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I’m really enjoying this hobby. 2 CDs in the collection are not pictured 1) Juleroser by Herborg Kråkevik 2) You Don’t Wanna (Single) by Tricky.

I’ve most of them either at local record stores, thrifting, or flea markets, and one of them I’ve just had for years (Sabrina Carpenter). 5 of them I bought in Germany and the rest I got in the U.S.

This is very much just the beginning of this journey because I haven’t even gotten albums yet from my favorites artists of all time (i.e. AURORA, Björk)

I’m using the KLIM Nomad to listen to them and it’s such a lovely experience. My favorite CD so far has been: Out Of Touch in the Wild by Dutch Uncles. I picked it up just because I found the cover beautiful without knowing anything about the band. It ended up being the perfect album for me.

Maybe in the next 3 months the collection will have expanded. I certainly hope so. I’ll update when I’ve got much more to show.

I’m so hyped to finally have my hands on the Juleroser CD. It’s a rather underrated and under-appreciated AURORA collaboration with Norwegian folk singer and actress, Herborg Kråkevik.

I believe AURORA contributed vocals to 3 of the tracks and one of them she wrote herself and that is “Vinterens Gåte”

This song has always struck me as one of her most beautiful works with extremely lush orchestral strings and her ethereal voice floating over it at all.

The album is a Christmas album, featuring a variety of Norwegian Christmas songs recorded with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sadly it never got a worldwide digital release. From my understanding you can only stream it if you live within Norway. It doesn’t appear to be available anywhere else. The only way I was able to listen to tracks featuring AURORA was on YouTube.

However I feel super lucky because I was on Discogs and searched up this album to find that actually several sellers had it available. I picked the one that would have the most favorable shipping for me and ordered it without hesitation so that I could forever own these rather unknown AURORA songs.

The digipack is in pretty good condition. The cardboard has some slight fraying which is to be expected as it had to travel to a different country to reach me. The plastic part that holds the CD did chip a bit at the top right corner so I just taped the fallen piece back on. Personally I don’t mind these things at all because the beautiful CD arrived in mint condition without any scratches and the liner notes (little booklet) was also in perfect condition. I’m happy it’s got all the lyrics because my Norwegian is pretty rusty so I doubt I’d be able to pick up the lyrics just by listening that well.

Anyways, I think a lot of AURORA physical media collectors forget this album exists. It’s a super cool and honestly rare addition to any AURORA collection imo. It’s actually my first CD with AURORA in it 😅 I’m super new to this collecting thing but I digress.

All that being said, I figured I’d show you guys what the contents look like because I rarely see anyone talking about this release. Let me know what you think and if you have this album too! I’m curious!