arts Desk, UK

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released June 3, 2016

Written & Produced by Markus Sieber
Recorded & Mixed by Martyn Heyne at Lichte Studio, Berlin
Mastered by Mandy Parnell at Black Saloon Studio, London

Arranged by Markus Sieber and Aukai Ensemble

The Aukai Ensemble :
Angelika Baumbach - piano, pump organ, harp
Anne Müller - cello
Alexander Nickmann - fender rhodes, piano, synthesizer, programming
Ben Wittman - percussion
Bogdan Djukic - violin
Jamshied Sharifi - b3, piano, wurlitzer, prophet-5, dx7, vl1
Martyn Heyne - juno-60, piano, pump organ
Markus Sieber - ronroco, guitar, pump organ, piano, glockenspiel

Additional Recordings:
Alexander Nickmann in Berlin
Jamshied Sharifi in New York City
Paul Antonell at the Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, NY
Ben Wittman in Toronto
Markus Sieber in Tulum, Mexico

Cover photo by Dan Isaac Wallin
Inside photo by Josh Allen, Axel Schrick
Artwork design by Prana Projects, Santa Fe

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'such a beautiful album' - Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC6 Music

'Stunning' The Independent

Aukai is a collection of ambient acoustic
soundscapes dappled with subtle electronic touches written by Markus Sieber bringing together outstanding instrumentalists to collaborate on music that could work in tandem with film, video, theater and the visual arts. ... more

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