Casper Bangs
Rishi Chakrabarty
Thomas Collier
Dennis Manuel
Chaim Rubenstein
Influences
The Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, Pet Sounds, The Kinks, The Beatles, CAN, Outrageous Cherry, MBV, Jesus and Mary Chain, Wire, The Soft Boys, The Cure, Velvet Underground, Suicide, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Radiohead, Beck, AIR, Sigur Ros, Phil Spector, Brian Eno, Nigel Godrich. Thomas & Holly, Rishi. The juke box at the Raven with all that good Motown.
Casper Bangs is the recording project of DC based vocalist and guitarist Rob Pierangeli. Named after the ex-lover that inspired many of the songs, Casper Bangs is a trip through the joys and downers of loving and being loved.
The Whitespace 7” and s/t EP are a preview of Casper Bangs’ full-length record, I Woke Up. It was written and performed by Pierangeli at his desktop computer in the midst of relational bliss - it's a document of a good thing that ultimately goes bad. The songs contain strong unaffected vocals balanced with harmony, layers of noisy guitars, and reverb.
Live, Pierangeli is joined on stage by Rishi Chakrabarty (guitar), Dennis Mannuel (drums + vocals), Chaim Rubenstein (keyboards + vocals), and Wes Garcia (bass).
Washington City Paper
"Casper Banges croons romantically amid an ocean of quasi-psychedelic squalor. But the curtain of noise can’t quite obscure the song’s melodic sophistication"
Washington Post May Mixtape - Queen of Hearts
"Rob Pierangeli, formerly of local indie-pop standouts the Hard Tomorrows, is back with a new project, and thankfully, the same knack for hooks."
casper bangs ... i think you are cutie you should use that and your great talents to get to know people and decide for yourself that you don't have to be alone for the rest of your life
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