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.

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...

gehenna now

our album gehenna now is now available. go to http://logosnexus.bandcamp.com/album/gehenna-now to listen to the album in its entirety and - if you fancy - download.

track listing as follows:

1. hollow hills of london
2. everybody gets elves
3. tectonic states
4. those three bones
5. heaven can wait
6. gehenna now
7. volo ergo sum
8. dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment]

all tracks by logos. alessa otto: everything. darren francis: everything else, and voice on hollow hills of london.

all tracks recorded at dfl studios, aylesbury, bucks, spring and summer 2010. cover design by darren francis, sun artwork by jason oliver. this album is dedicated to debb, there until the final cut x

gehenna now update

we've now finalised (honestly, this time....) the track listing for our gehenna now album, as follows:

1. hollow hills of london
2. everybody gets elves
3. tectonic states
4. those three bones
5. heaven can wait
6. gehenna now
7. volo ergo sum
8. dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment]

total running time is a little under 1 hour 20 minutes.

we need to do some final mixing/tweaking to a couple of the tracks, then it's done, at which point we'll post a link where you can listen to the whole album online and - should you desire - buy a copy. initially it'll be a digital release only (your choice of file format) but we'll make cd copies available before long too, for those who prefer a more tactile medium for their music.

news update

a great deal has happened on planet logos since our last update. we're finalising the track listing for our first album, and re-working those chosen tracks. it's currently (1) hollow hills of london, (2) everybody gets elves, (3) heaven can wait, (4) gehenna now, (5) volo ergo sum, (6) tectonic states, (7) manunkind, and (8) dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment]. it may be different a few days or weeks or seconds hence, mutable until we've got a play-list that'll fit onto a single disk. as well as re-working those tracks, we're also working on some new music and expect to have some new tracks for you all to hear very shortly.

we now have a profile at soundcloud - http://www.soundcloud.com/logosuk. amongst other things, this allows us to place player files for individual tracks wherever we want and we've started by posting all our soundcloud tracks directly on this blog. you'll see them all to the right of this post. this allows you to listen to our tracks without needing to navigate away from this page. note that all the tracks we've posted on soundcloud so far are re-worked and re-mixed versions of older tracks. give them a listen.

it never ceases to amuse us; four months ago we'd never made music, started doing this by accident and people seem to much-like what we do and - some of the time - we much-like what we do. sliding each which way by day by day, from an intellectual folly to a pill-count to a sound stage to a drunk diversion to something in which we can lose ourselves to an emotional black hole. all just grist for the mill.

* Edit, October 2010: We've taken the soundcloud audio files of here for the moment, since all the soundcloud files are out of date and we've not had time to re-load them; we'll put them back up once we've finished mixing the album.

album

herewith the provisional track listing for the first logos album:

1. those three bones 2. canticle 3. heaven can wait 4. gehenna now 5. volo ergo sum 6. manunkind 7. ice age

we intend to start re-working and finalising these tracks shortly. this listing may be subject to change, especially if we can fit more tracks on. if a particular favourite track of yours is not included therein, don't worry; we've also outlined provisional track listings for another few albums, with tracks being arranged or sequenced thematically and by personal association. for example, the second and third track listings are currently as follows:

1. hollow hills of london 2. everybody gets elves 3. enoch's ladder 4. black helicopters over highgate 5. tectonic states 6. hymn to pan 7. dunwich beach, september 2001 (a fragment)

1. sophis rising 2. to please the moon 3. sun king 4. do you love? 5. the opening of the mouth 6. sophis setting

yes, you won't have heard of some of those tracks as we've not yet finished them.

more news anon.

enoch's ladder

we've uploaded a new track, enoch's ladder, to our myspace page. we've not put this on the reverbnation page as due to its length we'd have had to render it at an unsatisfactorily low bit-rate (reverbnation allows files to be a maximum of 8mb).

we started this track late on the evening of 29th april 2010, but the bulk of it was done on the evening on 30th april. on the same evening we also re-worked the track gehenna now slightly; you can hear the new version of that on both reverbnation and myspace pages.

update, 22nd december 2010: we have since scrapped this track. all elements have been recycled elsewhere (with the exception of the crowley sample), in the shamania tracks [ + ] and [ - / + ]

logos

logos in its current incarnation was founded in aylesbury, bucks, april 2010, though the name has been used by darren francis for musical projects for some years.

we have recorded three tracks so far: gehenna now (18th-19th april), canticle (21st-22nd april), and hollow hills of london (23rd april). more tracks are on their way.

find us on myspace at: www.myspace.com/logosmusick

and on reverbnation at: www.reverbnation.com/logosmusick

live appearances are unlikley for the moment.