Ever Dreamers

“Music is still a big mystery to all of us. None of us know where the songs come from, they just want to be heard. They’re everywhere and we just try to grab them, make them our own and present them to the world.”
Tuomas Holopainen

A few years ago, Auri multi-instrumentalist, Troy Donockley, was driving through the early morning mists when inspiration hit him. He was out in the wilds of rural North Yorkshire, passing over a bridge when he noticed a field below, flooded with water, still as glass and shrouded in heavy fog. Abandoning his car, he headed into the haze.

“I turned around to look at the bridge and both it and the car had disappeared into the fog,” he would tell over email few days after today’s interview. “I got the uncanny feeling that I was on the Earth millions of years ago, the beginning, after some primeval flood; the 21st century had gone.”