Aura Zorba - Who You Were

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Tyler Grates, a visionary from Detroit, creates under the name Aura Zorba in Portland, Oregon. The recent debut album "Silver Dye” has a notable hypnotic acid western touch, where tranquilizing ballads, glam, space rock and so much more form a coherent whole in a charming 45-minute crusade for desperate sound stalkers.

The track “Who You Were” embodies a psychedelic post-punk artifact, after contact with which the lightened mind temporarily leaves its boundaries. By the fourth minute, the wide, trippy sound, flashing magnetic tempo, transcendental melodies, and the assertive vocal-guide quietly immerses you, breaking out into a sweat, in the atmosphere of a strange and pleasant day sleep.