Prince Rama Shadow Temple

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Raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, educated at art school in Boston, and now making noise and living in Brooklyn, Prince Rama are the latest addition to the Paw Tracks roster. Their new album 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 artifacts 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 with the help of Rusty Santos and Animal Collective members Avey Tare and Deakin, Shadow Temple offers itself as a sincere porthole into a mysterious realm that defies material understanding.

Prince Points:

North American Press courtesy of Force Field PR

North American Radio Promotion by Terrorbird

Touring North America and Europe this fall and winter

Multiple music videos in the works

Prince Rama are Taraka and Nimai Larson and Michael Collins

Rama Rama Info:

Check out www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya and www.facebook.com/princeramaofayodhya for more info.

Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Panda Bear et.al.) and Kellzo contributed greatly to the production efforts

Tracklisting:

1. Om Mane Padme Hum
2. Om Namo Shivaya
3. Thunderdrums
4. Storm Worship
5. Lightening Fossil
6. Mythras
7. Satt Nam
8. Raghupati

Release Date: September 14th, 2010

CD UPC: 677517103427

LP UPC: 677517103410

cover art: prince rama.

all songs conceived by taraka larson

except om mane padme hum, om namo shivaya, and raghupati are adapted from traditional indian chants.

thunderdrums is an homage to scott fitzgerald.

all arrangements by prince rama:

taraka larson: voice, guitar, autoharp, keys, synth, drum machine, percussion

nimai larson: voice, drums, percussion

michael collins: voice, synth, drum machine, percussion

additional drums on storm worship and vocal drones on om mane padme hum expertly provided by josh dibb and dave portner.

recorded by kellzo (aka mike kelley) in january 2010 at kurt Vonnegut grandson's house and by josh dibb and dave portner in april 2010 at the good house.

mixed by rusty santos and josh dibb.

mastered by paul gold at salt mastering.

infinite thanks to our families, our extended families, and our sonic families, namely kellzo, dave portner, josh dibb, ben russell, rusty

santos, paul gold, todd, scott and jamie, maxime guitton, brian turner, mercer west, paw tracks, the whitehaus, the good house, the eternal house. thank you. this is an offering.

Bio:

Spawned from the vernal heat of the Florida swamps amidst swirling patterns of pine orchards and pre-Columbian artifacts, 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.