Cloud Cult - Aurora Borealis 2004 VBR 320 MP3

If the Beach Boys' lost Smile album, which Brian Wilson recently performed live, was a "teenage symphony to God", then Cloud Cult's Aurora Borealis is a grown-up symphony to the departed soul of a two-year-old child.



Cloud Cult mastermind Craig Minowa's life is the stuff of Greek tragedy or the book of Job. An environmental activist, he used to have it all: a home and organic farm outside Sandstone, Minnesota; a wife, his high school sweetheart, Connie; and an infant son, Kaidin. Then, on 23 February 2002, Kaidin fell asleep to the somber strains of Mozart's "Requiem" and, for reasons that remain unexplained medically, never awoke. Connie discovered the lifeless body the next morning. The couple's shared pain would become too much for their marriage to withstand, and they eventually divorced.







Tracks:



1 Breakfast with My Shadow

2 Alone At A Party In A Ghost Town

3 Pricess Bride

4 As Long As Your Happy

5 Chandeliers

6 Buried Poetry (recorded live)

7 All Together Alone

8 My Fictitious Life With Amily

9 Grappling Hook/Northern Lights

10 Lights Inside My Head

11 The Sparks and Spaces Between Your Cells

12 Beautiful Boy

13 I Guess This Dream Is For Me

14 State Of The Union