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This
multi-racial band, which has been around the Malaysian music scene for
several years now, was first introduced to the public as a rap-core band
in the compilation album titled 'Family Day' after being approached by
recording company, Posse Records. The band later produced the Funk Core
Rap album, 'Have a Nice Jaywalk', which was released under Posse
Records. The highly enthusiastic album resulted in Prana being nominated
for the AIM 2001 awards for Best New English Artiste.
The promotions and shows however, interrupted their studies as at that
time, all the members were still pursuing their education. Due to this,
they took a break from the music scene. Two years later, now former
bassist, Pablo Torrejon, came back to Kuala Lumpur to finish
their second album under the bands own independent label, Laguna
Records. Recording of the bands second album got underway at the bands
own recording studio called Greenhouse Studio set-up in Ampang.
The bands vibes come from a mixture of different types of musical
influences and cultures. Prana write highly enthusiastic songs that deal
with interesting places and fascinating people that they meet in their
lives. Prana's musical influence would be reggae, funk, metal and drum &
bass only combining these all into their own style creating Greenhouse
Effect. The band spent three months creating the songs and recording at
the same time. Some of the tracks on the Greenhouse Effect album were
mixed and mastered in Los Angeles. Prana's second album, Greenhouse
Effect has since been released under Laguna Records in 2003 and
distributed by Universal Music Malaysia.
In the end of 2005, Prana's latest album was released. Disc 03, comes after major line-up changes. With vocalist Eric Ruffin leaving the band, guitarist Jamir Adiong took over the roll as lead vocalist. Former Lyme bassist, Azman Ali, then joined the band as bassist. The album, quite different from the previous two, incorporates a blend of all the influences brought to by the changes, giving it an amazing blend of sounds.