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.

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.

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.

shamania

01. anodyne
02. [ / ]
03. db00215
04. [- / + ]
05. fire in the mind
06. [ - ]
07. anhedoniac
08. [ + ]
09. [ # ]
10. hypoboy
11. hypogirl
12. shamania
13. bipolar binary

due to the duration of some of these tracks, this will be - at least - a double CD-length album.

anhedoniac

more shamania, created on the evenings of 23rd and 24th november 2010.

this track recycles many elements of the porpoise principle - as such, consider that track now scrapped. it was something of an orphan anyway, created for ascending a line in the sky to sothis but we could never find a satisfactory way to slot it into the track listing for that album and it's been adrift since then. no matter; a home has been found here.

edit, 25th october 2012: this was cut from the final track listing of shamania as we didn't feel that it fitted with the flow of the album though we did put a version of it out as a free track of the week.

the porpoise principle

new track. we did the first version of this back on 12th september 2010, and have re-crafted it tonight.

what is 'the porpoise principle' exactly, you may be wondering? wait and see once we stick the track online (as we said in our last post, once the album is done with we'll re-work all our online playlists). it amused us, anyway.

edit, 24th november 2010: we have now scrapped this track since most elements of it have been recycled for anhedoniac.

the porpoise principle was originally intended for our album ascending a line in the sky for sothis - and would have slotted between to please the moon and sun king. no matter; in anhedoniac it now has a home, albeit a rather different one and in rather different form to that originally intended. we do still have the original, however, and may bung it out at some point in future for your entertainment.

edit, 14th may 2011: in our finalising the ascending a line in the sky to sothis album mix, we put this track back in. we'd originally omitted it because including it made the album too long (we use the maximum 80 minutes guideline for the length of an album, i.e. how much would fit on a single cd) but since the final mix of the track sothis rising ended up much shorter than the preliminary version - less than a minute and a half compared to the eight and a half original - we could slot the porpoise principle back in where it belongs.