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.

logos on soundcloud (slight return)

we've massively revised our soundcloud profile - and with a new url - to include both our gehenna now and ascending a line in the sky to sothis albums in their entirety, along with a selection of tracks from our forthcoming shamania album and miscellaneous other tracks which don't feature on any of our albums. we've also created a custom playlist - uneasy listening - which we feel presents a good overview of, and introduction to, our music.

link here - http://soundcloud.com/logosuk

of course, to download our albums please go to our bandcamp page - http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com

please note that this is a different url to the one presented in the previous post. we didn't realise we'd already set up a soundcloud profile a year or two back, which means we now have two profiles over there...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 [ - / + ]

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...

news update

things have been rather quiet on planet logos this month - publicly at least. aside from our being busy with personal (non-musical) concerns, we're finalising the mix of our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis, which we intend to have out by the end of this month. we're also about to release our second logos free track of the week, which will be an alternate - and much-shorter - version of hollow hills of london. more news on both of these very shortly.

[ - / + ]

another new shamania track, created on the evenings of 30th november and 2nd december*. we think shamania is shaping up to be our favourite logos album.

we'll be finalising the ascending a line in the sky to sothis mix this month, and hope to have that completed and released by the end of the year.

edit, 25th october 2012: this track was re-named hypoboy for the final shamania mix.


* although this track appears in the shamania track listing we gave in an earlier post, at that stage we only had a preliminary mental sketch of it and hadn't actually created it. the same applies for several other tracks in that listing.

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.

fire in the mind

we mentioned in an earlier post (on 28th september) that we'd renamed the track fire in the mind (to the looming tower) because we wanted to use that name for another track we had planned.

that track - the new fire in the mind - is now done, finished late into last night, and is set for our fourth album shamania.

creating new tracks with more than one project in mind, switching between them as we go, isn't new for us. ascending a line in the sky for sothis was all created at the same time as we were working on gehenna now, as were a number of other tracks which we don't have a home for yet. it's just the way we do things. the shamania and everything we ever were tracks are very different in style and what we work on depends which way our mood takes us on a particular evening.

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. it remains unreleased.

friends

another newbie track, friends is destined - in its jejune way - for everything we ever were.

created tonight, 17th november 2010, seeds sown in sound-sketches from the past few days. it needs a further tinker, which we'll do the next time there is sleep that won't come and walls that need to be bounced off of.

our latest tracks, we should say, follow one of two paths. there are those bound for album three, everything we ever were - which are pert and pertinent - and those intended for the album which will come after. which we're not even sure constitute 'music' in any sense of the word. the themes of that (planned, still mutant, still doodling) album are bipolarity, creativity, medication, hypomania, anhedonia, on top of the world looking down on creation. that album will be called shamania.

in the meantime, we're also working on the ascending a line in the sky to sothis mix. we still intend to have that completed by the end of the year; watch this space.

ascending a line in the sky to sothis

herewith, as promised, details of our second album ascending a line in the sky to sothis, which will hopefully release next month if we finish the mix by then. at the bottom of this post you'll find the cover art, which is by our friend debb rooken-smith and which we like very much.

current track listing:

1. sothis rising (8.12)
2. to please the moon (10.13)
3. sun king (22.05)
4. do you love? (9.11)
5. the opening of the mouth (18.28)
6. coming forth by day (9.45)
(total time: 1:17:51)

timings are approximate until we finish the mix, but we doubt they'll vary much. all tracks were created between june and august of this year (at the same time as we were working on the gehenna now material). you can hear preliminary versions of some tracks on our myspace page.

why sothis? and why so sirius? those of you who know what sothis means, and dog-days, and their significance to darren francis, shouldn't have to ask.

23 seconds ov time

we're very pleased to announce that we have a track on the forthcoming compilation album 23 seconds ov time. full details here:

http://www.ain23.com/23sot/

the track is a 23 second (yes, you did read that correctly) version of do you love? from our forthcoming second album, ascending a line in the sky to sothis. we'll be posting more details on that once gehenna now is released; we expect to have ascending a line in the sky to sothis out before too long. all tracks are recorded, we just need to finish mixing them.

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.