Robert Logan
Inscape

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Slowfoot Records are proud to present the follow up to Robert Logan's acclaimed debut album "Cognessence". For his second album "Inscape" Logan brings us deeper into dark and brooding soundscapes, effortlessly conjured from an eclectic range of acoustic and electronic sources. Central to the album is the experience of stumbling on an abandoned factory that was becoming engulfed by forest in Hungary. This duel between nature and culture is played out in the tensions he sets up in his music, between the transcendent and the earthbound, the immense and the miniature.

The journey begins with "Angels and Insects", encapsulating the tensions of duality, its counterpart is the penultimate track "Inscape" which moves restlessly in search of its key centre - as if it were nearly impossible to express or even locate where our own 'Inscape' - our true identity or essence might lie. Between these ambitious poles the black humour of "Accurate Spit Boy" pulls us back into the absurdity of the everyday, "Ultraflux" is an urban walkabout through grit and grime. The closing track "Jehova Rapha" suggests that the after-image of our struggle to make sense of the times we live in, might indeed prove to be some sort of epiphany after all.

At just 21 years of age, Logan is a precocious talent. Championed last year by Mary-Anne Hobbs (who has been playing tracks from the new album on her BBC show), Logan's recent CV includes opening for Grace Jones at Massive Attack's Meltdown, co-writing the score for the Oscar winning documentary feature, "Taxi to the Darkside" and ongoing collaborations with the likes of Skye (Morcheeba), Snorkel and Brian Eno.