LONDON: Upset the Rhythm @ Metronome

Thursday 27th March, 2025

7:30pm

Event information

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 member of the band. 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 of 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 a further 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 a Hexadic for making music and 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 fully solo album Time Is Glass, which consists 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; spider-webs cracking the windshield that holds back all the onrushing reality. Blowing the dust away, cutting a new path for cognition.

https://sixorgansofadmittance.bandcamp.com/

LANDO MANNING is a Peckham-based acid-dipped folk musician. Lando just released his second EP ‘Brighter Days’ (Mango Wax Records), a project he describes as “an affirmation of hope that through dark times there is light.” With a distinctly dreamy acoustic sound and a gift for subtle poetic song writing, he has continued to impress with every new song since his debut single ‘Today’. There is a real openness that comes from Manning. Without hesitation, deep and raw feelings are put in the firing line. ‘Brighter Days’ finds its inspiration as much in the soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and the ambient works of Japanese pioneer Hiroshima Yoshimura, as in the classic works of 70s folk songwriters like Towns Van Zandt.

https://landomanning.bandcamp.com/

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E1 1LA

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