Six Organs of Admittance Touring Europe in June
Cool that Ben Chasny is heading abroad once more with Six Organs of Admittance, but the reason I’m really glad to run into the news below is that it’s given me an excuse to put on earlier 2017’s Burning the Threshold (review here) this afternoon. One tries to listen to an artist when writing about them — seems the least I can do, most of the time — and the chillout of “Things as They Are” and “Adoration Song,” for which you can also see the recently-unveiled video at the bottom of this post, are just about right for where my head’s at, and more to the point where it needs to be, at the moment. So yeah, the timing is nice.
I missed Chasny coming through to support the album at the start of April, like I’ve missed pretty much everybody coming through for every reason for the last year-plus, but if you’re in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium or France, you should still go check out his show. I’ve seen him with a full band and I’ve seen him (mostly) on his own, and both are a great way to spend an eevning.
From the PR wire:
Six Organs Of Admittance announce European spring/summer tour
The threshold continues to smolder as Six Organs of Admittance keep the flame. Burning the Threshold, released in February, sees Ben Chasny’s cyclical resurgence of acoustic guitar love. The Burning The Threshold tour is preparing to leap continents, as Six Organs of Admittance announce its European spring and summer tour. Solo acoustic guitar from a bona fide wizard of the six string, the shows are as follows…
TOUR DATES
5 JUNE – NL, UTRECHT – LE GUESS WHO @ CULTURAL SUNDAY
6 JUNE – NL, HAARLEM – PATRONAAT
7 JUNE – NL, TILBURG – SOUNDS (RECORD STORE)
8 JUNE – BE, BRUSSELS – BOTANIQUE – WITLOOF BAR
9 JUNE – FR, LILLE – CENTRE CULTUREL DE LESQUIN
10 JUNE – FR, PARIS – TBC
11 JUNE – UK, BRIGHTON – KOMEDIA
14 JUNE – UK, NEWCASTLE – THE CLUNY
15 JUNE – UK, LEEDS – BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
16 JUNE – UK, EDINBURGH – SUMMERHALL
21 JUNE – UK, LONDON – MOTH CLUB
Chasny is currently holed up in a Cleveland, OH castle scoring music for Things As They Are, David Todd’s play about Wallace Stevens (a Six O inspiration), which runs this month at the Reinberger Auditorum. Immediately following is when 6OOA propels towards across the Atlantic – everyone in the UK, Netherlands, France and Belgium, prepare to embrace Six Organs with open arms, like the comet that will surely save us all.
Additionally, on a recent trip to London for the exclusive release show for Burning The Threshold, Chasny took his acoustic guitar on a little detour over to Maida Vale Studios for an improvised recording session for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction Session, with sitar player Baluji Shrivastav and drummer Steve Noble. The whole thing was recorded and mixed in one day, and it’s supremely beautiful.
Finally, we invite all to enjoy the first music video and third single from Burning The Threshold, “Adoration Song” which enervates and elevates ones mind with images of the raw majesty of nature and haunting reminders of the unknowable. Directed by Elisa Ambrogio, the sun hangs over the moss and lichen, the cliffs and sandy shores of wintery northern California. Ben’s melody and lyrics work as layers with the sharp focus and gauzy allegorical bent of the video, which features Ben as elephant man, a remote wanderer fearful of the world around him, until he removes his sheath, obtains the third eye and rises up, to become a part of the natural world, moving forward with two sets of footprints in the sand behind him.
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