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Prince Rama | |
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| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
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| Years active | 2008–2019 |
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| Past members | Taraka Larson, Nimai Larson, Ryan Sciaino |
| Website | princerama |
Prince Rama (previously Prince Rama of Ayodhya) was 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. [2]
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.
On August 20, 2019, Taraka Larson announced that the band had been disbanded. [3]
