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Prince Rama

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Years active
  
2008–present

Genre
  
Alternative/Indie

Website
  
princerama.com

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Genres
  
Now age dance-pop electronic

Origin
  
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States (2007)

Albums
  
Xtreme Now, Top Ten Hits of the End of the World

Members
  
Nimai Larson, Taraka Larson, Michael Collins

Record labels
  
Carpark Records, Paw Tracks

Similar
  
Animal Collective, Avey Tare, Gang Gang Dance, Dan Deacon, Aswathi Thirunal Rama Va

Profiles

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Prince Rama (previously Prince Rama of Ayodhya) is a two-piece "now age" psych-dance band based in Brooklyn, New York, founded by sisters Taraka Larson and Nimai Larson.

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Discovered by Animal Collective's Avey Tare in a Texas dive bar in 2010, the band signed to Paw Tracks shortly thereafter, and have since released Shadow Temple and Trust Now, which peaked at #3 and #6 on the Billboard New Age Charts respectively.

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In four years, Prince Rama have released six albums and toured in four of the seven continents, recording with members of Animal Collective and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti. Taraka recently published a manifesto on "Now Age" that puts forth Prince Rama’s aesthetic and metaphysical philosophies.

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Nimai Larson is a regular contributor to food and music publications and has done cooking demos in Detroit, MI, Melbourne Australia, Washington, DC, and New York City. Real Food Real Kitchens asked her to contribute a recipe for their newest cookbook New York Cookbook.

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Band members

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  • Taraka Larson: lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, keyboard (2008–present)
  • Nimai Larson: drums, drum machine, percussion, vocals (2008–present)
  • Ryan Sciaino - guitar, synthesizer
  • Education

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    Taraka graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA in 2009 and Nimai studied Visual Art and Art History at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas.

    Discography

  • 2008 - Threshold Dances (Cosmos Records, UK)
  • 2009 - Zetland (Self-Released)
  • 2010 - Architecture Of Utopia (Animal Image Search)
  • 2010 - Shadow Temple (Paw Tracks)
  • 2011 - Trust Now (Paw Tracks)
  • 2012 - Utopia = No Person (Not Not Fun)
  • 2012 - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World (Paw Tracks)
  • 2016 - Xtreme Now (Carpark Records)
  • Songs

    Your Life In The EndXtreme Now · 2016
    Now Is The Time Of EmotionXtreme Now · 2016
    So DestroyedTop Ten Hits of the End of the World · 2012

    References

    Prince Rama Wikipedia