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Coming out of Western Massachusetts,
Six Organs Of Admittance's drummer Chris Corsano
(who also plays in Greg Kelley's Cold Bleak Heat)
recorded the solo albums
Blood Pressure (2006) for keyboards and vocals (no drums),
and
The Young Cricketer (february 2006 - Family Vineyeard, 2008) for percussion, found objects and saxophones, an
adventurous (or at least chaotic) improvised work, although
but fragmented in short pieces to the
point that it sounds like rehearsals rather than fleshed out music. It includes
the abstract drum solos
Why Are Some Cricket Coaches Better Than Others?
and
What Do We Get From Cricket That We Don't Get From Other Games?,
the frantic drum solos
What Movement Helps You When You Are Trying To Run Out A Batsmen? and
How SHould You Pick Up The Ball And Throw It?,
as well as the eight-minute
How May Your Parents And Your Employer Help You In Your Cricket Career?,
a cryptic piece driven by cymbals and bells.
The droning saxophone passages, instead, sound amateurish.
Corsano also recorded several avant-jazz duos with saxophonist Paul Flaherty:
The Hated Music (Ecstatic Yod, 2001),
Last Eyes (Records 7, 2005),
Steel Sleet (Tyyfus 2, 2005),
The Beloved Music (Family Vineyard, 2006),
Full Bottle (Ultra Eczema, 2006),
A Rock in the Snow (Important, 2006),
Slow Blind Avalanche (Important, 2006).
The Radiant Mirror (2007) and
The Four Aims (VHF, 2009) were collaborations with droning banjoist
Michael Flower, two demented and propulsive digital collages.
The Radiant Mirror contains three Indian-inspired suites, of which
the ten-minute spiritually-inclined Earth sounds like the
Velvet Underground performing an Indian raga,
and the festively torrential 19-minute Fire sounds like an epileptic
John Fahey jamming with a jazz drummer.
The Four Aims contains
the ten-minute I Brute Force?, that sounds like a brutal jazz-rock
workout,
the eight-minute The Three Degrees Of Temptation, a subliminal soundscape
for soft percussive sounds and psychedelic effects,
the prayer-like The Drifter's Miracles of droning with no drums,
and the 18-minute The Main Ingredient, perhaps the most intricate and
virulent raga-like piece of the duo with a coda of ethereal philosophizing.
Another Dull Dawn (Ultra Eczema, 2009) was another solo album.
Meanwhile,
the trio of
Sir Richard Bishop,
Six Organs of Admittance's
Ben Chasny and Chris Corsano formed
Rangda (two guitars and drums) to record False Flag (Drag City, 2010).
Paul Dunmall and Chris Corsano improvised live the music of
Identical Sunsets (april 2008).
Under A Double Moon (march 2010) documents a live collaboration between saxophonist Joe McPhee and drummer Chris Corsano.
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