RANGDA (Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano)

Jason is rad! They came through town a year ago and we had some really great times.

sorry, Rangda thread

did not go to the show btw because before i knew it, it was 9pm and i had my pjs on.

lol story of my life. one day i won't have to get up at 6 every morning. one day...

still waiting for these guys coming through the twin cities :[

video from last week - http://vimeo.com/38110023
anybody seen 'em on this tour?

Saw both shows in NY. New stuff is great and they threw in a few older tracks. I wish they had more time to play together and jam out, they were definitely playing "rigid" songs/compositions. But it's always a pleasure to see them. They are headed to Black Dirty studios (there now?) to record the second LP.

nice, yeah, judging from the live recordings I've heard, they aren't all that improv-y, considering their respective improv-y backgrounds. no biggie though, they sound magnificent.

Black Dirt, not Black Dirty obvs.

Both shows were p. underattended with moderately disinterested audiences (first show I heard someone say "I feel like they could do this in their sleep") which was a real shocker to me since this group definitely falls under "What's NOT to love?!"

son of a bitch I totally forgot about these god damn shows DAMMIT!

unforgivable imo, jon.
too bad about the audience! weird. these guys should be hailed as gods wherever they play!

Fuck, wish they had come to my neck of the woods. Can't understand what could be boring about seeing great players playing great.

Hah, Chasny playing a white strat in that video clip. Cool!

Wow, just wanna follow up and say that that video is awesome! Love the solo and the anthemic closing part of the song. Want to see these guys, hope more dates follow the record (silly for them not to I imagine, but these guys all have so many things going on).

yeah considering how side project happy these dudes all are, it wouldn't be surprising if rangda was a one-off, but i'm glad as hell it isn't!

It was awesome to see Chasny playing like that. The next Six Organs has Comets on Fire as the backing band and is already recorded - cannot WAIT for that.

I am glad it isn't as well. But I could see them NOT touring for the record, just cause they do other stuff. These shows may be it for a while, but hopefully not.

I guess I am psyched for Comets guys on the next record, but I do not want anything that sounds like Howlin Rain. Will trust that it will just sound like rocking Six Organs, which I am ALL for. Especially if there is a tour for it. Last few times I have seen Chasny it has been solo or with Elisa, which were great shows, but it has been a long time since I have seen him with a band.

Okay, we have word...

For the second flight of the shadowy witch-god brothers, Rangda have changed their status from False Flag to Formerly Extinct! Since the last album, Rangda, the trio consisting of Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasney, and Chris Corsano, has been all around this world as the wise men and the fools alike, in lands both high and low. They’ve seen the young and invest-less kneel amp-side, waiting for musical succor, then in the next town over they’ve felt the cold chill of being left for dead and seen their music dubbed ‘so wrong it must be Rangda’ strictly for some local pen-lifter’s personal chuckles.

These songs, newfangled and shrouded by ancestral awakenings, bore deep into the layers of consciousness to divine meeting. Take “Manjun,” for instance. Everybody always talks about Layla, but when does anyone ever pull Majnun out the hat? Enter Rangda with sympathy for the obsessed. To them, the Persian wanna-be lover of classical lit and lore is worth more consideration than George Harrison’s ex-wife! That's the way the Rangda madness lies. There’s no value among the flies of the marketplace – unless you find a copy of Rangda’s latest there. Formerly Extinct lives large, no matter how small the arch overhead, and is available for your decent into lunacy on September 18th via Drag City.

FORMERLY EXTINCT TRACKLISTING:
1. Idol’s Eye
2. The Vault
3. Silver Nile
4. Plugged Nickel
5. Manjun
6. Goodbye Mr. Gentry
7. Tres Hambres
8. Night Porter

nice!

http://cdn.e2ma.net/userdata/1702443/images/large/scaled_e1343072533.jpg

do not particularly like the cover.

yeah the first one's cover wasn't great either
http://www.terrascope.co.uk/images/Rangda.jpg

google image searching "rangda" however, is a hoot
http://www.novelistinparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/rangda01.jpg
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~rfrey/images/220/Ritual/Bali%20Rangda.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/goseasia/1/0/3/5/-/-/rangda.jpg

anticipating album, but who writes that copy?!

haw, drag city's PR copy is usually like that.

it's like really bad fake dusty groove tone (!)
maybe someone out there thinks that's funny, w/e
would be nice if chasny's name were spelled correctly

speaking of, super anticipating the six organs release in august!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes! would be cool if rangda did a package tour thing, like a SRB solo set, a 6 organs set and then a massive Rangda jammmm.

maybe a little solo corsano as an appetizer for the early birds

book it! someone!

that would be so great. will buy this new one, also wanna note that SRB's new one Intermezzo is really really good.

need to get that. hard to keep up with these dudes!
super great rangda vid here http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/27859723759/plain-of-jars-rangda-bard-college-march-1

bear say hi to rangda

i think the bears are cuet.

they were so much better live than on record (although it also made the record click a bit for me), i'd love to see them again

Playing Cardiff soon, I'm definitely going this time after missing them last time.

So, so, so excited for new stuff from these dudes! Fwiw I really liked the design of the last cover, but the new one looks like a rejected Gang Gang Dance or w/e cover.

i like drag city hype :-(

psyched for this

Man, that Rangda vid Tyler linked to above really is great! Hope these guys come my way on a tour at some point.

yeah the first one's cover wasn't great either

This is crazy, I adore the cover design for the 1st one!

maybe it looks better on the vinyl? i dunno, the CD looked a little chintzy.

having a little rangda day on my blog today...

Man, I gotta bookmark your blog. No need to post it again, I have a million threads to go find it in, but my bad. Your blog is a true treasure!

easy to follow on the tumblr!

I have never bothered finding out what tublr really is, believe it or not. Probably more than my work production can handle to delve into it. ILM cuts into it enough!

always with the tumblr
i actually don't quite "get" tumblr either, but the platform is easy enough...just a means to a blog, you know?

Hah, for me ILM has been the means for your blog. Now I am gonna bookmark it old-fashioned style.

tyler my friend is putting this new corsano/joe mcphee out too

http://roaratorio.com/26.html

sweet! that is a cool label.

oo i love joe mcphee

haha, doing a rangda day is fun. these guys have so many different projects, and most of them are great.

went to record store to make sure they would have a rangda for me next week, here was my exchange with clerk:

me: i wanted to see if i could order a new release for next week?
clerk: sure, what is it
me: rangda...yknow, they're one of those hard-to-categorize supergroup type groups and i don't want to search all over so...
clerk: what?
me: rangda r-a-n-g-d-a. i think it's an indonesian demon or something?
clerk: rangada?
me: r-a-n
clerk: r-a-n
me: g-d-a
clerk: ok

RANGDA
maybe i have ordered it, but all bets are off until next tues.

Knowing the shops you probably frequent LL, I'm kinda shocked they didn't know who Rangda is!