Six Organs of Admittance

Six Organs of Admittance at Point Éphémère in Paris, 2016

Six Organs of Admittance is the primary musical project of American guitarist Ben Chasny. Chasny's music is largely guitar-based and is often considered new folk;[1] however, it includes obvious influences, marked by the use of drones, chimes, and eclectic percussive elements. He records albums for Drag City and Holy Mountain, among other labels.

Chasny is also a member of the psychedelic band Comets on Fire, and has working relationships with Badgerlore, Current 93, and Magik Markers. His newest project is Rangda with Richard Bishop of Sun City Girls and Six Organs contributor Chris Corsano. Six Organs of Admittance has also released a song exclusively on the 2004 new folk compilation record The Golden Apples of the Sun.[1] The album's compiler Devendra Banhart has stated this song comes from a fully produced but unreleased Chasny album he refers to as the "solo record,"[2] a bootleg of which circulates the internet.

Discography

Year Title
1998 Six Organs of Admittance
1999 Nightly Trembling
2000 Invitation to the SR for Supper 8"
2000 Dust and Chimes
2000 Somewhere Between Her shoulder and God 7"
2000 The Manifestation 12"
2001 My Guitar Will Eat You"
2002 Dark Noontide
2002 You Can Always See the Sun EP
2003 Compathia
2003 For Octavio Paz
2003 Trighplane Terraforms No.1 Split
2004 Stephanie Volkmar/Six Organs of Admittance Split
2004 The Manifestation
2005 School of the Flower
2005 The Honeycreeper Smiles 7"
2006 7" split w / Om
2006 Days of Blood (LP, limited edition)
2006 The Sun Awakens
2007 Proem to Empty the Sun
2007 Shelter from the Ash
2008 Goatflower (CDr, limited edition of 100 handmade copies)
2009 RTZ (compilation, recorded 1999–2003)
2009 Luminous Night
2009 Empty the Sun (companion to novel of the same name by Joseph Mattson)
2011 Asleep on the Floodplain
2011 Maria Kapel
2012 Ascent
2012 Parsons' Blues 7"
2015 Hexadic
2015 Hexadic II
2017 Burning the Threshold
2018 Hexadic III
2020 Haunted and Known
2020 Companion Rises
2021 The Veiled Sea
2024 Time Is Glass
2024 Jinxed by Being

References

  1. ^ a b Michael Keefe. "What Is New Folk? A Genre Profile". About.com (Internet Archive). Archived from the original on December 12, 2007. Retrieved July 7, 2008.
  2. ^ "Devendra Banhart interview". YouTube.com. February 10, 2008. Archived from the original on December 19, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2015.