Robert Logan

Robert Logan

 
Robert Logan is an Emmy Award nominated composer, musician and producer. He has created multiple critically acclaimed solo albums, with the BBC calling him “a prodigy...showing a maturity and a musical/textural understanding that many simply never find” in their review of debut album Cognessence. His last full-length, Flesh was described as “a musical object so radical and daring it seems not to belong to this time.” His film credits include, with Ivor Guest, music for Alex Gibney’s Oscar winning Taxi to the Dark Side, the Oscar-nominated Semper Fi: Always Faithful and multiple Prime Time Emmy Award winning Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, among many others. He has collaborated musically with Grace Jones, Brian Eno, Ivor Guest, Steve Roach, Brigitte Fontaine, Morcheeba and Andy Knight. His live work includes performances at The Royal Festival Hall, The Royal Albert Hall, and Glastonbury. Alongside composition and sound design work for film, media, installations and apps, he is also regularly called upon as a synthesist and pianist in a wide variety of contexts and musical styles.   


SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/robert-logan

Discography [solo albums and EPs]
  • Cognessence [2007, Slowfoot Records] (BBC review also states: “There is a rigorous standard to the programming that exerts an incredible sense of control yet allows real feelings to germinate and blossom in the listener.”DJ magazine wrote: “The essential last word in electronic soundscapes.")
  • Grinder E.P [2008, Slowfoot Records] (Mary Anne Hobbs from BBC Radio 1: “…absolutely outstanding…impossible to quantify.”)
  • The Sublime 2CD [2008, Hypnos Records, released under Sense Project pseudonym] ("...The Sublime is just that, a two-disc set of spiritualized dream tonics carping from beatless industrialisms, early Tangerine Dream initializations, and Eno-esque minimalese that so transcends its antecedents it ends up sounding nothing like them." [Signal to Noise Magazine])
  • Inscape [2009, Slowfoot Records] (The Wire writes: "Robert Logan's music is assured, airbrushed, solidly built and cockily inclusive, gathering Old Skool rhythmic science, technoid shivers and Gothic interludes into its inky, brooding embrace.")
  • Accurate Spit Boy E.P [2009, Slowfoot Records] (Boomkat.com: “Robert follows his inquisitively improvisational and experimental ear into highly accomplished and complex soundscapes.”)
  • Extasis E.P [2015, Slowfoot Records] (Sound Colour Vibration's review: "The music on this record is stunning.")
  • Flesh [2015, Slowfoot Records] (DJ Magazine writes: "The album veers between mutant dubstep [Viker Raver] and sledgehammer techno [Straighten], heading into otherworldly, blissed-out opiate moments via analogue alien oddness. Typical of any really good trip, it's really difficult to define. 9/10.")
  • Flesh Decomposed [2016, Slowfoot Records] (Nowa Musyka in their review: "Flesh Decomposed is perhaps his best work to date. This flesh might be decomposed, but it still tastes exquisite...")
  • Pop E.P [2016, Slowfoot Records] (Igloo Magazine writes: "Logan’s latest is the Pop EP released on Slowfoot—yet another solid addition to his already impressive catalog. Don’t let the title misguide you. This isn’t Logan’s sellout work. This is a foray into new territory...")
  • Sculptor Galaxy [2017, Projekt Records] (Exposé Online: “The entirety of the disc takes the explorative route in lieu of the predictable, and for that I’m calling Sculptor Galaxy one of the best electronic based releases of 2017. Find a copy before it disappears.”
  • You, Me [2022 E.P] (Exposé Online: “With You, Me one can find something well beyond the usual electronic fare.”)
     
More releases & collaborative albums:
  • Biosonic [2016 collaborative album with Steve Roach] (The Answer Is In The Beat wrote: “It’s really dense, really involved, and absolutely incredible...like being in a giant warehouse full of machines, and every one of them is doing something different.”)
  • Second Nature [2016 collaborative album with Steve Roach] (Progarchives review: “...The album grows in power and presence with every listen, gradually revealing so many understated little layers and the most deeply personal reflections. While it's hardly easy listening, `Second Nature' is truly an exercise in darkly exquisite sophistication.”)
  • Proto Lexicon, an ongoing collaboration with conceptual artist Kristina Buch. A part of this has been a residency at Akademie der Künste:  https://www.adk.de/en/academy/young-academy/berlin-fellowship/2021/KristinaBuch_RobertLogan_en.htm
  • Various albums of a different nature under the pseudonym Firehand: https://firehandmusic.bandcamp.com/music
     
Soundtrack Work:
  • Composer [with Ivor Guest] for Alex Gibney’s Oscar Award-winning documentary feature Taxi To The Darkside (2008)
  • Composer [with Ivor Guest] for Oscar-nominated documentary feature Semper Fi:  Always Faithful (2011)
  • Composer for  Good Morning Karachi (2012)
  • Composer [with Ivor Guest] for award-winning HBO documentary Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.  [Nominated for an Emmy Award for this soundtrack.] (2013)
  • Composer for Khaemae Mein Matt Jhankain (2015)
  • Composer for award-winning feature documentary God Knows Where I Am (2017)
  • Composer [with Ivor Guest] for Alex Gibney documentary feature Citizen K (2019)
  • Composer [with Ivor Guest] for HBO documentary series Agents of Chaos (2020)
  • Composer [with Sunny Levine] for HBO feature documentary a.k.a Mr Chow (2022)
  • Composer for An Orange from Jaffa (2023). This film was awarded the International Grand Prix at the 46th Clermont-Ferrand. 
  • Composer for Vice/Fightland documentary short Kid Yamaka (2015) and various other short films.
  • Composed ambient soundscape 'Stillness at the Speed of Light' for the Grace Jones exhibition by Chris Levine (held at the Vinyl Factory)
  • Created sound design and music for various TV adverts, short films, animations, apps & other related media
  • Created library music for BMG + others. Tracks from solo albums synced to BBC and Channel 4 dramas (eg. Top Boy and Glasgow Girls)
  • Other music created for theatre, ballet & installations (including collaborations with Kristina Buch, Non Zero One, Chantry Dance Company and Natalie Su Company.)
     
     

     

Music for other artists & more collaborative releases:
  • Keyboards/programming/atmospheres for Grace's album Hurricane [Wall of Sound / PIAS Recordings, 2008], Grace Jone's live show, Hurricane Dub and also Grace Jones' forthcoming album [release TBC.]
  • Keyboards/programming/atmospheres for Brigitte Fontaine's Prohibition [2009, Polydor]  and L'un n'empeche pas l'autre [2011, Polydor]
  • Additional production on Morcheeba album Blaze Away [2018]
  • Synthesizer & other elements on John Grant album The Art of the Lie [2024, Bella Union]
  • Producer for Skye Edward's fourth solo album In a Low Light [2015] and contributor to her third album Keeping Secrets [2009]
  • String arrangements and synthesizers for album Skye|Ross [Morcheeba's 2016 iteration]
  • Two collaborative releases with pioneering twice-Grammy nominated artist Steve Roach & contributions to his 2019 album Trance Archeology
  • Two collaborative releases with acclaimed solo bassist Steve Lawson – Pulse and The Circle [both released 2018]
  • Keyboards on Solid Air from double album Johnny Boy Would Love This: A Tribute to John Martyn [2011, Hole in the Rain Music]
  • [Video game & soundtrack composer] Siddhartha Barnhoorn & Robert Logan project - Cosmos Unfolding
  • Production on two tracks from Lucy Grimble album Between the Shadow and the Sun [2023, Integrity Music] 
  • Producer & pianist on soul/jazz band Bassistry's album What the Hell Do You Call This? [2015] & work on Bassistry Music educational/media activities.
  • Also have created music with Brian Eno, Ivor Guest, FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey, Eska, Philip Sheppard, Leo Abrahams, Dave Okumu, Sarah Sarhandi, Andy Knight, Frank Byng, Bass Clef, Red Snapper, Grig Cuciuc, EA Matthews, Alessi's Ark, Ben Cowen, Natasha England, Andrea Black, etc.
  • Teaching music production, improvisation and keyboard skills.
  • Collaborative E.P with Raf and O, Sonnet 62 / Ink
  • Sleep Music
  • Robot Log-on?
Various other collaborations and releases, including remixes for Hello Skinny, Siobhan Donaghy, Grace Jones, Slovo and Red Snapper. Also, various therapies for sleep and tinnitus released on apps and elsewhere.
Some releases above accompanied by various radio launches and mixes, including exclusive mix and interview for the Mary Anne Hobbs Show on BBC Radio 1 and album launch premiers on Soma FM.
 

There’s a tension zone really engaging music occupies - the delicate but tough, tight but loose, deep but not overworked, extreme sounding but not harsh on ears etc. paradox. That holding of the space between seemingly impossible sonic opposites is what I love most in music. 


Sample of Live Performances:
  • Meltdown Festival at the Royal Festival Hall
  • Supported Grace Jones at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Glade tent at Glastonbury
  • Nowa Musyka Festival, Poland
  • Album launches at venues like Under the Bridge, Cafe Oto, Birthdays, Electrowerkz, The Dogstar
  • Produced new format live performance for Grace Jones in light of the release of her documentary 'Bloodlight and Bami'. Premiered this live with her at The Times Centre, New York (2018)
  • Ealing Jazz Festival headline act (with Bassistry) 
  • Venn Festival, Bristol
  • 'Music on the Wind' reconciliation tour in Palestine and Israel, on piano with violin soloist Griga Cuciuc
  • Sonic Boom, Coventry
  • Retrofest with Natasha England
  • Phono Festival in Denmark
 
Selection of interviews:

- Two and a Half Questions with Robert Logan
- Interview with Pink Wafer Magazine
- Igloo Magazine Interview
- Athens Voice interview
- In the studio with Projekt's Robert Logan
 

 

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