@rostasi - Thanks for the smile. "swiftly taylor that song" - good one. Also, many thanks for the background on the Eulenspiegel myth. Still waiting for arrival of the CD but should be getting it soon.
Now playing (2nd time around):
Just out. Wasnt sure if Id like it, but its VERY good! The album was produced by Lloyd Maines and guest musicians include Natalie Maines, Lyle Lovett and Peter Rowan. There are 2 Bill Monroe covers (Walls of Time, and Footprints in the Snow Rowan does a very nice intro to the Walls of Time track in which he gives some background on how the song came to be written and Rowan sings harmony on 99 Years). Theres also a cover of Thompsons 52 Vincent Black Lightning. Theres some mighty fine mandolin and fiddle playing on this album.
Standout tracks: T for Texas (duet with Lyle Lovett), East Virginia Blues, the traditional Poor Ellen Smith, Long Black Veil, and 52 Vincent Black Lightning.
Starting with the new Eddie Henderson, listening to Smoke Sessions all day. There is going to be a new Harold Mabern, with an all-star list of vocalists.
Interesting to come back to this after listening to "Alloy" a lot in recent weeks. Alloy strikes me as more spiritual/soulful whereas Oblique is more cerebral, even "mathy" at times...But still a satisfying listen
Six Organs Of Admittance - The Manifestation
Ben Chasny - acoustic guitar, autoharp, turntable
David Tibet - voice
- "The psychedelic hippie folk revival that first bore fruit in the early 90's shows no sign of abating despite an almost total press blackout. Golden Boy of the moment is Ben Chasny, a.k.a. Six Organs of Admittance. His one-sided, limited-edition vinyl-only work, Manifestation, may seem like a perversely obscure choice for a best-of list, but it epitomizes the genre. Manifestation is a 20-minute acoustic-guitar-and-chanting freakout that would appear drawn from the raga guitar of Sandy Bull, After Bathing at Baxter's-era Jefferson Airplane and Sufi poetry." - New York Observer
If the pan-cultural acoustic/psych inventions of Ben Chasny and his Six Organs of Admittance could be defined by only one composition, that tune would certainly have to be The Manifestation. Released in the year 2000, The Manifestation was a clear, one-sided vinyl 12", a curiously primitive etching of the sun featured on the B-side. A one-time pressing of 500, The Manifestation evaporated just as quickly as it came. As an artifact, it is an underground psychedelic collector's treasure, worthy of display space on the mantle. But it also happens to be a dangerously potent dose of the Six Organs of Admittance experience, a divinely concentrated blend of every aspect of Chasny's mystical sound. Music of this caliber simply cannot remain unavailable. Announcing the reissue of The Manifestation on compact disc, entirely remastered and featuring nearly 20 minutes of conceptual bonus music based on the ancient idea of the "music of the spheres" and the harmonics between the visible planets.
Originally sprawling across one side of vinyl, The Manifestation is an extended raga of genre-defying madness, a dizzy melding of acoustic fingerstyle, shamanic chants, chimes, hand percussion, space jam and ghostly vocals that effectively blurs the cultural boundaries of eastern and western folk music. It is an ode to the sun, as represented by the original vinyl B-side etching. Ruminating on the sun and the galaxy, Chasny was inspired to incorporate the original artifact into a musical experiment for the reissue, one that adopts the ideas of alchemical astronomers of yore and incorporates them - quite literally. Chasny placed the original record on his turntable, B-side up, laid his stylus down on the sun etching and recorded the results. He then placed the needle down again in a different spot, and then a different one again all the way to the end. Chasny was appropriating the concept of Bode's Law, a rough rule that predicts the spacing of the planets in the solar system in relation to the perceived distance of each planet from the sun. While the stylus clicked and popped as it "played" the sun, Chasny composed music using the ancient Egyptian mode for each of the "naked eye" planets. From Mercury through Saturn, acoustic modals dance, drone and chime in its own particular key as the sun etching crackles, sounding eerily like an old pre-war 78 RPM unearthed from some alien land. As for Earth the "center of the universe" in the Milky Way has no mode at all, no musical key to speak of. All Earth has is the human voice, and lending his most unique set of pipes for the planet Earth is David Tibet of Current 93. As the sun sizzles statically behind him, Tibet recites a spoken word piece of terrestrial imagery, lending a very haunting, cryptic feel to the otherworldly affair. The result is akin to a musical journey outward from the sun, blending shimmering acoustic guitar and the original B-side's own dissonance for an absolutely surreal listening experience.
Six Organs of Admittance takes the time-expanding dynamics of Robbie Basho and distorts it through the deepest corridors of cult-laden psychedelic music. This new version of The Manifestation weds pagan worship with spiritual cosmology to create music as ambitious as it is beautiful. We are proud to reincarnate The Manifestation, a crucial entry in the Six Organs of Admittance body of work." Strange Attractors Audio House 2004
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so that it doesn't show it's seams (seems?).
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Now playing: Szilard Mezei International Ensemble - Female Boxing
Now playing (2nd time around):
Just out. Wasnt sure if Id like it, but its VERY good! The album was produced by Lloyd Maines and guest musicians include Natalie Maines, Lyle Lovett and Peter Rowan. There are 2 Bill Monroe covers (Walls of Time, and Footprints in the Snow Rowan does a very nice intro to the Walls of Time track in which he gives some background on how the song came to be written and Rowan sings harmony on 99 Years). Theres also a cover of Thompsons 52 Vincent Black Lightning. Theres some mighty fine mandolin and fiddle playing on this album.
Standout tracks: T for Texas (duet with Lyle Lovett), East Virginia Blues, the traditional Poor Ellen Smith, Long Black Veil, and 52 Vincent Black Lightning.
Starting with the new Eddie Henderson, listening to Smoke Sessions all day. There is going to be a new Harold Mabern, with an all-star list of vocalists.
Toxic Skies Orchestra NO:DE
Just downloaded, thanks Doofy and Jonah
(posted Dec 31st 2012 on the Classical N&N thread)
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Craig
Interesting to come back to this after listening to "Alloy" a lot in recent weeks. Alloy strikes me as more spiritual/soulful whereas Oblique is more cerebral, even "mathy" at times...But still a satisfying listen
Craig
Latest installment in my ongoing "So Glad I Got All This Prestige Stuff While It Was At eMusic" series
ANDREW LILES - OUARDA (THE SUBTLE ART OF PHYLLORHODOMANCY)[/align]
Bobby Hutcherson - "Happenings"
Six Organs Of Admittance - The Manifestation
Ben Chasny - acoustic guitar, autoharp, turntable
David Tibet - voice
- "The psychedelic hippie folk revival that first bore fruit in the early 90's shows no sign of abating despite an almost total press blackout. Golden Boy of the moment is Ben Chasny, a.k.a. Six Organs of Admittance. His one-sided, limited-edition vinyl-only work, Manifestation, may seem like a perversely obscure choice for a best-of list, but it epitomizes the genre. Manifestation is a 20-minute acoustic-guitar-and-chanting freakout that would appear drawn from the raga guitar of Sandy Bull, After Bathing at Baxter's-era Jefferson Airplane and Sufi poetry." - New York Observer
If the pan-cultural acoustic/psych inventions of Ben Chasny and his Six Organs of Admittance could be defined by only one composition, that tune would certainly have to be The Manifestation. Released in the year 2000, The Manifestation was a clear, one-sided vinyl 12", a curiously primitive etching of the sun featured on the B-side. A one-time pressing of 500, The Manifestation evaporated just as quickly as it came. As an artifact, it is an underground psychedelic collector's treasure, worthy of display space on the mantle. But it also happens to be a dangerously potent dose of the Six Organs of Admittance experience, a divinely concentrated blend of every aspect of Chasny's mystical sound. Music of this caliber simply cannot remain unavailable. Announcing the reissue of The Manifestation on compact disc, entirely remastered and featuring nearly 20 minutes of conceptual bonus music based on the ancient idea of the "music of the spheres" and the harmonics between the visible planets.
Originally sprawling across one side of vinyl, The Manifestation is an extended raga of genre-defying madness, a dizzy melding of acoustic fingerstyle, shamanic chants, chimes, hand percussion, space jam and ghostly vocals that effectively blurs the cultural boundaries of eastern and western folk music. It is an ode to the sun, as represented by the original vinyl B-side etching. Ruminating on the sun and the galaxy, Chasny was inspired to incorporate the original artifact into a musical experiment for the reissue, one that adopts the ideas of alchemical astronomers of yore and incorporates them - quite literally. Chasny placed the original record on his turntable, B-side up, laid his stylus down on the sun etching and recorded the results. He then placed the needle down again in a different spot, and then a different one again all the way to the end. Chasny was appropriating the concept of Bode's Law, a rough rule that predicts the spacing of the planets in the solar system in relation to the perceived distance of each planet from the sun. While the stylus clicked and popped as it "played" the sun, Chasny composed music using the ancient Egyptian mode for each of the "naked eye" planets. From Mercury through Saturn, acoustic modals dance, drone and chime in its own particular key as the sun etching crackles, sounding eerily like an old pre-war 78 RPM unearthed from some alien land. As for Earth the "center of the universe" in the Milky Way has no mode at all, no musical key to speak of. All Earth has is the human voice, and lending his most unique set of pipes for the planet Earth is David Tibet of Current 93. As the sun sizzles statically behind him, Tibet recites a spoken word piece of terrestrial imagery, lending a very haunting, cryptic feel to the otherworldly affair. The result is akin to a musical journey outward from the sun, blending shimmering acoustic guitar and the original B-side's own dissonance for an absolutely surreal listening experience.
Six Organs of Admittance takes the time-expanding dynamics of Robbie Basho and distorts it through the deepest corridors of cult-laden psychedelic music. This new version of The Manifestation weds pagan worship with spiritual cosmology to create music as ambitious as it is beautiful. We are proud to reincarnate The Manifestation, a crucial entry in the Six Organs of Admittance body of work."
Strange Attractors Audio House 2004
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The Hylozoists - L'