Rangda’s live shows on the horizon; revisit The Heretic’s Bargain out now via Drag City
RANGDA’S LIVE SHOWS ON THE HORIZON;
REVISIT THE HERETIC’S BARGAIN OUT NOW VIA DRAG CITY
Experience the blaze of Rangda’s ferocity at their once of their upcoming live dates this summer. The tour shall include shows in Leeds, Gateshead and Edinburgh, as well as their residency at Cafe Oto, London where Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano shall take it in turns to open one of the three nights with a solo performance, before performing as one each night, as Rangda.
The full breakdown of upcoming shows below:-
08/07/16 Skankaloss Festival – Gagnef, Sweden
11/07/16 Cafe OTO – London, UK – 3 Day Residency (with Sir Richard Bishop opening)
12/07/16 Cafe OTO – London, UK – 3 Day Residency (with Ben Chasny opening)
13/07/16 Cafe OTO – London, UK – 3 Day Residency (with Áine O’Dwyer-Chris Corsano Duo opening)
14/07/16 Summerhall – Edinburgh, UK
15/0716 The Sage – Gateshead, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
17/07/16 Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK
19/07/16 Galeria Zé dos Bois – Lisbon, Portugal
20/07/16 Salao Brazil – Coimbra, Portugal
21/07/16 Agora Aqui Festival – Guimaraes, Portugal
22/07/16 SINSAL Audio – Vigo, Spain
Theirs is the natural order; deeply abraded but armed with fury, serpentine wisdom and the ability to seamlessly meld tightly structured riffage with the sound of the free. Unleashed on February 19th, The Heretic’s Bargain is a supercharged full length, rife with dynamic and aggressive movements; the sum total of three distinct musical minds at work together.
Which brings us to their recent video, in case you missed it the first time around… “The Sin Eaters” has a fractal quality, like a Mandelbrot set, expanding mathematical with circular breath, repeating and changing incrementally.
WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “THE SIN EATERS”
Directed by Elisa Ambrogio, the video for “The Sin Eaters” depicts the seven medieval deadly sins in various, eye-grabbing images: small skulls scrub away the mutinous transgressions of immorality to reveal shifting restraints. Filmed with precise stop-motion techniques, “The Sin Eaters” matches its layers of visuals and pigments with those of infernal Rangda.
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“An extremely welcome return for Rangda, The Heretic’s Bargain finds the fanciful jam wranglers at the peak of their powers.”
– 4 STAR REVIEW, RECORD COLLECTOR
“The Heretic’s Bargain is a fiery and inventive album, and one of the best things that Chasny or Bishop has been involved with.” – SHINDIG!
“Contemplating such heavyweight artists, each an expert in improvisation and occupying that wide border between underground and avant-garde can be a daunting prospect, but The Heretic’s Bargain is a groovy, engaging listen, that at various times sounds like Curtis Mayfield, The Who and Ennio Morricone.” – 8/10 UNCUT
“The opening track “To Melt The Moon” conjures an imaginary Middle Eastern spy movie soundtrack, shoved along by Corsano’s crisp snare and hi-hat, while ‘The Sin Eaters’ suggests an alternative history where 1970s hard rock was developed not from the blues but from the Arabic maqam mode, providing an opening for one of Chasny’s roaring, in the red psych solos.” – THE WIRE
‘The Heretic’s Bargain’, released after four years of silence, takes the band a step further from what they were, with a fuller and more consistent sound, extremely fascinating in its lighter and wider psych approach that now includes a mix of world-folk and does away with vacuous virtuosity.” – LOUD AND QUIET
“From the outset, Rangda’s members display their mesmerising technical abilities, jamming in newly slick tandem…The album’s triumphant finale, which arises from an extended meditative passage in the final two minutes of ‘Mondays are Free’, is especially poignant – and refreshing.” – QUIETUS