After a fervently busy summer which included triumphant appearance at festivals including Field Day, Glastonbury, Green Man and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fling!, and was capped with a shortlisting for the Scottish Album of the Year Award by popular vote, Isle of Eigg-based Scottish DIY electronic folk-tinged croft pop sonic hermit and Lost Map Records founder and director Pictish Trail looks ahead to the cold season with the Winter Rewind Acid Reflux Tour.
Read moreIntroducing ... O/S/E
The latest in Lost Map Records’ limited-edition series of Lost Cat cassette releases comes from architect of ambient-industrial electronic noise O/S/E ... aka ... Opalescent Shades of Excellence, the alter-ego of Somerset- based Richard Anderson – who has formerly made music under names including Amino People, Rich Amino, Clock and Black Palace.
A series of “revised presentations for analogue tape” cryptically titled FEBRUARY 2017 =*mix2.3116a/b, it threads together hypnotic, trippy and harsh blasts of output from synthesisers, sequencers and other electronic devices with distant voice and birdsong samples. A video for an excerpt of one of the recordings is available to watch ... CLICK HERE FOR MORE
Read moreLazy Day tie together singles with Ribbons EP
Lost Map Records are delighted to welcome the return of London lo-fi dreamy-grunge quartet Lazy Day with their shimmering and soaring new track ‘Hiccup’.
Listen to 'Hiccup': Spotify / AppleMusic / SoundCloud / Deezer
'Hiccup' is second thrilling taster of their forthcoming EP Ribbons, which is due for release on 10” vinyl and digital formats on September 15, 2017. You can pre-order the EP from Lost Map right now, at a special price ... and it's also available as a bundle with their Disappear 7", and 'With My Mind' postcard. The EP also features previous single, 'With My Mind'.
Read moreLost Map's Howlin' Fling has been Flung
You might have noticed, the Lost Map website has been a bit slow with updates over the past few months. It's mainly because we've been up to our collective chins in preparation / partying for our semi-regular hoolie on the Isle of Eigg, Lost Map's Howlin' Fling!.
Well, you'll be pleased to know that it happened last weekend, 28th - 30th July 2017 ... and to prove it, we've got a gallery of photos captured at the event by Beth Chalmers, Colin Campbell and Eoin Carey. This is just the start of our Fling coverage. If you were there, you can relive the memories ... and if you weren't there? Well, you can just pretend you were by covering yourself in mud and booze, and rubbing your face closely against the screen.
Have a look at the gallery, here: http://lostmap.com/howlin-fling-2017
Read moreKid Canaveral's 'Pale White Flower'
Stop what you are doing IMMEDIATELY, and watch the new video for 'Pale White Flower' by Kid Canaveral! The song is taken from the album Faulty Inner Dialogue ... but keen-eared amongst you might have noticed that the audio sounds different to the version from the LP. That's because it IS different. It's a different mix. A single mix. A mix that has been racking up some plays on 6Music, and hospital radios up and down the nation ...
Read moreArt Attack: The Lost Map Logo
Hello. I'm David Galletly. I work on lots of the art direction here at Lost Map. I was having a little dig through my computer recently and found a bunch of work from the early days of the label and though it'd be cool to share some bits and pieces here. This is the story of our logo.
Read morePictish Trail Glasto a-go-go
Pictish Trail's busy summer just got busier and summierererrr. He's playing the biggest festival in the cosmos, Glastonbury Festival, in June, and is taking the full band with him. The new album, Future Echoes, has been nominated for Scottish Album Of The Year. Read on for all upcoming live dates, and other hot gossip.
Read moreSavage Mansion Smell-o-Vision
We want you to get to know our new friends Savage Mansion very intimately. Last week we conducted a Q&A with the band's front-man and songwriter, Craig Angus ... but that isn't enough. We want you to be able to get much closer. Thankfully, we've got video footage of the band playing live, as part of Edinburgh's VOX BOX Records instore on Record Store Day ... and the camera is so close to Craig you can almost smell him. Have a sniff/watch on the video (taken by Alex @ Lost Map) ... by clicking READ MORE ...
Read moreDo You Say Hello To Your Savage Mansion?
Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours. In the proverbial 'Stella Street' that is Lost Map, we've got a fair few characters - Rozi Plain, always mowing the lawn; the various Canaveral Kids mucking about on the street corner, swilling Buckfast; Ed Dowie twitching his curtains. And someone new has just moved into the Savage Mansion at No. 15 ... it's Mr Craig Angus, and his chums. Let's go and meet them ...
Read moreLazy Day - Single Launch Party Photo Fun Blog Good Times
Our favourite dream-pop combo, Lazy Day, played a sold out show at the Servant's Jazz Quarters, in London's fashionable Dalston earlier this week. It was in support of their brannnd new single, 'With My Mind' ... which is out NOW as part of our prestigious PostMap series.
Read morePictish Euro-Touro, with British Sea Power
Pictish Trail is back out on the road, this month, supporting his good pals British Sea Power on their forthcoming European tour. Get all the dates, plus lots of Pictish gossip, by clicking here ...
Read moreManuela in session with Marc Riley on 6Music
On Monday May 1st, Manuela traveled up to 6Music in Salford, to perform in session for the legendary Marc Riley. For a limited time, you can listen to four tracks up on the BBC iPlayer ...
Read morePICTISH TRAIL LIMITED-EDITION CASSETTE LIVE ALBUM, ANIMATION AND TOUR DATES GALORE
If Pictish Trail were a movie, what kind of movie would he be? Would he be courageous and handsome like Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone? Would he be reassuringly violent like the unjustly maligned Rambo quadrilogy? Would he be whip-smart clever and fiendishly witty like Nutty Professor II: The Klumps? Or, like Top Gun, would he be a blockbusting, high-octane gay innuendo from first to last? Decide for yourself by watching a delightful and funny animated short film made by Lost Map design maestro David Galletly to accompany an excerpt from Pictish's forthcoming limited-edition cassette live album recorded at The Stand, Edinburgh, ingeniously titled Pictish Trail, Live at The Stand, Edinburgh.
Read moreHOWLIN' FLING 2017 - IS SOLD OUT!
TICKETS HAVE NOW SOLD OUT!
Tickets for this year's Howlin' Fling SOLD OUT in just over 5 minutes.
The event takes place over the 28th and 29th July 2017, on the Hebridean Isle of Eigg. We'll have live music and DJs from the Lost Map roster, plus some very special guests.
Read moreHOWLIN' FLING - JULY 28th & 29th 2017 - ISLE OF EIGG!
TICKETS ON SALE SATURDAY 25th FEBRUARY, 12NOON
Lost Map presents another HOWLIN’ FLING!, taking place on the Hebridean Isle of Eigg on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th July 2017.
Hi, Pictish Trail, here. Yup, it’s true. Our biennial event has mutated into an annual one. Well, for this year, at least. With the isle of Eigg celebrating its 20th anniversary of righteous community ownership, we thought we’d extend the conga-line. Since our very first bash in 2010 (entitled Away Game), Howlin’ Fling 2017 will be our fifth event on the isle, and we’re very excited. We want to party with you.
Read moreDON'T BE LONELY THIS VALENTINES, COME TO KID CANAVERAL'S LUMBER PARTY II !
Whether you're single and looking out or in a relationship and seeking to spice things up a little by meeting other like-minded couples, be sure that Kid Canaveral's ️ Lumber Party II ️ at Stereo in Glasgow on Saturday, February 11, 2017 (tickets priced £10 on sale now) is the Valentines night out for you. We realise this description makes it sound an awful lot like we're promoting some kind of casual hook-ups/swingers night. To be honest we're not going to dissuade you of that notion because we'll shamelessly try just about anything to get people to come along to our events.
Read moreLost Map's STRANGE INVITATION
We’re starting a new series of intimate all-day Lost Map events, entitled STRANGE INVITATION, in 2017 … with the first taking place on Sunday January 29th at The Strongroom Bar in Shoreditch, London, as part of Independent Venue Week.
There’ll be live music, from 1pm til 10pm, with a secret brew of live acts and DJs from the Lost Map roster. Early Bird tickets available, for just £10, from here.
Read moreROZI PLAIN IS DOING A SHOW IN LONDON IN DECEMBER AND YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY GO
You really should you know, it'll be fun. She's not been doing many gigs of late has Rozi, which if you know anything of Rozi's typically never-ending-touring ways then you'll know is quite unusual. Well, apart from that time when she went to Berlin and jammed with Bon Iver and guys from The National and stuff, but y'know, we don't want to seem like we're bragging (we are bragging). Anyway, she's got a bunch more shows coming up soon, starting with a headline date on Friday, December 9 at Omeara in London, which is a brand new venue in a railway arch at London Bridge which everyone keeps telling us about so we're telling you about it too because we like to share like that.
Read moreHowlin' Fringe presents FUTURE ECHOES - Line-Up announcement!
HULLO. Pictish Trail, here. The stars have aligned, the planets are in orbit, and your anus is in retrograde.
As you may already know, i'm releasing my new album - Future Echoes - next month, and to celebrate i'm holding an all-day cosmic party at Leith Theatre, in Leith, Edinburgh, on Saturday October 1st.
I'll be doing a full-on live set with my band, replete with jet-packs and space-boots, playing all the new songs and some golden oldies. But I'm not playing all day. Oh no. I've got some very special guests joining us for the party. In fact, I can announce the first space-wave of acts who are playing, right now ...
Read moreFaulty Inner Dialogue ... out NOW!
It has landed! Kid Canaveral's third album, Faulty Inner Dialogue, is out now on CD, LP and through all digital channels.
David, Kate, Rose, Scott and - new recruit - keyboard boffin, Michael, have put together 12 addictive new tracks. Faulty Inner Dialogue finds the band building on the electronic sounds that featured around the fringes of Now That You Are A Dancer while retaining their instantly identifiable core of miscreant-romantic melodic guitar pop.
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