Six Organs of Admittance

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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.

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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

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

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