S5 10: October 2023 - Sulka + more

October 1, 2023 Pictish Trail

Incredibly, this is the 50th episode of the Lost Map Podcast. We’ve only just realised this, while writing these show-notes… so there’s no actual mention of it in the episode. Thought you might wanna know anyway. Are you even reading this bit?

PICTISH TRAIL and LAURA gather together once more, to chat about all things LOST MAP - with exclusive first plays of tracks from LOST MAP PRESENTS WEIRD WAVE, and SEAMUS FOGARTY, as well as some new music on PostMap Club from FIRESTATIONS, KINBOTE and SAVAGE MANSION.

Our featured interview this month is with Glasgow-based songwriter & guitarist, Lukas Clasen, aka SULKA - whose brand new album, Distractions, has just come out on vinyl. He talks us through how the band came together, the making of the album, and the stories behind the songs.

To support what we do at Lost Map, you should join our club - PostMap Club! Membership starts at just £3, and you'll receive printed postcards delivered to your door every month, containing download codes for new music from the label. You'll receive a badge, too - as well as a newsletter and a discount of 15% on all records, CDs, tapes and other merch in our webshop. Digital & gift memberships are also available. Visit lostmap.com/club for details on how to join.

NEW MEMBERS (including Gift Subscriptions) during October 2023, will receive a bumper pack of postcards + all three releases in this the most recent VISITATIONS series, by Emma Kupa, Makeness and Alliyah Enyo.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

Lost Map presents Weird Wave - ’Swamp Down'
Firestations - ’Stillness’ Arvo Part remix (clip)
Kinbote - ‘Rotate’ (clip)
Savage Mansion - ’There Goes My Habit’
Sulka - Clips from Distractions
Sulka - ‘Vanish’
Seamus Fogarty - ‘Guardian Of The Gate'

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If you’d like to get in touch with us, plop us an email: club@lostmap.com

This episode of the Lost Map Podcast was presented by Pictish Trail and Laura Doherty, edited and with additional production from Joe Cormack.

S3 04: February 2021 - PostMap Podcast, w/ Sulka + more

February 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

Featuring new music, erotic stories and some chat about Gary Jules flat-cap, his month’s episode of the podcast is as mysterious, harrowing and unexpected as an anonymous Valentines card written in a sticky brown liquid that you honest-to-god hope is dried blood.

Your host Pictish Trail rummages though the PostMap Club mail-bag, and plays some brand new music from the Lost Map label - including tracks from Firestations, Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business, and a remix by Callum Easter. There’s also an exclusive first play (in full) of an unreleased Pictish track, entitled ‘Dream Wall’.

This month’s episode also features a one-on-one interview with multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Lukas Clasen, aka SULKA - whose brand new album, Take Care, just came out on CD and cassette.

Rose Canaveral gets us in the Valentines mood with an erotic ghost story, that will definitely give you the willies.

In First Gig / Worst Gig, Suse Bear (aka Good Dog) unveils her pop-past, and shares two memories of terrible gigs that’ll make you thankful we’re still in lockdown.

And in this month’s edition of THIS OR THAT we are joined by a live studio audience for a special Mr & Ms. gameshow format, in which we have two members of Lost Map staff as contestants. Our social media manager Bart is pitted against our admin guru Laura. There’s a cash prize, but rest assured the chances of this lot winning anything are slim…

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Firestations - ’The Circular’

2. Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business - ‘Woman Is A Word’

3. Pictish Trail - ’Slow Memories’ (Callum Easter remix)

4. Sulka - Clips of Take Care, + ‘Fell Out Of A Sky’

5. Good Dog - ‘Jury Duty’

6. Pictish Trail - ‘Dream Wall’

To support Lost Map, and to listen to some of the 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.

S3 03: January 2021 - PostMap Podcast

January 1, 2021 Pictish Trail

It’s finally 2021, and we’ve all survived. Our collective reward is a 45 minute podcast about brand new music on Lost Map Records. Hooray.

It’s the New Year, and Pictish Trail has celebrated by hiding from his children, locking himself inside his garden shed, and recording this very podcast with only a bottle of Babycham for company.

This month’s episode includes an in-depth interview with singer-songwriter Clémentine March, who tells us about her life in music, and the making of her new album Songs Of Resilience - which she recorded in just two days at the end of November.

In First Gig / Worst Gig, Alabaster dePlume takes us back to a time when he had extremely long hair, and chewing gum on his back … and that’s not even the Worst Gig.

And in this month’s edition of THIS OR THAT we punish an undeserving Ed Dowie with a non-stop assault of brain-taxing questions.

There’s also an exclusive first play of a new track from Sulka, whose new album Take Care is out later this month.

EPISODE TRACKLISTING:

1. Clémentine March - Clips of Songs Of Resilience, + ‘Into The Distance’

2. Alabaster dePlume - ’Song of the Foundling (live, 2012)’

3. Ed Dowie - ‘Under The Waves'

4. Sulka - 'You & I'

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.