Taraka: Now Age is just a fancy way of saying “Nothing”, or “leading a blind rabid dog through quicksand with no rope and no way out to then be licked clean on the other side of the black hole.” I don’t want to describe my music as anything in particular because then it could potentially harm the relationship I try so hard to cultivate with it that I described before. She currently lives in Brooklyn. She had a blonde mohawk and a witch’s dress that looked like it came from the Hot Topic Halloween bin. At the stroke of twelve, we pulled up to the address that we had been given for the venue. Taraka Larson. Then, she tanned the hide with pig brains, rubbing the brains across the skin for hours until the membrane came loose enough that she could strip it away, sinew by sinew. Of course we would. A guy kept popping out to scare us. Taraka: What do you mean by real world? You are creating a new religion right now and we are all following you!” she continued. The road itself glistened with amorphous whitish debris, and, the harder we looked, the more it appeared to be undulating like television static. Could you tell us more about the fashion incorporated into your act and how you guys dress when you’re walking around the “real” world? “Um, no actually, I definitely haven’t,” I said. Just following a six-week tour of North America and with the release of a new album just months away, I got to chat with the dark-haired sister, Taraka Larson (Nimai is the lighter-haired girl), for the second time, who proved to be as thoughtful to the mind as she is talented to the ear. If you try to watch the way you listen, you’ll understand what I mean. Your music as Prince Rama, has really evolved tremendously but I feel the same substance that attracted me to hearing Dasi seems to be there intact. Taraka Larson was born on the birthday of Ludwig Van Beethoven in Houston, Texas, homeland of DJ Screw.She is one half of Prince Rama and founder of NASA (Now Age of Spiritual Aesthetics), touring and exhibiting her art internationally alongside her sister and other half of Prince Rama, Nimai Larson.She currently lives in Brooklyn. Taraka: We literally JUST came off a six-week long tour across North America with Dan Deacon which was totally amazing. On tour in the summer of 2013, we crossed the North Carolina border under the wing of a giant storm. Could you expand on that concept a little? The way you describe this reminds me of how it feels to listen to someone who is long gone from this world — like say, John Lennon say or Niko, but getting the feeling that they’re still here. He was eventually banned from setting foot in a Walmart ever again. After our set, I was approached by a woman who told me she that was thirty years old — and that she had just dropped acid for the first time. I kind of felt like I was inside a black hole disguised as a rock tumbler, lit only by black lights and strobes and smelling faintly of vomit and human bile. When we asked him afterwards how he got so good at scaring people, he told us he used to hide in the women’s clothing racks at Walmart and pop out screaming at unsuspecting customers. Suddenly she stopped talking and widened her eyes. Nimai and I started packing up our gear, trying not to hurl. It turned out that the Haunted Mill was some sort of perennial haunted house and blacklight mini-golf attraction guarded by a large bald man sporting a knock-off Monster Energy drink shirt, bloodshot reptilian contact lenses and a neck tattoo that read “ZEUS.” We assumed that that was his name. I just applied the term to music and it was eerily fitting– The sonic landscape of the post post post post post post post modern world is littered with the detritus of past musical movements and guided by the phantom limbs of its revolutionary leaders. Nice to hear about Prince Rama. Gargs: How do you think that music and fashion goes into the creation of form in the universe? I had no idea what she was talking about. Join Facebook to connect with Taraka Larson and others you may know. She told me that she saved dead animals from the side of the road, and after a few years of collecting rotting corpses, she was like, “Maybe I should learn how to taxidermy them!”. Taraka: Dasi huh? Maybe hours. Good job Taraka and Nimai. Slowly, we came to the eerie realization that what we were staring at was a mass of tiny frogs. And fashion should be a concrete visual manifestation of that music. As we were finally leaving, we picked up one of the hundreds of tiny frogs still littering the road, their rain-kissed bodies glimmering in the moonlight. Gargs: I really enjoyed the 17-plus minute video of “Never Forever.” Could you tell us about the concept behind that? In we went, and Halloween organ music haphazardly flipped on moments later. Then, just as we were about to leave, “ZEUS” asked if we wanted to visit the haunted mill. The linear trajectory of time and all of its cremated entrails are sprayed across the vast fields of the Internet, offering residents of this age a unique opportunity to experience multiple times simultaneously, never having to fully commit to one era or the next. The highway was covered in them. Terrified, we jumped in our van and sped off into the Appalachian twilight. The Soul Rebels to Play High Dive Wednesday Night, Harris Brothers Interviewed on Gargsville, Open for Peyton Brothers at Heartwood Soundstage, Rob Thorne Remembers Chitlin Circuit on Gargsville, Flipturn Flips Out Heartwood with Sellout Crowd, Former Gainesville Musician David Mason Remembered. Not even “ZEUS.”. And I encourage you not to be brief while staying in the now. I haven’t listened to that stuff in almost a decade. It is a quite a mystical experience, really, that I think most people take for granted. Suddenly, Acid Chick grabbed my arm and asked if I had been inside the Vortex yet. Top Ten Hits of the End of the World was conceptualized by us but shot in collaboration with our friend Samantha Casolari and designed by Jo Cutri. Could this be right? Filter: Taraka Larson view allTaraka Larson view all Read on for a hair-raising tale of raining frogs, taxidermy and the Vortex. Gargs: Impressive explanation, Taraka. Prince Rama is an avant garde, Now Age band that originated in Gainesville, Fla. as Dasi more than a decade ago and is now based in Brooklyn, NY, where it has enjoyed great success charting on the Billboard New Age charts several times and has released numerous albums to critical acclaim. Was this part of the haunted house prank? “It’s you! She was really into them. It should be released later 2015, early 2016 and we’re concocting all sorts of visual art projects to be looped into it! Finally, lights flicked on and “ZEUS” kicked everyone out. You are God! I definitely want one in my house — if I ever get a house. I was really impressed. We were parked in front of a dimly lit abandoned grain silo adorned with a lone, hand-painted banner that read “THE HAUNTED MILL.” It was nowhere near Halloween, so why would anyone go to a haunted house? I told her that I saved the minks from the trash. Music of the ghost-modern era has consequently thrived on this artificial platform of memory, becoming an extension of an ever-expanding archaeology of reference points and nostalgia. Apparently the Nickelback dude was, too, because while she was talking about peeling the sinews off the tendons and bleaching the marrow out of the bones, he kept leaning down to lovingly nuzzle her mohawk. For more information, please read our cookie policy. Could you tell us what you mean by that? Perhaps we’ll never know. There was a mosh pit, strobe lights (which caught on fire), crowd-surfers dressed as aliens, and several mysterious substances being imbibed out of unmarked containers. Honestly, we can’t take too much credit for the concept behind it. It was totally disorienting! The personal information that is included in the full report could contain schools that they attended, degrees earned, … Gargs: It was fantastic — kind of like dying, going into your astral body, having an LSD flashback, and then going back into your body again and wondering if I just saw what I think I saw. To me they are amazing but I think that to anyone that would have be at least interesting? Dave Depper (Death Cab for Cutie) Talks the Unbearable Weirdness of Returning from Tour, Ryan Kattner (Man Man) Talks the Joy of Losing Your Mind on Tour, Adam Schatz (Landlady) Talks the Horror of Playing to an Empty Room. (photo credit: Brian Chippendale) I had written a manifesto called “Apocalypse Now: Pop Music and the End of the World” which I gave to them to read as we were formulating the concepts for the movie, and I feel like some of the themes seeped in there– especially ghost-modern concepts like the Pop Star as Virtual Reality Automatron having to blindly escape the dark underworld of Zombie Aesthetics and finding salvation via twin blazing motorcycle riders named “For” and “Ever”… but ah! Wow, I probably would have just swerved the car clear off the road to make it stop. Taraka Larson, Actress: High School Lover. So she started with her dearly departed pet ferret. Taraka Larson is an actress, known for High School Lover (2017) and Bananazzz (2012). While I was driving up I-95 last year, my shuffle played one of your old Dasi songs and I enjoyed it so much that I played a couple of your albums on the way to my destination. Anyway, every time he popped out, Nimai would let out a bloodcurdling scream and destroy my arm with her nails. The Now Age is a personal manifesto I first wrote for myself to help me forget every aspect of my flesh and approach everything with that pure unadulterated divine amnesia that has no recollection of the past, no care for the future… it is there I find the purest music to lie, and that’s the music I want to devote my entire life to making. First, she took out the bones. What a sweetheart– and absolute joy to watch perform– wish we could be back on the road again already! Luckily, before I could give the tattoo any thought, this other chick came up to me and started asking about the mink pelts that were draped across my keyboard during the show. Web Design by  My IT Guy | Houston Web Design. Gargs: Your music and art as Prince Rama is truly a spectacle to experience. We were the only ones on the road for miles, save for the occasional trucker belligerently driving with his high beams on, making the world momentarily disappear under a haze of yellow. By using this site, you consent to the use of cookies. It seemed like a polite thing to do. about it, but if you really want to know the real honest-to-god thing that attracted us to creating Dasi, it was the high school dream of becoming Blink 182, and I still love Blink 182 and want more than anything to just make music people can skateboard to.

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