Prince Rama - Trust Now - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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. Album Tracks 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 has made the Top Ten Hits of the End of the World. Conceived as a pseudo-compilation album, the Brooklyn duo invented ten different pop bands that died during the apocalypse, channeling the ghosts of each one to perform the various songs. Tracking began with Tim Koh in Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's studio and was then completed and mixed with producer Scott Colburn (Animal Collective, Sun City Girls, Arcade Fire) at Gravelvoice in Seattle....Top Ten Hits of the End of the World isn't just a pop album, it's a retrospective requiem of all pop albums ever made. Album Tracks 1. Blade of Austerity (Channeling Guns of Dubai) 2. Those Who Live for Love Will Live Forever (Channeling I M M O R T a L I 3. No Way Back (Channeling Nu Fighters) 4. So Destroyed (Channeling Rage Peace) 5. Receive (Channeling Taohaus) 6. Radhamadhava (Channeling Goloka) 7. Fire Sacrifice (Channeling Black Elk Speaks) 8. Welcome to the Now Age (Channeling Hyparxia) 9. Exercise Ecstasy (Channeling the Metaphysixxx) 10. We Will Fall in Love Again (Channeling Motel Memory)

Xtreme Now is the most extreme album Prince Rama has ever made. Writing for Xtreme Now began while the Larson sisters were living on a black metal utopian commune on V?rmsi, a remote island off the coast of Estonia during the summer of 2012. There, Taraka had a near death experience inside an ancient Viking ruin which sparked a recurring sense of time-schizophrenia, or the physical sensation of existing in multiple time periods simultaneously. In this case, she experienced a joint-existence in both the medieval ages and the year 2067. In one of her prophetic visions she describes, InchIn the year 2067, I witnessed an aesthetic landscape where art museums are sponsored by energy drink beverages and beauty is determined by speed. I saw a vision of ancient tapestries stretched across half-pipes and people base-jumping off planes with the Mona Lisa smiling up from their parachutes. I saw art merge with extreme sports to form a new aesthetic language of 'Speed Art.' I realized that time travel was possible via the gateway of extreme sports, and I wanted to make music that would provide the score.Inch Working with acclaimed dance producer Alex Epton of XXXChange (Gang Gang Dance, Björk, Spank Rock, Panda Bear, The Kills), the new songs take on a more powerful, confident, fierce, infectious, all-encompassing, and accessible dance-club feeling than any other Prince Rama record-a fearless, visionary pop tour de force for the ghost-modern era that celebrates the ephemerality of life, dancing just at the edge of death's gilded smile. Album Tracks 1. Bahia 2. Your Life in the End 3. Now Is the Time of Emotion 4. Slip Into Nevermore 5. Fake Til You Feel 6. Believe in Something Fun 7. Xtreme Now Energy 8. Fantasy 9. Sochi 10. Would You Die to Be Adored 11. Shitopia