DEAKIN (of Animal Collective) + Prince Rama +TBA

DEAKIN (of Animal Collective) + Prince Rama +TBA

Monday, September 27, 2010 at 7:00 PM (PT)

Oakland, United States


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DEAKIN (Tickets will also be available at the door)

Presented By: (((folkYEAH!))) & New Parish

 Monday 9/27  (Early Show)

Deakin (of Animal Collective)

DEAKIN (of Animal Collective)

Plus

Prince Rama

Monday, September 27, 2010

Doors 7pm / Show 8pm

$12 Adv./ $15 Door / Age 18+ 


Deakin (of Animal Collective)

Josh Dibb began writing and recording music with childhood friend Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) in 1991. While in high school, Josh met David Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) when they asked him to join their band, Automine. Josh introduced Noah to Dave and Brian and over the next few years the four spent time playing music together and sharing tapes of music they made individually.

After high school Panda Bear and Deakin went to Boston, where Deakin attended Brandeis University. Avey Tare and Geologist moved to New York City to attend NYU and Columbia University respectively, when they were finished with high school. After months of playing the band finally settled on the name "Animal Collective". 

In 2008 and 2009, Deakin did remixes for "Little Bird" by GoldfrappMirando by Ratatat, "Boundary Waters" by Palms and Love Like a Sunset by Phoenix.

On January 1, 2010, he played his first solo show as Deakin at the Ottobar in Baltimore, MD where he grew up.

In December 2009, Deakin raised $25,985 to travel to Mali to play at the music festival, Festival au Désert, outside of Tomboctou in Mali in January 2010 and to record an album in early 2010. After playing the music festival, Deakin played five shows in Europe, including a few shows opening up for Panda Bear.


Prince Rama

Brooklyn/Boston-based three piece Prince Rama make psych music. Deep psych music. This isn't folk with a few tribal drums, or plain old rock with some flanged triangle thrown in for no reason. There's sanskrit chants. Zonked synths. And, yes, more than a few tribal drums. Their freak-outs were convincing enough for members of Animal Collective, who recently signed them to their Paw Tracks label and helped record their fourth album, Shadow Temple, due out September 14. (Check out the track "Lightening Fossil" here.)

Made up of two sisters-- Taraka and Nimai Larson-- and their friend Michael Collins, Prince Rama met while living in a Hare Krishna-heavy community in Florida while in high school. They started as a self-described "Blink 182 rip-off band," and it was only after the trio started taking college art classes that they came up with the decidedly more out-there sounds that define their current incarnation. Their latest release, Architecture of Utopia, was inspired by outsider artist Paul Laffoley, Elvis' twin brother Jesse (who died at birth), and the idea of a vinyl record as utopic paradigm. (Listen to the whole album here or embedded below.) Which would probably lead one to believe that these guys were on some serious shit.

But in reality, they're high on cosmic theory more than anything else. Though primary singer and songwriter Taraka showed up to our interview in the same bedazzled dress she wears in the above picture, the trio were more down to earth than their music may suggest. Nimai and Takara aren't practicing Hare Krishnas anymore. They don't do drugs. They like Drake. But that's not to say they're faking the freak-- they've just internalized the spaciness of psychedelic godheads like Amon Düül and Tangerine Dream so much that it just rolls out of them at this point.

When

Where

The New Parish
Before the show, book a table next door at the award-winning Hibiscus Restaurant - hibiscusoakland.com - and use this ticket for $5.00 off.
579 18th Street
Oakland 94612



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