lost toys editions
Lost Toys Editions are a series of hand made, numbered, editions, both by Lost Toys artists and specially selected guests to the label.
Each edition will be designed by the artist in collaboration with Lost Toys, with a sleeve that is put together by hand in the LT's studio with the help of everyone involved in the project.
Each edition will be number and after the edition is sold out it will not be reprinted. Hopefully it is summer fete jam stall meets Ed Ruscha book multiple. We are certainly very excited about some of the artist involved in the series.
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LOST TOYS EDITIONS # 3: RICKY LEACH - YONIC TOTEM
Electroacoustic chanteur Ricky Leach delivers his curiously haunting second album Yonic Totem through Lost Toys Records.
As part of the Lost Toys Editions series, Yonic Totem is released on a limited run of 100 CDs, each coming in uniquely reformatted 78 sleeves with hand printed artwork.
The album perversely delves into our long held fascination with the apocalypse. From the Enlightenment to the climate crisis, an enormous shift has occured in humanity’s relationship to its future. Concieved as a return to a Black Death era public conciousness, this is ruminated upon through imaginatively processed musical forms and mordant lyrics.
Inspired by Matmos' sampling of sound sources with powerful semantic resonances, Yonic Totem's approach is more acousmatic than electronic: Sounds are melted into one another with the listener swimming between them, mediated through antique musical instruments in hauntological reverie. The language of electronics feeds its way back into the acoustic - performances are attenuated physically with obstructions like balloons and hoses.
The lyrical content is stark but vibrant with compelling images deployed somewhere between doomsaying preaching and light entertainment. The hysterical warnings and supernatural fantasies of traditional myths are made into oblique narratives: Scott Walker's The Seventh Seal is reimagined with a cyclical reference to the Swedish church paintings that originally inspired Ingmar Bergman's film.
Whilst studio conventions are aborted in favour of an industrial, lo fi aesthetic, it is a sophisticatedly crafted production by Lost Toy's own Johnny Parry. Collaboration also comes from illustrator Rose Harries and Lost Toys' resident artist Andy Holden for the artwork on the sleeve. Accordianist Jules Banghert also makes an appearance between his duties in 90s gypsy pop cross-dressers Django Spears.
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LOST TOYS EDITION # 2: THE GRUBBY MITTS
Edition of 250. Screen printed sleeve with stuck on wobbly eyes. Tracks: Her Laughter / For Tomorrow, Beautiful Cosmos, Last Stop for the Good Old Times, The Mountain and I, So Long See You Tomorrow.
Available now from the Lost Toys Shop.
Below: Grubby Mitts performing at their record launch at the Slaughtered Lamb which also saw great sets from Juneau Projects and Ricky Leach.
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LOST TOYS EDITION # 1: BETTY FRANCES
Now available in the Lost Toys Shop!
"I WANT TO SAY THAT THE WONDERFULLY SPOOKY MS. FRANCES IS TIMELESS, BUT YET SHE WOULD BE RIGHT AT HOME IN BERLIN CIRCA 1925, OR PARIS IN 1952, OR GREENWICH VILLAGE IN 1968, OR LONDON NOW. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO HER FINISHED RECORD THIS YEAR."
BLACK FRANCIS (Frank Black)
Above: Betty Frances Lost Toys Edition Session
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Forthcoming Lost Toys Editions:
Pyramid Pyramid
Black Maria Memorial Fund
Ice Sea Dead People
Lost Toys Editions are a series of hand made, numbered, editions, both by Lost Toys artists and specially selected guests to the label.
Each edition will be designed by the artist in collaboration with Lost Toys, with a sleeve that is put together by hand in the LT's studio with the help of everyone involved in the project.
Each edition will be number and after the edition is sold out it will not be reprinted. Hopefully it is summer fete jam stall meets Ed Ruscha book multiple. We are certainly very excited about some of the artist involved in the series.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
LOST TOYS EDITIONS # 3: RICKY LEACH - YONIC TOTEM
Electroacoustic chanteur Ricky Leach delivers his curiously haunting second album Yonic Totem through Lost Toys Records.
As part of the Lost Toys Editions series, Yonic Totem is released on a limited run of 100 CDs, each coming in uniquely reformatted 78 sleeves with hand printed artwork.
The album perversely delves into our long held fascination with the apocalypse. From the Enlightenment to the climate crisis, an enormous shift has occured in humanity’s relationship to its future. Concieved as a return to a Black Death era public conciousness, this is ruminated upon through imaginatively processed musical forms and mordant lyrics.
Inspired by Matmos' sampling of sound sources with powerful semantic resonances, Yonic Totem's approach is more acousmatic than electronic: Sounds are melted into one another with the listener swimming between them, mediated through antique musical instruments in hauntological reverie. The language of electronics feeds its way back into the acoustic - performances are attenuated physically with obstructions like balloons and hoses.
The lyrical content is stark but vibrant with compelling images deployed somewhere between doomsaying preaching and light entertainment. The hysterical warnings and supernatural fantasies of traditional myths are made into oblique narratives: Scott Walker's The Seventh Seal is reimagined with a cyclical reference to the Swedish church paintings that originally inspired Ingmar Bergman's film.
Whilst studio conventions are aborted in favour of an industrial, lo fi aesthetic, it is a sophisticatedly crafted production by Lost Toy's own Johnny Parry. Collaboration also comes from illustrator Rose Harries and Lost Toys' resident artist Andy Holden for the artwork on the sleeve. Accordianist Jules Banghert also makes an appearance between his duties in 90s gypsy pop cross-dressers Django Spears.
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LOST TOYS EDITION # 2: THE GRUBBY MITTS
Edition of 250. Screen printed sleeve with stuck on wobbly eyes. Tracks: Her Laughter / For Tomorrow, Beautiful Cosmos, Last Stop for the Good Old Times, The Mountain and I, So Long See You Tomorrow.
Available now from the Lost Toys Shop.
Below: Grubby Mitts performing at their record launch at the Slaughtered Lamb which also saw great sets from Juneau Projects and Ricky Leach.
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LOST TOYS EDITION # 1: BETTY FRANCES
Now available in the Lost Toys Shop!
"I WANT TO SAY THAT THE WONDERFULLY SPOOKY MS. FRANCES IS TIMELESS, BUT YET SHE WOULD BE RIGHT AT HOME IN BERLIN CIRCA 1925, OR PARIS IN 1952, OR GREENWICH VILLAGE IN 1968, OR LONDON NOW. I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO HER FINISHED RECORD THIS YEAR."
BLACK FRANCIS (Frank Black)
Above: Betty Frances Lost Toys Edition Session
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Forthcoming Lost Toys Editions:
Pyramid Pyramid
Black Maria Memorial Fund
Ice Sea Dead People