sidereal

another new track, which slipped out of its own accord in amongst our reworking of tracks for our debut album. sidereal is another 'drone'-style piece, in a similar vein to anodyne. first draft 18th august 2010, revision 4th september 2010.

every sound used in this track is taken from other logos tracks. maybe when we finally release the album sidereal appears on we'll run a competition; first person to guess the source of those sounds wins something special. what exactly? we're not sure yet. something good, though...

edit, 25th october 2012: the version of this track on shamania was re-worked quite substantially; this original mix was just over 20 minutes long, with subtle and numerous differences throughout.

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Edit, October 2010: We've taken the soundcloud audio files of here for the moment, since all the soundcloud files are out of date and we've not had time to re-load them; we'll put them back up once we've finished mixing the album.

mutable

new track. first draft done on 27th july 2010, finalised on 13th august 2010. another anodyne / inkling-style 'drone' track.

those curious about our musical sources may be interested to know that this entire track is derived from a sample which we also used on the track do you love?

update, 19th october 2010: please note that this track no longer exists as such (though we still have an mp3 of the preliminary version). it was re-structured, re-worked and re-named sunday to tuesday [no one calls] on 15th october 2010.

do you love?

new track, started on 4th august 2010 and finished on 6th august 2010.

you see how this two dates per track' thing works now? (the emotional and spiritual and whajamacallit essence - if you will - captured on one night, the sheen and presentability of the track looked into another night). sorry if that sound pretentious or flippant. as for do you love?... know that we like this track very much at the moment, but have little desire to listen to it. it harrows us to hell.

inkling

created on 26th july 2010 and 30th july 2010. this is another long 'drone' track in a similar style to anodyne (which you can now hear on our myspace page).

update, 4th november 2010: please note that this track no longer exists as such (though we still have an mp3 of the original version). it was re-structured, re-worked, and re-named thursday to wednesday [into the void] on 4th november 2010.

anodyne

another weekend, another new track. first draft july 15th, finalised - this draft at least - july 22nd.

know that the music we've made in july this year, the names we've given those tracks, and the dates on which we made them, are all significant. for reasons we don't care to explain. that's fine; if you know us personally, you'll get those resonances. if you don't, hopefully you'll still enjoy the music on its own merits.

to please the moon

another new track, and already one of our personal favourites. this was created more or less in its entirety on 15th july 2010, with some very minor tweaking on 16th july 2010. we'll put it online anon; it's very late here (nigh on 5am) and we're tired. there are a few more tracks, which we've been working on in the last couple of days; we'll let you know about them when they're done.

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.

coming forth by day / dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment]

we've recently completed two new tracks; dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment], and coming forth by day.

dunwich beach, september 2001 (a fragment) was begun on 4th july 2010 and finalised on 8th july 2010. as the name suggests, the final track is a much-distilled fragment of a longer original. we expect to re-work and finalise the full-length version at some point. as the name also suggests, there's an allusion to a similarly named brian eno track. dunwich beach does have a specific ratio for us, though, in particular dunwich beach in september 2001.



coming forth by day was begun on 9th july 2010, and finished on 12th july 2010. do we want to say any more? not specifically.

update

we've just re-jigged the playlists on our myspace, facebook, and reverbnation pages. we currently have 16 tracks in all, and each of them is now available to hear on at least one of those sites. we hope in future to maintain this (until we have too many tracks to render it feasible) so that different and unique playlists are available on each site, with every track available on at least one. we won't itemise it all here, except to say that we've just loaded versions of previously unposted tracks as follows; ice age to facebook, and a drastic edit of sun king (13'26" as opposed to the full 22'05") to myspace.

more tracks on their way.

sun king

we've just finished a new track, named sun king. we started this one last night - 17th june 2010 - and have worked on it further tonight, 18th june 2010. we'll upload a version and/or edit of it in due course. we say "version and/or edit" because the complete piece runs to 22 minutes 06 seconds.

if it seems that we are obsessive in recording the minutae of every track, of when it was recorded and when re-worked, know that we do so primarily for our benefit; so that we have an archive. we don't doubt that a few years from now looking back on the process will be interesting (for us at least) and as any true muso knows - and we are that if nothing else - being able to chart the exact moment a piece of music you love was bought into this world, its progress from first notion to final render and the mad chain that took it there, is fulfilling. as place to be, and as history, and as place to be therein.

ice age

another new track, completed 15th june 2010, though we've not put this one online yet.

sothis rising

another new track, this was done on 5th june 2010 with some (very) minor tinkering on 12th june 2010. we've just uploaded it to reverbnation if you want to listen.



edit, 14th may 2011: the version on ascending a line in the sky to sothis is so different to this original eight and a half minute mix we did back in june 2010 that we may well put the preliminary draft out as a logos free track of the week. you can still hear the essence of what this track became in there, but it's an entirely other - though crude and primitive - beast.

the opening of the mouth

we've just uploaded another track, the opening of the mouth. the bulk of this piece was done on 8th june 2010, with some minor tinkering on 11th june 2010.

you can hear this track on our myspace page; we're not uploading it to reverbnation due to its length (14.27; that being the ahem edited version...).

heaven can wait

we've just uploaded a new track, heaven can wait, which you can hear at our myspace, reverbnation and facebook pages (see previous post for links to save us having to repeat them all here).

this track was begun on the evening of 9th june 2010, and finished on 10th june 2010. thanks to marshall applewhite for the inspiration.

we have several other half-finished tracks which we'll upload when they're done; hopefully at least another one this weekend.

following logos

this post is intended to round up all the different logos pages across the internet so that you can follow us dependent on what pages you're signed up to. add us if you have accounts on any of these pages:

logos on myspace

logos on reverbnation

logos on twitter

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note that different selections of tracks will be available on different sites, depending on that site's parameters; for example myspace allow a maximum of ten tracks, so our favourite tracks will be found there. reverbnation has no limit to the number of tracks but allows files to be a maximum of 8mb, therefore our longer tracks won't be found there due to the fact that we'd have to render them at unsatisfactorily low bit-rates. facebook don't seem to have any limit other than a 15mb maximum file size, which should be ample for most purposes, but we're still finding our way round the vagaries of facebook. and so haven't been able to exploit it as much as we'd like and intend to (the rule as to which of our tracks you'll find on facebook generally being whichever ones we're able to load without getting 'unknown error'-type messages...).

manunkind

we've just uploaded a new track, manunkind.

this track was recorded over the evenings of 1st, 3rd and 4th june, and features text by e e cummings ('pity this busy monster, manunkind'), our favourite cummings poem.

hear it at our myspace, reverbnation, or facebook pages.

volo ergo sum

we've uploaded a new track, volo ergo sum, to our reverbnation, facebook and myspace pages.

this track was recorded on 21st may 2010, with some additional work on 22nd may 2010. the voice is taken from this youtube video from the botany 101 channel:


update, 11th june 2010: this video has since been removed by the uploader.

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conduit closing / tectonic states

we've uploaded two new tracks to our myspace page.

conduit closing was begun on 28th april 2010, with the finishing touches being done on 13th may 2010.

further explanation of this track's title can be found within this crop circle from august 2002.

the second new track is tectonic states; this track was crafted on 14th may 2010, and came about completely by accident; whilst working with samples intended for another (unfinished) track we stumbled upon these sounds, which took on a form of their own and demanded their own separate life. we do intend to revisit and re-shape this track before long.

note, 3rd July 2010 - tectonic states was formerly known as you are that; following the renaming, we have edited this post and the tags below

unified field object

another new track. again, we've uploaded this one to myspace but not to reverbnation due to its length.

the bulk of this track was done on the evening of 8th may 2010, with some re-sculpting on 10th may 2010.

those three bones

our latest track is now available to listen to on our myspace and reverbnation pages.

this track was recorded over the evenings of 6th and 7th may 2010, with some slight re-structuring on 8th may.

we have several other half-finished tracks we've been working on in the last week, which we'll finalise and put online 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 [ - / + ]