Chaz Knapp - Organ Drunes (2021)

“Strange, experimental, charming and, well, stoned.”
The Guardian

"There’s a wonderful delicate craft to the work which showcases Knapp as a composer paying attention to those minor details, the kind which help elevate the music to something more."
Echoes and Dust

Dallas composer / musician Chaz Knapp signs with Shahzad Ismaily’s figureight records for the release of his playfully experimental Organ Drunes album, a series of solo performances for a second-hand Yamaha YC45-D electric organ.

Created as a kind of “letting go” of over-complex musicality and Chaz’ previous output as a learned composer of sombre piano-and-string elegies, Organ Drunes is an experimental record with an intimately humane sense of humour. It is at once reduced, distilled dance music and nebulous freeform clouds of chord washes. It is both strange and warm. Demanding and giving. Its odd moments of harshness are offset against soaring, joyous beauty. The music suits Chaz Knapp: “I realized I can’t always control the music. Sometimes you need to let the music control you. I was finally able to let it.”