Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist Logan Wedgwood returns with his instrumental outlet SOUNDS ESCAPE, to unleash his stunning new album ‘Electric Love’, a transportive journey through the powerful dynamics of sound, as demonstrated on ‘Exploding Stars’!
Sounds Escape is the brainchild of Logan Wedgwood, an Auckland-based multi-instrumentalist, father, husband and business owner who has turned his lifelong passion into an innovative musical project. A former touring drummer turned songwriter, Logan had been active in the music scene until 2009 when the band broke up, he felt the rug pulled out from under him. Add a young family to the mix, and drumming was sidelined.
Then the pandemic of 2020 pulled him back. Like many people, Logan struggled with the isolation and weight of uncertainty during this time: he needed a creative outlet. Picking up the guitar, he found salvation in the daily ritual of creating music and bringing the sounds in his head out into the world. Rough riffs became loops, layers, then full compositions. Slowly, Sounds Escape emerged. Combining storytelling with musicianship, Sounds Escape crafts immersive instrumental narratives that evoke powerful emotions. Sometimes it’s a single guitar line leading the way; sometimes it’s forty instruments stacked together. It’s always led by feeling – music that invites you to step inside and lose yourself. Whether it’s a late-night headphone listen, a rainy Sunday soundtrack, or the emotional undercurrent of a film scene, Sounds Escape offers tension and release, light and shade. Logan’s works are compositions more than songs, adventures more than arrangements – where listeners can find their own meaning and connection where they need it most.
‘Exploding Stars’ is the perfect starting point for any listener, as it captures the ambitiously rewarding style of Sounds Escape and ‘Electric Love’ within its runtime. ‘Exploding Stars’ is also only a small taste of what you can expect from ‘Electric Love’ overall, which is an absolute rollercoaster of rhythm, sound, and maybe most importantly, emotion. Instrumental music is a beautiful genre of music, and Sounds Escape is already a standout within that very style.
‘Exploding Stars’ and ‘Electric Love’ will be available via streaming platforms on December 1st!