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; 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. 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," a bootleg of which circulates the internet.
Discography Studio albums Year Title 1998 Six Organs of Admittance 1999 Nightly Trembling 2000 Dust and Chimes 2002 Dark Noontide 2003 Compathia 2003 For Octavio Paz 2004 The Manifestation 2005 School of the Flower 2006 The Sun Awakens 2007 Shelter from the Ash 2009 Luminous Night 2011 Asleep on the Floodplain 2011 Maria Kapel 2012 Ascent 2015 Hexadic 2015 Hexadic II 2017 Burning the Threshold 2020 Companion Rises 2021 The Veiled Sea 2024 Time Is Glass 2024 Jinxed by Being (with Shackleton)
Singles & EPs Year Title 2000 Invitation to the SR for Supper 8" 2000 Somewhere Between Her shoulder and God 7" 2000 The Manifestation 12" 2002 You Can Always See the Sun EP 2005The Honeycreeper Smiles 7" 2012 Parsons' Blues 7"
Splits Year Title 2003 Trighplane Terraforms No.1 Split 2004 Stephanie Volkmar/Six Organs of Admittance Split 2006 7" split w / Om
Compilations Year Title 2009 RTZ
Live Year Title 2006 Days of Blood
Other Year Title 2007 Proem to Empty the Sun 2008 Goatflower 2009 Empty the Sun 2018 Hexadic III
References
External links Official website Holy Mountain Drag City Comets on Fire Set of Six Organs of Admittance live videos at scheduletwo.com