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Six Organs Of Admittance

Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)

    Six Organs of Admittance extend their annum of unlikely delights - begun in March 2024 with ‘Time is Glass’, the first new Six Organs of Admittance album in four years, and joined in June with the most unlikely awesome collab of 2024: Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance, ‘Jinxed by Being’ - with the release of ‘Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)’, which expands the zone of disbelief simply by being the third Six Organs-branded release in one year. Also, by pushing the boundaries in all the manners that matter - psychologically, spiritually, philosophically and sonically - into a new dimensional space.

    ‘Companion Rises’ dropped in February 2020. Its new techniques in sound generation called for an aggressive new moment, with heavy Six Organs touring scheduled for the year ahead. Yeah...flash forward to 2023! As Ben Chasny picked up the pieces following the Big Blink, he had to think of what could have been, like: “What would ‘Companion Rises’ sound like if I had known how crazy the world it was built for was gonna be?”

    By then, Six Organs had moved on - both ‘Time is Glass’ and ‘Jinxed by Being’ were in the works - but here was a thought: ‘Companion Rises’ was a record about the weirdness of California. Right then, Twig Harper was touching down in Cali after stints in Baltimore and Chicago. Ben had been onboard with Twig’s shit since the days when Nautical Almanac burst out of Michigan like an engorged, inflamed, screaming blood vessel. And Twig’s chaos sense has evolved and refined in amazing ways over the years (see releases on Hanson Records, Thrill Jockey, Planam, Open Mouth, Primordial Void, Radical Documents, Ha Ha Ha Cassettes and Twig’s own Heresee label), so when Ben asked him if he would do whatever he wanted, it felt like full circles were colliding when Twig said yeah!

    Once Twig had measured out the physics of ‘Companion Rises’, most of his Remix was done up in his van where he, otherwise homeless, was living. When he got the stems from Ben, he just started working it out right there, rather than spending the time finding a place to live. It’s more fun running signal through his Ableton DSP rack, always. And it worked out well - he’ll probably move a bunch more times in his life, but this record is forever.

    With the Twig Harper remixes, the maximal qualities of original ‘Companion Rises’ DNA are evoked via omission: to recreate the implied construction of Six Organs’ spirit realm, Twig isolated source sounds, triggered new data off those sounds, then edited the new readouts. To the naked ear, it sounds to be a highly stimulating new example in modern electronic minimal classical music. The assiduous Organs-head will no doubt find a few Easter eggs here, but mostly, this is new dimensional space made of the not-so-old one.

    ‘Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)’ is like two journeys in one, juxtaposing Twig’s new-to-Cali musings with Six Organs’ original borne-andbread wanderings. Play them back to back, they play fresh through and through. Or play ’em on top of each other and wait for the moment of concision to arrive. And now it sounds as weird as Ben wanted; maybe almost as weird as the world outside today.

    TRACK LISTING

    Pacific (Twig Harper Remix)
    Two Forms Moving (Twig Harper Remix)
    The Scout Is Here (Twig Harper Remix)
    Black Tea (Twig Harper Remix)
    Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)
    The 101 (Twig Harper Remix)
    Haunted And Known (Twig Harper Remix)
    Mark Yourself (Twig Harper Remix)
    Worn Down To The Light (Twig Harper Remix)

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    Time Is Glass

      With Time is Glass, Six Organs of Admittance is captured once again in the intricate tangle of the fretboards, soaring in open skies above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers; spiderwebs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition. As is always endeavored.... After 20 years of living on the road in different places, Six Organs of Admittance had returned home to Humboldt County — a far country, to some, but still part of the world through which creatures of all kinds are moving through and contributing to. And some of them are human. Alone together — forming connection and exchange out of thought and expression — no different from the people on the other side of the Redwood Curtain. It was there, where Six Organs had long ago emerged, in the name of everything cycling, of circles that spiral concentrically and remain unbroken, the new music was conceived.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: A startlingly focused and beautifully minimalistic recording of voice and guitar, showing the perfect juxtaposition of rhythmic guitar playing and soaring, swooning vocal work from Ben Chasny. An unhindered, unhurried gem.

      TRACK LISTING

      The Mission
      Hephaestus
      Slip Away
      Pilar
      Theophany Song
      My Familiar
      Spinning In A River
      Summer’s Last Rays
      New Year’s Song

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      Burning The Threshold

        In preparing for the first album of non-Hexadic Six Organs of Admittance music since 2012’s Ascent, Ben Chasny had a think about what he’d be saying in his own tongue for the fi rst time in a half-decade. As ever, a head-full of ideas were driving him to think and speak music as a spirituality superimposed onto a reality, with the ghosts of both whispering at each other. In the end, what sits in our listening ears is the sound of communion. Burning the Threshold brings a wealth of Six Organs-styled lightness into one of his sweetest musical meditations yet.

        With a spacious acoustic soundstage, Burning the Threshold may actually more resemble 2011’s Asleep on the Floodplain. Or it may more resemble Compathia, or School of the Flower. All of this is speculative, comparative, unverifyable — 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 while thinking of birds in the morning, anarchy, Third Ear Band, Gaston Bachelard, The Gnostics, Ronnie Lane and/or The Faces, Deleuze, Aaron Cheak, Odysseus, This Heat, Takoma Records, St Eustace, Dark Noontide and a HELL of a lot more than that, with all the thoughts affi xed to a quiver of potent melodies launching forth and arcing out through dimensions, seeking infi nite space.

        The space radiates out from the album’s fi rst moment, with “Things As They Are,” a song examining the life of poet Wallace Stevens. Ben’s currently working on music for a theatrical work about Stevens’ life set to debut in Cleveland later in 2017. The empathetic waves generated by this song resonate throughout the album, giving a new dimension to the music of Six Organs of Admittance.

        Like so many other Six Organs records, Burning the Threshold was created mostly solo, but features the singing talents of Alex Nielsen, Haley Fohr and Damon and Naomi; the drumming of Chris Corsano; a guitar duet with Ryley Walker, and keys and mixing from Cooper Crain. With this new music, Ben Chasny has created a potent tonic for our times. The gentleness found here, balanced on top of his classical asceticism, provides much of what we need in 2017 and beyond: love, forgiveness, reality and an ever-wider view, with the understanding of our circular path in this lifetime. Looking at the world through clear eyes beneath a knitted brow, but with a laugh rising up from its heart, Burning the Threshold brings us a powerful draught of essence.

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Six organs of admittance pull out another beautiful album of intricate campfire folk, looped guitars and heady ambience, all topped by Chasny's brilliantly hypnotic vocal musings. An arty but accessible alt-folk masterpiece, and a journey to be undertaken time and time again.

        Six Organs Of Admittance

        Hexadic

          Wine-dark, oozing thick like oil and suddenly bright with phosphorescent lickage, Hexadic is witness to the primordial birth of a new approach to the neck of the guitar. Six Organs kills it!


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