Ayria

Infobox musical artist
Name = Ayria

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Genre = Futurepop, Synthpop, electro-industrial
Years_active = 2003–present
Label = Alfa Matrix
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URL = [http://www.ayria.com ayria.com]
Current_members = Jennifer Parkin
Joseph Byer
Past_members = Shaun Frandsen

Ayria, pronounced area, is a Canadian future/synthpop musical group formed in early 2003 primarily 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.

The first two songs by Ayria since the release of Flicker include "The Gun Song", featured on the compilation Alfa Matrix - Re:connected [2.0] , released in August of 2006 and "Six Seconds On All Sides" released on Dancing Ferret - Asleep By Dawn compilation, released fall of 2006. The third full-length album, Hearts For Bullets, was released on September 12th, 2008 [Ayria's website [http://www.ayria.com/music.html] ] .

Name

Parkin has stated [Official Ayria site [http://www.ayria.com/ayria-interview2.html] ] in at least one interview that the name it 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". [Jennifer Parkin's blog [http://kittenflug.livejournal.com/49224.html] ]

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)
* "" (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)
* "" (Alfa Matrix, 2007)

References

External links

* [http://www.ayria.com/ Ayria official website]
* [http://www.alfa-matrix.com/ Ayria official label Alfa Matrix]
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* [http://vampirefreaks.com/u/Ayria] at VampireFreaks
* [http://www.industriallyrics.com/index.php?page=albums&bandID=16&bandName=Ayria Ayria lyrics] at Industrial Lyrics
* [http://www.myspace.com/ayria] at MySpace