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Part 3 of 3 of an annual concert series at a beautiful church in downtown Toronto on a glorious June evening, yesterday.
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE –
35 minutes of the best live music I've seen in a while. Positively captivating watching Chasny from the pews build gloriously haunting pieces before brightened stained glass. Wonderfully echoic sound as he looped and layered beds of acoustic ragas beneath shredded flying V distortion and rich, possessed vocal taunting. He went straight for the jugular and nearly brought me to tears with the chorus "Do you knoooow meeee ... ?" to a song I can't name for you off hand. Hours too short. Must see limitless headlining performance before I die. You too.
ANTONY –
Refreshing to find his personality to be that of a grand jolly diva than that of a blue confused individual. Antony sat at a piano, accompanied by spare cello, and segued seamlessly through slightly loose renditions of "Hope There's Someone" and "You Are My Sister". Encouraged and blended audience humming and clapping into a fantastic a capella piece, and finished with the Velvet Underground's "Candy Says", which he made his very own. Totally inspiring.
CURRENT 93 –
Interesting but eventually overlong and self-indulgent doom folk from thee purveyors of it. Band consisted of Ben Chasny, Simon Finn, Baby Dee, William Breeze, etc., with a guest spot by motherfucking Will Oldham (who should have been added to the fucking bill for $65)! There's only so many ways to be descriptive about the ending of life and of nature, in words and in composition. Brevity, please - this set was as long as Six Organs' should have been. Take a lesson from Chasny, who can lift a heart with a single line chanted in low tenor warble. David Tibet is a nutty, masturbatory, self-important dude that has written some all-too-safe and eventually non-descript songs about unsafe things like forests of rape. Of course, it was good to an extent. Best moments were, ahem, Will Oldham, and a wicked one chord romp with Chasny thankfully leading the band.
Get into Six Organs of Admittance! That's an order.
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