Six Organs of Admittance extend their annum of unlikely delights – begun in March 2024 with ‘Time is Glass’, the first new Six Organs of Admittance album in four years, and joined in June with the most unlikely awesome collab of 2024: Shackleton and Six Organs of Admittance, ‘Jinxed by Being’ – with the release of ‘Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)’, which expands the zone of disbelief simply by being the third Six Organs-branded release in one year. Also, by pushing the boundaries in all the manners that matter – psychologically, spiritually, philosophically and sonically – into a new dimensional space. ‘Companion Rises’ dropped in February 2020. Its new techniques in sound generation called for an aggressive new moment, with heavy Six Organs touring scheduled for the year ahead. Yeah…flash forward to 2023! As Ben Chasny picked up the pieces following the Big Blink, he had to think of what could have been, like: “What would ‘Companion Rises’ sound like if I had known how crazy the world it was built for was gonna be?” By then, Six Organs had moved on – both ‘Time is Glass’ and ‘Jinxed by Being’ were in the works – but here was a thought: ‘Companion Rises’ was a record about the weirdness of California. Right then, Twig Harper was touching down in Cali after stints in Baltimore and Chicago. Ben had been onboard with Twig’s shit since the days when Nautical Almanac burst out of Michigan like an engorged, inflamed, screaming blood vessel. And Twig’s chaos sense has evolved and refined in amazing ways over the years (see releases on Hanson Records, Thrill Jockey, Planam, Open Mouth, Primordial Void, Radical Documents, Ha Ha Ha Cassettes and Twig’s own Heresee label), so when Ben asked him if he would do whatever he wanted, it felt like full circles were colliding when Twig said yeah! Once Twig had measured out the physics of ‘Companion Rises’, most of his Remix was done up in his van where he, otherwise homeless, was living. When he got the stems from Ben, he just started working it out right there, rather than spending the time finding a place to live. It’s more fun running signal through his Ableton DSP rack, always. And it worked out well – he’ll probably move a bunch more times in his life, but this record is forever. With the Twig Harper remixes, the maximal qualities of original ‘Companion Rises’ DNA are evoked via omission: to recreate the implied construction of Six Organs’ spirit realm, Twig isolated source sounds, triggered new data off those sounds, then edited the new readouts. To the naked ear, it sounds to be a highly stimulating new example in modern electronic minimal classical music. The assiduous Organs-head will no doubt find a few Easter eggs here, but mostly, this is new dimensional space made of the not-so-old one. ‘Companion Rises (Twig Harper Remix)’ is like two journeys in one, juxtaposing Twig’s new-to-Cali musings with Six Organs’ original borne-andbread wanderings. Play them back to back, they play fresh through and through. Or play ’em on top of each other and wait for the moment of concision to arrive. And now it sounds as weird as Ben wanted; maybe almost as weird as the world outside today.