Prace is the pseudonym of Joram Kroon a sonic constructionist, hailing from Utrecht in the Netherlands. He’s dedicated to the art of assembling fractured chimes, rhythms and melodic palettes into rich textures of sound design. The pseudonym Prace is an approximated translation of his first name Joram meaning, “to praise”. In virtue of his moniker, Prace is indeed eulogizing the aesthetic influences impacted on him by the likes of Arvo Part, Antoni Gaudi and Bill Laswell in his artistic pursuits. Like his musical idols he shows the beauty of broken things in another context.

Right from the onset Joram was destined to be a musician, at the tender age of 8 he began playing the piano. By age 12 his propensity for making music had began to show. His uncle bought him a Behringer mixer, he took to it like a fish to water started destructing his father’s pick-up and record collection.
Consuming a steady dose of Hip Hop, Drum’n Bass, Funk and Jazz Joram’s production interests had been tickled. Joram’s inaugural shot at making music by way of scratching and sampling resulted in ruining copious amount of his father’s collection. Having spent a few summers honing his production skills, he began producing reggae infused jungle beats. As a growing teen, Joram’s interest in urban culture saw him pick up graffiti and skateboarding. His interests outside music became an outlet to experiment with different forms of creative expression. Skating and scribbling one-liners soon turned out to be a distraction from making music. This temporary hiatus, served as the period for soaking up ideas to be later infused in his music. Expeditions in graffiti and skating became the formative years of Joram’s aesthetic vision: “taking something (sound) to somewhere else, a place where it may not necessarily belong and making it belong.

Over the years Joram’s production skills have evolved whilst his pique-assiette aesthetic vision has remained constant. In 2008 after an audacious trek through Israel and Palestine, Joram set about transforming his experiences into an album. ‘The First Statement’ is a holistic body of work of a matured artist. Arab, Western and Israeli musicians brought together to create a musical panorama of the conflict in the Middle-East.
Joram continues to be prolific on his latest release, Trencadis, on Amsterdam based INI Movement. Trencadis EP is a spatial mosaic of dynamic beat-driven harmonics with Bossa influenced percussion rhythms and sumptuous melodies. All crafted at the total disregard for the laws of gravity. Trencadis’s percussion-propelled rhythms laced with dubby basslines ascend into orbit charting beyond the heliosphere, into the realm of “Dubnova”.

Style is truly the message, and Prace the messenger. An an old messengers maxim goes "the job is never finished" Prace will continue to search for more broken things, assemble them to create music that is influenced literally from all over the world. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.