Organum / David Jackman

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the Desola ep, is the beast

My favorite is Sphyx, Ikon is also excellent. Also search Vacant Lights, Veil Of Tears, and Bird's Wings.

Destroy all the overpriced singles. The best ones have been added to CD reissues anyway. God, that guy pisses me off.

Jackman solo is all about the "Sol Mara" disc, totally gorgeous. I haven't heard anything else worth getting, the Eisen 10" and Laus 7" are particularly annoying.

The early stuff is pretty good but not as mind-altering, the Volume One and Volume Two discs are still in print on Robot but get Sphyx first...

only jackman/organum i've heard that didn't really do much for me was fiery holes. my favorite is probably birds wings. anyone heard die hennen zähne?

if you enjoy the early organum stuff look for the dead fish fuck LP on kormplastics. it's a near-perfect imitation.

for soaring ruined organic ensemble-performed noise wall majesty, this is as good as it gets

thing is, all the music is outstanding -- even the later stuff, to these ears. though it's all similar after a while and I certainly would have given up on paying $12 a pop just to maintain a complete set, I can see why they were released as singles

that might be easier for me to say having downloaded them. though they did instantly prompt an order for two of their albums.

if all the Cathar castles & ruins in the south of france tore loose from the ground and began floating about forty feet off the ground, this would be the sound that you'd hear

Sphyx reissue, edition of 700 copies -- http://www.robotrecords.com/releases/rr30/

the three records I've gotten since are mellower, hazy, anti-gravitational but not violently so.

Sphyx -- Christoph Heemann , David Jackman , Dinah Jane Rowe , Eddie Prévost , Jim O'Rourke. Majestic first track in particular.

Submission way diffused, skyhigh ether music, programmed to repeat, Andrew Chalk , David Jackman , Dinah Jane Rowe , Steven Stapleton.

Veil of Tears is the most scattered -- I started here because it was the ReR approved one, and it is the most chinstrokey -- bookended by two long verité field recordings of metals being rubbed in what sounds like a warehouse -- a little more challenging. Been going to the other two albums more often.

Also, Flaxed/Crux by Organum and Edfdie Prevost is good and probably fairly readily available.

So if I love Sphyx and love Jackman's Sol Mara even more, what's my next Organum purchase? The stuff that sounds more like Andrew Chalk and less like the New Blockaders is what I'm hoping for.

Some Richard Skelton vibes on some of this stuff, too! I like the 'acoustic' sound of the ones mentioned above: sounds more like things being bowed, plugged, bonged, etc, than wall-o-noise style.

go immediately to Ikon, do not pass go. After that, Sanctus, Vacant Lights, and Submission are probably the least noisy ones besides the two you mentioned... Jackman's Up From Zero is earlier & denser but still very cool imo

unfortunately nothing else sounds quite like Sol Mara, I wore that thing into the ground and still listen to it now & then

Thanks! That oughta keep me busy through the holiday.

going through a big binge, if anyone has MP3s of the Kanroku 12" please ilxmail me

he's been putting out a ton of new solo discs as well as new ones under the Organum Electronics name, I finally picked a few up and they are dense shifting walls of sound. anyone else listening to this newer stuff?

Thanks for the thread revive. Jackman/Organum has been feeling appropriate for this time of year. I haven't heard any of his more recent efforts but have been sinking deeply into both Sanctus and Vacant Lights. Definite early morning musick.

sleeve, check your ilxmail for a Kanroku link.

omg thank you so much!

yah I love Sanctus, great vibes on that

some great descriptions of the sounds from Milton Parker upthread! I had forgotten.

so correct me if I'm wrong, but the Organum releases have always been heavily processed acoustic recordings, yeah? bowed cymbals and the like lots of times, or the shakuhachi loops of Sol Mara. I *think* that's why the new stuff (which I believe is done w/actual electronics and no acoustic sources) is called Organum Electronics (duh), and it does sound different.

Yeah, FdW has a similar understanding in his review of Organum Electronics' Solitude (Vital Weekly #1289)