Thursday 29 December 2011

shamania

herewith the final track listing for our third album shamania, which will be released in the new year.

1. anodyne
2. deepblue2519
3. [/]
4. [-/+]
5. unified field object
6. hypogirl
7. hypoboy
8. [-]
9. shamania
10. bipolar binary
11. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise]

that's over two and a half hours of music in all. we also have about an hour and a quarter's worth of outtakes, which we're considering putting out as a free bonus supplementary album once the album proper is released.

Wednesday 28 December 2011

logos free track of the week # 13

our latest free track of the week is anhedoniac, which is an outtake from our shamania sessions. download it here. we've now finalised the shamania track listing and will post it shortly.

Saturday 26 November 2011

logos free track of the week # 12

our latest free track of the week is hypogirl from our forthcoming album shamania. download here.

Sunday 6 November 2011

update

we're enjoying mixing the shamania tracks, and planning our next few logos free tracks of the week (which will be a shamania track or two, plus the alternate mix of the looming tower which we promised not too long ago).

Saturday 22 October 2011

shamania

for a little while we've been working on the mix of our third album shamania. the current track listing (albeit still subject to change though we doubt it'll differ much) is as follows:-

1. anodyne
2. deepblue2519
3. [/]
4. [-/+]
5. fire in the mind
6. [-]
7. anhedoniac
8. [+]
9. hypoboy
10. hypogirl
11. shamania
12. bipolar binary
13. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise]

regular readers of our blog may remember that a little while back we posted provisional track listings for two albums-in-progress, shamania and everything we ever were. everything we ever were is on indefinite hold, though a few of the tracks are scheduled for shamania.

we'll let you know when it's all finished (we're hoping it'll be this side of christmas though we're not promising anything) and will also shortly be putting out some tracks from this album for you to listen to. you can already hear provisional versions of a couple on our myspace page.

logos free track of the week # 11

this track originally appeared on the compilation album 23 seconds ov time in october 2010, and is a 23 second version of the track do you love? from our album ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

it is not merely a 23 second except of the 9'11" original. instead we re-shaped a number of the track's elements to capture what we thought its essence in so short a time-frame.

we found the experience interesting and in some respects liberating. maybe we'll create 23 second versions of some other of our tracks, as a counter to our usual meandering indulgences...

please note that since our number of free tracks is now in double figures, we're taking down older ones as we add new ones, so if you want them then make sure you get them sooner rather than later.

get the track here.

get the rest of our free tracks of the week here.

Saturday 24 September 2011

logos free track of the week # 10

our latest logos free track of the week is, as previously announced, the looming tower - download it here.

this track was created at the end of september 2010; click the tag below for further information.

Sunday 4 September 2011

update

here at logos towers, we've begun work on re-sculpting and mixing tracks for our third album shamania. the track listing will differ - though not drastically to that set out in our post dated 27th november 2010.

logos' darren francis has been busy with writing projects. you can follow this aspect of df's work on facebook here.

the next logos free track of the week is on its way. this is scheduled to be the unreleased* the looming tower. we may put out two very different versions - we're not sure yet. we'll put it up as soon as we've finished tinkering with it.

* albeit an early version did appear on our myspace page for a while.

Sunday 24 July 2011

logos free downloads

herewith a round-up of all the logos tracks you can download for free:

everybody gets elves - from our album gehenna now

everybody gets elves [version] - a much shorter alternate mix

hollow hills of london [version] - a re-sculpted and much-condensed mix of the gehenna now track

volo ergo sum [version] - an alternate mix of the gehenna now track

gehenna now [version] - a re-shaped and edited version of the gehenna now track

to please the moon - from our album ascending a line in the sky to sothis

do you love? [version] - an alternate mix of the ascending a line in the sky to sothis track

sun king [version] - a much shorter version of the ascending a line in the sky to sothis track

canticle - a very early logos track orginally scheduled to appear on gehenna now

manunkind [version] - this track does not appear on any of our albums

you can also listen to and download both our albums gehenna now and ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

Saturday 23 July 2011

logos free track of the week # 9

our latest free track of the week is a version of sun king from our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis .

download it here.

you can download the ascending a line in the sky to sothis album here.

more news music on its way.

Tuesday 7 June 2011

the hills rise wild

a new(ish) track, put together this evening, 7th june 2011 - we say new(ish) because this re-works elements of the darren francis track the hills are alive (from his god thing project) into another and entirely other beast.

you can hear (and download) the original version here.

the new version is restructured, embelished, extended, and is without df's voice.

Tuesday 31 May 2011

hypogirl

a new track, created on the evenings of 29th and 30th may 2011, and intended for shamania, which we anticipate will be our next-completed and released album.

[edit, 25th october 2012] this  track was re-named shamania for the album release. the track hypogirl on that album was originally named desert star 1

Monday 30 May 2011

logos free track of the week # 8

an alternate version of the track do you love? from our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

download it here.

Wednesday 25 May 2011

ascending a line in the sky to sothis

we're very pleased to be able to finally release the second logos album ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

this album is later than we'd have liked, delayed primarily by darren francis moving house. go to this link to listen to the whole album, and download if you wish.

herewith the track listing:

01. sothis rising (01.26)
02. to please the moon (10.12)
03. the porpoise principle (00.22)
04. sun king (21.05)
05. do you love? (09.11)
06. the opening of the mouth (18.27)
07. coming forth by day (09.45)

total running time 70:29

recorded at dfl studios, aylesbury, bucks, summer 2010. final mix spring 2011.

alessa otto: everything

darren francis: everything else

cover and track artwork by debb rooken-smith

for cp

Friday 15 April 2011

logos free track of the week # 7

today's free track is to please the moon, from our forthcoming album ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com/track/to-please-the-moon-2

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logos one year on

it's hard to believe that it's a year since we started logos. it all began in april 2010 during the sessions for darren francis' spoken word album hate ashbury*, the follow-up to his god thing project. things took a different - and very unexpected - turn, and before we knew it we'd already created the first tenatative logos tracks. at that time logos was named sick sick sixties, which we still think a good band-name though too much of a hangover from hate ashbury **, but logos - a name df had used for audio projects in the past - worked better for the music we wanted to make. the first logos track - gehenna now - was completed on 18th and 19th april 2010, with canticle, hollow hills of london, and everybody gets elves following before the end of the month.

we've come a long way since then. we've released our first album gehenna now, finished our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis which will be releasing very soon, got very excited about our third album shamania, and along the way also managed to record another 20-odd tracks which will be finding their way out in one form or another. how to celebrate? let me count the ways. let's start with another logos free track of the week, our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis, a logos q&a to give you an insight into our morbid practices, and some entirely new music. after that? let's see.

* = which - as a consequence of logos - was never finished, but df intends to do so ere long.

** = this will make more sense when df puts out hate ashbury, which will be coming this year. 'fucked up industrial hippy music' was the remit.

Sunday 13 March 2011

logos free track of the week # 6

our latest logos free track of the week is a version of our gehenna now track volo ergo sum. one of our favourite gehenna now tracks*. the medium and the message. download it - and the rest of our free tracks - here. download gehenna now - the album where you'll find the original version - here.


* for us the original mix is the definitive one, though no doubt some of you may prefer this one. that's fine. we like this one, too, and know there's not much in them.

Tuesday 8 March 2011

hypoboy

the latest logos track in what seems like too long, hypoboy was created on the evening of 8th march 2011.

more new music is on its way. we've been busy of late with the final mix of ascending a line in the sky to sothis, and darren francis has been engaged in writing projects, with the recording of his second spoken-word-with-music album (which, being primarily guitar-driven, is a very different beast to the first) and with an impending house move. no worries; alessa otto will take up the slack.

we also have another couple of logos free tracks of the week on their way, one of which will be a track you've never heard before. watch this space for announcements.

[edit 25th october 2012] this is a completely different track to the one that appears under the same name on shamania. this version is unreleased. the hypoboy on shamania was originally titled [ - / + ]

Tuesday 1 March 2011

logos free track of the week # 5

we know things have been quiet on planet logos so far this year*. we've almost finished the mix of our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis, which will be available very shortly, and are well on the way with its follow-up. in the meantime, here is another logos free track of the week.

this is an alternate mix of the track gehenna now, from the album of the same name. download it here.


* by our standards; not producing a handful of new tracks a month seems 'quiet' to us...

Sunday 20 February 2011

the porpoise principle

an entirely new version of the track the porpoise principle was created on 20th february 2011. the only thing this shares with the october 2010 version - other than the title - is the sample that gives the track its name. regular readers of our blog may remember that we recycled the rest of the october 2010 version into our november 2010 track anhedoniac.

edit, 15th may 2011: this february 2011 version is the one on ascending a line in the sky to sothis.

Friday 18 February 2011

logos free track of the week # 4

our latest logos free track of the week is a version of the track manunkind.

this was one of the first logos tracks, created back in june 2010, and features voice by darren francis and words by e e cummings (the poem 'pity this busy monster, manunkind') . we did a radical edit of this track in january 2011 for darren francis' myspace page. this current mix, a compromise between the 9'24" original and the 2'17" edit, was created on 18th february 2011.

download it - and other free logos tracks - here.

Tuesday 8 February 2011

god thing

darren francis' spoken word album god thing is now available to download for free here.

track listing:

01. w9gfo
02. black olives
03. fissure king
04. god, love, money and other snares
05. will i dream
06. scarecrow
07. the hills are alive
08. hollowed be thy meme

this material was created between december 2009 and march 2010, and its probably fair to say that without it there would have been no logos.

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Saturday 22 January 2011

manunkind

you can hear a version of the track manunkind at darren francis' myspace page. this track features darren francis reading the e e cummings poem pity this busy monster, manunkind with music by logos, and was one of the earliest logos tracks, created back in june 2010. this version is a massive edit of the original, and omits the seven minute instrumental introduction. we expect that one version or another of this track will feature as a logos free track of the week in future.

at darren francis' myspace page you can also hear some other tracks featuring df's voice, including tracks from the god thing spoken word-with-music album. god thing was created in spring 2010 but df was then side-tracked by logos and never finalised the mix. god thing will be finished and available very shortly, and we'll post details here.

Monday 17 January 2011

logos free track of the week # 3

today's logos free track of the week is a track we likely won't be making available anywhere else (for the foreseeable future and in this form at least).

canticle was the second logos track created and we're still fond of it. it very nearly appeared on gehenna now. though it sounds a world away from where we are now in some respects, here it is if you want it.

why didn't it make the gehenna now mark? a sample, pure and simple. obscure but recognisable - to us at least - and we didn't feel comfortable releasing it. giving it away is a different matter.

note that this draft is the demo created way back in april 2010. we did consider re-working it before putting it out today but opted not to. so you get the original, warts and all.

http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com/album/logos-free-track-of-the-week