RANGDA (Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano)

words fail me.

http://www.myspace.com/calonarang

album due out on Drag City in 2010, apparently.

let us anticipate.

Yup. Had heard about this a while ago so can't wait to hear the results!

Curious to hear this.

neat-o!

assuming it's ... electric?

way electric, check out the Myspace for a long review of their live debut.

The only other Corsano-related stuff that I've heard is that Vampire Can't album, which is just completely awesome, so this looks promising.
What else should I check out?

He's done a lot of projects with John Zorn, hasn't he?

get the flower corsano duo records. they're awesome.

oh i'm psyched

xp Corsano is everywhere, i've hyped Flower-Corsano Duo before. his work with Paul Flaherty is also great.

Heard about this a few weeks ago. Way stoked (but I also hope there will be more Freak Of Araby).

The show I saw on that tour was pretty awesome.

Corsano's participation in Sunburned Hand of the Man jams elevates them to new heights.

pretty much everything and everyone he plays with moves up a level or two

love the Flaherty sessions, the Flower-Corsano albums and his last solo album is pretty damn good too

needless to say; i'm beyond psyched for this...please come to Hasselt soon

The album is complete already if my source is correct.

xxp and still he's in so damn much. perhaps we should have a rolling Corsano thread for 2010

That review makes it sound pretty killer -- arena rock! Quite honestly, I would not be as interested if it simply described more raga/drone/free jazz experimentation.

definitely!

last time I Chris Corsano - with Flower, i think - I kept thinking, 'any second now he's gonna drop into some straight up heavy rock beat', but of course it never happened.

but early 80s no wave meets melodic psychedelia? who else could be described like that?

This is probably going to be the best band ever. The new Flower-Corsano record is great too.

Am I the only person whose primary engine of interest in this is SRB? I admit to knowing pretty much zilch about Chris Corsano...

you're not alone, no. his involvement is the real appetite whetter here, but that's quite a trio.

(sorry for using the word 'whetter'. yeeeuch)

Agreed w/ JL tho Chris Corsano does in fact rule.

Can only imagine how awesome this would be w/ both the Bishop bros.

can't you only imagine how awesome it will be as it is, or have you heard them?

Yeah I'm real curious what if anything Alan will do next as bassist/guitarist. But I'm all about how Richard is spreading his wings.

I wish! No this is gonna be totally awesome. I'm just daydreamin. xpost

Yeah, this sounds like it will be fun -- Chasny and Bishop one-upping each other, with Corsano blasting behind them ...

saw ben and the bish performing together at a ATP a few years back, they were def on a classic rock tip then

corsano = a free drummer who is young enough to have the power/stamina/dexterity of someone like rashied ali in his prime - i've seen him play w/ flaherty/moore/o'rourke, matthew bower, heather leigh murray and he always rules - don't think hes ever worked w/ zorn, tho

There is one full track and a collage thing up on the myspace now, people. Sounds pretty much like the best thing ever, as expected. Chasny and RB trading leads over Corsano's polyrhythmic scatter, other portions reminding me of 'Juggernaut' almost making me well up. So psyched. And 'Freak of Araby' was such an underrated album I feel, totally righteous in its simplicity and purity of intent, I love it. And this is a band that surely has enormous live potential: if these guys don't make it to Europe I'm going to start my own booking agency! Was a real scandal that the Araby band tour was called off due to 'lack of interest'.

that track's pretty sweet.

Wait what do you mean called off for lack of interest? I didn't know about that! They made it to NYC at least, where they fucking killed.

yeah, I did not go to many shows this year, but would've gone to see the Freak of Araby live show if they came through my neck of the woods ...

xp - European tour called off - US tour happened, and was quite extensive, and from what I heard, grueling.

"Excerpts in order to Tease" now up on myspace. wow wow wow. 1st one reminds me of Harry Pussy!

oops myopic said that already, my bad.

WOW, missed this thread the first time around.
so stoked!!! love all three of these dudes tbh.

The RANGDA 2010 UK/EURO tour will begin in London on May 27th. Complete list of dates to be announced soon.

Album out on May 18th.

Excited to hear this. Very much so

And I hope they stop in Seattle

Fuck. Didn't know they played the Sunset back in September.

Heard this this morning ... killer. About as good as I hoped!

bought my tick for glasgow already:

Rangda - 5/27/10 at Barden's Boudoir in London, England.
Rangda - 5/28/10 at The Croft in Bristol, England.
Rangda - 5/29/10 at Miss Peapods in Falmouth, Cornwall, England.
Rangda - 5/30/10 at The Cumberland in Newcastle, England.
Rangda - 5/31/10 at Stereo in Glasgow, Scotland.
Rangda - 6/1/10 at Whelans in Dublin, Ireland.
Rangda - 6/2/10 at Norwegian Church in Cardiff, Wales.
Rangda - 6/3/10 at Freebutt in Brighton, England.
Rangda - 6/4/10 at Netwerk in Aalst, Belgium.
Rangda - 6/5/10 at Kunstcentrum Belgie in Hasselt, Belgium.
Rangda - 6/6/10 at Tivoli in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Rangda - 6/8/10 at Ground Zero in Lyon, France.
Rangda - 6/9/10 at L'Usine in Geneva, Switzerland.

Flowers/corsano duo is coming to town with MV EE with drummer from Sunburned Hand of the Man. I love chris corsano. and I really love sun city girls/richard bishop solo. who is ben chasny?

god this song on their myspace fucking rules.

sorry Im really high

who is ben chasny => 6 organs of admittance

He also played guitar in Comets on Fire.

Okay, now in the right mind. I can't believe I blanked on Ben Chasny. I would love to see these guys live.

fucking Barden's. what a bum choice.

oh man, corsano on this live "plain of jars"... god like.

so lucky he gets to play cool stuff like this too

new tune! www.stereogum.com/1844792/rangda-to-melt-the-moon/mp3s/
sounding pretty sun city girls-esque on first listen.

oh cool!

RANGDA!!

R A N G D A

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yesss

mr bungle comparison alarmingly on-point, this is not a good direction for them imo

hmmm maybe i'm not sure what mr bungle sound like...

i like how rangda always sounds antsy and tense

DC promo fluff here:

http://www.dragcity.com/news/2015-11-19-rangda-reveal-the-heretic-s-bargain

haha mr. bungle i don't know abt that

bishop bros & patton love their kitsch

haven't listened yet, but the new one's 19-minute closer is called "Mondays Are Free At The Hermetic Museum"

YES

:)

diggin' this new Rangda very much

Coming to Baltimore soon and probably elsewhere too

Chicago next weekend!

http://www.relatably.com/m/img/jealous-guy-memes/62289024.jpg

new video by elisa ambrogio over here: http://www.npr.org/2016/03/04/468932008/songs-we-love-rangda-the-sin-eaters

this is great!

yeah!
live tape from last week: http://www.nyctaper.com/2016/03/rangda-march-4-2016-saint-vitus/

oh hell yeah

the last Rangda show that guy recorded sounds really really good

i liked the first album but they honestly don't do too much for me :/

not sure what the deal is, they seem like something i'd like

has anyone heard alan bishop's new thing (with various master musicians of bukkake), Koes Barat?

Sunday in Minneapolis, I can't fucking wait!

tonight i will see the rangda!

i'm going to see this movie called Embrace of the Serpent tonight, which at least sounds like it could also be the title of a 25-minute Rangda blowout.

I saw them and it was fantastic

Same
They sounded just like I thought they would and I enjoyed it

this record comes together for me more than the others but i'm not really sure why yet

bishop's playing reminds me of bob drake in bits of this.

still don't think they've delivered on the promise of the first album, this record feels a bit enervated and rote

I dunno, I like this new one as much as the first one. There's a lot more of the 'surf raga' / Torch Of The Mystics-type stuff happening on this one. I thought the second album was just ok, but this one got me back on the horse

Of course, none of the albums compare to seeing them live

they were excellent when I saw them, seemed to be having a really good time, chasny detuning himself mid solo, and they definitely sounded better than on record, but yeah, I don't really like SCG, I want more extremes

fuck, they were here last night and i missed them

I don't really like SCG, I want more extremes

having a hard time parsing this w/r/t a band that made a career out of extremes, check out Dawn Of The Devi or Djinn Funnel or Bright Surroundings if u want dense Rangda type sound

I meant wrt rangda, miss the intensity of the first one

ah, gotcha, and I agree. Have not heard this new one but was not very enthused by the 2nd.

New live set just been upped to Dime
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=556680
live in Canada 2 weeks ago.

Three night residency @ Cafe Oto, 11-13 July. Supported by different solo sets/collaborations by each member on each night.

this record comes together for me more than the others but i'm not really sure why yet

― adam, Monday, March 14, 2016 9:57 AM (six months ago)

yeah I finally got Heretic's Bargain on LP and it is fantastic, but it's hard for me to articulate just what it is that made the previous one more disappointing - no wild parts? out of all the long epics I like "Hermetic Museum" the most, lots of variation and texture.

has anyone heard the live 10"? are the versions different enough that it's worth getting?

Man I haven't even heard the actual release/album yet, need to get on that.

I know, I felt like I was totally late to it as well! A lot more surf guitar bouncy action and there's a pretty awesome 8-minute freakout with a long fadeout ending ("Hard Times Befall The Door-To-Door Glass Shard Salesman")

yeah, it's good! especially love the long closer.
was just listening to david grubbs' new one and there are actually some pretty rangda-y moments on the tracks with drummer eli keszler

I haven't checked in on a Grubbs thing in forrrever. Mirror Repair remains one of my favorite records of the 90s.

yeah, me neither -- this one is almost all instrumental, which is a plus in my book when it comes to his stuff. i like it!