S3 07: May 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Monoganon + more

Hullo, Pictish Trail, here. Please join me for approximately 52 mins of music and chat about all things Lost Map!

Every month we release music through our membership service, PostMap Club. This month we have previously unreleased tunes and a video montage of live sessions from John B McKenna, aka MONOGANON - who joins us from his home in Malmo for a hearty chat about squeaky chairs, Alan Moore’s Jerusalem, Brian Butterfield, Yung Lean, Busta Rhymes, Knightrider. Oh, and we also talk a wee bit about John’s music.

Check out the amazing sounds he has been creating through his Foundation Of The Teacherock label, over here: https://foundationoftheteacherock.bandcamp.com/music

In addition to this, there’s a brand new single from our good friend EMMA KUPA (Standard Fare / Mammoth Penguins), who also shares distant memories of live shows, in our regular First Gig Worst Gig segment.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING: 

1. Emma Kupa - ‘Happy Birthday'

2. Monoganon - ‘UFO’ 

+ a selection of clips from Monoganon’s album’s F A M I L Y, Killmens and Killmens II, plus Undermedvetenheten.

To support Lost Map, and to listen to music featured in the programme in full, you should join our PostMap Club. A monthly membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing downloads of new music from the label. You also receive a membership badge, newsletter and discount codes for other stuff from our webshop. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join. 

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack. This episode is made possible with support from Creative Scotland. 

S1 03: VISITATIONS - Monoganon Pt.2

This conversation was recorded in late-June 2018, via Skype - with Monoganon calling from his home in Malmo, Sweden, and Pictish Trail on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland.

Having spent a week in sonic isolation, Monoganon reveals all about his experiences on the Isle of Eigg, and the music he created for VISITATIONS - which has just been released as a 12” vinyl EP, with an accompanying CD of bonus tracks. This podcast episode contains excerpts of the music, as well as the sound of soft vaping and a few stray lambs.

You can visit Monoganon over here: monoganon.com

If you’d like to hear the music Monoganon created in full, or simply support our podcast, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Visit lostmap.com/visitationsfor details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail, produced and edited by Joe Cormack.

S1 02: VISITATIONS - Monoganon Pt.1

Pictish Trail chats with the first contestant in our VISITATIONS residency project, John B McKenna, aka MONOGANON.  We recorded this during Monoganon's stay on the Isle of Eigg, in July 2017. 

Monoganon is a singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Carluke, in Scotland - who relocated to Malmo, Sweden, about 6 years ago. After a series of mini-albums and singles, he self-released his first full-length album, Songs To Swim To, in 2011. His sophomore album, F A M I L Y, was the first official release on Lost Map Records in 2013, and was followed up by Killmens in 2017.

In this first interview, we talk a fair bit about John B’s name, the records he listened to during his teenage years, and his life in music - from his first early recordings, and ramshackle live shows, to the recording of his three albums. There’s also a good bit of chat about the legendarily unrelenting Glasgwegian metalcore monsters, Desalvo.

Visit Monoganon over here: http://monoganon.com/

F A M I L Y : http://lostmap.com/products/monoganon-family

Killmens: http://lostmap.com/products/monoganon-killmens

We’ll be chatting more to Monoganon about his experiences on the island, and the EP he created for VISITATIONS in Episode 03.

If you’d like to support the podcast, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Visit www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail, produced and edited by Joe Cormack.