Lost And Sound

Marshall Vincent joined me for an in-person conversation to discuss how he uses his sublime alt-R&B to channel confidence, growing up in Chicago, adapting to German mannerisms, the virtues of collaboration and the power of singing in the toilet. His music is so intimate and so sonically expressive at the same time, and in person, he’s suave and witty company, and an inspiringly confident artis...

This week, I have an in-person conversation with the visionary Yann Tiersen.  We talk about his new album, Kerber, which draws on the geography and atmosphere of the remote island Ushant, where he lives. Plus, he shares reflections on the deeper context of where his music comes from, how a life or death situation gave him an artistic epiphany and also, to be warned, what happens if you expect him...

This week, J. Willgoose, Esq, from Public Service Broadcasting joins me. On the eve of the release of the band’s new LP, Bright Magic, an impressionistic journey through Berlin. So obviously we had to have a chat, right? Enigmatic, immersive, atmospheric, each time PBS emerge, they take on a subject and to me, its like falling into a deep book. From exploring the cold war space race so well that J...

This week, DJ Fuckoff took a break from whipping up storms across parties in Berlin to have a raw, cute and frank in person chat with me.  Propulsively mixing techno with juke, psy-trance and warehouse rave so potent you can practically smell the heat from the generator, all with sexually empowering lyrics. We met up for a coffee in Neukölln where she opened up about battling incels, the lingering...

This week, I had a chat with Bob Stanley, musician, journalist, author, film producer and one third of the seminal Saint Etienne (the other two thirds being Sarah Cracknell and Pete Wiggs).   Saint Etienne’s tenth studio album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, is out this Friday and we spoke about how it questions nostalgia and asks were the ‘90s as optimistic as we now think of them as being? Their...

This week, I spoke with the awesome Daniel Avery. Producer and DJ, author of the transcendetally good Drone Logic and the now equally amazing Together In Static LP. Coincidentally, although we’ve never met, we both grew up as indie noise kids in the same town and we chatted about this, about his early break as a Fabric resident, his friendship with Andrew Weatherall, how phones maybe aren’t the wo...

This week, Ramona Gonzales, aka. Nite Jewel . Producer, singer, musicologist. We spoke about how her transcendentally good new album, No Sun, uses Moog and voice and is a break-up album, made largely whilst living on a friend's couch,  but is also part of an investigation into the agency of the female voice through history. As well as this, she reflects on her emergence through the LA scene d...

After a summer hiatus, we’re back. I spoke with Angus Andrew, who for over 20 years and now 10 albums, has been Liars. Always utterly fresh, idiosynchratic, intense and channelling something that seems to come from a realm beyond reinvention. We got into a chat about where this comes from, along the way taking in letting go of musical inhibitions, pcibocylin, drums, the Brooklyn scene, living remo...

This week, we zap over to Norway to catch a conversation with producer Stian Balducci and pianist Kjetil Jerve about collaboration, jazz’s origins as a dancing music and their desire to make an “Improvised music of our age”.  Their joint LP, Tokyo Tapes mixes drone, jazz and frequency-pushing sonics and I think its a stunning listen, and before you think that maybe these are some serious dudes, pr...

I had a conversation with Amsterdam-based producer, songwriter and musician Tessa Douwstra, who records under the name Luwten and finds a way of blending nu-soul tinged vocals and textured, experimental production. Luwten means ‘Place without wind’ in Dutch and I was interested to ask her about the way her music feels so intimately personal yet sonically expressive. Theme music by ESO Support the...

It’s been thirty years since they last met but I had a chat with A Guy Called Gerald and Trevor Miller . Miller’s cult novel Trip City caught the early acid house zeitigest and it was released with an EP made by Gerald, riding high at the time with what are now the classics Voodoo Ray and Pacific State. To celebrate the book’s re-release I caught up with the two for a frank, revealing and at times...

We’re back. Today, I spoke with Jim O’Rourke, iconocalstic producer, singer-songwriter, former Wilco and Sonic Youth collaborator, from his home half way up a mountain near Tokyo.  The interview was originally recorded to talk about Jim’s film connection for the Lost and Sound - Playtronica collab podcast, Seeing Sound, but the conversation went into different realms and spilled out into this much...

Lou Hayter ’s on the show today. We spoke about the things and influences that have led up to her Roxy’eque space-disco tinged solo LP Private Sunshine, as well the New Young Pony Club days in the post punk and party mid noughties. Lou is a certified Steely Dan fan and she very kindly gives some advice too, on finding your way into the Dan’s catalogue. Theme music by ESO Support the show

I met up with Roman Flügel , and boy did it feel good to be doing an in person interview again. And what a guest for that be to with. We did corona tests to be safe and met in his secret studio in Berlin, where he spoke about getting on board the early rave scene in Frankfurt, how electronic music is actual songwriting, the primal nature of dancing and of course, his fantastic new LP Eating Darkne...

Flora Yin-Wong : producer, DJ, writer, multi-disciplinarian spoke with me from London about the startling work of textural sound that is her debut LP, Holy Palm . Her debut book Liturgy, offers glimpses across travels, traditions and religions and we had a conversation about balancing different jobs (she was digital editor at Dazed for some time and also worked for Berlin's PAN label) as well...

“Everyone whose listening… go off the grid!” Sage advice from this weeks guest on Lost and Sound - musical polymath King Britt , beaming in from San Diego. Right now, he’s taken a lifetime in DJing, producing, remixing and just being an all round presence in electronic music’s evolution into the realms of education. We had a chat about whitewashing in electronic music and the need to have access t...

I spoke with Gruff Rhys , the always inventive artist, frontman of Super Fury Animals, sometomes half of Neon Neon, author, director and all round potential Welsh national treasure. Super Fury Animals, often considered the last great band on Creation Records gave  a sense of surreal adventure and a global musical pallet unusual for the Britpop era. They sung sometimes in Welsh, were politically co...

Fresh up in Lost and Sound today, legendary Brit in Berlin, Mark Reeder.  Musician, record producer, label owner, the man who bought Joy Division to Berlin, who pioneered Trance with his MFS label, he’s been an outlier and creative force in the city from post-punk to now, whose story of arriving in Berlin over 40 years ago is vividly chronicled in the amazing doc B-Movie .  This is a kind of redux...

I had a chat with Hannah Holland - DJ, producer, composer, promoter, label boss. Hannah’s played a key role in London’s alternative and queer club scene since the mid-noughties, firstly as resident at the legendary night Trailer Trash and then with Batty Bass. She’s played everywhere from Panorama Bar to Fabric. Now, not only composing the music for Channel 4’s Adult Material, she’s debuted the kr...

This week, I had a chat with Chilly Gonzales , the suave  all round musical polymath.  Where do you start with Chilly? From early rap-infused works where he declared himself the President of the Berlin Underground, to his sublime Solo Piano albums, via collaborating with Daft Punk, Feist and Jarvis Cocker. Then there's running his own music school (The Gonzervtory) to holding the Guinness wor...

I had a chat with Ella Zwietnig, film composer, sound designer, performer and songwriter. I’ve only recently discovered the Austrian artist’s music, and I was really captivated by the sonic soundworld she creates and the incredible things she does with vocal arrangements. We spoke about the shocking lack of female composers getting work in films, how making electronic music is a liberating power a...

I spoke with composer and producer Robot Koch. His music is a real cyborg mix of natural stuff like strings and high tech immersive 3D elements. He made an album that toured planetariums and in a change of pace, scored the music for the new Christiane F remake Wir Kinder Vom Banhof Zoo. We had a really warm talk  about the universe and leaving Berlin for LA, amongst other things. https://www.robot...

I zoomed across to Scotland to have a chat with the one and only Arab Strap - Aidan Mofat and Malcolm Middleton.  About to release their first new album together for over 15 years - As Days Get Dark, I’ve always loved the band’s confessional lyrics, often pre-occupied with sex and hedonism, half sung, half spoken in Aidan’s Falkirk accent, and the atmosphere they conjur up around this. I felt like...

Fresh up on the new Lost and Sound I connected to Istanbul, to chat with the influential pianist and interior architect Büsra Kayıkçı. Her compositions have a unique way of capturing something in the moment and her social media presence, particularly on instagram has become, I think, a really positive beacon in a world where its still perhaps unusual in the west to see a woman wearing a headscarf...

I had a chat with pianist and composer Hania Rani, whose  two beautiful albums so far on the Gondwana label - Esja and last year’s Home to me, feel like the perfect listening for these  snowy days. I love the atmosphere she’s able to conjure often with little more than piano and we got into a really nice conversation from Berlin to her home in Warsaw about, amongst other things, finding the things...