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Fans of Wire Magazine will have already spotted that the edit of this track is the first one on the free cover disc for April, The Wire Tapper 21. Taken from his forthcoming album Inscape, we are told that he uses “electronic and acoustic sound sources to suggest a tension between the industrial and natural worlds, inspired by the sight of a derelict factory being swallowed by forest in Hungary”.

Sounds a bit heavy and ambient all at the same time and in truth, as a fan of Robert Wyatt’s track ‘Pig’, I thought I’d better check out Logan’s ‘Pig’. Unsurprisingly it’s nothing like Wyatt’s but you’ll be as happy as the proverbial ‘in muck’ if you’re into minimal blippy with added field recordings. And talking of ‘muck’, ‘Swimming In Horse’ might be an edited title but it goes all b-boy atmospherics of the kind that Mary Anne Hobbs and Benji B favour. The classically trained Logan provides the nightmare soundscape backdrop for albums like Dorian Concept’s When Planets Explode and Harmonic 313’s When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence, particularly the tracks on the B-side that are deep on dub and bass.

As a quick aside, back at the Wire CD it also features a track by Barbara Morgenstern from her album BM that coincidentally features Mr. Wyatt on the track ‘Camouflage’ (you see how all this stuff comes together?)

Slowfoot records are not that prolific so you can guarantee when they do put out records, they are worth investigating like Crackle’s Heavy Water that came out last year and I’ll always remember buying Oren Marshall’s Introduction To The Story Of Spedy Sponda - Part One: In A Silent Room and being asked by the guy at the counter, “Just how many experimental tuba based CDs do you need?”. I still haven’t an answer to that one but more than happy to have some more Robert Logan.

Logan released his debut album Cognessence in 2007 when he was just nineteen years old and has collaboration credits with Sarah Sarhandi, Ivor Guest, Brian Eno and Tim Simenon on various projects. The new album is out on 6th April and there’s an album launch gig on Tuesday 31st March 2009 with Bass Clef and Gagarin (7.30pm @ 93 Feet East E1 London).

Reviewed: Robert Logan - Accurate Spit Boy (Slowfoot) Cat. No: SLP EP009 Release date: 23rd March 2009
Tracklisting:
A1 Accurate Spit Boy (3:31)
A2 Pigs (3:58)
A3 Swimming In Horse (5:43)
B1 Cranes (4:35)
B2 Cut By Concrete (7:22)

Links:
www.myspace.com/robertlogan
www.slowfoot.co.uk
The Wire 320 - April 2009 www.thewire.co.uk
93 Feet East -150 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL Tel:020 7247 3293 www.93feeteast.co.uk
Mary Ann Hobbs :: Wednesday 16th January 2008 :: ROBERT LOGAN MIX
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