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.
MP3: “Lightening Fossil”
PRINCE RAMA
08/09 New York, NY Mercury Lounge *
08/14 New York, NY Cake Shop #
08/28 Palmer, MA Camp Stanica
09/13 Brooklyn, NY Glasslands $ (RECORD RELEASE PARTY)
09/14 Cambridge, MA Middle East Downstairs $
09/15 Montreal, QC Il Motore $
09/16 Toronto, ONT Snowball Gallery $
09/17 Chicago, IL Mortville $
09/18 Grinnell, IA Grinnell College Gardner Lounge $
09/19 Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock $
09/22 Vancouver, BC The Cobalt $
09/23 Seattle, WA Vera Project $
09/24 Olympia, WA Northern $
09/25 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios $
09/27 Oakland, CA The New Parish $
09/28 Brookdale, CA Historic Brookdale Lodge $
09/29 Los Angeles, CA Eagle Rock Center For The Arts $+
$ = w/ Deakin
* = w/ Nite Jewel
# = w/ Cave, Psychic Ills
% = w/ Silk Flowers, Amen Dunes
+ = w/ Fennesz
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