http://www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya
Just noticed this new album from Prince Rama has dropped…I’ve heard a few of the tunes and they’re quite interesting to say the least…anyway below is the Piccadilly Records lowdown on it which will give you a better idea of what to expect…
Darryl says: A huge swirling sound that pushes in almost every genre direction, kosmische cosmicness, avant washes, ritualistic chants and drums, and a world music feel throughout. All very wierd and utterly wonderful!
ABOUT THIS ITEM
Produced by Animal Collective’s Josh Deakin and Avey Tare.
Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artefacts, Prince Rama was whispered into the ears of Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, and Michael Collins in the summer of 2007 by the clanging of prayer bells and goat-skin drums. They left the Hare Krishna farm where they were staying to go to art school and form a creative nucleus in Boston. There, their engaging and often unpredictable ritualistic live shows attracted a rapid cult following, replete with collective chants, werewolf summonings, Sanskrit invocations, and the distribution of various handmade percussion to members of the audience.
In a short time, the trio was picked up by British-based label, Cosmos Recordings who released their first collection of lo-fi bedroom recordings as Threshold Dances and flew them out to the UK to tour and record the cinematically orchestrated Zetland. At this time, Taraka also began working for the controversial visionary artist Paul Laffoley and began composing Architecture of Utopia inspired by his paintings, an album that explores mapping utopic space via the mandalic architecture of the vinyl record.
In spring 2009 the group departed from Boston and went on a series of extensive tours across the US and Europe, culminating in a tragic car robbery in which all their equipment got stolen. Thanks to an overwhelming outpouring from friends, family, and fans, the group was catapulted to rebuild and reinvent themselves from the ground up to make a unique new sound surcharged with a renewed sense of awe, gratitude, and urgency.
The trio moved to Brooklyn, and with their new instruments wrote and recorded Shadow Temple, produced with the help of Rusty Santos and Dave (Avey Tare) and Josh (Deakin) of Animal Collective for release on Paw Tracks in September 2010.
“Shadow Temple” is an epic shrine of swirling synths, pulsing guitars, and thunder drums. An ethereal chorus of voices and anthemic melodies create a reverb-washed mine of sonic artefacts drawing from Southeast Asian rituals, krautrock legacies, chopped and screwed homages, hallucinatory operas, and dance hall psychedelia. Recorded in Kurt Vonnegut’s grandson’s cabin and a 135-year-old haunted church and offers itself as a sincere porthole into a mysterious realm that defies material understanding.
TRACK LISTING
- Om Mane Padme Hum
- Om Namo Shivaya
- Thunderdrums
- Storm Worship
- Lightening Fossil
- Mythras
- Satt Nam
- Raghupati