Ben Chasny - The Intimate Landscape

Released 5th November 2021.

A new instrumental album of acoustic guitar playing from Six Organs of Admittances Ben Chasny! Everybody knows its been far too long since 2004s much-beloved For Octavio Paz; even as the landscape has crowded with acoustic players, weve all been dying to hear Bens distinctive virtuosity again in this format. But The Intimate Landscape is so much more . . .

KPM Music, the legendary British library music company, extended an offer to Ben to make some songs for their library. Well aware of their history, he immediately agreed. The field of library music (music made for hire, for use in placement in films and advertising) is one thats come to public consciousness only relatively recently in the long century of record-making, but the influence of such records has been felt for years in the aesthetics of many diverse artists, including several whove recorded for Drag City. So its a special thing for Drag City, whose a