When Ian first mentioned the name Six Organs Of Admittance, we were shopping at Other Music with a kid he went to college with called Ben. He asked one of the clerks where they would file that band. Upon asking if I’d heard of “them”, I immediately turned off any receptors that might glean a bit of information from Ian, and decided that the name was stupid and not worth my time. After all, it was probably some stupid electronic project. Organs? Fuck those.
Sometime in the near future I heard Ben Chasny’s music for the first time, and I suddenly became obsessed with finding everything he’d committed to tape. One of the first albums I heard was For Octavio Paz. Originally released in 2004 as an LP on Time-Lag records (edition of 500), and later re-issued on CD (with track names) by Holy Mountain, For Octavio Paz is an droning, instrumental guitar album that lulls listeners into a trance. It’s gorgeous. Parts of it recall John Fahey, yeah, but it is largely a distinctive new take on the acoustic guitar-based folk tradition.
The stunning final track, “The Acceptance Of Absolute Negation” is a 28-minute opus that culls all the emotions and all the nuances of the previous seven tracks into one swirling masterpiece. For Octavio Paz ranks as one of Chasny’s greatest achievements, and one of the best modern folk albums, period. Screw that Devendra guy.
Six Organs Of Admittance
For Octavio Paz
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Tracklist:
01. Fire On Rain
02. When You Finally Return
03. Memory Memory Memory
04. The Night Knows Nothing At All
05. Elk River
06. They Fixed The Broken Windmill Today
07. Rain On Fire
08. The Acceptance Of Absolute Negation
