#Prince rama rage in peace movie#
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Prince Rama just broke up, me and my boyfriend just broke up, my bank account broke up– my life in general just felt pretty broken up. One day, I found myself living in isolation sleeping on a sand floor with a 7 ft long constrictor snake.

I didn’t even bother to turn off the air conditioner in the room while I was recording.

But then I sat down one late summer night with my acoustic guitar and hit record and ended up liking it so much I kept it. The album was already mostly finished, so in my head I thought maybe this would go on the next one.

#Prince rama rage in peace movie#

Well, here’s what I’ve been up to since we last spoke.” Kind of like that moment at the beginning of a sequel when they catch you up on everything that happened in the previous movie to get you back up to speed. It just feels like a casual kind of “Hey you, how you been. This song came to me all at once while on my daily walk and I thought to myself– wow that sounds like a good “first track” on a record. We caught up with Taraka and asked her to guide us through the album, track by track. Packed to the brim with wonky psychedelic garage rock electricity, and coated in a hazy lo-fi mist that only adds to its immediacy, it’s a record that very nearly didn’t exist, with Larson having vowed never to make music again following the break up of Prince Rama, until a spell living in a Texas gallery with only a snake for company listening to old school punk, grunge, and obscure psych records prompted her to pick up a guitar and the songs came flooding out. The record is shot through with an itchy impatience, unwilling or unable to stick with one thread for any longer than is absolutely necessary before the ants in its pants lead it to shoot off on another technicolour tangent, and incredibly it somehow manages to hang together, with never a moment of wasted motion.

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Early single “Psychocastle” led Joyzine’s Paul F Cook to proclaim it “a mutinous, dopamine-inducing calling card for what I believe is more excitement yet to come” (read the full review), and the predicted thrills are served up by the bucketload on the album. Formerly one half of psych-dance sibling duo Prince Rama, this week Taraka Larson released her first LP as a solo artist, Welcome to Paradise Lost on Rage Peace Records.