Six Organs of Admittance - Dust & Chimes

Release Date:11/06/2015;Notes:Limited vinyl LP pressing of this 2000 album. Ben Chasny was on a holy roll when he laid down the eleven tracks on Dust And Chimes. It was 1998 and y'all were floating on that Bill Clinton peace-and-prosperity bubble. Meanwhile, Chasny had dropped his self-titled debut LP earlier that year, and the cognoscenti and illuminati were pricking up their ears. Dust And Chimes announced the arrival of a brow-furrowed troubadour whose complex, morosely beautiful guitar playing didn't Basho you over the head with Fahey-isms. The three solo guitar tracks here contain quicksilver skeins of glinting acoustic work, recorded over a decade before the American Primitive style of playing would be of any interest to the indie world. Brilliant darkness and somber ecstasy abound, as Chasny ragas against the machine with a bold inventiveness. Elsewhere one may hear hints of Tyrannosaurus Rex's impish arboreal-folk charm and feathery Donovan-esque incantations-reverent but not lightweight in the least. Dust and Chimes sounds like the work of a young sage wise beyond his tears.;Track List:1. Stone Finders Verse I;2. Assyria;3. Hollow Light Severed Sun;4. Tukulti Will Burn;5. Blue Sun Chiming;6. Oak Path;7. Black Needle Rhymes;8. Sophia;9. Journey Through Sankuan Path;10. Stone Finders Verse II;11. Dance Among the Waiting