Good article, Ned.
― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
anybody know anything about this "live bootleg" lp that i saw in the shop yesterday?
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 17 July 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
is it Days of Blood? or something else. There's a new one coming in September, btw -- wasn't sure if I was into it at first, but it's grown on me big time. Kind of softer than the last one, but still intense.
― tylerw, Friday, 17 July 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, Days of Blood i guess. Maybe it's not a bootleg, but that's the store had written on the sticker ...
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
It's an electric set IIRC and pretty decent sound quality but nothing life-changing.
― ian, Friday, 17 July 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
wow 1st track on the new one is lovely. lots of flute, but good flute.
― wilter, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
great album. favorite drag city onethishttp://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/840is a somewhat interesting interview
― kamerad, Thursday, 6 August 2009 11:46 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, that guy writes goofy reviews. interestingly, Chasny just responded to it: http://dustedmagazine.com/features/840 Kind of a cool feature Dusted has going there.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, that's the one i put there. the original review was glowing. i'm loving the album. intentionally or not, first song and "bar-nasha" smack of early steve hackett solo stuff
― kamerad, Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
oh oops, you did link to that ... my bad! but yeah, I'm liking this new one more and more, maybe a bit more than the last one, which I like a lot at first, but haven't gone back to that much.
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I should pick this up. Haven't loved the Drag City stuff all that much, tho.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
looking forward to this album. but reviews like that are why i don't read reviews anymore.
― ETERNAL WAR AGAINST THE DICKS IS ALL WE CAN RESPECT (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 6 August 2009 15:44 (fifteen years ago) link
so, first listen to the new one and the vocals on "anesthesia" are actually giving me a bruce dickinson vibe!
― original bgm, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"Haven't loved the Drag City stuff all that much, tho."
School of the Flower is my favorite thing he's done, though I can't say I've listened to the last two albums all that much after a once-through
― Malcolm Money, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, I love school of the flower too. but none of the other DC stuff made an impression.
― original bgm, Friday, 7 August 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Just got home from seeing them live. Fricking awesome, as you might expect.
― anagram, Thursday, 12 November 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
who is them? i mean, who's playing with ben?
― armed with swords and hash (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 November 2009 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Elisa Ambrogio – guitarAndrew Mitchell – guitarAlex Neilson – drums
― anagram, Friday, 13 November 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
so you're in vienna too.....
i didn't go though...
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 13 November 2009 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone jumped for this book/soundtrack thing yet?http://www.emptythesun.com/emptythesun.html
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Lucky enough to have a copy, but haven't settled in to read it yet. Saw a show in LA where Ben et al played and Joseph read from a selection of the novel a while back, pretty impressive.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 December 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
new album is kind of underwhelming imo. just doesn't cut as hard as he used to.
― anagram, Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:38 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean the new new one with the book? if so I agree, not very engaging. I liked Luminous Night more than the two before it, though. I want to hear more stuff like "Cover Your Wounds With The Sky". did you see the Rangda thread?RANGDA (Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny, Chris Corsano)
― sleeve, Friday, 8 January 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
No sorry, I meant Luminous Night. Sounds kind of New Age-y to me. Haven't heard the book one.
― anagram, Friday, 8 January 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
At the moment Ben is working on a new project based on Maria Chapels for the Incubate festivalhttp://inlog.org/2010/06/15/a-perfect-day/
― nonobody, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I cannot say enough about Ben & whoever may be sailing with him. Six Organs & all his collabs are very consistent. Tasteful, creative guitar work, sweet melodies. What's not to like...? So very recommended.
― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to that drug city comp of early recordings for the 1st time in a while. so nice, like i wanna run out and buy some scented candles and a big glass bong. when he's on, there's no contemporary musician i'd rather drool to than BC.
― a CRASBO is a "criminally related" ASBO (contenderizer), Friday, 23 July 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Just in from Drag City
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCEAsleep On The FloodplainFebruary 22, 2011 Comprised of ten blissful, primarily acoustic tunes, a delicacy wafts forth from Asleep On The Floodplain, the new album by Six Organs Of Admittance. After 2009's sonically dense Luminous Night, Chasny returned to the familiar environs of home recording to sculpt and assemble this batch of jams, freeing himself from the restrictions and deadlines studios might normally impose upon a song. Thus creating a living nest in which this material could grow and breathe, the album took longer to complete but sounds effortless-- and bright with light. Much of Asleep On The Floodplain draws on imagery from Chasny's youth, a time spent in Elk River. "Dawn, Running Home" remembers sleep-overs in a friend's tree-fort and the subsequent morning return to Ben's own house. Maintaining Six Organs' penchant for cameos, Elisa Ambrogio Magik-ally contributes to "River of My Youth." The theopoetics of Catherine Keller resonate on "S/Word and Leviathan"; while Gaston Bachelard's poetics of reverie are felt throughout the record. Working alone allowed for what could be described as a more cohesive album, giving Chasny time to reflect and make his own conclusions about how a song should move, or when it was finished, in his own time. To that end, each song is memorable of it's own volition, yet drifts as necessary onto the common plane of Asleep On The Floodplain. Six Organs Of Admittance has completed a new album, and we wish to share it with you so that you, in turn, will share it with others. Allow the comfort of beasts, Asleep On The Floodplain.
― tylerw, Monday, 13 December 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
*adds to Most Anticipated 2001 Albums list*
Luminous Night was top ten of '09 for me easily -- sooooo good!
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 13 December 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops, that should read 2011
"Six Organs Of Admittance has completed a new album, and we wish to share it with you so that you, in turn, will share it with others."
also so we can real paid
― hot lava hair (Z S), Monday, 13 December 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
worried by that DC description that BC's ditching his recent majestic ren-faire stuff like "little wing" and "actaeon's fall"
― kamerad, Monday, 13 December 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno, the last 6OOA tune that really grabbed me was "Home" off of "School Of The Flower", so I am ready to get all mellow again.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
great news
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
BC's ditching his recent majestic ren-faire stuff like "little wing"
??
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, i meant "final wing," on shelter from the ash
― kamerad, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
hahah oh. definitely had me excited.
"Alone with the Alone" is my fav but that's more in the jam/freak vein than your "ren-faire" stuff
but everything this guy does is godlike brilliance.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 14 December 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
my fav off of Shelter that is
agree 100% ^^
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking forward to this.
Wish Ben, SRB & Corsano would tour the west coast soon.
― Lick me where I pee (van smack), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Ben is recording an album with Elisa Ambrogio (Magik Markers) as well. I'm very curious about this new project.
― van smack, Friday, 31 December 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, and the band is called 200 Years
one time I saw Six Organs live that was the line-up anyway.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 31 December 2010 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
new one sounds great! maybe a bit less doomy than the last few. some excellent guitar work.
― tylerw, Thursday, 20 January 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Echoing that, finally getting through a listen here myself -- less doomy perhaps but not out of the shadows. I am constantly impressed by how over time he's always remained 'himself' -- you can pretty much tell it's his guitar playing now from a mile off -- while finding new ways to express it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
are you guys talking about the song on NPR or the whole album? if the latter, where do i get
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: the latter: this is where being a music writer helps. (I'm interviewing Ben for the Quietus.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm kind of a lapsed music writer, but drag city still sends me stuff on occasion
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
anyhoo, listened to this a few more times -- really, really good. i'm always kind of at a loss as to what to recommend to people who haven't heard six organs, but this one might be the one?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link