Prince Rama’s Xtreme Now is the inaugural entry into what they’ve coined the “Extreme Sports Genre.” Inspired to musically match the metaphysical intensity of extreme sports’ death-defying feats, Prince Rama looked to their own personal flirtations with death and time-dilation, but with more dance beats, makeup and glitter.
Initially signing to Animal Collective’s Paw Tracks label and now on Carpark, Prince Rama has continually delivered powerful, raw performances of dark pop and Peaches-esque electro, as well as coining and embodying the utopian spirit of “The Now Age Movement,” a cult of post-Internet transcendentalism. The band’s often unpredictable live shows have been described by fans as “hypnotic and mesmerizing– the feeling of a stadium concert on acid,” incorporating elements of performance art, dance-club initiation rite, and vintage VH-1 hair-metal-bravado.
The Larson sisters have also developed their visual art practice, exhibiting internationally at the Whitney Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, and the MoMA PS 1 VW Dome, to name a few.
Taraka Larson has just released her debut solo album, Welcome to Paradise Lost.