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.

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.

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.


don't forget to follow us on ffacebook, twitter, myspace, for the latest logos news and information.

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.

logos free track of the week # 15

our latest free track of the week is deepblue2519, from our forthcoming third album shamania. listen - and download - here.

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...

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.

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.

logos free track of the week # 12

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

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).

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.

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

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 [ - / + ]

db00215

another new shamania track, db00215 was created on the evening of 22nd december 2010, with some reshaping and remixing on 30th december 2010.

edit, 25th october 2012: this track was cut from the final track listing of shamania. it remains unreleased.

[ + ]

another new shamania track. its difficult to pin this track's date precisely; the foundation is taken from the track enoch's ladder (which we have now scrapped), but it was finalised in this version on 11th december 2010. in early december 2010 there were one or two other tentative drafts, but we don't have a record of the dates. no matter.

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.