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His ability to seamlessly blend elements of traditional folk music with avant-garde experimentation sets him apart from other artists in the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith numerous critically acclaimed albums under his belt, including \"School of the Flower\" and \"Ascent,\" Six Organs Of Admittance continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other musicians, Chasny's live performances are known for their intensity and raw emotion. As an artist who constantly evolves and pushes artistic boundaries, Six Organs Of Admittance remains at the forefront of contemporary experimental music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sleep-tones","title":"Sleep Tones","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe 2LP gatefold with spot UV Gloss. Pressed to high quality vinyl at RTI. Six Organs of Admittance takes listeners through an extended narcoleptic journey on Sleep Tones, an all-electronic double album of new ambient work. Mastered by VDSQ labelmate Chuck Johnson, Sleep Tones was made with a specific effect in mind. These new sounds from the Six Organs universe represent an essential creative shift from one of the great guitarists of the 21st century, showcasing his ever-evolving palate. An antidote to modern overload, Sleep Tones provides a welcome stasis. In its physical manifestation, each side of Sleep Tones ends with a locked groove in case of dream state, with no fear of a needle sliding outside the set mood. These sounds lull through speakers and headphones, creating ideal conditions for consciousness drift. Tracklist\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Side A: Alnitak - Left handed triple star system sunset tones. Ascending tritones responding to descending tritones balance each other into pure matter. Side B: Alnilam - Center star tones capture blue supergiant gravitational forces. Hyper luminosity touched with the faintest eldritch whistle for those willing to open dreams to possible extra-dimensional contact. 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How The Hexadic System came to be...Ben Chasny's restless intellect has regularly guided the progress of his creation. A lyrical mastery of acoustic finger-picking would be enough to build a body of work for most musicians; this is just the stepping-off point for Ben. From the earliest days of private-press psych home recordings, Six Organs of Admittance has sought out alternative spaces in which to make music and challenge audiences to keep up with his rapid advances into new terrain. Over the last two years Ben assembled a comprehensive system of musical composition. Designed to free sound and language from rational order and replace calculation with indeterminacy, The Hexadic System is a catalyst to extinguish patterns and generate new means of chord progressions and choices. Though it was not his intention upon creating this unique system, the structures generated were so compelling, that they soon became the bones of the next Six Organs record. This is the longest time between Six Organs records since Ben started making them in 1998. This is also why Hexadic sounds unlike anything else made this year, and generally unlike most other things made ever. The System builds all of the tonal fields, chord changes, scales, and lyrics on Hexadic, creating the framework of the songs that the musicians engage with. Yet the System is open; within the framework, Chasny's own personal aesthetics - such as the production mode of loud guitars, the order of songs, the editing of length, were all conscious decisions made to communicate the pieces. The exact same combinatorial patterns used on this record would generate infinite results, depending on the choices of the individual. Ben's years of study have produced an operational agent that has not only built all the songs on Hexadic but is also a system anyone can use to restructure their ways of habit. 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One listen and it is obvious that this Six Organs of Admittance release is all in the present. One thinks of Octavio Paz’s oft used metaphor of the concentric circle, as \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e returns to a similar place but is much farther out from the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonically, Ben’s songs are bursting with ideas, harmonically rich, gorgeously arranged; often presenting two versions at once, overlaying electric and acoustic treatments that interlock like two shards that form a single key.\u003ci\u003e Companion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e plays like a mutant joining of avant and good-time forces, as if Faust produced The Revolution instead of Prince, or This Heat recorded on top of Amon DuuI’s classic \u003ci\u003eParamechanical World\u003c\/i\u003e, but left a few of the original tracks to bleed through. 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The maximal qualities of the original \u003ci\u003eCompanion Rises\u003c\/i\u003e DNA are evoked here via omission: to recreate the implied construction of Six Organs’ spirit realm, Twig isolated source sounds, triggered new data off each, then edited the new readouts.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The 101”, the first single off the Twig Harper Remix, shaves Six Organs’ acid-folk space rock original back to its baseline. Retaining a brisk BPM, as befits a road movie song, Twig keeps the beats minimal and lets the energy pour right through, with Ben’s re-grooved guitar signal clouding the track like an organic wonder of synthetic nature. 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