He has been associated with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. The acclaimed experimental guitarist and songwriter behind the project Six Organs of Admittance is known for his captivating acoustic sound. But Ben Chasny, as he is called, draws from a far broader range of influences – spanning from a delicate whispering sound to the mystical and suddenly noise-driven.

His acoustic sound is a defining trait of Six Organs of Admittance. Over the years, Ben Chasny, who is the musician behind Six Organs of Admittance, has been linked to both Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Yet the fingerpicking experimental songwriter and guitarist from the U.S. also pulls from references far beyond folk and americana. For twenty years, Ben Chasny has released music under the name Six Organs of Admittance, and in that time, his sound has spanned from being hushed and acoustic to droning, meditative, and deeply mysterious.

Six Organs of Admittance is currently on tour with his two latest albums. ‘Time is Glass’, one of the two, was released in April last year and is the result of Chasny’s return to his home state of North Carolina. The album, which has been given the wonderfully evocative genre labels “rural-industrial-psych” and “ecosystem goth,” demonstrates his ability to create poetry with simple means. As Pitchfork put it in their review: “His words don’t look like much on the page but drench the music with emotional color.” We look forward to welcoming the critically acclaimed musician to the ALICE stage.