Aura was a San Francisco 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. Over the ensuing decades though the Aura album has grown in stature to become a collectors item. In 1991, the Oakland hip-hop band,“Oaktown’s 357”(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. 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.