"NOTHING LASTS FOREVER"
FEAT: CALLUM EASTER, VICTORIA HUME, THE POSTMAP CLUB, ALABASTER DEPLUME, THE HAMBURGLAR + MORE...
WayPoints #137
photo by Beth Chalmers
WayPoints #136
photo by Beth Chalmers
"INTO LIFE WE GO AGAIN"
FEAT: GRASSCOURT, CALLUM EASTER, THE POSTMAP CLUB, SAVAGE MANSION, CAROL VORDERMAN + MORE...
Read moreWayPoints #135
photo by Beth Chalmers, Howlin’ Fling, Isle of Eigg
"WHERE DID I GO WRONG?"
FEAT: CALLUM EASTER, THE POSTMAP CLUB, GRASSCOURT, RANDOLPH'S LEAP, ALABASTER DEPLUME, SAVAGE MANSION, MICHAEL BIEHN + MORE...
Read moreWayPoints #134
"YOU'LL HEAR THE STORY OF MY LIFE"
FEAT: THE POSTMAP CLUB, ROMEO TAYLOR, CALLUM EASTER, SAVAGE MANSION, ALABASTER DEPLUME, MOLA RAM + MORE...
Read moreWayPoints #133
"I KNOW HOW YOU HATE IT WHEN WE SPEAK OUR MINDS"
FEAT: MARTHA FFION, THE POSTMAP CLUB, SAVAGE MANSION, HOWLIN' FLING, ALABASTER DEPLUME, BONNIE TYLER + MORE...
Howlin' Fling 2019!
poster by Andrew Beltran
Howlin’ Fling! is a live music event, hosted by Pictish Trail and his record label Lost Map. It takes place in and around the Ceilidh Hall on the Hebridean Isle of Eigg, in Scotland.
The next one is happening over the weekend of Friday 31st May & Saturday 1st June 2019.
Read moreWayPoints #132
photo by Eoin Carey
"THE CLOCK TICKS BUT THE TIME STANDS STILL"
FEAT: THE POSTMAP CLUB, SAVAGE MANSION, HOWLIN' FLING, ALABASTER DEPLUME, CALLUM EASTER, 50 CENT + MORE...
Read moreChristmas Baubles IX: Blog + Gallery!
Kate of Kid Canaveral runs us through the latest edition of our annual festive party, Christmas Baubles IX, which was held on Saturday 15th 2018 at Summerhall in Edinburgh, and featured The Spook School, Seamus Fogarty, Big Joanie, Broken Chanter, Happy Spendy, Callum Easter, Jill Lorean, Pictish Trail & Malcolm Middleton … oh, and Kid Canaveral of course. Photos by our good friend, Stephanie Gibson.
Read moreLost Map's Strange Invitation: Blog + Gallery!
Hullo, Pictish Trail here! I seem to have gotten out of the habit of updating the Lost Map website regularly, and my memory of life events dissipates with each passing year, so i might try and put together a semi-regular blog. Specifically about label stuff, although maybe with the occasional belch of gossip.
If i manage to keep it up, it might make the website as a whole a bit less impersonal. Plus, now that we’ve made it through to our half-decade of existence, it’s as good a time as any to be a smidge reflective … and what better way to start than with a detailed rumination on our recent Strange Invitation all-dayer, an event that was to commemorate our fifth year, which took place barely a fortnight ago. I’m pretty sure I can remember that far back. With the help of some photos from Stephanie Gibson, of course …
Read moreV I S I T ▲ T I O N S : A new residency project, subscription series + accompanying podcast, from Lost Map
Photo by Monoganon
As Lost Map Records this summer celebrates five years since it was established, so too begins an exciting new chapter with the launch of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S – a series of very special limited-edition releases, written and recorded in residency in a cabin on the label’s home the isle of Eigg, Scotland. Set up with support from Creative Scotland, the residency programme presents a unique opportunity for exciting label roster acts and guest artists to break away from the connectivity saturated modern world, go off-grid, embrace the inspiring scenery and self-sustaining community spirit of a truly special Hebridean island, and focus solely on one project for a concentrated period.
Read moreTRACK BY TRACK: Worryingly Okay, by Randolph's Leap
photos by Still Burning Photography
Although often aided and abetted live and on record by a seven-piece band, Randolph’s Leap is primarily the work of Nairn born-and-raised singer, songwriter and home-recording boffin extraordinaire Adam Ross. Written and performed almost entirely by Adam solo, Worryingly Okay was released on May 25th 2018, and represents Randolph’s Leap’s third full-length album proper to date.
Click this way for a lovingly assembled TRACK-BY-TRACK account of it's ten songs, composed by the main man himself …
Read moreAlabaster dePlume- The Corner Of A Sphere, OUT NOW!
photo by Fabrice Bourgelle
The Corner Of A Sphere, the transportive new album from Alabaster DePlume, is OUT NOW on Lost Map Records, available on limited edition LP (from the Lost Map webshop, BandCamp, and select indie shops) and also flowing through all digital streamy places.
It's an album that truly defies categorisation, and is best imbibed in full, on eternal rotation, whilst navigating a magic carpet ride through the stratosphere.
Read more"Can we mix it? YES WE JAN" - remix album from BAS JAN is digitally liberated!
photo by Kuba Ryniewicz
YES WE JAN - the remix album to BAS JAN’s Yes I Jan - is now available to listen to on all streaming services. Previously, this remix album had only been made available as an infinite mega-mix, on a limited edition cassette, exclusively with advance copies of the Yes I Jan LP. BUT NOW you can ALL listen to your heart's content, in the following digital locations …
Read moreTHE YEAR DOT - listen to Firestations new album OUT NOW & read their track-by-track guide!
Unless you're on death row, TODAY is the first day of the rest of your life. Everything starts TODAY my friends. That's because TODAY (well, the day i'm writing this) happens to be Friday 6th April, which - in addition to being the first day of the new tax year (#excitement) - is the first day you can listen to the brand new dreamy LP The Year Dot by our non-identical London quintuplets, Firestations.
Read moreListen to Victoria Hume's Delirium Part II
photo by Beth Chalmers, Howlin' Fling 2016
Johannesburg-based English singer-songwriter Victoria Hume released her stunning EP, Closing on Lost Map Records, back in 2016 - seven sparse, wintry songs of fluttering piano and strings, bright guitars and beautifully naturalistic vocals. Closing arrived at Lost Map's door after it was passed to Pictish Trail by his musical accomplice, and partner-in-spandex Adem of Silver Columns. Adem had previously worked with Victoria on her 2013 project Delirium, a cycle of songs themed around the complex hallucinations patients have been known to experience during hospital-based intensive care (outside of music, Victoria works as an arts manager in health and medicine and as a researcher).
The first Delirium project had been based on conversations with patients in the UK, and now Victoria has created a follow up album, Delirium Part II, with patients in South Africa. Here she is with more information about the project ...
Read morePictish Trail's Future Echoes - deluxe edition for Record Store Day!
Lost Map are excited to support Fire Records in a deluxe double-vinyl reissue of Pictish Trail's critically-acclaimed third album Future Echoes, available in select stores from Record Store Day, April 21.
To celebrate the release, Pictish Trail will be performing a rare solo show at the Amersham Arms in London for Record Store Day, ahead of a summer of festivals, including Green Man, Folk Forest, Deer Shed and Skye Live.
Read moreLost Map turns 5, returns to Green Man Festival!
Green Man 2013, photo by Stephanie Gibson
Look at us, in that photo. JUST LOOK AT US. So fresh faced. That was our "primary 1 school photo", taken at Green Man Festival in 2013, where Lost Map was officially born on the 16th August. What a weekend that was! It’s 2018, now… and our 5th birthday is this summer - what better way to spend it, than by returning to the Brecon Beacons?
YES. Green Man have invited Lost Map to celebrate our 5th birthday! Pictish Trail, BAS JAN, Ed Dowie will all be representing Lost Map at this year’s bash, with separate sets, alongside some Lost Map DJs … and, sweet jebus, LM graduate Seamus Fogarty is gonna be performing over the weekend too. It’s going to be emotional, folks.
Read moreBAS JAN's debut YES I JAN, out now!
photo by Kuba Ryniewicz
Bas Jan's debut album Yes I Jan is now OFFICIALLY released into the world. Having been made available digitally over the past few weeks, the gorgeous retina-burning orange sleeve LP is now a real life physical product that you can hold in your hands, and even eat your dinner off ...
Read moreTRACK BY TRACK: Monoganon's guide to KILLMENS
photo by Sandra Henningsson
Hey internet fans. I’m sure you’ll agree, there’s nothing better than a ‘semi-regular feature’. You know what i’m talking about, right? A series of online posts, strapped with a BIG TITLE and good intentions, that crops up from time to time without warning or reason, often appearing in a big CLUMP, before the author forgets it exists, or gets bored, and the feature disappears into the nether regions of the world’s wide web.
Well … we, at Lost Map, pride ourselves on being the masters of the ‘semi-regular feature’. So, without further ado, here’s a new semi-regular feature on the Lost Map website entitled TRACK-BY-TRACK, in which we ask the artists to give a brief description of an album they have released with us. The first in this irregular series is by ... MONOGANON.
Read more"GET LOST!" - having an Argument with BAS JAN!
Lost Map are excited to welcome latest signings BAS JAN, the London experimental post-punk trio built around the remarkable and distinctive voice and songs of multi-instrumentalist and composer Serafina Steer. A brilliant, bonkers, shape-shifting song about the weird tedium of a text message spat (“Drop it? Why don’t you drop it!”), 'Argument' – available to stream and share now – is the first single to be revealed from BAS JAN's forthcoming debut album Yes I Jan, due early 2018.
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