Io Oloop

Aura is the 5th studio album by IO Earth. In a departure from their usual writing style, IO Earth’s Dave Cureton and Adam Gough have created a new album that is still progressive, still genre defying, but is more focused on the exploration and development of melody than ever before. This is an album to listen to with your feet up and relax to.

A new IO Earth album is always a matter for rejoicing. Not only have they produced symphonic prog of the highest order for the best part of 10 years, but they’ve built a fan base that’s more like a family than a conventional audience. Solitude, however, is particularly welcome as it’s new vocalist Rosanna Lefevre’s debut on an IO Earth record.
Lefevre has an immediate impact. Where previous vocalist Linda Odinsen brought clean Scandinavian precision to recordings, Lefevre brings darker rock and blues sensibilities to bear. On the serious and heavy Breakdown, Lefevre demonstrates that she has technique to spare - few could so easily reach a note so high it might shatter glass, but it’s her lower register and mid-range that give IO Earth a new emotional centre…

IOEarth combines original melodies and sophisticated architecture. Their music style is very eclectic, it is of the neo-prog through the art-rock, ambient, electro and it is also a sacred group stage, they were invited to RoSfest 2012 United States along with Karmakanic, Deexpus, DIscipline. Let's turn to "Moments", mystery and madness hanging over the intro. Follows an atmosphere of neo-prog mode with a blazing guitar well supported by a powerful rhythm section.
At its center, the arpeggios of an acoustic guitar intertwine with electro sounds to Daft Punk. The soprano saxophone brings colors arabisantes while the trumpet is rather the Mexican accent…