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Leigh Wright
@wyrddaze.bsky.social
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Curator of Wyrd Daze ezine + blog: music/art/fiction/microculture. Englishman in Quebec. Ephemeral Man.

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Nov 30
Welcome to Wyrd Daze!

A new volume and new issue 1 is coming. In the meantime...

Follow the link for FREE access to Lv.4 all issues + Ephemeral Man mixes + Ghosts & Goblins: celebrating Dungeon Synth, games and Fantasy.

I wish you the Wyrdest of dreams... wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/w...
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hookland.bsky.social
A new entry from the #HooklandEncyclopaedia – #HooklandEncyclopedia for Hooklanders abroad). Double lives, autogyros, aerial archaeology, the Soot Sprite Trust and ghosts. All in all, typical of the county.
CABLE, JAMES James Jonathon Cable CMG CBE FSA (April 1st 1887 – November 17th 1973) played many roles in his life. World War I air ace, a pioneer in aerial archaeology and industrialist might have been enough for most, but he was also a noted as a steam railway restorer and psychic researcher. Born in Wormingford, he was commissioned in 1906 as an officer in the Royal Hookland Regiment. During his time in the army he developed an interest in aviation and supported by his father’s fortune, obtained his Royal Aero Club aviation certificate which helped in 1914 to secure his transfer to the Royal Flying Corp. During the First World War, Cable largely specialised in reconnaissance and later aerial photography, but won a reputation as a skilled and brave flyer ending the war with the rank of Lt. Colonel and induction into the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. In the late 1920s he established Cable Autogyro as part of his father’s Cable Engineering company, developing the CA-100 – an autogyro with helicopter abilities which proved successful and was made under licence in America, Germany and France. In the early 1930s, to promote the reconnaissance capability of the improved CA-200, Cable began working with Hookland Archaeological Trust (HAT) undertaking innovative aerial surveys of the county’s prehistoric landscape recording several previously unknown sites, possible hill figures the ‘Lost Owl’ and ancient trackways. Cable also made films for Pathé News and the Hookland Electric Film Company including their From Above series of short documentaries. During the Second World War, Cable Autogyro became Cable Aviation under his direction and produced the Spearhead aircraft used for clandestine missions and the twin-engined, cannon-armed Vortex fighter. After the war Cable turned the company into a leading British helicopter manufacturer.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
wyrddaze.bsky.social
Samhain Séance 14: The Eyes Have It. A mix for @taktentradio.bsky.social. W/ @theorblive.bsky.social @hothamsound.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bsky.social @greyfrequency.bsky.social @officialcardiacs.bsky.social @theleaflibrary.bsky.social @polypores.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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"Something wicked this way comes.."

New for Halloween

// A Portmanteau of Horrors
// Drew Mulholland

Spooky artwork assisted by @gardengate.bsky.social

// 0800 GMT
// 31 October

Limited edition vinyl
DO NOT MISS OUT!!
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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theleaflibrary.bsky.social
In advance of the full release on Friday, here's another track (plus video) from our new remix album:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAPz...

Video and remix by the wonderful Berlin-based electronic musician Tiago De Almeida.

Pre-order: objectsforever.bandcamp.com/album/flower...
The Leaf Library - I Learned To Swim Under Water (Tiago de Almeida Remix)
YouTube video by Inner Space Travels
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October 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
wyrddaze.bsky.social
The Apollo Suite concludes with: An Ode to Apollo.
For @taktentradio.bsky.social. A melody of wonders: ancient lyre, orphic hymm, sounds from Palestine + strange wonders from @nutone.bsky.social, @polypores.bsky.social + much more. Listen on the Wyrd Daze blog: wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/z...
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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The penultimate of seven mixes for Apollo: Understand Through Listening. Includes strange wonders by @jo-johnson.bsky.social @quietdetails.bsky.social @loulayorke.bsky.social @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social @foxydigitalis.bsky.social Listen on my blog --> wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/z...
October 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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grailseeker.bsky.social
You have reminded me to upload this track for posterity:
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Originally created for @wyrddaze.bsky.social 's Radio Free Hookland wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2021/12/
December 2021 – Wyrd Daze
3 posts published by Leigh Wright during December 2021
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October 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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lazaruscorporation.co.uk
New blog post: Prefiguration
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Prefiguration
Back in 2020 I was discussing the out-of-print novel Albion by Brenda Vale and musing on what I’d taken from it, and I wrote: The problem with modern democracy is that it has thoroughly convinced…
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October 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from the HQ of WOMB – Women Opposing Male Bullshit – in a squat on Vinegar Street, where their fundraising party is so loud it threatens to wake the plague pit dead. Goodnight from Cass Farley, reading fox-scattered bones as a map to tomorrow. Goodnight from Hookland.
October 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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quietdetails.bsky.social
qd40 Scanner - Forces, Reactions, Deflections - out now!

Elated to welcome one of the most enduringly creative and boundary-pushing artists of the last few decades to quiet details, Robin Rimbaud, @scannerdot.com

Out now on CD and digital

#scanner #quietdetails #music #ambient #musicsky
October 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
wyrddaze.bsky.social
The antepenultimate Apollo Suite: Choose What is Divine. Includes strange wonders by
@benefitstheband.bsky.social @mortalitytables.bsky.social @loulayorke.bsky.social @deadmau5.com @kuma23.bsky.social
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September 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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theleaflibrary.bsky.social
Super thrilled to say that the @polypores.bsky.social remix of Flowers At The Border from our new remix album is the @moonbuilding.bsky.social TRACK OF THE WEEK:

moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-81-2...

Loads of other good reviews in there - have a read and a listen along. Thanks MB
Issue 81 / 26 September 2025
Your essential DIY electronic music lowdown: Track Of The Week = The Leaf Library's Polypores remix + Album Of The Week = Slow Blink + alka, Immersion, Multiplex, Persistence Of Sound double bill...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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quietdetails.bsky.social
The album is currently the best-selling ambient album on @bandcamp.com and CDs still flying out (fifth best-selling CD any genre on the platform too!) - thanks for the support! Message me for Chloe’s gorgeous long-form CD version if you bought one.

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/the-ab...

#music
The Absence of Being, by Raica
7 track album
quietdetails.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
wyrddaze.bsky.social
Congratulations for ten years of vivid, brilliant electronica! Can't wait to hear what the next ten brings 🎧
bricolageg5.bsky.social Bricolage @bricolageg5.bsky.social · Aug 31
Today is the day….we’ve now officially been around for a decade! ✖️

We celebrate it in style with this mammoth compilation from the past, present and future of the label.

"X" marks the spot and "X" marks the years.

Available now ⬇️
bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/x-bc094

🔟🎉
X (bc094), by Bricolage VA
27 track album
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September 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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taktentradio.bsky.social
Zadagan Keep – Ode to Apollo

A mix by The Ephemeral Man featuring Sounds from Palestine, Thanasis Kleopas & Loukiani Papadaki, The Future Sound of London and much much more…

Listen here... taktentradio.com?p=4659

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August 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Here is my foreword for a lovely thing.
tomsbrown.bsky.social Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · Aug 26
In a land that had cried out for the Latchless door...
Order page is up! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/the-...
By @taliskimberley.bsky.social , Illustrated by me, with foreword by @hookland.bsky.social
This is a small book (A5) UK only for now. Limited edition, signed and numbered.
Cover art for The Latchless Door by Takis Kimberley, illustrated by Thomas Brown with foreword by David Southwell. 1 of 854 Latchless Door: Foreword text Inbox Talis 11:06 (10 minutes ago) to me Foreword by David Southwell Rhymes have power. We know this at a bone-deep level. At school, the texts of great novels and plays were studied. Can many of us remember and quote more than odd line of them? Rarely. Can we remember a dozen rhymes of the playground? Of course we can. They’ve tattooed themselves upon our psychic skin. They’ve become part of us. Rhymes are magic. We know this. Some deeply ancient part of us understands. They summon. They seal. Banish and transform. They are apotropaic acts. A spoken, chanted ritual of correspondences that pulls on the strings of enfolding worlds. Songs, well we all know about them. Songs are engines of emotion, inspirers of action. They are invocations, enchantments. Clear high sorcery. An alchemy of mood change. Songs are openers of the ways. Few things can challenge their potential for discovering, mapping and celebrating the hidden parts of ourselves. It is for these reasons I regard The Latchless Door as a book of magic. On the following pages you will find magic that Talis Kimberley has created, collected and manifested. Here are the rhyme-spells for ending and beginning things, for stitching the wounds of the heart so that it can love again. Here are the rhyme spells that will turn the bolts of wickets to Faery (whether they will unbolt the gates from the other side is another matter). Here are the rhyme-spells to open doors to memories we thought long lost. Memories of the time we talked with a tree and it taught us a little of the green language. Memories we now understand were locked away for good reason. You know the sort I mean. Recollections of the spiderweb sutured woman we used to glimpse living in the realm between the mirror’s glass and silvering. Here are the song-spells that summon the Queen of Owls, that let us feel the blade of winter’s ice falling upon the year even while we are in the stretching of summer heat. ere are the song-spells to invoke the The Hum or the feral saints of folk faith whose names are all but forgotten. Here are the song spells to ward against untethered temporal shades, to turn the Marsh Ape from from your door and loose the ankle grip of Stay Below. If you doubt the potent magic of Talis’s rhymes and songs, just study the illustrations they have called forth from Thomas Brown. Ripe with a sense of unearthed gods and feral mysteries, they dance to its score. Chanted and song into existence, they throb with a shared sense of the land as transmission. The Latchless Door offers paths to the occulted within and without. These are traditions that never were and always were. Truths you have always known and felt, but never had put into words before. This is a navigation of routes not only into Hookland, but the living current of folklore it springs from. People often tell me I am mad for having created Hookland as a pre-enchanted landscape for others to freely use. My usual response is to list all of wonderful things that have manifested from a belief artists don’t always need to be landlords for the places they create. I’m going to be able to add The Latchless Door to the list of wonderful things. Of course, no-one needs my validation for their exploration of the county. It is part of the Commonwealth of the Imagination. I am merely a guide to it and so is Talis Kimberley.
August 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Can confirm it does have a foreword by me and that the words: 'I regard The Latchless Door as a book of magic' are used.
tomsbrown.bsky.social Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · Aug 13
For those of you waiting for the Latchless Door by @taliskimberley.bsky.social, It has grown a bit, which is absolutely good news. A new song and verse added. We have a forward from Mr Southwell (!) and as soon as I reformat and send to @comicprintinguk.bsky.social , I'll make orders live.
Book cover art for the Latchless Door, rhymes and songs from Hookland. A landscape with a broken moon, buttons, sycamore keys, blackberries and a power pylon.
August 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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lazaruscorporation.co.uk
A short news item about my exhibition that starts tomorrow, in which I clumsily talk through a short video interview

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/fantast...
"Fantastical" photographs in Hastings exhibition
Paul Watson is exhibiting a selection of his fantastical photographs upstairs at 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings from August 1–24.
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July 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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keithseatman.bsky.social
For some of my Album excerpts, odd and spare ideas and things from the past pop over to Soundcloud, hoping to put new album excerpts on there soon. soundcloud.com/keith-seatman
Keith Seatman
Musical Oddness & Wistful Tootling, Southsea and always slightly lost. Keith’s 2024 release a skip and a song to see us along was Number 14 in Electronic Sounds Albums of 2024 and also included on Stu
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July 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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taktentradio.bsky.social
A new mix by The Ephemeral Man @wyrddaze.bsky.social featuring

@jo-johnson.bsky.social
@quietdetails.bsky.social
‬@loulayorke.bsky.social ‬
@thirdkindrecords.bsky.social
@foxydigitalis.bsky.social
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Listen here >>>> taktentradio.com?p=4611
July 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
There is always an uptick of graffiti depicting the Maryworth Sea Serpent (AKA Horwab or Manusnac) in the summer months – often alongside spray-painted spells urging it to devour tourists. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1983
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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quietdetails.bsky.social
Listen / buy / RSVP here

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/escape...
Escape Now, by Jo Johnson
8 track album
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July 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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lazaruscorporation.co.uk
New blog post:

The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future

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The futility of constructing a better past & the necessity of imagining a better future
I haven’t seen 28 Years Later yet, but it’s already on my list of things to watch ASAP, and Rowan Lee’s (relatively spoiler-free) analysis of it in 28 Years Later: Where Folk Horror Meets the Apocalyp...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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ingrownrecords.bsky.social
Somehow, our music TV show has returned. I can't think of a better first guest than our friend @polypores.bsky.social who was gracious enough to beam in this spectacular set for us. Check out his new album on @crackedankles.bsky.social and give his pages a follow if you haven't already!
Aura Borealis #31 "Polypores"
YouTube video by Ingrown Records
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June 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
wyrddaze.bsky.social
A journey into the deep. Choose what is Divine.

Really happy with how this one turned out, some amazing tunes in there!
June 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM