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Prince Rama Of Ayodhya : Threshold Dances (US,2008)****
I received this preview release, soon to be released on Cosmos Recordings by August 2008. It’s an enchanting album, full of celebrative songs in different colourful variations of forms and with lots of instruments accompanying. At times the songs and instrumental passages are like celebrative enthusiasms with hippie-esque, happy semi-paganesque feelings, celebrative dances with some sub-religious weirdness, with roundabout pauses of instrumentals, astral imaginings of nature’s calls (wolf’s haunting voices are heard once), all with psych-folk flavours, or with some native flute improvisations provoking worlds from old Andes Indians with colourful clothes and buildings, or theatrical expressions full of rhythmic shamanistic drives, epic songs more related to a ritual dance.
The music sounds very inspired and colourfully entertaining, whereas only having the front cover and not much else for the moment this still leaves me a bit wondering where the musical inspirations are all really about. A few images of how the popular epic figure of Ramayana often is presented on stage are surely helpful (see the added pictures left and right).
It is, after knowing this background it became more clear to me that the band 'Prince of Rama Ayodhya''s music pretty much is like 'musical theatre' which is like a ritual dance on a podium, related with the Indian epic forms of musical theatre on stage, with dance. Only this band’s expressions are much more a western type of magical- provoking. Well done!!
I hope for live concerts they will have worked out or soon work out their own costumes and visualisations too.
