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01. Six Organs Of Admittance - Annunciation
02. Six Organs Of Admittance - Riel
03. Six Organs Of Admittance - Stone Leaf and Pond
04. Six Organs Of Admittance - Katwijk
05. Six Organs Of Admittance - Dongen
06. Six Organs Of Admittance - Tilburg
07. Six Organs Of Admittance - Maryam
08. Six Organs Of Admittance - Two Wings
ARTIST
TITLE
MariaKapel
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
WAT 006LP WAT 006LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/10/2025

Originally released on Ben Chasny's own Pavilion imprint in 2011. "I was invited by the Incubate Festival and the city of Tilburg to participate in an artist residency where I would explore the region's unique chapels built for the Virgin Mary. After writing the music for about six months by drawing on memories of the encounters with the chapels and using techniques inspired by Gaston Bachelard's Poetics Of Reverie, I flew back to Tilburg to perform the music at the Incubate Festival. We recorded the evening and I released the result on my Pavilion label. Each cover was hand painted white on white in the old Pavilion style. I created a stencil and used graphite powder to make the design that is inspired by the sun imagery in Athanasius Kircher diagrams. In 2010 I was approached by the organization of the Incubate Festival in the North Brabant town of Tilburg. Their request was for me to lead the American composer and guitarist Ben Chasny around a number of chapels in the province devoted to Mary. He had been invited to North Brabant to write some new compositions. Ben Chasny then chose to be inspired by these chapels and that's how we met. I was especially curious how an American would react to something as specific and small as a roadside chapel in North Brabant, since we tend to think here of (people in) America in terms of 'big-bigger-biggest'. Would an inhabitant of this enormous country with this prevailing culture be able to grasp and respect the identity of some 2.5 million people in North Brabant with their chapels? The answer to this question lies hidden in the compositions he made and that can be listened to on this album. Yes, Ben Chasny has been able to convert the phenomenon of a simple chapel devoted to Mary into music. The physical and the spiritual have found each other. What a beautiful world -- just listen!" --Paul Spapens