Six Organs of Admittance – Dust & Chimes

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.

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

Label: Holy Mountain

Catalog: 1165

Genre: Rock