Essential Logic

Susan Whitby was 15 years old and had been playing saxophone for a little more than six months when she joined her friend Poly Styrene and formed the English punk band X-Ray Spex. At this juncture, Whitby renamed herself Lora Logic.

Having arranged all the sax parts for the first album, Germ Free Adolescents, Lora was unceremoniously booted out of the band for supposedly stealing the show. Turning her back on the music business, sad and disillusioned, Lora was accepted into St. Martins Art School where she was soon to be found by Jeff Mann of Cells Records to record her own material.

Grabbing Rich Tea, bassist Tim Wright, and guitarist Stuart Action, Lora headed for the Regents Park recording studios to throw down “Aerosol Burns” and a spontaneous reggae sax duet called “World Friction”. Propelled back into the music world, X-Ray Spex manager Falcon Stuart secured an outlet for the first Essential Logic EP called Wake Up, with Virgin Records, released in 1979.

After an almost twenty year hiatus, in May 2019 Lora met Jorge Morales, an Argentinian one-man band. Sensing that nothing is an accident, they launched into sketching out a new album with the working title Fallible Soldiers. In November of 2022, Land Of Kali was released – the first Essential Logic album in about 43 years.