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 Animal Collective members Avey Tare and Deakin, Shadow Temple offers itself as a sincere porthole into a mysterious realm that defies material understanding.
PRINCE RAMA
06/12 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands (Early show)
06/13 New York, NY Pianos
07/01 Brooklyn, NY Walt Whitman Fest at Brooklyn Bridge Park
07/11 East Moline, IL Nitetrotter Fest
07/25 Baltimore, MD Whartscape
08/14 New York, NY Studio at Webster Hall
Prince Rama
Shadow Temple
(Paw Tracks)
Street Date: Sept. 14, 2010
1. Om Mane Padme Hum
2. Om Namo Shivaya
3. Thunderdrums
4. Storm Worship
5. Lightening Fossil
6. Mythras
7. Satt Nam
8. Raghupati
PRINCE RAMA LINKS:
MySpace – http://www.myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya
Press Materials – http://paw-tracks.com/princeramapresspage.html