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‘70 is known throughout the experimental psychedelic drone community as being
one of the top artists of the genre. The sole project of Justin Wright, he has
been making improvisational music under the moniker since 2003 and produced a
number of releases highly sought after by music enthusiasts and completest
around the globe. Wright’s compositions of organic guitar based drone draws
comparisons to Brian Eno, Ash Ra Tempel, A.R. & Machines, Tangerine Dream,
SunnO))) and Earth, but not directly sounding like any of those artists in their
entire
Prince Rama (previously Prince Rama of Ayodhya) is a two-piece now age psych-dance band based in Brooklyn, NY. 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 recently finished inventing an apocalypse on which they based their most recent pseudo-compilation album, Top Ten Hits of the End of the World, composed 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 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 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.
