A Prince Rama video is the last place you’d expect to find a Go-Pro camera, right? Go-Pros are the stuff of athletic cinematography legend– whether it’s hiking a mountain ridge or biking down a series of rooftops— but they’re not so well-known for music footage.
Yet “Bahia” attempts to change that by showing Prince Rama entirely filmed by Go-Pro cameras as an effort to best capture the controlled chaos of the bands’ live performance. After all, Prince Rama’s shows are, well, nuts. Just ask anyone who saw their set at Hasslefest 5 in 2013, which kicked off with a multi-minute musical whimper emitted by singer Taraka Larson, seated on the shoulders of someone who carried her around the room. It was weird, and great, kind of like this music video.
“Bahia” features band members in old-school athletics outfits both rocking out and sweating it out at the gym. The song itself is a tropical-flavored ’80s throwback dance jam whose retro vibe is greatly accentuated by the band’s old-school neon gym apparel. In fact, if it weren’t filmed in hi-def, this just might pass for a long-lost gem overshadowed by “Physical”.
Watch “Bahia” below, and check out the band this Thursday at Great Scott, supporting their new record, Xtreme Now.