Six organs of Admittance?

And further to my July post there, here's my interview with Ben about it all:

http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2015/08/25/ben-chasny-of-six-organs-of-admittance-on-his-book-tour/

mentioning a new album next year with Rangda, his trio with Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano

nice!

There's more to come but not all of it could be talked about yet!

Oh cool, thanks for sharing. Gonna read this now.

yaaaay more rangda!!

Ben Chasny apparently playing Hopscotch in a trio with Elisa Ambrogio & Tashi Dorji. Going to be broadcast around 3:15 on WXDU out of Durham. Could be amazing:

http://www.wxdu.org/

And we got Hexadic II announced for November. This one's an acoustic album. First track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPbZ41bNU-E

Nice!

ooh

Yeah he mentioned this to me a couple of weeks back when I did the interview but it wasn't for public knowledge yet. Should be a treat.

Ben on Twitter:

BTW- the 9 songs on Hexadic II are related to the 9 songs on Hexadic. Exultation Wave and Wax Chance use the same "tonal fields."

Ben just posted this list of songs that he was listening to circa "Dust & Chimes", which is getting reissued. Pretty sweet:

http://www.sixorgans.com/songs-that-inspired-six-organs/

great list, never heard of that L record before!

Have you heard the August Born record Sleeve? Really cool record Chasny did with the guy from L, recommend it highly.

Also, VHF Records has that whole L record available for streaming on its site (and like every other record, i.e., tons of Pelt/Vibracathedral Orchestra/Sunroof, crazy shit all around).

https://soundcloud.com/vhfrecords/sets/l-holy-letters-vhf-84

!!!

no, I think I heard abt August Born and then forgot, will investigate

thanks, man

Sure! That August Born is Drag City, so not streaming, but they may still have copies (I have been surprised at what DC has copies of now and again).

One of my favorite tunes from that August Born record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuBN1cMMS8

Total bummer folk/psych, perfect for Fall weather.

Nice new Six Organs of Admittance song available to listen to on the Avant Ghetto show on WFMU (open the link and you can open a pop-up player for the track, though the whole radio show is pretty great). From the upcoming Parallelogram series on Three Lobed Records. Very cool, kind of tunefully droney with a little sweet guitar action at the end. I love it:

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62834

Good write up by Tyler Wilcox for Aquarium Drunkard in re the nature/background of the track as well (it's from a split with William Tyler):

http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/09/30/six-organs-of-admittance-william-tyler-parallelogram/

This Six Organs tune rules.

A cool keyboard solo of all things, or at least that is what it sounds like.

Aquarius instore next Tuesday, livestreamed here:

http://www.pressuredrop.tv/artists/six-organs-of-admittance

And just reconfirming this! Alternate link:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEggLUGWRrQpzyhft-rUL0-wiHNHJ_5mL

Starts in an hour.

6OA also responsible for some of my fav blogposts of 2k15 http://www.sixorgans.com/influential-music-pt-3/

Those posts are great. Ben is the best.

new band/project for Chasny

http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/coypu-man-wolf-jackal-and-jungle-cat

And new album just announced, Burning the Threshold, in combination with a new song now streaming:

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/05/504173900/songs-we-love-six-organs-of-admittance-taken-by-ascent

From the PR guff:

With a spacious acoustic sound stage, Burning the Threshold may actually more resemble 2011's Asleep on the Floodplain or 2005's School Of The Flower. All of this is speculative, comparative, unverifiable - but our sense of what is true tells us that nobody plays acoustic music quite like Six Organs of Admittance, and that furthermore, nothing sounds so much like Burning the Threshold as Burning the Threshold.

Ben is in a particularly expansive mood this time around, singing and playing with all the thoughts affixed to a quiver of potent melodies launching forth and arcing out through dimensions, seeking infinite space. This space radiates out from the album's first single, "Taken By Ascent", a seven minute plus burner that engulfs the surrounding realm with empathetic waves. Featuring the thrilling vocal accompaniment of Haley Fohr, the massive drumming of Chris Corsano, and flourishing keys of Cooper Crain, "Taken By Ascent" exemplifies Six Organs of Admittance's furvid push into new and thrilling territory with Burning the Threshold.

oh man that sounds great

new song sounds sweet -- with that lineup, this can't go wrong ...

another song off the new album
https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/track/threshold-of-light

sounds a bit like School of the Flower/Shelter From the Ash-era SooA

Pretty cool, this tour's lineup is Ben, Elisa and Donovan Quinn -- guitar trio and vocal trio. Looking forward to the show (currently at the SF show, Meg Baird opening).

Ah fuck, i love Elisa (and Magik Markers). Saw Ben years back, really good if you like freewheeling raucous guitar improv. Enjoy!

yeah, that seems like a great tour ... new 6 organs is great! maybe one of ben's more welcoming LPs?

Wait so no Chris Corsano on the tour?

i don't think so?

He's touring Europe at the moment with Rodrigo Amado.

And a very great performance it was. You need to be logged in on FB to see, I think, but Kathy Harr took a video snippet:

https://www.facebook.com/katherine.harr/videos/vb.100001415534499/1417656364958201/?type=2&theater

Ben started and ended the set solo but otherwise it was as you see in the video. Really great to see three individually strong musicians do the business while following one particular lead. Great version of "Shelter From the Ash" as well, Elisa pulled off a barnburner of a solo.

speaking of donovan quinn, he just put out a pretty damn great mini album (with chasny contributions) over on bandcamp -- close to New Bums II: https://donovanquinn.bandcamp.com/album/apocrypha

He's been quietly doing all sorts of things over there.

New album in the new year:

https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/track/two-forms-moving

Nice! sounds very good, as per usual.
did we take note of Ben's recent Lagniappe Session where he covered the Melvins? Kind of amazing.
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/07/23/the-lagniappe-sessions-six-organs-of-admittance/

I'm behind on this stuff, still haven't heard Burning The Threshold even

WELL

Another new track:

https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/track/haunted-and-known

Tour dates:

4/14/20 @ The Back Room at Colectivo in Milwaukee, WI
4/15/20 @ Constellation in Chicago, IL
4/16/20 @ Trinosophes in Detroit, MI
4/17/20 @ Longboat Hall in Toronto, ON
4/18/20 @ Bar Le Ritz PDB in Montreal, QC
4/20/20 @ Space in Portland, ME
4/21/20 @ Great Scott in Allston, MA
4/22/20 @ Columbus Theatre in Providence, RI
4/26/20 @ Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia, PA
4/27/20 @ DC9 in Washington, DC
4/29/20 @ The Mothlight in Asheville, NC
4/30/20 @ The Earl in Atlanta, GA
5/1/20 @ Third Man Records in Nashville, TN
5/2/20 @ Zanzabar in Louisville, KY
5/11/20 @ Fox Cabaret in Vancouver, BC
5/12/20 @ Barboza in Seattle, WA
5/13/20 @ Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR
5/15/20 @ Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, CA
5/16/20 @ The Partisan in Merced, CA
5/17/20 @ Fernwood Resort in Big Sur, CA
5/18/20 @ The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz, CA
5/19/20 @ Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA

New album sounds great (although I haven’t been able to keep up with him over the last years, so don’t really know how it compares to recent stuff)

new album is the best thing i've ever heard from him.

gotta wonder how often he breaks his guitar strings.

Tangentially related here, but New Bums (Chasny & Donovan Quinn) launched a new Instagram account last week. Does that mean we might get new material soon?

yeah! I think a new new bums album sometime in the spring.
and there's a great new 6o record coming out early next year too on three lobed.

Man I had forgotten about the cancelled tour earlier this year and I'm just annoyed all over again with 2020.

Sorry Ned!

I hadn't heard anything about new New Bums, but that's great news! Always appreciate more Six Organs as well!