Upset The Rhythm presents… a Drag City showcase with: SIX ORGANS OF
ADMITTANCE BILL MACKAY THURSDAY 27 MARCH METRONOME LONDON, 41
Commercial Road, LONDON, E1 1LA 7.30pm | £18 | Tickets:
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SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE HAVE BUILT A PROLIFIC AND DIVERSE BODY OF
WORK OVER THE LAST 20+ years. Ben Chasny’s project is an
experimental amalgam of new folk, drone music, percussion and strange
textures, with Chasny delivering an outpouring of eclectic releases in
the early 2000s for various small labels before finding a longstanding
home on Drag City. In 2003, Chasny began an association with Comets on
Fire, which led to him becoming a full-time touring and recording band
member. After recording and touring extensively with Comets on Fire in
2004, Chasny returned to the studio and issued the moving and
beautiful School of the Flower on Drag City in January 2005. Sun
Awakens and Shelter from the Ash arrived in 2006 and 2007. After
touring and a break in 2008, Six ORGANS BEGAN WHAT WOULD BECOME A
PROLIFIC RETURN TO FORCE, releasing 18 astonishing records up to the
current time. First was the release of the sonically expansive – and
very electric – Luminous Night, followed by the double-disc
retrospective RTZ, both of which appeared on Drag City. Chasny also
plays in 200 Years alongside Elisa Ambrogio (of Magik Markers), with
Donovan Quinn (Skygreen Leopards) in the project New Bums, and is also
a member of tightly-wound improv unit Rangda, accompanied by Sir
Richard Bishop and Chris Corsano. Chasny more recently developed a
card-based creative system called Hexadic for making music. He
released several related albums before resuming his primary project
with new work like 2021’s The Veiled Sea and the 2024 Shackleton
collaboration Jinxed by Being. This year, Six ORGANS ALSO RELEASED A
SOLO ALBUM, Time Is Glass, consisting of haunted, unsettled rural folk
sounds. With Time is Glass, Six ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE IS CAPTURED ONCE
AGAIN IN THE INTRICATE TANGLE OF THE FRETBOARDS, soaring in open skies
above. Like lens flare cutting through the speakers, spiderwebs
cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality.
Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition.
https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/
[https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/] BILL MACKAY IS A CHICAGO
GUITARIST, improviser, composer, and singer. An accomplished
collaborator with projects that include Katinka Kleijn (Stir, 2019),
Nathan Bowles (Keys, 2021), and Ryley Walker (SpiderBeetleBee, 2017),
MACKAY IS ALSO A SOLO ARTIST CREATING MULTI-dimensional works such as
Esker (2017), Fountain Fire (2019) Scarf (2020), and Locust Land
(2024), all released on Drag City Records. Bill’s music is a
visceral crackling where it meets the air, and Locust Land can’t
help but reflect its era more than any other in his discography. A
restless energy and urgency are repeatedly felt — in the driving
momentum of “Keeping in Time,” “Glow Drift,” and “When I Was
Here” — while a dogged persistence radiates from the tone colours
and percussion of “Oh, Pearl.” The sense of searching,
displacement and longing in vocal tracks “Keeping in Time,”
“Half of You,” and “When I Was Here” speak literally to the
tumult of current vibrations. Within the arrangements, there’s also
a departure from previous norms — in addition to the brilliant
guitar work for which he is known, Bill plays a variety of keyboards,
from piano to organ to synth, extending his music with the available
voicings, while enriching the sound field without abandoning his
signature brevity. For fans of his singing, following in the recent
tradition of Fountain Fire and his collaboration with Nathan Bowles,
Keys, Locust Land expresses an increased vocal presence — and
heightened engagement, with Bill’s words and melodies drawing us
closer. https://billmackay.com/ [https://billmackay.com/] Like this:
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