unforgivable imo, jon. too bad about the audience! weird. these guys should be hailed as gods wherever they play!
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
Fuck, wish they had come to my neck of the woods. Can't understand what could be boring about seeing great players playing great.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
Hah, Chasny playing a white strat in that video clip. Cool!
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― grandavis, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
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 Eye2. The Vault3. Silver Nile4. Plugged Nickel5. Manjun6. Goodbye Mr. Gentry7. Tres Hambres8. Night Porter
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
nice!
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://cdn.e2ma.net/userdata/1702443/images/large/scaled_e1343072533.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
do not particularly like the cover.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the first one's cover wasn't great eitherhttp://www.terrascope.co.uk/images/Rangda.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
google image searching "rangda" however, is a hoothttp://www.novelistinparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/rangda01.jpghttp://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~rfrey/images/220/Ritual/Bali%20Rangda.jpghttp://z.about.com/d/goseasia/1/0/3/5/-/-/rangda.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
anticipating album, but who writes that copy?!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
haw, drag city's PR copy is usually like that.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's like really bad fake dusty groove tone (!)maybe someone out there thinks that's funny, w/ewould be nice if chasny's name were spelled correctly
speaking of, super anticipating the six organs release in august!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
maybe a little solo corsano as an appetizer for the early birds
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
book it! someone!
― tylerw, Monday, 23 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
that would be so great. will buy this new one, also wanna note that SRB's new one Intermezzo is really really good.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
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
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
bear say hi to rangda
― j., Tuesday, 24 July 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
i think the bears are cuet.
― SHOCKING THE ACER ARENA (get bent), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
Playing Cardiff soon, I'm definitely going this time after missing them last time.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
i like drag city hype :-(
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
psyched for this
― gygax! II: pornograffitti (admrl), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Man, that Rangda vid Tyler linked to above really is great! Hope these guys come my way on a tour at some point.
― grandavis, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the first one's cover wasn't great either
This is crazy, I adore the cover design for the 1st one!
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it looks better on the vinyl? i dunno, the CD looked a little chintzy.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
having a little rangda day on my blog today...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― grandavis, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
easy to follow on the tumblr!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― grandavis, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
always with the tumblri actually don't quite "get" tumblr either, but the platform is easy enough...just a means to a blog, you know?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
Hah, for me ILM has been the means for your blog. Now I am gonna bookmark it old-fashioned style.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
tyler my friend is putting this new corsano/joe mcphee out too
http://roaratorio.com/26.html
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
sweet! that is a cool label.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
oo i love joe mcphee
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
haha, doing a rangda day is fun. these guys have so many different projects, and most of them are great.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
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 itme: 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-nclerk: r-a-nme: g-d-aclerk: ok
RANGDA maybe i have ordered it, but all bets are off until next tues.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Knowing the shops you probably frequent LL, I'm kinda shocked they didn't know who Rangda is!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
i felt the same way! there was a guy there who i know would have known what i was talking about, but he was not the one helping me.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow a new rangda record!
― 69, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw C. Corsano play solo last night and holy shit was that good. Dude is just great.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
aye got a ticket for the london show
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
so is the new one better than the last (my only gripe with the last one was that the show was 100000000x better, but maybe that's just the nature of the thing)
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 13 September 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol okay i just had a similar conversation to LL's just now. called my local shop to see if they got it in and ask them to hold a copy for me.
me: "Yeah, I just wanted to see if you got the new Rangda album in?"sleepy sounding dude: "Uh, who was that?"me: "Rangda. R-A-N-G-D-A."ssd: *types away* "Hmm, nothing coming up for that in the system. How was that spelled again?"me: "R-A-N-G-D-A"ssd: "Nope, nothing, not even an entry for other albums by them."me: "That's weird, I know I bought their first album from you guys."ssd: "What's the name of the album?"me: "Formerly Extinct."ssd: "Oh yeah, here it is. We've got a couple copies. It's actually spelled R-A-N-G-D-A."me: *slaps forehead* "Okay, cool, thanks."
fwiw, dude was super friendly and helpful, was just a funny exchange and made me think of LL's post.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
haha!
btw, the album hasn't really electrified me all that much, but i like it. i guess anything is going to sound minimal after listening to a bunch of SWANS. the sound seems to be a little heavier on the sir richard this time? the drumming isn't nearly as crazy as i remember it?
anyway, i like it and hope that they find a way to tour again. the show was GREAT and corsano is really fun to watch.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link