Nialler9 — The band that brought you a ‘Friend Crush’ return with a second single that sounds like Feist making some New York disco. The band’s singer Samantha Urbani made the music video with co-direction by Aurora Halal. ‘I’m His Girl’ is availab... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Directed by Samantha Urbani of Friends + Aurora Halal (whose work has been featured a... Read more » more info

Guardian Music — Next spring's Reverb festival has some great-looking gigs. So why the need for the fighting talk?Conductor Sir Mark Elder and Imogen Heap on the same bill? The period instruments of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Michael Gordon's fanta... more info

I Think You're Swell — “I smile, and I smile, and I smile…” After talking talking to my friend Lexi and his girlfriend Aurora about the film “Melancholia” written and directed by Lars von Trier I immediately went home and downloaded it from iTunes. I loved the f... more info

We Like it Lossless! — 2011, Aurora Borealis 1 part(s) UPto, download more info

Guardian Music — There was charisma from the CBSO and brilliance from Emmanuel Pahud, but this week's star was Aurora Orchestra• Read last week's proms roundupI arrived back in London with a thud on Saturday, just in time for the evening's Prom with the CBSO and th... more info

Guardian Music — The children's TV series Horrible Histories has teamed up with the Aurora Orchestra to perform some of the most popular songs from the CBBC show at the 2011 BBC PromsAlice Salfield more info

Guardian Music — Bright, young and full of ideas, the Aurora Orchestra meld classical music with anything from jazz to tango to Nico Muhly. Nick Shave meets their dynamic leaderIt's one thing to launch an orchestra; it's quite another to make it a success at a time w... more info

The Telegraph — Step Team; arrangements of Byrd and Gibbons. Thomas Gould (electric violin), Aurora Orchestra, cond Nicholas Collon. Rating: * * * more info

Guardian Music — Gould/Aurora O/Collon (Decca)Seeing Is Believing is Nico Muhly's violin concerto, composed for Thomas Gould and his six-string electric instrument four years ago. Like so much of Muhly's music, it is immediately engaging and fresh, with some deliciou... more info