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Prince Rama live + Detroit Premiere of 'Never Forever'
In 2012 Prince Rama 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. Spanning genres and stylistic eras from across the globe, Top Ten Hits explores pop music's relationship to memory, nostalgia, and the spirit world. Incorporating influences as disparate as cosmic disco, motorcycle rock, new-wave, grunge, tribal goth, Arabic pop, and ghost-modern glam, Prince Rama filters each sound through the destroyed lens of a post-apocalyptic future looking back at the wonders of its sonic past. 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. Nothing like this has ever been attempted by a single band, and its residual echoes will continue to haunt this world and the next.
Prince Rama is the musical duo of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson. They have lived in ashrams, worked for utopian architects, written manifestos, delivered lectures from pools of fake blood, and conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts. Their often unpredictable live shows incorporate elements of psychedelic ceremony, performance art, and dancefloor initiation rite. 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. Their previous two records, 'Shadow Temple' and 'Trust Now,' peaked at #3 and #6 on the Billboard New Age Charts respectively. 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 praise and hatred from art and music worlds alike. And Nimai writes an occasional food column called "Healthy or Hungover," exploring the desire for health, and the desire for recovery from one's own mistakes. One thing is certain: whatever it is they are, Prince Rama are constantly demolishing ideas of what is acceptable as they continue to forge a dizzying universe that is wholly their own.
NEVER FOREVER is the first ever Now Age psych-opera, starring Prince Rama and featuring songs off their latest apocalyptic pop album, 'Top Ten Hits of the End of the World.' Shot in only 5 days and directed by Lily X. Wahrman (Astral Projects), 'Never Forever' takes you on a free-form journey through dimensions both surreal and virtual - from the glamorous, twisted world of a post-apocalyptic gym queen to the nightmarish breakdown of a VR robot turned pop star. If Alejandro Jodorowsky was reborn in 2127 and crashed his motorcycle into the decayed set of "Thriller," it still wouldn't come close to the terror that is 'Never Forever.'
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LocationTrinosophes (View)
1464 Gratiot
Detroit, MI 48207
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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