Ayria

Ayria, pronounced area, is a Canadian future/synthpop musical project formed in early 2003 by Toronto's Jennifer Parkin.

Biography

The first Ayria album, Debris, was released on Alfa Matrix in 2003.

Debris garnered international attention and produced several club and rave hits (notably "Disease"), and a series of successful mini-tours in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, occasionally featuring Mike Wimer of Noxious Emotion on drums.

During this period, Parkin performed guest vocals for several other projects, including Belgium's Aïboforcen and Implant, and Mexico's Isis Signum.

As touring for Debris wound down, Parkin began writing music for the second Ayria release on her own, with production assistance from Joseph Byer, of v01d. 2005's Flicker reflected a much more diverse and distinctive sound, with many tracks borrowing heavily from minimal techno and early EBM acts such as Nitzer Ebb.

In late 2005, touring for Flicker commenced with several Canadian dates, a UK Festival, and a U.S. West Coast tour. 2006 saw many more opportunities for Ayria such as a first ever European tour in November as well as a debut performance in Osaka, Japan. Ayria is currently on a full United States tour (2008) as the supporting act for The Crüxshadows.

Complete bullshit synth sucks. Listen to real shit like metal, or rock.

Name

Parkin has stated ^[1] in at least one interview that the name is a play on one of her favorite words - aria - but pronounced "area." Nonetheless, she once playfully suggested in her blog that AYRIA stands for "Awesome, Yeah Really, I'm Awesome". ^[2]

Discography

Albums

Debris (Alfa Matrix, 2003)
Flicker (Alfa Matrix, 2005)
Hearts For Bullets (Alfa Matrix, 2008)

EPs

My Revenge On The World (Alfa Matrix, 2005)
The Gun Song EP (Alfa Matrix, 2008)

Compilation albums

Cyberl@b 4.0 (Alfa Matrix, 2003)
square matrix 004 (Alfa Matrix, 2004)
ADVANCED CLUB 0.1
Re:connected [1.0] (Alfa Matrix, 2004)
United Vol.I (NoiTekk, 2005)
Endzeit Bunkertracks: Act I (Alfa Matrix, 2005)
Cyberl@b 5.0 (Alfa Matrix, 2005)
Re:connected [2.0] (Alfa Matrix, 2006)
Fxxk The Mainstream [vol.1] (Alfa Matrix, 2007)
Endzeit Bunkertracks: Act III (Alfa Matrix, 2007)

References

^ Official Ayria site [1]
^ Jennifer Parkin's blog [2]

External links

[1] Official Ayria site [1]

[2] Jennifer Parkin's blog [2]

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