New location, new setup

We moved house in August and are still sorting through many things but my music and sound system is beginning to settle down. The end-of-2007 setup includes: Logic 8, Metasynth 4 Pro, Ableton Live 6, gleetchlab 2.3, Reason 4, ixiQuarks and various plug-ins and editors. My newest sound projects include a remix/mashup of Karl Bartos’ ‘Esperanto’ album tracks for his forthcoming virtual exhibition, and new Lagowski and S.E.T.I. tracks. Hoping to digitise some very old Nagamatzu cassettes and VHS video for the new year….should be fun! In the meantime, Mrs Lags and I will be enjoying the new TGV box set and CARTERTUTTI album

Nagamatzu Archive

The Nagamatzu Archive contains several tracks recorded between 1983-1988. There is also a live performance from 28th September 1986, made at The Reptile House, a club that used to reside on Charing Cross Road, London WC2. Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Slides/Video – Stephen Jarvis. Programming, Synths, Guitar, Engineering – Andrew Lagowski.

Nagamatzu & other news

Interest in Nagamatzu (my first electronic-influenced band) seems to be alive in the USA. Even though I formed this band with Stephen Jarvis and Andrew Fleck in 1982, there are people out there that trade our old recordings as mp3s, cdrs and the like. Wonders will never cease.

I have a sizeable collection of early Nagamatzu recordings, including our first few gigs. There is also a scrapbook with gig listings and photo’s of us posing for the local newspaper in our strange garb and even stranger hair (“What, you had hair?” – the reader picks himself/herself off the floor).

If there’s any kind of demand for the material, of course I’ll make it available to all and sundry.

Anybody wishing to buy Si_COMM’s excellent new cd on the Japanese Spekk label can visit my GEMM page