I came to realise that I have had many tracks spread across compilations over the last 25 years, so I wanted to gather some of them together before the cds rotted and it became harder to source the audio.
Therefore, I present ‘Unusual Phenomena’ for your listening pleasure.
My new double CD set is now available from my Bandcamp site. If you purchase the CD’s or album download from there, you also get a set of live photo’s of the S.E.T.I. performance, taken by Yukari, at the Wroclaw Industrial Festival 2019.
For anyone who is interested in which audio tools I use, here is a big list.
Hardware
Synths
Novation Circuit Mono Station
Weevil
Mute Synth 1
Nebulophone
Shruthi
Noise Toy
Drum Machines/sequencers
Arturia KeyStep
Novation Circuit
Korg Es-1 Drum Sampler
Effects
Eoten B – glitch/fuzz/ring mod
Koma BD-101 delay
T-Resonator II
Zoom MS CDR70 Reverb/Delay/Chorus
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Software
Metasynth 5
Reason 10
Ableton Live 9
Reaktor 6
Tracktion
Audacity
Izotope plug-in set
A shedload of AU and VST plug-ins.
iPad applications
Effects
iDensity
Shaper
Eos 2
Harmony Eight
Replicant 2
FuzzPlus3
Utilities
AudioShare
AUM (MIDI and audio recording environment and host)
Atom (MIDI Sequencer)
Fugue Machine (MIDI Sequencer)
Instruments
iMS-20 (synth/drum machine/sequencer)
SECTOR (musical microworld)
Photophore (swarm based synth)
Patterning 1 & 2 (drum machine/sequencer)
dot Melody (freaky sequenced instruments)
Samplr (musical microworld)
iSpark (drum machine)
Bebot (!)
Ribbons (synth)
BeatMaker3 (drum machine/sequencer)
Tera Synth (synth)
SoundScaper (musical microworld)
Jasuto (musical microworld)
Borderlands (musical microworld)
Poly (freaky sequenced instruments)
Ripplemaker (synth)
Ruismaker (drum machine)
Mononoke (synth)
Model D (synth)
Thanks to @fransdewaard for the great (and understanding) review 🙂
LAGOWSKI – SECRETS OF NUMBERS (CD by Zoharum)
‘As I am playing this new release by Andrew Lagowski I am thinking when I became first aware of his music. I may have missed out on the knowledge that he was one half of Nagamatzu when I first heard them…..’
Read the rest at http://www.vitalweekly.net/1234.html
You can hear a preview of CreepOhmski from my new album ‘Secrets of Numbers’ at the Vitalweekly Mixcloud link below.
On June 5th there will be two new releases – S.E.T.I.’s ‘The Sphere of Density’ CD on the Polish Zoharum label and Lagowski’s ‘Offshore’ collection via Bandcamp.
‘Sphere of Density’ is a double CD – one studio set and one live at the XVIII WROCŁAW INDUSTRIAL FESTIVAL.
About ‘Offshore’
The photo was taken in Yokohama, Japan as we were descending on the escalator. It often occurs to me that it’s possible to make music even when you’re not sitting in your home ‘studio’, whatever that may be comprised of.
Many of the tracks on ‘Offshore’ were recorded using a 5th generation iPad in AUM. Some then had overdubs in Ableton Live 9 (DAW) with Reason 10 synths. A couple were made on the Novation Circuit, with added Reason 10 synths.
I will have copies of the S.E.T.I. CD in a few weeks, but of course, you can get them from https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/ earlier in June if you wish.
Lagowski ‘Offshore’
S.E.T.I. ‘The Sphere of Density’
Thank you to Push and the gang at Electronic Sound Magazine for getting this review in at the last minute!
This collection (the second in my occasional drone series) features a Bumblebee, a Shamisen, a Nebulophone and a lot of layering. The photo is of the Moon from our garden, on a long exposure. It moved across the sky while nobody was looking.
I recommend playing this back on good headphones or on a music system with good bass.
Be sure to check the track info for ‘Bee Flight’, for details of how it was made.
Shamisen played by Yukari Lagowski. Bee sounds reproduced with permission.
