VIDEO: “Om Navo Shivaya” –
http://bit.ly/fi7oTQ
MP3: “Lightening Fossil” –
http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14525-lightening-fossil/
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
03/02 Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands * #
03/03 Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks *
03/04 Oberlin, OH – Oberlin College # ^
03/05 Cincinnatti, OH – CS13 *
03/06 Lexington, KY – Cosmic Charlie’s *
03/07 Knoxville, TN – Pilot Light *
03/08 Boone, NC – Black Cat *
03/09 Athens, GA – Farm255 * !
03/10 Charleston, SC – Receiver Fest at Tivoli Studios *
03/11 Savannah, GA – The MusicFile (KIVA Festival) *
03/12 Oxford, MS – Cats Purring Dude Ranch *
03/13 Denton, TX – 35 Conferrete Festival
03/14 Houston, TX – Fitzgeralds $
03/16 – 03/19 Austin, TX – SXSW
03/20 Marfa, TX – Marfa Book Co. +
03/23 Los Angeles, CA – The Smell + &
03/24 Santa Cruz, CA – Brookdale Lodge +
03/25 Oakland, CA – The New Parish +
* = w/ Amen Dunes
# = w/ Psychic Reality
^ = w/ Sex Worker
! = w/ Quiet Hooves
$ = w/ Toro Y Moi
+ = w/ Sun Araw
& = w/ Lucky Dragons
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.htm