Six organs of Admittance?

he's been so prolific over the last decade or so, i still feel like i'm catching up with some of the six organs and related stuff. was just jamming RTZ a little while ago, loving it.

that's my favorite overall release of his even though it is really like four different releases lumped together

Ha, literally got that New Bums thing in the mail, haven't had a chance to give it an ear yet. This weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWKMndIWVUk

I didn't know Ben and Richard Youngs had done stuff together, is this from Richard's recent North American tour? Lovely subtle Loren Connors-style adornments from Ben.

track from the new bums full length out next year here: https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/new-bums-black-bough/
really love this.

new bums album delivers big time. nikki sudden/dave kusworth vibes, alex chilton-y moments. chasny really can do no wrong it seems!

label?

drag city -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78dObGiUYPc

Annnd new album next year:

http://www.dragcity.com/products/hexadic

Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny has devised his very own system of musical composition, The Hexadic System, which is the basis for an upcoming new album, entitled Hexadic which will be released on Drag City on February 17th, 2015.
How The Hexadic System came to be...
Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years Ben assembled a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices.
Though it was not his intention upon creating this unique system, the structures generated were so compelling, that they soon became the bones of the next Six Organs record. This is the longest time between Six Organs records since Ben started making them in 1998. This is also why Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever.
The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs that the musicians engage with. Yet the System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit.
With a desire to provoke the unconscious and spring past the strictures and limits of the conscious mind, this was the goal: to use the System to make heavy music with as few "heavy" signifiers as possible. The ones that are left: Volume. Distortion. Impact! This is Hexadic: the sound of the System in the hands of Six Organs of Admittance.
We'll reveal more insight into the resulting music in the coming weeks. Additionally, we'll have information about how you can practice The Hexadic System in your own home, via a deck of specially-created cards as well as a book explaining the workings of the System. All these items are set for release in 2015!

Whoa, this seems extremely promising. Right up my alley. Ben is the best.

i have no idea what to make of any of that

it's fine though, i basically come to six orangs for cool stoner sounds and ben's guitar playing. innovation on top of that is a bonus basically

yeah i don't understand any of it, but new 6 organs is always a good thing.

i like systems in general and six orang utans of combinatorial patterns for groovy guitar songs so this is a win win win win win

also i was wondering -- i have had the LP of Ascent since it came out, but continue to be bummed that I can't listen to it anywhere but my living room. can anyone help me out with that problem?

yes, but I can't get to that until around 4 hours from now. Are flacs OK or do u need MP3?

if Drag City provided DL codes, we wouldn't have to deal w/this issue!

i just bought both 'asleep on the floodplain' and 'luminous night' on vinyl. so good.

really need 'ascent', too.

xp thank you!! mp3 would be best i guess? but i'll take anything! my webmail works, lemme know :)

it's such a great album -- i listen to it at least once a month while i'm making dinner.

i guess i can listen to it in the kitchen as well as the living room but i gotta really crank it

indeterminate and irrational but also something to do with six

Okay, first new track from Hexadic here.

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/six-organs-of-admittance-wax-chance/s-aTF3A

i dig it

Oh man, this is great! It is definitely hitting his love of Japanese gnarl hard, cool move from him. I sure hope he tours this record in this style.

us dates

February 19, 2015 Doug Fir Lounge Portland OR US
February 20, 2015 Electric Owl Vancouver CA
February 21, 2015 Sunset Tavern Seattle WA US
February 26, 2015 Bottom of the Hill San Francisco CA US
February 27, 2015 The Echo Los Angeles CA US
February 28, 2015 Soda Bar San Diego CA US
April 21, 2015 7th Street Entry Minneapolis MN US
April 22, 2015 The Frequency Madison WI US
April 23, 2015 Empty Bottle Chicago IL US
April 24, 2015 The Loving Touch Ferndale MI US
April 25, 2015 Club Cafe Pittsburgh PA US
April 26, 2015 DC9 Washington DC US
April 28, 2015 Boot & Saddle Philadelphia PA US
April 30, 2015 Baby's All Right Brooklyn NY US
May 01, 2015 Great Scott Allston MA US
May 02, 2015 Bar Le "Ritz" P.D.B. Montreal QC CA
May 03, 2015 Mavericks Ottawa ON CA
May 04, 2015 Horseshoe Tavern Toronto CA
May 06, 2015 Beachland Tavern Cleveland OH US
May 07, 2015 The Basement Columbus OH US
May 08, 2015 Zanzabar Louisville KY US
May 09, 2015 The Mill Iowa City IA US

could you give an example of "Japanese gnarl", b/c that makes me think of Merzbow/Masonna which is probably too much to hope for, maybe you mean White Heaven

xp

Damn man, to go to DC or not to go to DC. Wish there was another place close by they are playing, not a fan of DC shows at all for the most part.

think the closest gig for me is 11 hours away lol

Sleeve, it is pretty heavy with staggering kind of plodding rhythms and unhinged soloing. Reminds me some of Haino playing with Dead C a bit. Not Merzbow level gnarl though, and yeah some White Heaven I have heard would be a close-ish comparison. Some headier heads should weigh in though.

Oh man, I LOVE plodding rhythms!!

me too!

Tyler, he is taking a break between the Seattle and San Fran gigs, maybe you can cajole him your way. I also see he is off between DC and Philly. Charlottesville is a short-ish drive from both ....

ooooh good call re: haino. definitely hearing that too - awesome!!

i see where grandavis is coming from - that is a bit fushitsusha-ish. going back to plague lounge noise levels.

OK, sold

haha, this is killer. supremely nasty guitar tone.

Just saw "Pathetique" referenced by someone else in regards to this, so yeah we are not the only ones.

27 seconds in and i'm sold -- super nasty but also not aimless
love it
btw anyone looking to test out the hexadic method who needs some drums, lemme know! dang. this sounds good.

glad he is super loud again

Hahah, Ben just now on Twitter:

Thanks for the kind feedback on this song everyone. It's the pop song on the record. The rest is a bit heavier.

lol

rad

my older brother makes super heavy open-ended noisy improvisational rock and whenever he plays me his music there is always one song that is "the pop song". i totally get where ben is coming from here

I got Rallizes, Fushitusha, Overhang Party and noisy-era Marble Sheep vibes outta that track. Can't wait to hear this album.

finally got to listen to this and everybody otm, loved the super weird mix on the vocals and that strange little fast part

new one is sounding radical

It's extremely good, got the promo last week. Definitely one of his loud ones, possibly the loudest.

yeah -- makes Ascent seem pretty poppy by comparison. but i dig the singlemindedness here.

oh yeah. looking forward to this

Broken record time: man I hope to see this incarnation live.