Words: Simon Opie It might be the second month of 2013 but yes, our FADED GLAMOUR 2012 retrospective still rumbles on. This time it's my top ten albums of 2012 featuring a double appearance of Ben Chasny , and several appearances of great music. 10. Rangda – 'Formerly Extinct' Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance in the company [...]
An interesting thing happened in 2012 - the old dudes won. While the music journos and blogarati continue espousing myriad thinkpieces on the rapidity of music consumption and where culture is heading in our hyper brain lubing digital reality, aging punks quietly went into the studio and released the best music of the year. The artists under 30 on the following list are the clear minority. The new guys rode trend waves and tailcoats. The seasoned veterans reinvented themselves or honed their craft to its critical mass. While 2011 seemed to offer a greater volume of great albums, this year [...]
Images of Six Organs of Admittance by Tom Gilmore from the band’s Brighton Music Hall set... Six Organs Of Admittance , and Major Stars Friday, November 30 at Brighton Music Hall Six Organs Of Admittance - Waswasa Photos by Tom Gilmore [...]
Six Organs of Admittance and Major Stars at Brighton Music Hall, November 30, 2012. Ben Chasny has been involved in ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/six-organs-of-admittance-maj or-stars-brighton-musi/
Looking for a good psychedelic jam Saturday night? You can't beat Six Organs of Admittance at Empty Bottle . Six Organs is Ben Chasny , who is touring his most recent album, Ascent . The album is a diversion from last year's mostly acoustic release, Asleep on the Floodplain . For Ascent , Chasny brought in his former band mates from Comets on Fire to make a much more rocking offering.
The holiday season is officially upon us, so there’s a good chance you’re looking for an excuse to temper the usual rounds of Christmas movies and family time with some live music. And nothing is a better antidote for holiday cheer than mind-melting psychedelic rock. Drag City artists Six Organs of Admittance and Blues Control in the middle of a quick Midwestern tour together, forming a kind of weirdo experimental dream team. Six Organs, hot off of the new album Ascent, has gotten harder-edged and electrically progressive as of late. Similarly, Blues Control has [...]
Cleveland, if you're looking for music that is intellectual, guitar-laden, and dripping with effects pedals, come on out to the Beachland Tavern this evening for Six Organs of Admittance, Blues Control, and Cleveland band, Nights. Six Organs of Admittance is the brainchild of Ben Chasny. The project has spanned ten years with differing structures—from a short-lived rock version, to a solo project which was more psych oriented with folk accents, and finally a setting which offers Chasny at the forefront with an electric band backing him. [...]
Ben Chasny is infatuated with the sound a string makes when you propel it into motion. His prolific work under the Six Organs of Admittance moniker has birthed all sorts of tonal excursions-journeys to the center of just how a string sounds when it's vibrating. (Drone, as some like to call it.) It's interesting, then, that the same guy who stares for hours at a few buzzing, elongated notes from a set of steel strings can cause such a racket, at least when he feels like it. Touring behind the newest chapter in Chasny's staggering prolificacy, the [...]
My first introduction to Six Organs Of Admittance occurred back in 2004. Six Organs, aka Ben Chasny, was opening for Current 93 at The Music Gallery. There he was, one man on stage with a guitar making some amazing sounds. Intricate fingerpicking, drone based compositions - there was a lot to like about what he was doing. In short, I was mesmerized and that night I became a fan. However, in the intervening years I had not seen him live again. And eight years later, Six Organs Of Admittance is not really [...]
Experimental neo-folk guitarist Ben Chasny, better known by the stage moniker Six Organs of Admittance, is playing tonight at Johnny Brenda's. Chasny, who is also part of Comets on Fire and Rangda, dropped Ascent in August, which has been received as being an especially psychedelic and heavily gnostic release. The 21+ show tonight starts at ... Continue reading
The duo of Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse grace the stage at Johnny Brenda's tonight. The pairing a.k.a. Blues Control paint expansive musical landscapes layering keyboards, synth, and guitar, among other instruments creating textured scenery that pulls you through the streets. Taking microcosmic snapshots throughout their movements, Blues Control does a masterful job of pinpointing the darkness, which lies in the void, in one moment, while showcasing its potential openness in the next. Leading the listener on a sonic tour, which follows their customized route, Cho and Waterhouse take the reins, at times, showcasing places you've never seen [...]
woh If you weren't aware that there is a massive psychedelic revival underway, don't worry: you're not alone. As lovers of the spaced-out and groovy, we at FP decided to put together a top 10 psychedelic list last year , only to watch it become one of our most-viewed pieces of all-time. As a result, we were particularly attentive to anything that might have the smallest chance of blowing your mind this year. And now, at the conclusion of a particularly kaleidoscopic twelve months, we bring you are ten most consciousness-expanding records of 2012. Enjoy [...]
Giusto per spezzare il girone infernale a nome 'Swans' in cui sono quasi completamente caduto nelle ultime settimane, torno a bomba su Ben Chasny . 'Ascent', il tredicesimo della discografia a nome Six Organs of Admittance, è un altro gioiellino ma anche un lavoro a sè nella discografia della band. Non ho il disco sottomano, non conosco esattamente il 'personnel' che ha suonato sul disco ma da quel che ho letto in giro, soprattutto su questa bellissima intervista , Chasny si è di nuovo unito a Ethan Miller ( Howlin' Rain) e Noel von [...]
24.10 - Dead Can Dance @ Casa da Música, Porto 25 e 26.10 - Ornatos Violeta @ Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa 26.10 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Six Organs of Admittance in Amplifest 2012 @ Hard Club, Porto 26.10 - Bon Iver @ Campo Pequeno, Lisboa 26.10 - PAUS @ CCB, Lisboa 27.10 - Twin Shadow @ MusicBox, Lisboa 28.10 - Twin Shadow @ Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães 29.10 - David J @ Ritz
After bringing in some friends from his many other projects, Ben Chasny's Six Organs of Admittance has just put out their most thundering record ever, and sits down for his third go-round with PopMatters, telling us all about it ... Recording under the name Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasny has made some of the most vital and hallucinatory music of the last decade and a half. He began releasing records in the late 90s, often home recordings issued in minuscule editions. Since then, he has become a fixture in the avant-garde rock and folk music, from playing with [...]
17.10 - Josephine Foster @ B'leza, Lisboa 17.10 - Katabatic @ MusicBox, Lisboa 18.10 - Josephine Foster @ Passos Manuel, Porto 19.10 - The Parkinsons @ States Club, Coimbra 19.10 - Planningtorock @ MusicBox, Lisboa 22.10 - Richard Hawley @ TMN ao Vivo, Lisboa 24.10 - Dead Can Dance @ Casa da Música, Porto 25 e 26.10 - Ornatos Violeta @ Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisboa 26.10 - Godspeed You!
Big Naturals From: Bristol, UK. Lazy equation: (Necro Deathmort - the pure dischordance) x wildly distorted walls of riffs URL: Facebook / Bandcamp / Soundcloud Thrash Hits verdict: One of the best ways we've found to discover new music is to pay attention to what our favourite bands are listening to. Now whole everyone thinks that they've got a good handle on what good music is, we've found that the people who's very existence is rooted [...]
11.10 - Sétima Legião @ Coliseu do Porto, Porto 11.10 - Maxïmo Park @ TMN ao Vivo, Lisboa 13.10 - Kraak DJ-Set @ LEFT, Lisboa 13.10 - Old Jerusalem @ CCB, Lisboa 17.10 - Josephine Foster @ B'leza, Lisboa 17.10 - Katabatic @ MusicBox, Lisboa 18.10 - Josephine Foster @ Passos Manuel, Porto 19.10 - The Parkinsons @ States Club, Coimbra 19.10 - Planningtorock @ MusicBox, Lisboa 22.10 - Richard
07.10 - oOoOO @ Plano B, Porto 11.10 - Sétima Legião @ Coliseu do Porto, Porto 11.10 - Maxïmo Park @ TMN ao Vivo, Lisboa 13.10 - Old Jerusalem @ CCB, Lisboa 17.10 - Josephine Foster @ B'leza, Lisboa 17.10 - Katabatic @ MusicBox, Lisboa 18.10 - Josephine Foster @ Passos Manuel, Porto 19.10 - The Parkinsons @ States Club, Coimbra 19.10 - Planningtorock @ MusicBox, Lisboa 22.10 - Richard Hawley
The xx return to Seattle on Saturday / photo by Dave Lichterman After a busy week of Decibel Festival, we are back with a whole new selection of shows for you to enjoy. Monday night, we start with Firewater and Bad Things at Crocodile, and also Stephen Marley, Spragga Benz, and Jo Mersa at Showbox at the Market. Tuesday night, Dirty Three is at Neumos, and Mono and Chris Brokaw are at Crocodile. Wednesday has some great choices, Aimee Mann at Neptune Theatre, [...]
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