Lost Valentinos new single ‘Midnights’
June 10, 2009 Posted by Eva at 2:19 pm
Lost Valentinos‘ latest single Midnights is currently painting Triple J cosmic with the fractured guitars and mystical vocals unique to their “conquistadisco” sound. To request it on air, just click here.
And don’t forget that the gents are playing Splendour in the Grass in just over a month, while the Midnights EP, featuring Emperor Machine and Fan Death remixes, is out June 26.
Save FBi!
June 5, 2009 Posted by Eva at 3:05 pm
Our dear friends over at FBi Radio have fallen on hard times lately. Luckily, they have a tonne of friends who’ve all come together to help keep the wolves at bay.
They include our own Lost Valentinos, who will be playing the June 13 Save FBi Party at The Forum, alongside Ajax, Bag Raiders, Van She Tech, Canyons, The E.L.F., Yacht DJs, The Vanish, So I’m Jo, Magic Happens, and many more.
Make sure you get along to show your support for this indie music institution.
Dazed and Lost…
June 2, 2009 Posted by Eva at 6:10 pm
Dazed Digital recently spent some time with the Condor, Piranha, and Snake (aka three fifths of Lost Valentinos) to discuss all sorts of things including AC/DC, hoverboards, and growing up in Sydney.
Read the full interview here.
Lost Valentinos UK Dates
May 6, 2009 Posted by Eva at 11:23 am
They mercilessly conquered Australian audiences at their recent Sydney and Melbourne Serio Single Launches. Now, with their sights set firmly on Europe, these Valentinos are anything but ‘lost’.
Over the coming months they’ll be playing some of the sizzling-est dates imaginable across the UK, Spain and Belgium. And July brings a spot on the hottest-of-hot Splendour in the Grass lineup.
With this many dates you’ll have no excuse for not seeing them in the flesh. Make sure you wear something nice.
Europe Dates:
8 May – Dummy Party – The Queen of Hoxton, London, UK
13 May – Clash Magazine Party – Hoxton Bar, London, UK
15 May – Les Nuits Botanique – Brussels, Belgium
16 May – Ruby Lounge – Manchester, UK
21 May – Yo Yo, Nottinghill Art Club – Nottinghill, UK
22 May – Razzamatazz – Barcelona, Spain
23 May – Sound City – Liverpool, UK
29 May – White Light – London, UK
Lost Valentinos Free Download!
April 28, 2009 Posted by Eva at 3:12 pm
Our friends at the brand new UK label Dummy have generously put up a free-download of Lost Valentinos’ Midnights. Click here to download the two part track in all it’s glory, as well as a rework by hot-as-hell disco queens, Fan Death, and an incredible 14 minute marathon mix from Emperor Machine.
Dummy is run by Leo Silverman – he who signed the White Stripes to XL and broke The Vines and The Avalanches in the UK – and the label’s first release was The Golden Filter’s 24-carat single Solid Gold. Lost Valentinos will be playing the Dummy launch party in May, as well as UK club nights Yo Yo, White Heat, and the Clash Magazine party.
If you’re in Sydney this Friday (1 May) make sure you’re at the Serio Single Launch at The Annandale.
Lost Valentinos in the Grass…
April 22, 2009 Posted by Eva at 3:00 pm
Putting months of speculation to rest, this year’s Splendour in the Grass lineup has just been announced. And it includes our very own Lost Valentinos, alongside MGMT, The Flaming Lips, Friendly Fires, plus tonnes more.
If you can’t wait until July for a live fix, they’re also performing some dates over the coming weeks:
22 Apr – Beach Rd Hotel w/ Art vs Science Bondi, New South Wales
24 Apr – Northcote Social, Melbourne
1 May – The Annandale, Sydney
On the road again
March 27, 2009 Posted by admin at 4:25 pm
Lost Valentinos are launching Serio from their debut album Cities of Gold with an Australian tour throughout April!
The Serio Tour
April 9th at the Fly By Night Perth (no advance tickets)
April 11th Live at the Zoo, Adealide (tickets from Moshtix)
April 17th Elsewehere, Gold Coast (tickets from Oztix)
April 18th The Globe, Brisbane (tickets from Oztix)
April 22nd Beach Road Hotel, Bondi (no advance tickets)
April 24th Northc ote Social, Melbourne (tickets from the venue)
May 1st The Annandale, Sydney (tickets from the venue)
Lost Valentinos are also currently travelling from Melbourne to Sydney on the Bacardi Express! You can read about all the action thanks to Groupie Magazine, who are daily blogging from the train… CHOO CHOO!!!
Lost Valentinos ‘Serio’ video, directed by Dave Ma
March 13, 2009 Posted by admin at 5:19 pm
This week, Myspace international premiered the video for Serio by Lost Valentinos.
Here’s what Pedestrian Magazine had to say about the clip:
Embracing the South American heritage of the brothers Santamaria (bassist Pat and guitarist Andrew) the band don tribal headdresses and Incan-style paraphernalia or what I like to call “suitable attire for getting Pagan in the woods”. Director Dave Ma, the man behind multiple Foals film clips and the brother of guitarist Jono succinctly captures the visual aesthetic the band have so carefully crafted thus far – it’s all blackened trees, skulls, journeymen, sand dunes and gold dust – and fuck it looks good.
I first called Serio “the sunshine inflected slow burner to the best hands-in-the-air beach party you’ve ever been to” and upon watching the film clip I could say much the same thing. It’s both refreshing and rare that a band is so confidently singular in their sound, visual identity and ethos whether that be animal monikers, other-worldly cover art, or fantastical back stories. Drums not dead, and neither is the magic.
Serio
February 19, 2009 Posted by admin at 10:18 am
“It is the sixteenth century. From all over Europe, great ships sail west to conquer the New World, the Americas. The men: eager to seek their fortune, to find new adventures in new lands. They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown countries, to find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes. They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to El Dorado and the Mysterious Cities Of Gold.”
Present day. A band of five spirited and able men of ancient blood and true hearts: Jono Ma, Nik Yiannikas, Simon Parker and the Brothers Santamaria. Young adventurers seeking a new treasure. Their quest: walking the path of their forefathers in search of new Cities of Gold. Their art: Conquistadisco. They are known as Lost Valentinos.
Their journey begins on the island of New Holland in the year 2007 AD. Banded together in a studio in the port city of Sydney, they record their tales of adventure, quest, hope and despair. Many days, months and years had led to this culmination of honed talents and refined ideas, and many characters and successes were encountered on the way…
Since their inception in 2005, Lost Valentinos have conspired with legendary journeyman Kimberly Isaac Moyes (of the exalted duo The Presets), and the notorious twosome Nicholas Littlemore and Peter Mayes (of PNAU and Empire of the Sun fame), on their debut and sophomore offerings respectfully. Both bodies of work received widespread acclaim, gained them valuable knowledge, and saw them forge the second ever franco-australien relationship with avant-garde curators of Music, Kitsuné (the first being made by the frontiersmen known as Cut Copy).
But it was only upon their chance encounter with one of Music’s greatest shamans that their path was illuminated. His name was Ewan Pearson, and he was known as the Silver Fox. Quests with the likes of The Rapture, Tracey Thorn and M83 have endeared the Silver Fox to his peers, and made him respected and revered amongst his enemies.
And so it was in that year that Jono, Nik, Simon, Andrew and Pat (known as the Coyote, Jaguar, Asp, Piranha and Condor respectively), accompanied by the great shaman, took their first steps on the trail to find their riches. Their debut full-length body of work, Cities of Gold, documents these adventures.
The Bismarck chronicles the first stage of the journey – the tale of the conquistadors’ tumultuous journey through uncharted waters. Serio tells of the second – the warm embrace of a safe landing ashore; it is a halcyon summer anthem brimming with optimism and sunlight.
Lost Valentinos have walked in the footsteps and heard the whispers of the adventurous lost souls before them: Francisco Orellana, Gonzalo Pizzaro, Philipp von Hutten, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada and Sir Walter Raleigh. Yet, unlike their precursors, these new conquistadors returned with great riches.
Not the fabled gold that their Incan ancestors spoke of through the language of Quipu, or ‘talking knots’, but the precious discovery of knowledge and experience, gained in the communion of ancient and new technologies. Lost Valentinos are here with new riches, new tales, told in a new language.
Serio will be released on iTunes on the 28th of February and in limited edition CD single format on the 28th of March on etcetc, through Universal Music Australia. Taken from their forthcoming debut album Cities of Gold (produced by Ewan Pearson), due out mid 2009.
If you go down to the woods today…
February 6, 2009 Posted by admin at 11:53 am
Last week Lost Valentinos filmed the video for their first album single Serio in outback Sydney, and Semone Maksimovic and Mel Leong tagged along with their notepads and cameras to capture some of the behind the scenes action for Lifelounge.com.
“… day two began in the city, with make up application beginning at 5am, before a trek to Kuring-gai National Park, to sneak in some last shots while avoiding getting caught filming in bushfire territory. Although working under severe time constraints, the LV boys performed admirably, managing to complete their final shots adorned in full Shaman regalia while performing in a drummers circle amongst the bush’s harsh debris and unrelenting morning sun.”
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