Prince Rama

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Prince Rama (previously Prince Rama of Ayodhya) is a two-piece "now age" psych-dance band based in Brooklyn.

Sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson have lived in ashrams, worked for utopian architects, written manifestos, delivered lectures from pools of fake blood, conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts and have recently finished "inventing an apocalypse" on which they based their most recent album, Top Ten Hits of the End of the World, composed of ten singles "channeled" from fictional deceased pop bands. Their live shows incorporate elements of psychedelic ceremony, performance art, and dance floor initiation rite. When Animal Collective's Avey Tare discovered them in a Texas dive bar in 2010, they were equipping the audience with handmade shoes clad with broken chimes. They signed to Paw Tracks shortly thereafter, and have since released Shadow Temple and Trust Now, which peaked at #3 and #6 on the Billboard New Age Charts respectively.[1]

In four years, Prince Rama have released six albums and toured in four of the seven continents, recording with members of Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Taraka recently published a manifesto on "Now Age" that puts forth Prince Rama’s aesthetic and metaphysical philosophies.

Discography

  • 2008 - Threshold Dances (Cosmos Records, UK)
  • 2009 - Zetland (Self-Released)
  • 2010 - Architecture Of Utopia (Animal Image Search)
  • 2010 - Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)
  • 2011 - Trust Now (Paw Tracks)
  • 2012 - Utopia = No Person (Not Not Fun)
  • 2012 - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World (Paw Tracks)

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard New Age Chart". Retrieved May 8, 2013. 

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