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SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE - Luminous Night

Format: LP
Label & Cat.Number: Drag City DC409
Release Year: 2009
Note: neo-psychedelia with a very folky & oriental flair, but also drone-parts; the project of BEN CHASNY with support of many guest-musicians
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"Through dark days and glowing nights, Six Organs of Admittance continues to step to the far rim of the world with purposeful strides. Indeed, new horizons are visible throughout Luminous Night. Be it in the face of spiritual crisis or catharsis, Ben Chasny as Six Organs refuses to stagnate, or to evolve in predictable fashion; in response, he keeps moving on. This is the first Six Organs of Admittance albums with such a lengthy gap between it and its former number. In the past two years Chasny has kept busy writing this new epic, moving house to Seattle, composing soundtracks for novels and movies, and touring constantly in America and Europe (with bands like The Dead C and OM) as well as being invited by legendary post-metal group Neurosis to play their Beyond The Pale festival in Belgium. Six Organs of Admittance is such a singular experience that it is sometimes easy to forget that Ben was the lead guitarist in Comets On Fire, as well as a songwriter and guitarist for Current 93's Black Ships Ate The Sky album and half of the pan-Pacific psych-folk duo August Born. But clearly, Chasny knows heavy, having grown through times of heavy and times of light. And in answer to the question what's heavier, a pound of rock or a pound of feathers, Six Organs of Admittance has devised this for Luminous Night: a pound of rock covered with a pound of feathers -- twice as heavy, but feathery light to the human eye. With Luminous Night, Chasny's working with some heavy dudes, like producer Randall Dunn and Eyvind Kang, whose sound on viola shines with a guiding glow throughout the album (both Dunn and Kang contributed their talents to the outré arrangements of the recent Sunn O))) album). The other invaluable contributors to the album are Hans Teuber on flute, Tor Dietrichson on tabla, Matt Chamberlin on drums, and Dave Abramson on percussion. Occupying their spots with care, they've collaborated to create something rich and vibrant, aching and new, in the world of Six Organs of Admittance. The arc of Luminous Night is wide as the sky, commencing with a stirring instrumental evocation of the Greek myth of poor Actaeon before flowing into the vocal, the vengeful, the ancient, the divine and celestial, scored with guitars, bass, viola, flute, tabla, electronics and synthesizer, as well as a buried-in-the-rain-soaked-earth-of- Seattle-then-exhumed four-track cassette that formed the basis of the instrumental 'Cover Your Wounds With the Sky.' For its blanketing sound, Luminous Night draws inspiration from such cinematic sources as Jodorowky's El Topo soundtrack and the scores of Kurosawa's samurai films, but is at the same time music that could only have come from the singular sound world of Six Organs of Admittance. What is it about the man that buries his sound in the ground? He has faith in the earth, for one. When we think of Six Organs of Admittance, we think of a man with six-string ambitions, a rambler with mystic beliefs and dark electric visions. It's a big universe and we're only human, which basically means that we've got spirit and that we're going to die. But until then, we live. Six Organs of Admittance has lived to tell about it on Luminous Night." [label info]

"Album Nummer zwölf (je nachdem was man alles mitzählen möchte) im Jahr Nummer elf - und dabei ist Six Organs Of Admittance zwar wohl Ben Chasnys Hauptprojekt, aber beileibe nicht sein einziges. Immer in irgendeiner Form dem psychedelischem Folk verbunden, verstand er es immer jeder Platte ein eigenes Gesicht zu geben. Auf seinem letzten Werk dominierte der reine Folk, es bestimmten die Akustikgitarre und seine Stimme. Auf Luminous Night wird alles wieder ein bischen voller, ein bischen elektronischer und auch etwas lauter. Ein paar Gäste mit Flöte, Streicher oder Tabla fanden sich auch ein, und mit Randall Dunn eine kleine Koryphäe aus dem elektronischen Drone Bereich. Und so klingt das Album dann auch. Psych-Folk Gitarren, untermalt von elektronischen Klängen, mit schönen Flöten und Streichern, gar etwas Schlagzeug - und das zu Beginn auch erstmal Instrumental. Natürlich singt Ben im weiteren Verlauf wieder mit seiner warmen, verhuschten Stimme, macht sie aber nicht wie zuletzt zum zentralen Punkt seiner Kompositionen. Grade wenn Randall mit Korg und anderen elektronischen Klangerzeugern seine Teppiche legt, ensteht ein schwirrender, psychedelischer Drone, der Luminous Night eine warme und wohlige Tiefe verleiht (richtig schön wird das bei Cover Your Wounds With The Sky im Duett mit Ben und dessen Tapes und 4-Tracks). Auch die Streicher tragen ihren Teil dazu bei, sind mal locker leicht, oder etwas schwerer und melancholischer, wie im wunderbaren Ursa Minor. Das Album ist gespickt mit schönen Momenten. Sei es die schwirrende E-Gitarre bei The Ballad Of Charley Harper, oder dieses sich immer weiter empor dröhnende Enemies Before The Light - was fantastisch im Kontrast zu Bens Gesang steht. Shelters From The Ash war zwar ein schönes Album, aber hier zeigt sich wieder, was Six Organs Of Admittance in der Vergangenheit so einzigartig gemacht hat - eine stimmungsvolle psychedelische Folkmusik mit Hang zum Experimentellen, was aber jederzeit dem Gesamtergebnis dienlich bleibt, und schlicht wundervolle Musik hervorbringt." [Tinnitus-Mag]