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Robert Logan — Regenesis
(Bandcamp Evel Records no#, 2025, DL)

by Peter Thelen, Published 2026-01-12

Regenesis Cover art

Having only recently — well, early last year — reviewed Logan’s album Brutalist, we have his latest, Regenesis, released only about five months later; in fact the material has been created over a number of years. The twelve tracks at hand go far in underscoring that Logan’s creations are in a constant state of evolution, that in addition to their mysterious nature, seem to be seeking a juncture between sound sculpture and melodic order, between ancient visions and science fiction, a path forward into a future unknown or a reference to some ancient past that’s just outside the reach of full comprehension. A casual listen won’t reveal the mechanics of how these sound sculptures were created, yet many of the signatures of any other musical endeavors are present, like cadence, melody, shadow, meter, light, emotion, and dynamics, but don’t expect any ordinary guidance from them, as they can exist in strange ways that are well beyond familiarity. The listener might determine that one minute they are crawling around on some factory floor surrounded by whirring machines, spinning magnetos, and shifting chaotic portals, then only seconds later be in some familiar place of gentle emotional warmth and colorful melodic beauty, it’s always changing and surprising, never the same and always mysterious. The strange mechanical cadence of a track like “Children of Rust” builds while in the background blasts of tonal color and ambient sonic beauty exist alongside synth squeaks and hints of impending chaos, while “Radiant Machines” combines a curious percussive melodic soundloop and various swirling background ambient sounds rushing at the listener all at once with plenty of incidental sonic events happening across its duration. “Spectra” opens with a masterful play of colors and shadows as the background shimmers with odd metallic sounds and brutal low end ferocity — there’s not a lot of order, yet it piques the curiosity — while the mysterious “Clouds Fade” features a growling cadence and splashes of tonal color amid some strange spheres floating in the background and even some faint voices can be heard, or imagined? Regenesis is a most curious assemblage of carefully sculpted sounds, and nothing like anything one is likely to have encountered previously.

Filed under: New releases, 2025 releases

Related artist(s): Robert Logan / Firehand

More info
http://evel.bandcamp.com/album/regenesis

 

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