About

Hello & welcome.

My name is Rebecka Aurora Edlund. I am a Swedish vocalist and composer with a soft spot for the ocean, anecdotes and everything in the colours of rusty orange and earthy green. My music is a concoction of jazz and folk music traditions, whale song, bird whistles and other strange, beautiful sounds. I explore freely improvised storytelling, contemporary harmony, composing for unconventional lineups and the contrast between urban restlessness and nature's wilderness.

In June 2019, I graduated from the Music Conservatoire in Falun (Sweden) where I studied a combined degree in Composition and Scandinavian Folk Music, specialising in traditional singing and herding calls. A few months later, I moved to London to study a BMus in Jazz Voice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. I have performed my music at venues such as The Green Note, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and King's Place, together with Corrie Dick, Laura Jurd, James Kitchman, Rob Luft, Bruno Heinen and other brilliant musicians.

I released my debut album 'Något om en björk' ('Something about a birch tree') under my record label Rebecka Aurora in October 2022. The album is a collection of stories about the nature, the climate crisis and troubles of the big world from the perspective of the seemingly small individual. I recorded the album with my Swedish quartet Oknytt. Since the band started in 2016, Oknytt has performed at various jazz and folk festivals across Europe, such as the world music festival Urkult in August 2022. I find inspiration in the music of Lena Willemark, Lauren Kinsella, Maria Schneider, Charlie Haden and Ornette Coleman (to name a few) as well as really stupidly cold swims in winter time and long quiet walks in the forest back home.

I am currently living in the UK, where I am making music with lovely people.

Listen to my music and find out more about my projects here.