‘Mournful Deity’ is Andrew Lagowski & spoken word poet Shane Beck.
We have been friends for many years & came to the decision that we should do a project & let the darkness speak the hidden language of ambient textures. All the while weaving a tale, a story of the pain & more.
Main group image by the amazing Garland Hopkins.
Our Facebook page is here https://www.facebook.com/Mournful-Deity-109350218504878/ and our first track can be heard here at YouTube https://youtu.be/XptbDH-bQ4Y
Honoured to have my track ‘Scatter 4’ featured here http://www.saywhatmag.com/selections-008/
Two reviews of my recent releases for Zoharum have come to my attention. Please see links below. Both albums can be ordered through my Bandcamp page http://lagowski.bandcamp.com/
Geoff Cheesemaster, Graham Dunning, Dan and Zazie Hayhurst, The Head Technician, Si Heartfield, Jim Jupp, Astro Myrmex, Jack Packer, Renaldo and The Loaf, Robin Rimbaud, Keith Seatman, Rusty Sheriff and last but not least Rueben Sutherland.
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’
Here you can see the layout of my live gear for my gig organised by Sleepers, at Ohm in Berlin, in November 2019. The Tascam is a digital recorder, used to capture the live set from the mixer outputs. The feint lines are audio signals. The others are MIDI or sync signals.
Beats came mostly from the Novation Circuit, which is two synths and four (drum/sound) sample locations in a sequenced box, and Korg ES-1 (sampling drum machine).
The iPad supplied various samples and noises programmed at the same BPM as the main beats.
The Eoten B is a handmade noise box by Orgeldream that can take inputs or generate a racket by itself.
‘Fla’ is a Boss BF3 flanger pedal and the Zoom is a CDR-70 multi effects pedal that provides the wonderfully smooth reverb.
The Volca Kick and Bass did a couple of tracks synched to each other but they didn’t perform well in the club and lost sync at times – not sure if they overheated or got moody. Either way, I sold them once I’d returned home.
The Circuit held its own really well in the club and I was pleased with how far I’d got programming it, having only bought it two weeks before the gig. Looking forward to hooking up a Circuit Mono Station synth to it in the next week or two.
All income from content ordered via https://t.co/rS99HRVpqM during the #Bandcamp fee-free day on 20th March will go to @ObskyrRecords who have an unborn baby to protect. They have lost their sources of income, so please do your bit and retweet this for them. #COVID19 @Bandcamp
— Lagowski (@lagowski) March 19, 2020
I’ve uploaded the video of me performing at Wroclaw Industrial Festival, which was recorded by Yukari (moshcam) and Jean-Yves Millet for the balcony camera. The sound is taken from my on-stage mixer for clarity. The full recording will be available on CD in 2020.
You will need good bass to listen correctly –> S.E.T.I. WIF XVIII 9NOV19
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