ROZI PLAIN's gently hypnotic, slightly askew songs have steadily made their way from her home-town of Winchester, reverberated through the bustling Bristol DIY scene, and currently emanate from London’s creative epicentre. One of Lost Map’s most successful alumni, now signed to Memphis Industries, Rozi’s music has acquired a worldliness that’s reflected in her international touring schedule; each of her albums broach new sonic territory, but retain a sense of intimacy and a reassuring warmth of spirit.

In part one of our two-part interview, Rozi chats to us from her folks place in Winchester, discussing her life in music, and the people she’s worked with over the years. Throughout this episode you’ll hear clips of music she’s released across her career, including some of the tracks she recorded on Eigg with her collaborators Gerard Black and Jamie Whitby-Coles. We’ll hear more from those guys in part two.

To listen to the music they created in full, and to support this podcast, please subscribe to VISITATIONS. You’ll received 3 x 12” vinyl releases (with CD and download copies included) from the three acts in the current series - Arthur King, Rachel Aggs, and Rozi Plain. Go to lostmap.com/visitations for more info.

You can find Rozi over on roziplain.co.uk, and on all the regular social media places with the handle @roziplain.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

Lost Map loves sending out postcards. The label’s very first release was a printed postcard containing a download code for a compilation of tracks from across the roster, launched at Green Man Festival in Wales in 2013. Since then, there’s been almost 100 different postcard releases - featuring a plethora of exclusive tracks, b-sides, remixes, live sessions and audio experiments from the Lost Map collective. In 2019, the label launched PostMap Club, a monthly subscription service where fans receive a package of new postcards every month, along with a newsletter and membership badge.

In this episode of the Lost Map Podcast, label boss Pictish Trail reveals seven of his favourite tracks, tucked away on postcards over the years … and reveals plans for upcoming developments to PostMap Club. There’s also a special message from each of the artists featured in this episode.

Bart from eagleowl dishes up a steaming hot buffet of facts; Martha Ffion recounts a chilling counterfeit transaction at a dodgy flea-market; Manuela takes us on a ride of her family boat; Good Dog reveals her lock-down survival techniques; Craig from Savage Mansion tells us his worst nightmare; and Rozi Plain takes us back to windy Wales, with an audio-postcard of her recent family holiday.

Here’s the track-listing:

1. eagelowl - 'eagleowl vs. woodpigeon' (I’m quiet when you’re not Tommy Perman remix)

2. Martha Ffion - ’No Applause’

3. Manuela - Cracks In The Concrete (Nadia Ksaiba 7inch Dance Dance Dance edit)

4. Good Dog - ‘Floating’ (live @ home)

5. Savage Mansion - 'Third Lanark’

6. Rozi Plain - ‘Friend City’ (Seamus Fogarty remix)

7. Pictish Trail - ’No Flags’ (Savage Mansion cover, Morning Breakfast version)

If you’d like to support this podcast, sign up to Lost Map’s PostMap Club. Membership starts from just £3 per month. Go to www.lostmap.com/club for details.

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

Arriving on the island during the final week of August 2019, armed with her guitar, violin, laptop and a drum machine, she set about creating a diary of songs and instrumental pieces. These intimate solo recordings showcase her distinctive guitar and vocal style, mixed a with lo-fi pop sensibility, capturing a snapshot of isolation inside and outside of the bothy; where field recordings of the sea crashing wildly against the rocks meet the sound of a kettle whistling.

If you’d like to support this podcast, and listen to the music that has been created by Rachel, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Go to www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

This series of VISITATIONS was conducted in St Franny’s Bothan. If you’d like to check out the space, and maybe book a trip to the island yourself, check out www.stfrannys.com.

You can find Rachel Aggs on Twitter: www.twitter.com/aggsrachel

Lost Map Podcast is written, produced and presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

RACHEL AGGS is an exceptionally prolific virtuoso of euphoric post-punk queercore music, achieving international acclaim with her collaborative projects Trash Kit, Shopping and Sacred Paws; galvanising the DIY scene in London, and her current home of Glasgow in the process. No mean feat!

We’ve been fans of Rachel’s music for years, and were thrilled when she said she was up for taking part in our VISITATIONS residency series. She’s been over to Eigg a bunch of times before, performing at our Howlin’ Fling! Festival with Trash Kit and Sacred Paws, but this was her first solo trip - and, indeed, the VISITATIONS record she has made is her first solo album.

In this episode of the podcast, we sent Rachel a list of questions, and she recorded answers from her home studio, in June 2020. She talks about her first forays into music, her influences, the birth of her three main collaborative projects, her move from London to Glasgow, and reflects upon the importance of visibility in the DIY/indie scene. It’s a great interview - if you’re new to Rachel's music, this podcast is a good introduction!

If you’d like to support this podcast, and listen to the music that has been created by Rachel, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Go to www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

This series of VISITATIONS was conducted in St Franny’s Bothan. If you’d like to check out the space, and maybe book a trip to the island yourself, check out www.stfrannys.com.

You can find Rachel Aggs on Twitter: www.twitter.com/aggsrachel

Lost Map Podcast is written, produced and presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

In our previous episode, we met Grandaddy front-man Jason Lytle, and were introduced to the world of ARTHUR KING - a collective of musicians and film-makers associated with the Dangerbird Records label, in Los Angeles. The ferry from Mallaig had just arrived on the Isle of Eigg, and the ARTHUR KING gang were about to disembark, and begin their week long stay as part of our VISITATIONS artist residency project.

Donning all-white laboratory overalls and red-beanie hats, the team immediately set about extracting samples of their surroundings with recording devices, creating an hypnotic collage of wildlife, nature, weather and local gossip. This provided the sonic landscape, over which the members improvised - culminating in a performance in the living room of one of the island’s residents, and a trippy late-night slot at the Ceilidh Hall as part of our Howlin’ Fling! festival.

In this second episode of the podcast, we chat to Jason Lytle, Aaron Espinoza and Peter Walker about life on Eigg, their recording process and the creation of the music for the project, as well as the experience of performing at Howlin’ Fling!. It also features an exclusive recording of Jason performing a classic Grandaddy song on piano, live at the festival.

If you’d like to support this podcast, and listen to the music that has been created by ARTHUR KING, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Go to www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

This series of VISITATIONS was conducted in St Franny’s Bothan. If you’d like to check out the space, and maybe book a trip to the island yourself, check out www.stfrannys.com.

To check out the other projects of ARTHUR KING, go to www.whoisarthurking.com. You can see what Jason Lytle is up to, over at http://jasonlytle.com/.

Lost Map Podcast is written, produced and presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

Our second series of Lost Map’s artist residency project, VISITATIONS, gets underway with a release from ARTHUR KING - a collective of musicians and artists associated with the Dangerbird Records label, in Los Angeles.

Their journey was sparked by an online conversation between Jason Lytle (front-man with alt-rock pioneers, Grandaddy) and Pictish Trail, in early-2019; having seen photos of our first series of VISITATIONS, Jason was keen to embrace the opportunity to explore the Isle of Eigg, and collaborate with his musical cohorts, Aaron Espinoza and Peter Walker of Dangerbird. All of this was to be captured on camera, manipulated, and projected back onto the island itself by fellow Arthur King companions, John Schlue and Aaron Farley. 

In this first episode of the podcast, we chat to Jason about his life in music, and his journey to Eigg … and we hear from Aaron Espinoza and Peter Walker about the Arthur King project itself.

If you’d like to support this podcast, and listen to the music that has been created for this project, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Go to www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

Lost Map Podcast is written, produced and presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

Daft-pop impresario Pictish Trail (aka Johnny Lynch) runs Lost Map Records from the remote Scottish isle of Eigg. In 2018, he conducted an artist residency programme on the island, inviting three different music acts over to write and record new material during the course of a week’s stay. The music they made was pressed on to vinyl, and available as part of a subscription set from the Lost Map website. The project was called VISITATIONS, and it returns in 2020 for a second season.

There are three new acts taking part this year - the otherworldly L.A. collective ARTHUR KING (featuring alt-rock hero, Jason Lytle, of Grandaddy), the ecstatic post-punk of Glasgow’s RACHEL AGGS (of Sacred Paws, Shopping and Trash Kit), and the hypnotic sway of Winchester’s finest ROZI PLAIN. For this second podcast series, Pictish Trail will be interviewing the various musicians involved, asking them about their lives in music, and their experience on the island.

If you’d like to support this podcast, and listen to the music that has been created for this project, you can do so by signing up to VISITATIONS. Go to www.lostmap.com/visitations for details on our vinyl and digital subscriptions.

Lost Map Podcast is written, produced and presented by Pictish Trail. Additional production and editing by Joe Cormack.

Pictish Trail has some daft chat with his ol’ pal and tour buddy, MALCOLM MIDDLETON - a conversation recorded in front of a live audience at Summerhall in Edinburgh, on Saturday 15th December 2018, as part of Lost Map’s annual festive all-dayer, Kid Canaveral’s Xmas Baubles.

Originally hailing from Falkirk, Malcolm Middleton has created an immense back-catalogue of sonic introspection and lyrical self-deprecation since the mid-90’s. With 7 albums under his own name, a few other albums and EPs under the moniker Human Don’t Be Angry, as well as 6 studio albums and various compilations as one half of Arab Strap, not to mention a collaborative album with David Shrigley, MM is one of Scotland’s most prolific and inventive singer-songwriters.

His latest album, Bananas, was released recently to much acclaim, and finds Malky wallowing in suitably reliable form. He performs the song ‘Man Up Man Down’ from that album, at the end of our chat, as well as one of his up-beat Xmas numbers. Check him out, over here: malcolmmiddleton.com

Lost Map Podcast is presented by Pictish Trail, produced and edited by Joe Cormack. Additional production support from Richie Morgan.

This conversation was recorded on Thursday November 1st, 2018, via Skype - with Abi & Neil chatting from their home on the Isle of Skye, and Pictish Trail on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland.

Abi & Neil had visited Eigg the previous year, in November of 2017, spending a week recording in Sweeney’s Bothy. The resulting songs capture the drawing light and darkened heavens of the late autumn mists under which they were recorded. Across four tracks of cinematic dream-folk, Slow Tree manipulate the natural reverb of the island’s caves, allowing hushed vocals, ethereal piano and sweeping viola to glide alongside the strains of swirling birds in song.

If you’d like to hear the music Slow Tree created in full, or simply support our 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.

Our conversation was recorded on Friday 14th September 2018, and finds Suzi Rodden and Lewis Cook (aka FREE LOVE) discussing their adventures in music together over the past 10 years. After 5 years of performing under the name Happy Meals, the duo have recently transformed into FREE LOVE - indeed, the music they recorded for VISITATIONS is their first physical release under this new moniker. We talk about how they developed their sound over the years, and the inspiration they took from the island during the recording of the VISITATIONS EP.

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

You can visit Free Love over here: https://www.freelovenrg.com/, and be sure to catch them on tour over the coming months - as they have another mini-album of tunes, Luxury Hits, coming out this year.

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