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August Born

A collaboration between Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny and Hiroyuki Usui of L, Fushitsusha, and Eikyukonran, August Given birth to is really a psych-folk very duo. The set linked via music journalist/Japanese music professional Alan Cummings, who was simply translating the liner records for VHF’s reissue of L’s difficult …

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Comets on Fire

Comets burning hail from Santa Cruz, CA. The music group was created in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who have been seeking to develop a rhythmically and sonically extreme music that paid no focus on categorizations — even while becoming suckers for …

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Six Organs of Admittance

Inspired from the East-meets-West single guitar musings of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, former Plague Lounge guitarist Ben Chasny created Six Organs of Admittance in 1998 in North California. SOOA’s self-titled, self-released debut showed up that year, accompanied by numerous compilation songs and obscurities. In 2000, SOOA released the Manifestation …

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New Bums

New Bums were were only available in 2013 by ever-busy guitarist/songwriter Ben Chasny (known best for his are 6 Organs of Admittance but also an associate of Rangda, Comets burning, and many more) along with Donovan Quinn, an integral person in the psychedelic folk outfit Skygreen Leopards. Both friends have …

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200 Years

What started being a love between Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs of Admittance, and Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers, converted into a music cooperation called 200 Years. Their initial album, primarily made up of electric guitar and vocals, was documented over an 11-month stint in Seattle and released by Move …

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Rangda

Rangda are named for the Javanese demon queen from the leyaks. This power trio can be an instrumental psych rock and roll no wave-styled sound device. The bandmembers are guitarists Sir Richard Bishop (Sunlight City Ladies) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets burning, Current 93), and drummer Chris …

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