Rangda

Rangda are named for the Javanese demon queen of the leyaks. This power trio is an instrumental psych rock and no wave-styled noise unit. Its members are guitarists Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire, Current 93) and drummer Chris Corsano (Björk, Dredd Foole, Jandek, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Jim O'Rourke). Assembling as a touring unit, they tried out their very original material before recording their debut full-length, False Flag. It was released by Drag City in May of 2010. ~ Thom Jurek