Lost And Sound
Paul Hanford
Lost and Sound is a podcast exploring the most exciting and innovative voices in underground, electronic, and leftfield music worldwide. Hosted by Berlin-based writer Paul Hanford, each episode features in-depth, free-flowing conversations with artists, producers, and pioneers who push music forward in their own unique way.From legendary innovators to emerging mavericks, Paul dives into the intersection of music, creativity, and life, uncovering deep insights into the artistic process. His relaxed, open-ended approach allows guests to express themselves fully, offering an intimate perspective on the minds shaping contemporary sound.Originally launched with support from Arts Council England, Lost and Sound has featured groundbreaking artists including Suzanne Ciani, Peaches, Laurent Garnier, Chilly Gonzales, Sleaford Mods, Nightmares On Wax, Graham Coxon, Saint Etienne, Ellen Allien, A Guy Called Gerald, Jean Michel Jarre, Liars, Blixa Bargeld, Hania Rani, Roman Flügel, Róisín Murphy, Jim O’Rourke, Yann Tiersen, Thurston Moore, Lias Saoudi (Fat White Family), Caterina Barbieri, Rudy Tambala (A.R. Kane), more eaze, Tesfa Williams, Slikback, NikNak, and Alva Noto.Paul Hanford is a writer, broadcaster, and storyteller whose work bridges music, culture, and human connection. His debut book, Coming to Berlin, is available in all good bookshops. Lost and Sound is for listeners passionate about electronic music, experimental sound, and the people redefining what music can be.
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Mar 7, 2023 • 56min
Lucinda Chua
South London-based singer/songwriter, producer, and composer Lucinda Chua joins Paul for a conversation on the eve of the release of her debut long player, YIAN, on 4AD Records. In the past better known for her collaborations with artists such as FKA twigs and for her time in the post-rock duo Felix, her solo work mixes deep introspection with stunning atmosphere. Her NTS show is ace too. She chats with Paul about the scariness of putting yourself out there, authenticity and output and more. Lucinda Chua’s LP YIAN is available on 4AD Records from March 24th.Paul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Feb 28, 2023 • 50min
Suzanne Ciani
Suzanne Ciani is a true pioneer. One of the world’s first synth heroes. “The diva of the diode.” Ciani began experimenting with electronic music in 1960s California, at a time when to do so wasn’t just about a new style of music, but about creating a whole new language: a new form of music with this new technology. Like Delia Derbyshire and Cosey Fanni Tutti and many other female pioneers, it’s taken time for the world to catch up and for Ciani to be recognised for quite how significant her cultural contribution runs across how we hear what we hear. Now in her mid seventies, she shows no signs of slowing down, she speaks with Paul about some of the key musical moments in her life: California of the 60s, New York of the 70s, the importance of putting emotion into music and her work in spatial sound. Suzanne Ciani is touring from march to September this year, check out her tourdates herePaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Jan 24, 2023 • 39min
Miss Grit
This week, Paul meets New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn aka Miss Grit. Their upcoming debut LP, Follow The Cyborg finds a personal connection between cyborg theory and her identity. As a mixed-race, non-binary artist, Sohn has always rejected the limits of identity thrust upon them by the outside world, in favour of embracing a more fluid and complex understanding of the self. The conversation touches on Donna Haraway’s 1986 essay A Cyborg Manifesto, which uses the figure of the cyborg to urge an understanding beyond the limitations of traditional gender, feminism, and politics. Margaret and Paul talk about her work, which blends a sonic mixture of machine detail and human emotion, New York living and more. Miss Grit’s LP Follow The Cyborg is out Feb 24th on MuteThe single Lain (Phone Clone) is available nowThis episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Jan 17, 2023 • 47min
The Waeve - Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall
The Waeve is the coming together of two unique musical voices - Graham Coxon & Rose Elinor Dougall who've just come together to make a rather deep and magical record together as The Waeve.Rose - started out in the Spector-eque girl group The Pipettes in the early millennium, has recorded since with Mark Ronson amongst others and her solo music, like on her most recent solo album A New Illusion, taps into a dreamy yet darkly tinged sound with elements like psychedelia, krautrock and folk in the mix. Graham is, what we call in England, somewhat of a national treasure. As guitarist from Blur, he’s been a major creative driving force behind some of the most iconic music of the last thirty years and like Thurston Moore or Jonny Marr, created a real alternative version of a guitar hero, one with vulnerability, angularity and curiosity in place of machismo and pomposity. They spoke with Paul about how they came together and made a dark, richly layered album, along the way becoming a couple and they reflect on the difficult subject of Englishness, their creative processes and more.The Waeve’s debut LP is out Feb 5th on TransgressiveThis episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Jan 10, 2023 • 59min
Mark Jenkin
Lost and Sound is back after a seasonal break, and trying something new: Paul’s first guest of the year is actually a film maker. Isn’t this a music podcast? You might say, but Mark Jenkin’s hands-on approach and unique style, particularly when it comes to sound design, make him, for a podcast that meets outliers, innovators and outsiders, a spot on guest. Following on from his 2019 black and white Cornish-set Bait: a film nodody could have predicted would have become the hit it was, we spoke about his new offering, the 70s-set folk horror, Enys Men. It’s hauntology on screen: eerie and dream-like. The soundtrack, composed by Jenkin, is stand-alone good - particularly if you’re a fan of disintegrating drones and analogue loops that feel warped into some lost memory. Mark Jenkin’s original score for Enys Men is out now digitally on Invada Records. The film is released in the UK on 13 Jan. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Dec 13, 2022 • 58min
Nastia
Nastia aka - Anastasia Topolskaia is a true techno outlier, the Ukrainian DJ is one of the most in-demand techno DJs travelling internationally yet keeps it real: her sets are hard, deep and come from an intrinsic sense of movement that is tied to her roots as a dancer. Unlike so many DJs, she has for most part not become a producer, rather concentrating on the dancefloor. She is also known for actively choosing to be selective where she plays, picking good venues with good sound systems over maximum exposure.Uncompromising and without filter, Nastia talks with Paul about the effects of the Russian invasion, about why she spoke out on social media about Nina Kravitz, why (connected to this) being honest and being true to yourself are essential to being an artist and more.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Dec 7, 2022 • 1h 1min
Anton Newcombe
Lost and Sound is about sharing conversations with the innovators, the outsiders, the mavericks, artists that do their own unique thing and this week’s guest is certainly all of those. Anton Newcombe. His musical project, the psychedelic trailblazers The Brian Jonestown Massacre, began in San Francisco in the early nineties. Outspoken and often misunderstood, he is in fact a clever, tenacious and conscientious artist whose carved out a unique DIY ecosystem. Acerbic, unfiltered, honest and funny - he talks with Paul about how he started out, creating musical ecosystems, the importance of being civic minded as the world turns more fascist and the math in his sound.The 20th Brian Jonestown Massacre studio album - The Future Is Your Past is release date 10th February 2023 and the band are touring in Europe in Jan and Feb, tour dates and album info here.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Nov 29, 2022 • 51min
Lafawndah
Lafawndah’s The Dawn Of Everything is a song that she says was born between unlearning the past and watching the future unfold and is dedicated to the people of Iran and their bravery in rising up after the murder of Masha Amini. Paul talks with the pan-global, pan-genre artist, herself with Iranian roots, about why it’s important for music to offer solidarity and protest, as she puts it “We have music for when we’re born, we have music for when we die and we have music for when we say no!”The Dawn Of Everything is available only via Bandcamp for now and all proceeds from sales will be donated to the organisation Human Rights In Iran - persian.iranhumanrights.orgThis episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.O
Nov 22, 2022 • 38min
Alison Cotton
Alison Cotton is like a musical painter: using voice, harmonium and viola to create textures that, on her most recent album, The Portrait You Painted Of Me, often hauntingly invoke the landscape of North East England. Paul had a chat with her about how she uses sound and her voice to express herself.This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
Nov 15, 2022 • 47min
Gigi Masin
Ambient maestro Gigi Masin describes living in Venice and always being surrounded by water as making you like a sailor. His seminal 1986 LP Wind was almost entirely lost in a flood in this city, but over the years, his music has continued to find new fans, Gigi’s been sampled by everyone from Bjork to Post Malone and counts Oneohtrix Point Never, Devendra Bahanart and Caroline Polachek as supporters. A philosphical, deeply empathic human in conversation, he talks to Paul about transforming grief into celebration, and how he did this through paying tribute to his late wife on his new album Vahinè. And when someone whose nearly 70 years old looks and sounds barely 50 - then its worth listening as they’re obviously doing something right. This episode is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul’s debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culture Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by E.S.OTo support this show, head on over to Paul’s Patreon at:www.patreon.com/paulhanford
