Aura ?– The Aura 1977 private press vinyl holy grail west coast soul/funk
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Description
Impossibly rare West Coast soul/funk private pressing. Vinyl has very little wear, plays with very minor surface noise. Could benefit from a good cleaning. Jacket has ring/edgewear. No splits.
Taken from the back of the CD reissue:
Aura was a San Fransisco Psych-Funk band that formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the band recorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo. The original title of the album was "Sativa" but out of fear that promoting the joys of marijuana would be too controversial, the band omitted the title and just left it as "Aura". The Aura album was a private pressing (limited to 1000 units) that never really made it to retail, because the group broke up in 1977 shortly after release. Over the ensuing decades the Aura album has grown in stature to become a collector's item. In 1991, the Oakland Hip Hop band Oaktown's 3-5-7 (MC Hammer's Salt-N-Pepa type band) sampled "Mess Up Your Mind" for their song "Turn It Up", which raised the Aura album to cult status.
Reggie Weiss (former producer for The Lemon Drops) wrote two psych-funk tracks on the album "Sativa" (a parody of The Champs hit song "Tequila", with water pipe sound effects and blistering guitar leads by former Lemon Drops guitarist Eddie Weiss), and "Skyrocket" (with manic fuzz guitar). The lead singer in Aura was Paulette Collins who still performs around the Bay Area today with an all-girl group called "The Taylor P. Collins Band".
Replete with rare band memorabilia and previously unreleased bonus tracks, Aura is now available from the original master tapes for the first time on CD. the album is a piece of Bay Area history and a psych funk masterpiece that cannot be overlooked in today's pervasive Hip Hop world.
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