Listen Highlight #7: Yezda Urfa - Boris and His 3 Verses Including Flow Guides Aren’t My Bag.
Yezda Urfa is a band that I found out about early on in my introduction to prog rock. I had heard Yes and started dabbling in Gentle Giant, which is when I found out about ‘prog’ as a genre. I was intrigued and wanted more, so I googled it. There was a nice countdown blog listing out several interesting prog bands. Yezda Urfa happened to be one of them.
On my first listen I was a bit turned off by the vocals, but the instrumentation really captured me. Their entire ‘Boris’ album is great. Lots of crazy stuff happening on it. This particular track starts off with pleasant guitar work, pronounced bass, and waves of synth. The vocals might not be the strongest part, but they’ve become something amazing to sing along to. The band’s lyrics often seem nonsensical, or provide little snippets of sense, but drift back into meaninglessness.
Queue Flow Guides Aren’t My Bag. When this instrumental section hit I was entranced. It’s always changing up and switching between grooves on the guitar and bass while having the synth craziness all dribbled on top. Wonderful!