logos website now online

the logos website is now online at www.logosnexus.com so please head over and have a look.

please note that from now on, www.logosnexus.com will be the new home for the logos blog, so please update your bookmarks. all future logos blogs will appear on there; we will no longer be updating this blogspot blog with new posts.

we've also recently completed the mammoth task of migrating all the historic posts from this blogspot blog to our new one. this took a lot longer than expected - there were more than a hundred posts to transfer, which we did one at a time, though at least the exercise gave us the opportunity to tidy things up and, where appropriate, add coments and updates. we don't necessarily expect people to trawl through the whole thing in one sitting - though by all means knock yourself out if you want to - but it's invaluable to us as an archive of the logos history so far.

the future

our apologies for the lack of recent updates. one reason for this is that we are in the process of setting up a logos website, which will host - amongst other things - our blog. we'll be transferring all previous posts from this blog onto there, and future posts will appear there only.

we hope to have the site up and running in the next week or so, and will post an update nearer to the time.

Logos News Update October 2012

The third Logos album Shamania is now available. Herewith the track listing:-

01. anodyne (18.50)
02. deepblue2519 (03.43)
03. unified field object (14.59)
04. hypoboy (13.33)
05. hypogirl (05.44)
06. bipolar binary (30.45)
07. shamania (18.09)
08. sidereal (13.40)
09. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (03.43)

That's just over two hours in all. You can listen to the whole album, and download, at http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com/album/shamania.

Even though we've finally finished with Shamania, there's still quite a bit in store for Logos in the near future. Logos now have a website at http:/www.logosnexus.com. Expect more free tracks of the week shortly; alternate versions of tracks you'll already have heard, plus others you won't have heard at all. We have a fair few outtakes from the Shamania sessions to share with you. We also recorded the fourth Logos album, Santa Susana Blues, over the summer. We'll be returning to this material later this year and giving it a final mix; we intend that there be nothing like the delay between recording and final mix this time round. Shamania took far too long, and the material we cut ended up being enough to fill an entire second album...

shamania

we're very pleased to be able to say that our third album shamania is now available. herewith the link where you can stream the entire album and download it:-

http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com/album/shamania

the final track listing:-

01. anodyne (18.50)
02. deepblue2519 (03.43)
03. unified field object (14.59)
04. hypoboy (13.33)
05. hypogirl (05.44)
06. bipolar binary (30.45)
07. shamania (18.09)
08. sidereal (13.40)
09. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (03.43)

that's just over two hours of music in all. for full details of all these tracks, please investigate the tags to the right. some of them have changed title - sometimes more than once. we'll update the previous posts on this blog to accomodate all these changes.

now that shamania is finally out, we'll be putting up another post shortly detailing what's next for logos so stay tuned for that.

santa susana blues

we've now finished a preliminary mix of our fourth album. this music has come together very quickly, all of it created between late june and late august 2012. the album title is santa susana blues. herewith the current track listing:-

01. something witchy
02. santa susana blues
03. hallways of always
04. come to now
05. hungry knife
06. where rivers ran upside down
07. coyotenoia
08. the devil's business
09. 23 years in the tombs you made
10. infinite soul
11. the last door

we've created an initial mix of the whole album, which runs to just under an hour. we intend to return to this project and finalise it following the release of our third album shamania at the end of this month.

coyotenoia

another new track for our forthcoming fourth album, coyotenoia was finalised on 31st august out of disparate elements created through july and august 2012.

23 years in the tombs you made

a further track for our fourth album.

hungry knife

another new track for our fourth album.

santa susana blues

a track for our forthcoming fourth album, finalised today though we've created several drafts and permutations of it since july.

logos news update august 2012

this news update is somewhat later than we'd anticipated; our apologies. a great many things have happened on planet logos since our last update.

our third album shamania is scheduled for release on 21st september 2012. herewith the final track listing:

01. anodyne (18.51)
02. deepblue2519 (3.44)
03. unified field object (15.00)
04. [+/-] (13.33)
05. hypogirl (5.45)
06. [-] (30.44)
07. shamania (18.15)
08. sidereal (21.30)
09. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (3.42)

this music was created between autumn  2010 and spring 2011, with the final mix in summer 2012.

we know we said that following the release of shamania we'd take a break from logos so that darren francis could focus on writing projects, but it hasn't worked out that way. over the last month we've created a substantial amount of new music for the fourth logos album, the title of which we can now reveal will likely be santa susana blues. we currently have about an hour's worth of music for this project, spread over a dozen tracks, which we're still shaping and adding to and dividing from. it'll be finished when it's finished. that said, we're certain the construction process won't be anywhere near as extended as shamania.

we also hope to have a couple of tracks coming out on compilation tracks soon; more news on those once they're confirmed.

for more logos news and info, see our blog at www.logosmusick.blogspot.co.uk, or www.logosnexus.com

infinite soul

another new track for our untitled fourth album.

shamania

our third album shamania is scheduled for release on 21st september 2012. herewith the track listing:

01. anodyne (18.51)
02. deepblue2519 (3.44)
03. unified field object (15.00)
04. [+/-] (13.33)
05. hypogirl (5.45)
06. [-] (30.44)
07. shamania (18.15)
08. sidereal (21.30)
09. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (3.42)

all tracks by alessa otto / darren francis. recorded summer 2010 - spring 2011, final mix summer 2012.

regular blog readers may notice that this is shorter than the last track listing we posted; we dropped two tracks as we felt the album flowed a lot better without them. we'll put them out in another medium at some point, possibly as free tracks of the week.

hallways of always

another track for our as-yet-untitled fourth album. this is based on a sound sketch we did back in june, but this version was finalised on 9th august 2012.

the fourth logos album

regular blog readers will be aware that we've been busy creating new music for our fourth album. the construction process for this one is slightly different to our previous three albums, in that we're working on multiple tracks simultaneously, shaping each against and in context with the others rather than singling them out and working on them track by track. that said, there are some which we would consider finished.

yes, we know we said that after shamania we'd be taking a break before working on another logos album, in order to focus on other projects, but these new sounds came in unbidden and the best thing to do is to follow them and see where they take us.

tracks in progress or complete include: something witchy, come to now, santa susana blues, the last door, hungry knife, coyotenoia, 23 years in the tombs you made, where rivers ran upside down, infinite soul, the devil's business, hallways of always. there is a clear theme to this album which we'll leave it up to you to guess.

the album doesn't yet have a title.

you can hear a sneak-peak of one of these tracks at our soundcloud page.

where rivers ran upside down

another track for logos album four.

something witchy

another track we'd consider pretty much complete and destined for our fourth album.

the devil's business

another track for our as-yet-untitled fourth album, created in one sitting on 30th july 2012.

note that although we've created quite a bit of new music recently, we've not listed everything track by track as we do it - as we did with our previous three albums - as our way of working on this album is rather differnet to how we've worked in the past. we're working on all tracks simultaneously, shaping each against and in context with the others. the few tracks we've listed here are the ones we'd deem 'complete' in their present form. of course, they may well change dramatically as we create other tracks. as before, we record this partly for our own benefit.

the last door

another track destined for our fourth album.

logos news update july 2012

since our last news update we've finished the mix of our third album shamania, which will be released as soon as we've fixed the artwork.


herewith the track listing (nearly two and a half hours of music in all):-


01. anodyne (18.51)

02. deepblue2519 (3.44)
03. [ / ] (14.59)
04. unified field object (15.00)
05. [ - / + ] (13.33)
06. [ - ] (30.44)
07. hypogirl (5.45)
08. shamania (18.15)
09. sidereal (21.30)
10. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (3.42)


we're also arranging cd editions of our three albums gehenna now, ascending a line in the sothis, and shamania. this will be after shamania is released. the shamania timings and track listing will differ to the digital version detailed above.


once shamania is released, darren francis will be taking a break from logos to concentrate on writing projects. this doesn't mean that logos will be put on hold; we'll still be putting out new free tracks of the week, the cd editions mentioned above, and working on tracks for our as-yet-untitled fourth album (which is already in progress). we also have tracks on at least one compilation album coming out this year; more details on those when we can release them.


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logos on cd

both our albums gehenna now and ascending a line in the sky to sothis will shortly be available on cd, for those of you who prefer a more physical, tactile medium to their music than downloadable files.

we'll also be making a rather different mix of our third album shamania available on cd in the near future. we say 'different mix' because the album is way too long to fit onto a single disc and rather than splitting it over multiple discs we'd rather reshape the music to fit one disc. this will be available after we've released the album for download.

sha-bleedin-mania

we've finished the mix of our third album shamania. we'll set a release date once we've finalised the artwork, which won't take long.

herewith the track listing:

01. anodyne (18.51)
02. deepblue2519 (3.44)
03. [ / ] (14.59)
04. unified field object (15.00)
05. [ - / + ] (13.33)
06. [ - ] (30.44)
07. hypogirl (5.45)
08. shamania (18.15)
09. sidereal (21.30)
10. tesseract [deepblue2519 reprise] (3.42)

at last! says the world, and we concur. many of these tracks are nigh two years old.

the more astute amongst you, and regular logos blog readers, will note that a number of tracks from these sessions don't appear in this final listing. we know. it changed a great deal, tracks added, tracks taken away, but this listing is the one that works best. we'll put out the remainder, free tracks of the week or elsewhere; one way or another you'll eventually get to hear them all.

[edit, 25 october 2012] we spoke too soon here; shamania was remixed quite a bit after we made this post...

come to now

a new track, created 9th june 2012, for an as-yet-untitled future album.

the shamania mix is almost done, and has taken far longer than we were expecting. we'll have more news on that album anon.

Logos News Update June 2012

though it may not seem that way, we've been busy at logos towers. we're still tinkering with the mix to our third album shamania, which we'll put out as soon as we're happy with it. we are also creating new music, and will let you hear some of our new tracks ere long.

you can hear some tracks from shamania at our soundcloud page here. we've also released two of those tracks as free tracks of the week which you can download here.

we recently created two mixes of the track the village at rest by the band uncertain (from their aether: musick for moths album, which you can hear - and download for free - here. we've also created several 'for the fun of it' unofficial coil mixes, which you can listen to (and download for free) at the same link.

we're very pleased to announce also that we have a track coming out on a compilation album shortly, and hope to be able to give you full details in our next update.