A music collective from Portland, Oregon, Loch Lomond began life in 2003 as the solo project of Ritchie Young.
Admittedly, most solo projects don’t involve a carousel of contributions from upwards of 30 musicians, but that’s an indication of just how amorphous Loch Lomond’s line-up was until 2007 (when their second album, Paper The Walls, was released).
Having coalesced into a more settled, six-piece incarnation, Loch Lomond finished recording ‘Little Me Will Start A Storm’ back in 2008 before the material was temporarily shelved due to mixing issues and the small matter of a sell-out US tour with fellow Portlanders ‘The Decemberists’.
Loch Lomond | Elephants & Little Girls
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=WJi9MXfl3zA
And so it was that a band from the Pacific Northwest chose to name themselves after the largest lake (by surface area) in Great Britain. Whether it was destiny or a simple act of postage and packing serendipity,
Loch Lomond found themselves signed to Chemikal Underground, bringing with them an artful, understated melodicism and songs redolent of early REM, the psych-folk musings of Mercury Rev and the multi-instrumental fables of The Decemberists.
Loch Lomond European Tour
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=Af8cr90hqco
Support on the night comes from Smoota who plays trombone with acclaimed art rock band TV on the Radio and recently toured with Sufjan Stevens so one can expect a good all round double bill from these two american acts.
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Loch Lomond & Smoota LIVE
Tuesday, 12 Febuary 2013 | 20:00 CET
Grüner Salon | Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz | Entrance on the left side of Volksbühne | 10178 Berlin/Mitte
gruener-salon.de| chemikal.co.uk/artists/loch-lomond
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