Artist ....... Six Organs of Admittance
Album ........ Six Organs of Admittance
Genre ........ Folk
Source ....... CDDA
Label ........ Holy Mountain
Catalog Nr. .. 121964
Release Date . Nov-07-2007
Tracks ....... 07
Length ....... 49:19 min
Quality ...... VBRkbps 44.1kHz
Mode ......... Joint-Stereo
Encoder ...... LAME 3.97 final
Size ......... 47,7 MB
Link ......... http://www.sixorgans.com/
Rls Notes
On Six Organs of Admittance's self-titled
debut, Ben Chasny lays the foundation for the
psychedelic folk-blues that he would continue
to explore all the nooks, corners, and
crevices of in his subsequent work. The
record relies heavily on ambience and noise
to give the beautiful acoustic guitar pieces
a rough-hewn quality that makes them seem
timeless. A single drone lasts the entirety
of the first song, "Maria," but "Sum of All
Heaven," with its catchy, repeated line "head
for the sun," foreshadows the more
pop-oriented structures of his 2003 album
Compathia -- although with mythological
wilderness music wandering for over ten
minutes in this case. On first listen, this
record seems less caffeine-driven then Chasny
has suggested, but upon closer inspection
there is a striking uniqueness and fidgety
intensity to the particular thread of dark
ambience that is woven throughout. Too
hypnotic to be scary but simply far too
mind-warping to feel the least bit safe
(especially on the horror movie-worthy
"Invitation to the SR for Supper"), the Six
Organs debut makes Bert Jansch-inspired
folk-blues into something endlessly alluring
but potentially dangerous. It sounds like
something that a third album-era Led Zeppelin
might have come up with while crouched around
a campfire in the English countryside, heads
full of Indian music, British folk, and some
really potent drugs.
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# track length
01 Maria 03:43
02 Sum of All Heaven 17:09
03 Shadow of a Dune 01:59
04 Harmonice Mundi II 02:59
05 Race for Vishnu 09:15
06 Invitation to the SR for Supper 06:59
07 Don't Be Afraid 07:15