WAYPOINTS #167
30/09/20
"DISAPPEAR IN THE AIR, ONCE WAS THERE, NOTHING THERE"
FEAT: ROZI PLAIN, KINBOTE, ALEXIA AVINA, THE LOST MAP PODCAST, PICTISH TRAIL, V I S I T ▲ T I O N S, JEDWARD + MORE
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BANDCAMP FRIDAY BONANZA
In the WFH age, no longer do we knock off at four-forty-five on a Friday to rush to the nearest pub and consume exactly seven pints of cider on an empty stomach, then destroy an XXL McDonald's™ in a grotty shop doorway with all the decorum of a caveman hollowing out a brontosaurus before falling asleep at the bus stop. These days it's all couch and scented candles and, *spits*, "wine". But don't worry, because yer old pals Lost Map are here to help you get at a little of that special Friday feeling back. We're harnessing the power of Bandcamp Friday to bring you deals that will shake you harder than the police had to shake you to wake you up that time, your tie stained with ranch sauce, your trousers smelling faintly of secondary pee.
Ladies and gentlemen, this Bandcamp Friday (October 2) – a one-day monthly fee-waiver spesh whereby 100% of revenues go direct to the vendor (i.e. us) with the Absolute Legends™ at Bandcamp forgoing their usual cut – we're offering Probably Our Greatest Selection of Bandcamp Deals, Ever. Or at least Probably Our Greatest Selection of Bandcamp Deals, Ever (Since The Last Bandcamp Friday). They're so, so great, and they include the following:
- HATS! People with heads unanimously agree that Lost Map bobble hats (as modeled above by a man with a head) are the best hats. As hat season returns, they're back in stock in now SIX different interesting colour combos. Whether you've got six heads or just one, shop the whole set this Friday.
- KINBOTE DEBUT ALBUM PRE-ORDER! Reserve your copy of Shifting Distance by Lost Map's latest signing (more on him below). Special discount for PostMap Club Members!
- PICTISH TRAIL T-SHIRTS! Beer gut? Overabundant chest hair? Third nipple? Look no further than a useful and moreover stylish limited-edition "torso hider" in a size of your choosing, brought to you by popular Lost Map recording artist Pictish Trail (see hat model).
- FIRESTATIONS EP PRE-ORDER! Dibs your copy of the first installment in Firestations' new multi-EP project Automatic Tendencies (more on that below).
- VISITATIONS S2 FULL SET PRE-ORDER! With the third and final installment in series two feat. Rozi Plain + friends (more on that below) ready to ship, secure your x3 LP bundle.
- ALEXIA AVINA NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER! Dreamy, dreamy, dreaminess from one of the latest additions to the label roster. Make a copy of Unearth yours to keep, in advance.
+ MORE!
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CALLUM EASTER IS NOMINATED FOR THE SAY AWARD
1) Callum's debut album Here Or Nowhere, released on Lost Map last year – copies on sale now – is longlisted for the 2020 Scottish Album of the Year Award
2) Well done Callum!
3) Vote Callum (opens October 5)
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V I S I T ▲ T I O N S : SERIES 2
FEAT. ROZI PLAIN AND FRIENDS
Whenever one of our Lost Map children fly the nest to seek adventures new in the big wide world, it's with a tear in our eye, pride in our heart and burning resentment buried deep within our soul that we wave them off – looking forward to the day that they might return for a visit, a big sack of dirty washing clutched presumptively under one arm. Our most successful alumni Rozi Plain returned to the isle of Eigg at the start of 2020, accompanied by her frequent collaborators Gerard Black (Babe) and Jamie Whitby-Coles (This Is The Kit), and despite sleeping in until noon most days, plundering all of our food and booze and running up a massive phone bill, we were overjoyed to see her again. We even did her washing.
It was to record a session for Lost Map's residency series V I S I T ▲ T I O N S that Rozi and friends – who go by the snappy collective title of Gerard Black Rozi Plain Jamie Whitby-Coles – flew back to the nest for a week at the start of this year. Ensconced in St Franny's Bothan as the winter winds whipped the windows, the trio made a magic sound as only these three know how. A collection of woozy, groovy instrumentals and songs; dreamy guitars, soft analogue synths, floaty drums and percussion collide, each pal taking a turn on lead vocals. "Disappear in the air, once was there, nothing there".
We're excited to release their EP as the third and final installment of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series two, on subscription either as a physical package of 3 x 12” vinyl EPs (£45) or a digital package of downloads (£25). Sign up now and you'll also receive series two releases by Arthur King (featuring Grandaddy's Jason Lytle) and Rachel Aggs (from Sacred Paws). You can hear all about Rozi and co's winter Eigg-xperience recording their V I S I T ▲ T I O N S session in the new episode of the Lost Map Podcast, which will be available in all of the usual pod places as of midnight tonight.
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FIRESTATIONS' NEW PROJECT AUTOMATIC TENDENCIES
1) x3 mixtape-style EPs in one year, feat. new material, alternative versions, remixes, covers, exclusive artwork, reusable chip fork + more
2) New track 'Small Island' coming this Friday
3) Pre-order EP1 Automatic Tendencies this Bandcamp Friday
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SEPTEMBER POSTMAP CLUB FEAT.
ALEXIA AVINA + KINBOTE
We've got two limited-edition CD-R albums left for release in what has been an albums-packed 2020, and we're excited to say that you can get a taster of both of them through the September installment of the PostMap Club – which you'll receive even if you don't manage to sign up in September, i.e. before midnight tonight, because we always supply the previous month's postcards with every new subscription. We are firm believers in second chances.
The first album in question is by Alexia Avina and it's called Unearth, and ahead of its release on October 9, you can drink-in the refreshing sound of the PostMap Club single 'Cups', which includes an exclusive track called ‘What About The Light’. Alexia is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist born and raised in Southeast Asia, previously based in Montreal and now living in rural Massachusetts. Her heavenly music is rooted in ambient, folk and dreampop traditions. We'll be releasing the extremely fine Unearth on limited-edition CDR jointly with Topshelf Records in North America. If you like the sound of 'Cups', there's an even newer, newer single you can hear called ' Horse's Mane', the trippy video visualiser for which you can watch here.
Then there's Kinbote, AKA found-sound sample based electronic glitch-pop producer Matt Gibb. Inspired in part by the book To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, and featuring drums made from samples of forest leaves and sticks crunching and snapping under feet, 'Hiemalis' – which includes an exclusive cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra member Haruomi Hosono’s ‘Sports Men' – is Matt's contribution to the September PostMap Club set. It's a mere amuse-bouche to the banquet of sound that is his enchanting debut album Shifting Distance, which comes out on December 4. Watch the video for 'Hiemalis' here; pre-order Shifting Distance as of this Friday, which as we may have mentioned, is Bandcamp Friday. Special discount for PostMap Club members!
And there's more! The September PostMap Club set also includes Pictish Trail – Live at Green Man 2020, Johnny's full set recorded on Eigg for Green Man's Field of Streams virtual event. A reminder or the two PostMap Club membership tiers and their respective prices and benefits is as follows:
REGULAR BREW
£3 + postage, per month
- Postcards! At least two collectible PostMap postcards sent to your door at the end of every month – each containing download codes for a mixture of brand new music on Lost Map, alongside a random selection from our archives. When you sign up you'll also receive the previous month's postcards, completely free
- Badge! Plus a new badge for every year of your subscription
- Monthly newsletter! Containing hot goss / farmyard shite
- Discounts! On other Lost Map releases, merchandise, gigs
- Feelgood glow! Help support an independent record label
GOLD BLEND
£5 + postage, per month
- All of the above except with a bigger badge
- One man's amuse-bouche is another man's amusing bush, amirite??! (sorry)
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LOST MAP PAISLEY ARTS CENTRE TAKEOVER
1) Think Red Dawn but with whimsical pop bands instead of Soviet paratroopers, set in Paisley (sort of)
2) Actually forget about Red Dawn
3) Lost Map's October takeover of Paisley Arts Centre's Stuck In The House Sessions starts tomorrow with Happy Spendy
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JOIN THE LOST MAP LOOP
1) Facebook is a social media website where innocent conversations about Jedward vs Ian Brown can quickly escalate into one man's class war
2) Join the Lost Map Loop for chat / nonsense / Marxism
3) Unless you're Michael (we had to block Michael).
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LISTEN TO THE WAYPOINTS PLAYLIST
1) ♫ So comrades, come rally ♫
2) ♫ And the last fight let us face ♫
3) ♫ The Waaaaaaypoints Playlist, unites the human race ♫
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