tag:logosnexus.com,2005:/blogs/201320132020-01-15T13:38:42-08:00Logosfalsetag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065522013-09-10T17:00:00-07:002013-09-11T15:58:29-07:00gehenna then
<p>since we set up this site, we've planned track-by-track breakdowns of our albums, with our thoughts and comments. herewith the first, a look back at our debut album <strong>gehenna now</strong>, released back in october 2010.</p>
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<p><strong>hollow hills of london</strong></p>
<p>this track was created on the evening of 23rd april 2010, and was one of the first ever <strong>logos</strong> tracks. it's also still one of our favourites. we've mentioned before on our blog that the name<strong> logos</strong> had been used by <strong>darren francis</strong> for previous musical projects; in particular an early incarnation of <strong>logos</strong> in the late 1990s. sonically this bore scant relation to the current <strong>logos</strong>, and very little was recorded back then; however, that <strong>logos</strong> did have a track named <strong>hollow hills of london</strong>. the two share nothing in common other than a title, though the words on the 2010 version are taken from another late-90s track, named <strong>faerie food</strong>.</p>
<p>the name <strong>faerie food</strong> is also a good clue as to what this track is about; contrary to conjecture, this track is not about oral sex. it's about taking mushrooms and lying on the side of a barrow in greenwich park on a balmy summer afternoon. why the train? ghost-memories of astral London burrowings, and of sliding subterranean to places that are only between.</p>
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<p><strong>everybody gets elves</strong></p>
<p>coincidentally another track about psychedelics; we certainly didn't intend that to be a theme of the album. <strong>everybody gets elves</strong> is another very early track, created on 24th and 25th april - the two days after <strong>hollow hills of london</strong>, in fact. it's probably one of our best-known and most-favoured tracks. it went through a great deal of subtle mixing and tweaking between then and the <strong>gehenna now</strong> release, but the final version is fundamentally the same as the april 2010 original. the voice, of course, is <strong>dr terence mckenna</strong>. this track also has its origins in a pre-<strong>logos</strong> <strong>darren francis</strong> project. we'd finished creating <strong>darren francis</strong>' spoken word with music album <strong>god thing</strong>, and were working on its (as yet unreleased; <strong>logos</strong> got in the way) follow-up. at the time <strong>df</strong> was still writing the text to go with it, so the work-in-progress music comprised long and sample-heavy instrumental tracks. one of these featured some <strong>mckenna</strong> samples and was named <strong>everybody gets elves</strong>. once we embarked on <strong>logos</strong> - indeed, spending time sculpting and listening to those long instrumental and sample-heavy tracks while <strong>df</strong> worked on the text was the inspiration and spur for <strong>logos</strong> - we borrowed the samples and title for a new track. incidentally, that original track was renamed <strong>furthur</strong>, <strong>df</strong> finished the text, and it now features entirely different music and not an ounce of <strong>mckenna</strong>. maybe one day soon <strong>df</strong> will get round to releasing it...</p>
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<p><strong>tectonic states</strong></p>
<p>when the planet moves beneath us it moves through and within us. this is reciprocal.</p>
<p>created on 14th may 2010, this track came about by accident; while working on a sample for another <strong>logos</strong> track (we forget which now - we also forget the source of the sample) we stumbled upon these sounds, which took on a form of their own and demanded a separate life. though we were much-pleased with it at the time it's now one of our less favourite tracks on the album. that said, somebody once told us it was their favourite <strong>gehenna now</strong> track, which shows how little we know about our own music.</p>
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<p><strong>those three bones</strong></p>
<p>the irony of<strong> jeffrey dahmer</strong> (for the sample is he) embracing personal responsibility with one hand and creationism with the other set the right tone for this track, which was created over the evenings of 6th, 7th and 8th may 2010. other voice samples - at least, the ones we can remember the sources of - include <strong>jim jones</strong>, <strong>george w bush</strong>, and <strong>abu musab al-zarqawi</strong>. walking the path to god, indeed.</p>
<p>the title <strong>those three bones</strong>, incidentally, refers to the ossicles, the three small bones in the human ear.</p>
<p>this track almost didn't make it to the final <strong>gehenna now</strong> track listing, simply because we could never get the mix quite how we wanted it. indeed, about half an hour before we released the finished album online, we pulled this track back for a quick mix-tweak. the mix still sounds weak, to us, and we know we could do it a lot better now - we really should remix it at some point.</p>
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<p><strong>heaven can wait</strong></p>
<p>speaking of walking the path to god.... created on the evenings of 9th and june 2010, this was one of those tracks that ended up sounding nothing like we'd intended when we started it or even when we were halfway through it. most of the samples, of course, concern <strong>heaven's gate</strong> and their escape from the spading under by riding out on hale-bopp's tail. for us, heaven can wait.</p>
<p>listening to this now - and this comment applies to other <strong>logos</strong> tracks - we hear sounds we don't remember putting in there.</p>
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<p><strong>gehenna now</strong></p>
<p>the first ever <strong>logos</strong> track, created on the evenings of 18th and 19th april. we still have a great fondness for this track, and not just because it was our first. we won't even begin to list the voice samples here; there are way too many, and we can't even remember the source of a fair few of them. rather than explain the title and how it relates to the knot of voices, we'd invite the listener to answer that for themselves.</p>
<p>we remixed this into a not dissimilar but condensed version, not long after the album's release, which was put out as a <strong>logos free track of the week</strong>; we sometimes prefer that mix.</p>
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<p><strong>volo ergo sum</strong></p>
<p>another early <strong>logos</strong> track, created on 21st and 22nd may 2010. the inspiration for this was <strong>bill hicks</strong>, a shining star in <strong>logos</strong>' firmament, and his 'where's all this shit going on?', outside there are only cicadas, news skit. the overlapping media babelogue was also informed by the <strong>darren francis</strong> track <strong>god, love, money and other snares</strong>, from <strong>god thing</strong>, which we'd created a few months beforehand (listen <a href="http://darrenfrancis.bandcamp.com/album/godthing" data-imported="1">here</a>).</p>
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<p><strong>dunwich beach, september 2001 [a fragment]</strong></p>
<p>created on 4th and 8th july 2010, making it not only the last track on the album but also the last to be 'recorded' (it never quite feels right to use that word in relation to our music, since almost every track is sample-based and very little actual recording is involved). as the name suggests, this track alludes to the <strong>brian eno</strong> track <strong>dunwich beach, autumn 1960</strong> from the <strong>on land</strong> album (an album we like very much, and highly recommend). why september 2001? because of a particular evening - and its ramifications - spent by <strong>darren francis </strong>and some friends on dunwich beach at that time.</p>
<p>as the title makes clear, this is a section of a much longer piece. the original ran to over an hour. this excerpt is from towards the beginning (a later section was re-worked for the track <strong>hey jim</strong>, which was intended for <strong>gehenna now</strong> but didn't make the final track listing). we did toy with putting the full version out as a <strong>free track of the week</strong>; we may yet do so. would anybody want it? even <em>we</em> struggle to get through the whole thing in one sitting...</p>
Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065532013-09-07T17:00:00-07:002013-09-07T21:08:02-07:00everybody gets elves remix
<p>our track <strong>everybody gets elves</strong>, from our first album <strong>gehenna now</strong>, has been remixed by our good friend <strong>jason oliver</strong>. we very much like this new version, which retains the spirit of the original while at the same time sounding nothing like it.</p>
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<p><strong>jason</strong>'s name may be familiar to some of you; he created the original images which became the cover art for <strong>gehenna now</strong> and our avatar beast. we hope to work further with him on<strong> logos</strong> projects in the future. </p>
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Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065512013-03-29T17:00:00-07:002013-04-09T06:29:58-07:00deep time
<p>another new <strong>logos </strong>track, created late march 2013, and destined for an as-yet-unspecified future album. we anticipate that a version will be available for free download before too long; we'll let you know the details anon.</p>
Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065502013-03-12T17:00:00-07:002013-03-13T08:47:00-07:00sacredly silver and equally gold
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/395488/52fdb5ed17afae9c5db0960b2920af63c213b1a0/original/sac.jpg/!!/b%3AWyJyZXNpemU6NDAweDM2MCJd.jpg" class="size_orig justify_right border_" alt="" height="360" width="400" />we're very pleased to announce the release of the album <strong>sacredly silver and equally gold</strong>. subtitled <strong>a sidereal tribute to coil</strong>, this is a three cd, 47 track compilation featuring tracks and artists inspired by <strong>coil</strong>. here you'll also find a version of the logos track <strong>sidereal</strong>, from our third album <strong>shamania</strong>.</p>
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<p>the tracks featured here range from <strong>coil</strong> covers to <strong>coil </strong>remixes to original music (<strong>logos</strong>' contribution being in the latter category). herewith the full list of artists appearing on this release (in alphabetical order): <strong>3 z 13</strong>, <strong>6 9 n&f</strong>, <strong>adam stalker</strong>, <strong>amnertia</strong>, <strong>basajaun</strong>, <strong>chibre</strong>, <strong>concrete/field</strong>, <strong>cubop</strong>, <strong>electric sewer age</strong>, <strong>falling feathers</strong>, <strong>the far queue</strong>, <strong>gerechtigkeits liga</strong>, <strong>human nihil</strong>,<strong> kalte rippchen</strong>, k <strong>makiri</strong>, <strong>kinder von nos</strong>, <strong>kristus kut</strong>, <strong>logos</strong>, <strong>loopool</strong>, <strong>luke lund</strong>,<strong> luna-soa</strong>, <strong>mesonoxian</strong>, <strong>noah nine</strong>, <strong>nos</strong>, <strong>the plague doctors</strong>, <strong>the psychogeographical commission</strong>, <strong>raskol'nikov</strong>, <strong>secret killer of names</strong>, <strong>shark egg blues</strong>, <strong>syphillis sauna</strong>,<strong> technicolour yawn</strong>, <strong>testing vault</strong>,<strong> tsidmz, zk</strong>. full details of all bands and tracks can be found <a href="http://www.club-nihil.com/coil/" data-imported="1">here</a>.</p>
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<p>please note that this release is limited to 300 copies, so if you want one you'd best get it quickly - you can order it from the <strong>elseproduct</strong> site <a href="http://www.elseproduct.com/catalog.html" data-imported="1">here</a>. there may or may not also be a digital release in the future; we're not sure yet.</p>
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<p>a note on the <strong>logos</strong> track that appears here: throughout much of the mixing of our <strong>shamania</strong> album, <strong>sidereal </strong>ran to over 20 minutes in length. we created a much shorter mix - at 13'40" - for inclusion on the <strong>sacredly silver...</strong> compilation, but due to time constraints on that album it had to be edited down a little. when finalising <strong>shamania</strong> we decided we prefered the 13'40" mix and ended up including that one on <strong>shamania</strong> instead of the long one. serendipitously, the album's subtitle '<strong>a sidereal tribute to coil</strong>' had already been decided upon, but not announced, before we submitted our track. we had originally planned to submit another track entirely, as an exclusive to this release - and not one you'll have heard before - titled <strong>the bones go last</strong>, which, rarely for a <strong>logos</strong> track, features vocals. unfortunately we were unable to get a mix we were happy with in time for the submission deadline. this track will surface at one point or another, in the future, as and when we can get it to sound as good as it sounds in our heads...</p>
Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065492013-03-05T16:00:00-08:002013-03-06T06:22:25-08:00logos news update march 2013
<p><strong> </strong>welcome to the latest <strong>logos</strong> news update.</p>
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<p>we've been busy of late finalisng the <strong>logos</strong> website, which we're happy to say is now online at <a href="http://www.logosnexus.com" data-imported="1">www.logosnexus.com</a>, so hop over and have a look. further content will follow in the comng weeks and months.</p>
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<p>we're also very happy to announce the release of the album <strong>sacredly silver and equally gold</strong>, a three-disc, 47-track compilation album featuring music inspired by the band <strong>coil</strong>. here you'll find a version of our track <strong>sidereal</strong>, from our third album <strong>shamania</strong>. this album is limited to 300 copies, so if you want one you'd best get it quickly, which you can do at <a href="http://www.elseproduct.com/catalog.html" data-imported="1">http://www.elseproduct.com/catalog.html</a>.<strong> </strong>there may or may not be a digital release, too; we're still awaiting confirmation.</p>
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<p>we're still working on the mix of our fourth album <strong>santa susana blues</strong> - a couple of in-progress mixes are available for free download on our website (<a href="/logos-downloads" data-imported="1" data-link-type="page">http://logosnexus.com/logos_downloads/</a>). we're adamant that this album mix won't take anywhere near as long as the last one did...</p>
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<p>of course, you can also follow us on <strong>twitter</strong> (<a href="http://twitter.com/logosuk" data-imported="1">http://twitter.com/logosuk</a>) and <strong>facebook</strong> for the latest on all things <strong>logos</strong>.</p>
Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065482013-02-16T16:00:00-08:002013-02-16T19:47:29-08:00the new logos blog
<p>we've now completed the mammoth task of migrating all the posts from our previous blogspot blog to this current one. this took a lot longer than we expected - there were 114 posts to transfer, which we did one at a time, though at least the exercise gave us the opportunity to tidy things up and, where appropriate, add comments and updates. we don't necessarily expect people to trawl through the whole thing in one sitting - though by all means knock yourself out if you want to - but it's invaluable to us as an archive of the <strong>logos</strong> history so far.</p>
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<p>now that's out of the way, and with it the creation of the <strong>logos</strong> website now finished, we can get on with new things. keep an eye on the website for news and developments as and when we're ready to reveal them.</p>
Logostag:logosnexus.com,2005:Post/61065472013-02-09T16:00:00-08:002013-02-10T08:02:52-08:00crepuscular
<p><strong>crepuscular</strong> is our most recent track, finalised on 10th february 2013.</p>
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<p>the bulk of this track was done back in october 2012, that version in turn being based on a very early (circa may 2010) 'sketch' mix we found on our hard drive while searching for a sample we wanted to use on a <strong>santa susana blues</strong> track. we'd forgotten it existed until we stumbled across it.</p>
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<p>please note that <strong>crepuscular </strong>bears no relation to the (unfinished) track of the same name we've mentioned previously in this blog, which was scheduled for our (also unfinished and now scrapped) album <strong>everything we ever were</strong>. the only thing the two tracks have in common is the title.</p>
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<p>we already have our next, post-<strong>santa susana blues</strong> album in mind, which will be something of a departure for <strong>logos</strong> in some respects, and <strong>crepuscular</strong> is currently scheduled to appear there.</p>
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