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Six Organs Of Admittance
RTZ
Review By Jesse Jarnow
Mixing acoustic guitar drones with a full blossom of psychedelic antics, Ben Chasny long ago found a distinctive, definitive voice as Six Organs of Admittance. And though the double-disc RTZ is technically a collection of EPs, compilation tracks, and outtakes, it’s one of Six Organs' best. Released as a triple-LP — perhaps the most natural delivery system for Chasny's side-long cosmic excursions — five of the disc's seven tracks (three of them suites) approach the 20-minute mark. Though "As Voyage, In Voyage" — the first part of Side A's "Resurrection" — begins atonally, the music soon melts into a richly timbred haze, like a thick forest canopy diffusing impossibly bright sunlight.
Songs dissolve into organ drones ("Warm Earth, Which I've Been Told"), coppery tribal repetitions ("The Gardener"), ambient lay-outs ("Keep the Cold"), fields of ice-like bells ("Creation Aspect Fire"), and dozens of other landscapes. Also a member of Comets on Fire, the hippie-fried indie-proggers, Chasny is a guitar hero for a new generation, capable of an array of technical skills, from screaming solos ("Last Lantern To Be Seen From Shore"), classical chops ("Celestial Ascent") and pure architectural ambition. Mostly, Chasny has an unquenchable sense of adventure.
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