The Organ
The Organ was a Canadian post-punk band formed in 2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They officially broke up on December 7, 2006, due to illness and personal conflicts in the band.
Biography
Early years
The Organ were conceived in 2001 by frontwoman Katie Sketch, born Katie Ritchie, in Vancouver, BC. Sketch's musical training started at the age of three, when she began classical training on the violin. Her childhood was spent largely in ignorance of the underground sounds of The Smiths, The Cure, and Joy Division, whom The Organ would later often be favorably compared to. "Tiffany and Bon Jovi – that was my take on ’80s music."
Sketch has said of the time of the formation of the band, when she and the band members were in their early to mid-twenties. "I was in a musical lull, I couldn’t stand what I was listening to," naming Sleater-Kinney as one example. “The local scene was also pretty shitty, and of course the radio was brutal. Then, by total fluke, my mom’s friend’s husband, Ron Obvious, hired me to help with the audio wiring for a studio he was building for Bryan Adams.” Obvious introduced Katie to the world of independent music, and what she calls "that ’80s sound." He created mix-tapes of bands he thought she’d appreciate as a violinist (Roxy Music, Ultravox) and singers with an "amazing natural vocal pitch" (Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nina Hagen, Kate Bush)). This job also led Sketch to Tara Nelson, the engineer who would later record the Organ’s first EP.
The Organ (pipe organ magazine)
The Organ is a quarterly magazine about the world of the pipe organ. It is based in the United Kingdom, but features organs in other countries. It was established in 1921 as a sister-publication of Musical Opinion. Since 2009, its editor-in-chief has been Robert Matthew-Walker.
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The Organ (newspaper)
The Organ was a US counterculture underground newspaper which produced a total of 9 irregularly published issues in San Francisco in a 36-page folded tabloid format between July 1970 and July 1971. It featured two-color covers, black-and-white interiors and a double-page centerfold poster in each issue, and cost 50 cents. It was published by Christopher Weills and edited by Gerard van der Leun. Contributors included Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Greg Irons, Tom Veitch, Dave Sheridan, Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea, William Burroughs, Michael Rossmann, Richard Lupoff, Sandy Darlington, Howard J. Pearlstein, and Don Donahue. Interviews with a number of countercultural figures appeared, including Kenneth Anger, Jerry Garcia, and Allen Ginsberg.
References
The Organ Reader, ed. by Howard J. Pearlstein, Richard Lupoff and Fender Tucker. Ramble Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60543-045-4.
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At the Organ
At the Organ is an EP by American rock band The Minus 5. Released on Yep Roc in 2004, the album features a lineup of Peter Buck from R.E.M., Ken Stringfellow from the Posies, Rebecca Gates from the Spinanes, and Wilco.
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Sinking Hearts
by: The Organremember when i left you
i couldn't say your name
or other crucial things like i love you,
oh, that's a shame
oh no, i think i'm falling
oh no, i think i'm fine
our hearts didn't come together
but I saw the two collide
i can the see the hearts sinking
remember when i left you
i couldn't say your name
or other crucial things like i love you,
oh, that's a shame
i don't know if you're hearing
my voice or the reprise
our hearts didn't come together
but I saw the two collide
i can see the hearts sinking
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