Logos Works

Track Listings

1. Shifts

2. Man-Mo

3. Jonas

4. ShSh

5. Fuga Memento

6. AlviCeba

7. Fuga Otto Nove

8. Spring '94

Editorial Reviews
The Darwin Star, Australia
Logos Duo are one of Europe's leading ensembles for avant-garde music, multi-media performance and improvisation.

New York Tribune
The duo has a rugged individualism which give it a distinct American flavor absent from most European modernists.

Album Description
Within the international experimental music scene the Logos Duo [Moniek Darge and Godfried-Willem Raes] has occupied for various years, a prominent and, in many ways, unique place. Versatility and commitment are, perhaps, the terms which most readily come to one's mind should one try to characterize briefly the[ir] activities. The Duo have realized a rich musical vision in many places. With Man-Mo and ShSh, Moniek explores our mythic connection to the idea of place: these are aural voyages from temples—out and back—through different soundscapes. The transcendence of a space is intimated through a juxtaposition of ambient recordings and musical articulation—in fleeting, lyric moments. The subtle nuances and delicate interplay of timbres and rhythms in Man-Mo and ShSh are an insight into the many years of collaboration between Moniek and Godfried in improvisatory music. Here we are drawn into a richly layered and quietly exotic place where, like creating images from cloud formations, we seek our own associations—moulded by sound. Gongs and bells bring us back, like a gentle mantra, to the resonant space of the temple. In The Fugue Books, the point of departure is Flemish polyphony. Godfried's approach to the gentle art of the fugue is a remarkable odyssey into the design of a unique fugue composing computer program. The expert system is a tetralogy covering the varied aspects of object-analysis, composing, performing and notation. This CD from Godfried-Willem Raes and Moniek Darge is both a literal and figurative journey; in sound and music we have the Yin-Yang energy that is the Logos Duo.

Logos Works

Tracks:

Shifts
Man-Mo
Jonas
ShSh
Fuga Memento
AlviCeba
Fuga Otto Nove
Spring '94

Album Description

Within the international experimental music scene the Logos Duo [Moniek Darge and Godfried-Willem Raes] has occupied for various years, a prominent and, in many ways, unique place. Versatility and commitment are, perhaps, the terms which most readily come to one's mind should one try to characterize briefly the[ir] activities. The Duo have realized a rich musical vision in many places. With Man-Mo and ShSh, Moniek explores our mythic connection to the idea of place: these are aural voyages from temples—out and back—through different soundscapes. The transcendence of a space is intimated through a juxtaposition of ambient recordings and musical articulation—in fleeting, lyric moments. The subtle nuances and delicate interplay of timbres and rhythms in Man-Mo and ShSh are an insight into the many years of collaboration between Moniek and Godfried in improvisatory music. Here we are drawn into a richly layered and quietly exotic place where, like creating images from cloud formations, we seek our own associations—moulded by sound. Gongs and bells bring us back, like a gentle mantra, to the resonant space of the temple. In The Fugue Books, the point of departure is Flemish polyphony. Godfried's approach to the gentle art of the fugue is a remarkable odyssey into the design of a unique fugue composing computer program. The expert system is a tetralogy covering the varied aspects of object-analysis, composing, performing and notation. This CD from Godfried-Willem Raes and Moniek Darge is both a literal and figurative journey; in sound and music we have the Yin-Yang energy that is the Logos Duo.

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