aura blue collective

Music:

Member Since: 18/04/2008
Band Website: blogspot.com/aurabluecollective
Band Members:

Babynine

a.k.a,

Amanda Nicolas Montanaro.

:"Throw-back,

flash-forward:

Gen wh(Y)? "

Providing an infinite stretch of her ethereal "neo - punk ca$h(mere)"

Babynine

iAnd she aloe can wrap both the nude and "ovexposed" in her soon to be signature sound.

"Trustafarian" chanteuse,

poet

and accidental prophet.......

Artist.

Activist.

Actress:

(((musician)))

Babynine shifts sInE and TiMe....

Shhhhh !
(A Muse, an enchantress; and the unwittingly bemused...)

...is "Babynine" - AuraBleuCollective's "Factory Girl?"

Channeling old energies from the Warhol Factory, or perhaps our girl Edie? ( Sedgwick)

AuraBleuCollective
Is borne from a Manhattan/Connecticut Country School "tribe" of artists.

First and foremost; we are each-others family. Creatively and emotionally these are some of the most incredible loving, dynamic, colourful-and yes; complex- humans I have met.

For the most part- we have grown up together since kindergarden. The rest of us gelled in high school-and the rest is her-story.
Self-proclaimed "Trustafarians"in mockery: We are the reluctant east-coast celebutantes. While crossing paths with the tragically hip jet=set there is a sense that life is quite amazing. Unlike typical young Hollywood, the Trustafarian is uninterested in fame for the very idea. We have all done are time in the Hills , Soho- and Cannes-or "doing europe".

Most of us will for a while. Even a far off as Thailand..

Manifesting the concepts that we have collectively set forth; in golden hours when we were dreaming out loud... These are our missions. The universe works in mysterious ways. We are miles away from the false perceptions of passe and entitled "brat pack" kids.

We have all had our personal reasons for swimming upstream; boldly marrying our art, and not easily letting down families who expected nothing less than the child from their "preppy handbooks".

The magic of our connection is in part our support for one another- complete and void of any envy. We have been feeding each others souls since we were kids.... our common history is amazing, and the circle of blue is cast far and wide.

It so happnened: that among us, we had "factory members "as parents.

(and ghosts in our bedrooms)

Was this "channeled" concept destiny? A plan- or merely virtue of our upbringing?Aura Blue Collective crew is filled with producers, photographers, film-makers, thespians, painters, Fabulous queens, rockers,- who write, writers who rock, Angels and Aliens, undercover lovers, classical musicians, opera divas, poets, models, and the odd political socialite:Between us we could put together a guest list that woud rival (and include)Wu-tang Clan, Bill Clinton, Paris and Bono..... to name a few.......not to mention the spirits!Imagine this collective of intelligent and highly sensitive kids in the late 1990's coming of age in a place very much like "Stepford"...We were no angels- but we were unique in that we got to a "higher consciousness"... and worked together always. 9 am brunches with champagne and illegal photo shoots strolled into evening and a factory in full effect.Writing plays about aliens in one corner; Wilie and Peter-Me and Matteo doing "something" with my coiff- tragic I dye to dye- and I get into the bath in my Y2K wedding gown; ask Lane to get candles and shoot.(my art lies within living itself.... there is a buzz about the place in rememberance of that gown.... they think I am absolutely mad to have it in the first place- let alone submerge myself in a bath for art.)I think the reason I bought the gown wasn't to wait for prince charming on New Year's eve...I had told my plan or "proposal" all my ex-s; who were all with me in Trustafaria - and I was clear accross the country from Vegas. Serious buzz kill.Maybe the gown was meant to be worn not on New Year's, but that night (which was any night, and may have been any gown..)Alex comes and pitches her spin on the scene....while taping with a bottle of her parent's cellar wine in the other."Kachew!"- she says "look at you!""I know..... but I don't care, I love the feeling of th water on this fabric. Come in, actually?""Goo goo kachew?"- She leaves foe a cigarette and new ballyhoo is brought.Drama.Drama fuc%ingrama.Oliver is finally back; and we try to convince him not to sell out....He is the most talented musician- too bad we lost him to investment banking.But as the typical day in a life rolls on- Casey rolls in with a digideroo, and new dreads... bonds with link over his Safari pictures- and Me in my soaking white dress and eyeliner bring evryone into a drum circle- get the guitars...and as they start to do that magic; as we are "playing" together, as we did as children....Dauer and Hush- symbiotic and sarcastic; but brilliant.They all know me better than I know myself.It is all so "classic"-...I am "ano" they say; but I constantly play hostess. "Know about the guinea bride?"- D taunts...It's so from my Wasp Mom...and Martha, but I love the famiglia!So it is as typical betewen running in to refresh drinks,brew tea, and change as if I were on stage- I procure a tascam, some mics; and of course lay down some off the cuff hooks and verse.(This is now referred to a "zodiological zoo flow"- don't ask me why...)We are all driven and talented on or own- but when the "factory"...or the Aura Blue crew finds ourselves together? These are the moments that the world stands still as we alone spin a web of beautiful chaos.There is a energy unlike anything I can explain... A creative force which runs deep and long.All of our best friends are already friends..even if it has been a while; so in time this scenario only gets exponentially renaissaince taboo and court- like.Perhaps in the days of the Tudors, or Camelot? Perhaps then we lived such a gorgeous and complicated existance.The catch is that "to whom much is given more is expected."~ my mom,(before Elliot Mess)It is a near impossible feat to surpass your parents achievements when they are literally brilliant artists, entrepreneurs, rock-stars, fortune 500,model and commercial scene, presidents, prom queen-ivy league Donna Reade.The inner drive to achieve never left any if us. We have all had our "fifteen minutes" of fame.Once you have even five minutes of fame, you change your perceptions of what it is really all about it.The illusion of some great wizard is gone, and much like Andy "created" a star out of Edie....So too do we have the power.The question remains why we are creating what we are when ego and self gratification disappear.For me, I do it for my sanity; for the boys that kicked me out of the band... for the same boys that are my soul brothers, and have inspired me to take chances.I continue because I have always been the one with the crystal vision.Vision that Aura Blue crew manifested and surpassed~In many ways I feel as if I am "Wendy lady"- and they are my lost boys, and tinks.I still do.More than ever.But it takes a tribe of TrustafarianS to get aura blue coming through!with Mothers that could give the Stepford wives a run for their money.We were not Gen X, not yet named....wh(Y) were we in.Remarkably, we are all still each-other's best friends, with the inspiration being contagious. Knowing we dreamed it up- that we are collectively experiencing the same dream, inter-dependant upon our blind faith; and I told every one of them I saw the blue rays.(being the gypsy)....Aura Blue Crew is kind of like the new Warhol Factory I think?They would affirmatively get it- or get lost. Of course, the circle-the "Collective" is vast; as the blue light touches those we meet and guides us to those we are meant to know.It was a black and white photo of Andy on my wall that I colored with lipstick, eyeshadow, and nailpolish that became our "oracle" that first summer.Fitting tribute, I think: don't you?We are the kids of the "next now!"Check out the R-evolution!
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Onelove,!

Amanda Nicolas Montanaro

aka

Babynine

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www.purevolume.com/babynine

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