Rozi Plain
“BRILLIANT... A BIG FAVOURITE OF THE SHOW” – LAUREN LAVERNE, BBC 6 MUSIC
“GRACEFUL AND BEGUILING” ★★★★ – THE SKINNY
Rozi Plain has been making music since her brother taught her a few chords on the guitar aged 13. Raised in Winchester, she spent a few years studying art and painting boats in Bristol, where she began collaborating with long-term friends Kate Stables (This Is The Kit) and Rachael Dadd among many others on a thriving local scene. It was there that Rozi made her first two albums, 2008’s Inside Over Here and 2012’s Joined Sometimes Unjoined, each works of deliciously sad and beautiful pop full of heart-wrenching harmonies dotted with unexpected instrumental flourishes. Released in April 2015 and featuring contributions from Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor among others, Friend is Rozi’s most exceptional and accomplished album to date, a deeply meaningful and wonderfully measured ode to memory, place, companionship and music’s remarkable power as an emotional salve. A companion album of remixes, unreleased tracks and radio sessions, Friend Of A Friend, was released in 2016.
Almost permanently on tour, Rozi has taken her joyous live show on the road countless times around Europe, the UK and the USA, in partnership with alt-folk luminaries from Devendra Banhart to James Yorkston and Lost Map’s own The Pictish Trail. She has appeared at festivals including SXSW, Iceland Airwaves, Glastonbury, End of the Road, Latitude, BBC 6Music Festival, Green Man and Lost Map’s Howlin’ Fling. As a member of This Is The Kit, Rozi has also toured widely, including several dates around Europe opening for The National.
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BACK IN STOCK!! LIMITED EDITION CD, IN CUT-COVER SLIPCASE
Released on limited-edition cut cover CD on April 15, 2016
CATALOGUE NUMBER: GRAT 011'15.4.2016"
Comprising remixes, sessions and unreleased tracks, Friend Of A Friend is a complimentary companion piece to the London-based singer-songwriter’s exquisite third album Friend.
FRIEND OF A FRIEND CD = £10
Rozi Plain's brand new album - FRIEND - is back in stock on the Lost Map shop.
LP comes with download code.
7" split single
ROZI PLAIN - 'Jogalong'
RACHAEL DADD - 'Strike Our Scythes'
Comes with download code for both tracks.
Bringing together two of the finest voices in alternative folk, Lost Map Records are excited to announce the release of a special split 7” single by Bristol friends Rozi Plain and Rachael Dadd, due for release on October 6, 2014. ‘Jogalong’ is the first track to be revealed from Rozi’s forthcoming new album, while ‘Strike Our Scythes’ is taken from Rachael’s imminent new album We Resonate, which arrives on French label Talitres on November 17.
Album from 2012, reissued on Lost Map on compact disc in digi-pak.
Picked by American freak-folkie extraordinaire and sometimes touring pal Devandra Banhart as one of his favourite albums of 2008, Winchester-born Rozi’s Plain’s debut album Inside Over Here is a lo-fi, naturalistic collection of home-spun recordings that marks the arrival of a unique new voice in British alt-folk. These ten songs capture the burnt haze of endless summers, ebbing and flowing woozily, washing like the tide over your feet.
Rozi’s ethereal, breathy vocal takes centre stage, harmonising over itself, without need for reverbs or studio frills. Clarinet, saxophone, accordion, banjo, soft percussion and drums each play a supporting role, but often the voice is accompanied only by itself and a guitar. Songs practically inhabit the rooms within which they were recorded, bouncing around the four walls; they sway back and forth with the crackling hiss of tape and creak of floorboards on opening track ‘Let’s Go’; they jauntily click, purr and whistle on the banjoled ‘Knives and Forks’; they slide and squeak over acoustic guitar strings on ‘Foot Out’.
LOST MAP CAT NO: LONG 00°2 06' 10.2008"