Six Organs’ Ben Chasny handed over the keys to Twig Harper for this remix album, giving the noise/electronic experimenter total freedom to remake his 2020 album Companion Rises. The result is something entirely different in this reconfiguration; its warm, clear guitars, its eerie, attenuated vocals, even its forays into digital noise and dissonance have morphed beyond recognition.
Category: Six Organs of Admittance
Transmissions :: Six Organs of Admittance (2024)
Ben Chasny’s Six Organs of Admittance project has never settled into an easy, definable zone. But 2024 sees the Six Organs sonic universe expanding kaleidoscopically, even by his prodigious standards. For this return visit to Transmissions, Chasny discusses his trio of 2024 releases, working with ambient dub master Shackleton and noise experimenter Twig Harper, his experiences playing with David Tibet’s apocalyptic avant-garde collective Current 93, and cultivating online community through the Six Organs Patreon. Plus: Mark Neeley on Pure Animation for Now People, a collaboration with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo.
Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance :: Jinxed By Being
Opposites attract in this unexpected collaboration between dubstep pioneer Sam Shackleton and out-folk innovator Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. Yet the oddity itself is very beautiful. Shackleton’s music has never sounded so warm and present. Chasny’s work has never seemed visionary and forward looking. They meet somehow in a middle that no one foresaw, and it is a strange and lovely place.
Six Organs of Admittance :: Transmissions
This week on the show, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance. His new album is called The Veiled Sea, out this week via Three Lobed Records. Six Organs records can often sound very different from each other—think quiet acoustic sketches or long, blown out psych epics—but this one is a whole new thing entirely, with wild glam inspired solos over wild riffs—plus there’s a Faust cover. Chasny stopped by to discuss the new album, his work with Comets on Fire, his trio with Sir Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano, Rangda, the dubious “freak folk” term and much more.
New Bums :: Last Time I Saw Grace
Donavan Quinn and Ben Chasny return as New Bums with Last Time I Saw Grace, a masterful collection of balladry, surreal wordplay, and sharp observations.
Six Organs of Admittance :: The 101
Elisa Ambrogio’s video for “The 101,” rides a rock ’n’ roll animism via the curves of California’s forests, where ferns are hardwired to unseen voltage and black cubes manifest as mysterious omens. Ambrogio’s video teases out the weirdness from the only state that could have given us Esalen, Heaven’s Gate, PKD, and the Integration.
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Six Organs Of Admittance
For more than two decades, Ben Chasny’s Six Organs of Admittance has taken on many forms, from full-band blowouts to spectral acoustic balladry, from esoteric approaches to free-form explorations. Wherever he goes, he’s always worth following. For his debut Lagniappe Session, Ben has re-imagined three Melvins songs, paying righteous tribute to the long-running Washington state rockers.
Six Organs of Admittance :: For Octavio Paz
One of the great 21st century guitar records – reborn! For Octavio Paz is a captivating collection of intimately spectral six-string (nylon and steel) enigmas. Originally released in 2003 on the influential Time-Lag label, it doesn’t fit neatly into any kinda American Primitive Fahey/Basho worship zone; instead, it’s a beguiling little universe of its own. Ben Chasny has never made anything quite like it since (whether with Six Organs of Admittance or one of his many other projects), which adds to the LP’s special quality.
Six Organs of Admittance :: Burning the Threshold
The Six Organs of Admittance catalog is deep and varied, each album offering the listener a terrifically tangled journey through Ben Chasny’s boundless musical imagination. For that reason, it’s tough […]
Six Organs of Admittance / William Tyler :: Parallelogram
For a decade-and-a-half, Cory Rayborn’s Three Lobed label has been a reliable trademark of quality when it comes to adventurous underground sounds. From the blown speaker glory of Bardo Pond to the […]
New Sounds :: Six Organs of Admittance / Sir Richard Bishop
Word came creeping out of Western Mass early this year that Rangda — the mighty psych rock trio consisting of Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano — was […]