Six organs of Admittance?

no probs, I parsed it.

yeah, this album is pretty nice! some nice death metal folk kinda stuff -- on "Coming To Get You" I half-expect it to segue into "Enter Sandman" or something. I'd say generally that Chasny's vocals are the weak link of Six Organs, but I think he's getting better with each release. Lyrically pretty scary -- sounds like Ben read The Road by Cormac McCarthy ...

please tell me where these stores are that sell used 2007-issue CDs for $3

it's called having a good friend who works at a record store ;-)

still need to hear the new one... people here seem to like it, huh? doesn't seem like it's getting very positive reviews elsewhere.

i've had an order for "dark noontide" on hold at fe for a few weeks now, i hope it comes in.

Still waiting for my review of it to run for the OC Weekly! But there's been a recent backlog.

still need to hear the new one... people here seem to like it, huh? doesn't seem like it's getting very positive reviews elsewhere.

dude's had a very solid career so far. hence, backlash comes whether he "falters" or not, it's just inevitable. see also: Mercury Rev, who had this to say in a Drowned in Sound interview a year or so ago:

“It may just be that the timing wasn’t quite right for that music, and maybe people will come back and rediscover it in five or ten years or whatever. People have glossed over this one, for whatever reason. It’s easy to get tired of a band, if it’s being presented to you a certain way – you know, Deserter’s Songs had all these accolades, and All Is Dream was the same. It’s logical, almost, that at some point it’s going to come back down. It’s no knock against the English press, but it’s particularly apparent here that bands are built up only to be taken down a few pegs. It happens, and we expected it.

“We expected it with All Is Dream, to be honest – ‘Okay, they’re going to come after us on this record, as they want something to take us down’. But it doesn’t matter, because we’re the ones that make the music, and we’re the ones capable of making an album what it is or what it isn’t. What is written about it is simply someone’s opinion – it doesn’t change the music, or how hard we’ve worked, or how I feel about a song, and I’m the one that’s got to live with it! He’s got to live with it, and Jonathan’s got to live with it, so what is written on a page doesn’t keep me awake a night, you can believe that.”

new one's really good. i definitely like it better than the last one. except the long droney track, that was really good, but the songs on the new one are way more interestingly arranged and performed. shitty cover art.

the cover sucks indeed. but the tunes are wonderful, really beautifully arranged and the tag team thing wih new lover elisia works like a charm

didn't like the last one much, school of the flower was a great one too. and the manifestation, dark noontide. different style though

"nightly trembling" REALLY needs a reissue. don't know why everyone keeps slipping on that. i feel like "for octavio paz" will be reissued three more times before that one is.

I had almost forgot about this guy. All I've got is Dust And Chimes, I'll have to pick up somethin' else...

now i've heard a decent chunk of six organs' stuff (though still not the new one). 'dark noontide' is awesome but i think i like 'dust and chimes' the best.

manifestation is really good too (i think that's what it's called? i just heard it on internet radio).

are recent live shows worth it? like, 10 bucks worth it?

Oh god yes.

oh god no.

oh god yes!!!!!!!! i saw him last night in austin and it was WOWWWWWWW.

i also need more Six Organs. i'm picking it up as i find it in the used bins, so i've got Dark noontide, School of the flower, The sun awakens, and the newest one i bought brand new, just because. but i want more!

yea you gotta hear dust and chimes. it's awesome.

A little something to look forward to -- received some PR guff today:

Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ
Street Date: January 20, 2009
3xLP/2xCD

...

The double-CD, triple-LP epic called RTZ (named after the button on a 4-track that "returns to zero") fashions several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs of Admittance’s early years into an massive prismatic arc, colossal and organic like some wonder of the ancient world. How could it be otherwise? Even when existing as only one half of a record, as many of these pieces once did (and still do, somewhere), Mr. 6OOA (Ben Chasny, y’all!) leans into the eternal – letting the winds of Time scar his face and the light of All There Is burn his skin black. Grandmaster Chas has sacrificed the body for his music time and again over the years. RTZ is an iridescent chimera in full flight, viewed through stained glass.

Cataloging these early non-album excursions requires a bit of leg-(and mind) work. RTZ travels back to the dawn of this century to locate “Resurrection,” half of a Time-Lag split 12” with Charlambadies. “Warm Earth, Which I’ve Been Told” is half of a Mental Telemetry split CD with Vibracathedral Orchestra and Magic Carpithans from 2003. “You Can Always See the Sun,” was part of Three Loved Recordings’ Purposeful Availments subscription CD series in 2002. And “Nightly Trembling” was released way back in 1999 in an edition of 33 copies, all given away for free! That’s some spiritual shit right there. Combined with a never-before released extended piece called “Punish the Chasm with Wings” from pre-millennial days and you’ve got yourself a deep, DEEP box set, crammed into a multi-faceted LP jacket.

about time.

awesome. i like his earlier stuff a lot more than, say, the past couple of albums, so this is pretty exciting.

man, i have so, so, so been wanting nightly trembling to get reissued... yeah, the early stuff was great.

"that's some spiritual shit right there"

hopefully the triple LP isn't going to be retardedly expensive?

What would drone-folk do without inflated prices?

make more cdrs.

"Warm Earth Which I've Been Shown" and "You Can Always See the Sun" are two of my favorite Six Organs tracks. I picked up that Mental Telemetry split at Terrastock 5 in Boston and listened to it on my flight back to the midwest. Seriously haunting shit. "You can Always See the Sun" is a nice contrast to that, it's like his most triumphant and optimistic epic. This is gonna be a nice set.

hey Ned what label?

drag city, right?

Yes, Drag City.

Exciting that the track from the Charalambides split is gonna be available! That track is amazing. Now all we need is a new album...

re: a new album, tbh if they just kept rolling out stuff from his early years' vaults i'd be happier....

tho i should probably give his newer albums more of a chance

I've got that Time lag split.It's really good & part of a 2 record set that was officially titled "A Tribute to Popul Vuh".And his newer stuff is as good & he manages not to repeat himself to obviously.Check out some of his work on the latest Magik Markers. Warm Earth is from the Trighplane Terraforms disc.They were selling it at he Gladtree Festival a few years ago.About 18 minutes of trippiness.It will nice to have all of this music in one place.

Mackro to thread....

Free All Ages In Store Sun November 16th @ 5PM
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE
solo acoustic performance!

Wall of Sound
315 E. Pine St.
Seattle,Wa 98122

I will be at this!!!

Nice. Got a review copy of the comp today, looks v. good.

Can't wait to hear the compilation.

"RTZ"'s out, any word?

will likely get this either way, though how much of it has already been available/floating around the web? i've got quite a few random, out-of-print or non-album six organs mp3s, am just wondering if this has 'from the vaults' stuff on it that hasn't seen any previous release?

IT'S GREAT

but all of it is previously released save the last 19 minute track on disc one. it is HIGHLY recommended, though, especially if you dig the early, epic six organs stuff.

nice.

yea, i'll be getting this.

I'm thinking about getting it even though I've got the Nightly Trembling LP and the Triplane Terraforms CD and a CDR with You Can Always See the Sun on it. This is my favorite Six Organs stuff, without a doubt.

yea definitely. i listen to this stuff + dust & chimes/dark noontide the most by far

My interview with him for the Quietus hasn't run yet but hopefully soon!

a CDR with You Can Always See the Sun on it

Is this not widely available? I have it on a one-song CD EP, came out on Three Lobed if I recall...

My buddy burned it for me. I think it is probably out of print? I thought it was maybe a subscription only thing.

RTX is really, really good! Might even be my fave thing by Six Organs!

just checked, three lobed website says "OOP." I guess that's probably why there's a reissue on Drag City.

I will probably pick up the 3LP on the way home from work this evening. Looking forward to it, haven't heard any of this stuff...

Yeah, I really need to pick this up over the weekend.

RTZ 3lp was $20 at Rasputin SF. Not bad at all. Haven't listened yet tho.

Okay, my interview with Ben is up at the Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/01318-six-organs-of-admittance-s-ben-chasny-reflects-on-music-and-technology-in-a-singular-time

Really enjoyed doing this piece but Ben did all the heavy lifting, to his credit.

Good article, Ned.

Thanks!