These are early/alternate versions of tracks from the ‘Ashita’ album that never made it. Now recovered from the original DAT and presented here. “Kino” means yesterday in Japanese.
Kino – premixes from the ‘Ashita’ album
May 7, 2017Beyond Black: Project ‘Preserve Destiny’
May 7, 2017This is a reworking of the ‘Above Black’ album, imagined as data recovered after millennia locked on magnetic media. Partially corrupted; only some of the original data remains, so interpolation has been used to reconstruct the messages left for any sentient beings who discover them. Created using the source files taken from the original improvised performance, which was direct to DAT.
Teratology 2 – EMU Takes Flight
May 6, 2017As some of you may have seen, I recently rescued a large collection of DAT’s from a container in our shed. They contain many unreleased tracks recorded between 1991 to 1998.
Send me your pix!
May 1, 2017I thought it would be fun to see photo’s of you all, holding your favourite Lagowski, S.E.T.I. or Legion releases. If you like, please send them to lagowski@gmail.com and I’ll put them on a new page here. It would be great to finally ‘meet’ all of you who have been so generously supporting my music!
Phobos VIII video report & gear update
March 22, 2017Thanks to Martin Stürtzer (Phelios), you can watch the whole of my performance S.E.T.I. Live at Phobos VIII at Sophienkirche in Wuppertal on March 11th 2017.
For those interested in the gear I used, here is a list: Mutable Instruments ‘Shruthi’ synthesizer, Bastl Instruments Trinity Poly, Roland SP404SX Sampler, Bleep Labs ‘Nebulophone’, Phonic 12:2 mixer, Mute Dirty Synth 1, Boss SE50, Boss Tera Echo, Koma Elektronik BD101 Delay, Sony MiniDisk, 4:1 submixer….the video was edited in iMovie. Insect photographs by Alek Lagowski, 3D processing by Pete Woodhead….
The Many Hours at Salisbury House
March 17, 2017Important to realise that a lot of the foundations of Nagamatzu were laid here. These tracks were recorded at the same time that we were active, using the same gear.
I have compiled some tracks I made while working in the attic of my parents’ house in London, between 1984-1987. There’s quite a bit of guitar, melancholy and some noisy drum machine workouts too. These were recorded while I was very active with Nagamatzu, so fans of Nagamatzu will be able to hear some of our trademarks here too. Star of the show has to be the Boss DE-200 digital delay that I used on most of my recordings from 1984-2000+ – see if you can spot where it’s been used.
S.E.T.I. – ‘Interim Report from Worm Boundary Five’
March 12, 2017Lagowski ‘MCB’ mini album
February 16, 2017Phobos VIII – A Night of Dark Ambient Music – March 11th 2017
February 6, 2017
http://www.wuppertal-live.de/?199731The Du Cane Court ‘Studio’ aka ‘Mission Control’
January 14, 2017The ‘studio’ at Du Cane Court, in Balham, South West London, where I recorded and arranged many albums and tracks including ‘False Dawn’, ‘Die Datenschleuder’, ‘Knowledge’, ‘Prismatic’, the Lagowski Chromium Industries 12″ series, Nagamatzu and engineered Lustmord, Terror Against Terror and Isolrubin BK. That is Lustmord’s Akai keyboard in the foreground, which we used as a MIDI controller and sampler. A while after this, I got a Yamaha DX11 to control my MIDI equipment and sold the TEAC 8 track and Seck 12-8-2 mixer to Paul Rooney, the guitarist from Vice Squad.
