PRINCE RAMA ANNOUNCES NEW ART INSTALLATION
GUITAR CENTER, POST-APOCALYPSE OPENS 2/9 AT SECRET PROJECT ROBOT
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For the past month, Taraka and Nimai Larson of Prince Rama have been building
a "post-apocalyptic Guitar Center" pop-up store inside Secret Project
Robot. Installed in a reclaimed warehouse space, the evolution towards
a more de-materialized music is taken to its inevitable end; Guitar
Center becomes an anachronistic marketplace and a mausoleum of
signifiers and relics of rock and roll's mythological past. In this
ghost-modern interior landscape, trees grow upside down to support
dangling disco balls, lasers are reduced to glimmering projections
looped from youtube demo videos, and instruments are glossy
reproductions haphazardly cut and arranged from old mail
order catalogues, creating a hyper-real pastoralism that reeks of
both post-technological emptiness and utopian promise.
On the night of the opening, there will be a live "shred off" performance
consisting of a select group of guitar players hand picked from local
Guitar Center stores weaving infinite configurations of interlocking
Stairway to Heaven solos. Food will be provided, and drinks will be
served by Eric Copeland (Black Dice).
SECRET PROJECT ROBOT SITE:
RSVP:
EVENT INFORMATION:
SECRET PROJECT ROBOT
389 MELROSE ST, BROOKLYN, NY
ON FEBRUARY 9, 2013 A.D.
8-10PM.
ON FEBRUARY 9, 2013 A.D.
8-10PM.
////////// YOU NEVER KNEW GUITAR CENTER LIKE THIS BEFORE //////////
About Prince Rama:
"What
the hell is that?" is a question pretty familiar to the controversial
Brooklyn band Prince Rama. The answer is far from simple; sisters
Taraka and Nimai Larson have lived in ashrams, worked for utopian
architects, written manifestos, delivered lectures from pools of fake
blood, conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts and have now
finished inventing an apocalypse on which to base their new
pseudo-compilation album, Top Ten Hits of the End of the World,
comprised of ten singles "channeled" from fictional deceased pop bands.
Their often unpredictable live shows incorporate elements of
psychedelic ceremony, performance art, and dancefloor initiation rite,
and when Animal Collective's Avey Tare discovered them in a Texas dive
bar in 2010, they were equipping the audience with handmade shoes clad
with broken chimes. They 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.
In only four years, Prince Rama have released a prolific 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 the "NOW AGE" that puts forth Prince Rama's
aesthetic and metaphysical philosophies, which has been met with both
hatred and praise from art and music worlds alike. One thing is
certain: whatever it is they are, Prince Rama are constantly breaking
the mold of what is acceptable to forge a dizzying universe that is
wholly their own.
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