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Blake Leyh
@earlofedgecombe.bsky.social
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Composer, Music Supervisor, Sound Designer, Mixer (The Abyss ,The Wire, Treme, Neptune Frost) Bass/Guitar/Cello/Gravikord. Bastard son of William Blake & The Velvet Underground, literally.

https://blakeleyh.com

Harlem ~ New Orleans ~ London
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Good morning from Brussels
Looking through an attic window ten minutes after sunrise, we can see vague shapes of brick buildings and chimneys, shrouded in light rain. The window has a thick unfinished wood frame. The glass is covered in rain drops and condensation. The sky is blank grey.
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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In Cologne last night.
Blake Ley hplaying the electric cello and Peter Gordon playing the sax on stage bathed in red and purple light.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Screenshot of an Instagram link which sadly requests login.
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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@janlankisch on Instagram has fantastic video from our show in Cologne last night on his story. But I am Insta-illiterate and have no idea how to link to it! Can someone help a brother out with a Bluesky friendly link?
Peter Gordon & Blake Leyh playing electric cello & sax live in Cologne, bathed in red and purple light.
November 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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In Cologne, they have special baskets on the bicycles dedicated to transporting gingko leaves.
Several bicycles chained up on the street covered in ginkgo leaves.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Good morning from Cologne
Looking out of a modern window eighty-twi minutes after sunrise, The song is just above the buildings, creating a small lens flare. The sky is full of swelling gray clouds. A few modern buildings are across the street.
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Anybody know what kind of birds nests these are? Filmed just now from the train window between Brussels and Cologne.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Just did a live radio hour on doyou.world
Blake Leyh & Peter Gordon in the studio at do you.world radio. Blake has his electric cello, and Peter has his sax.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Good morning from Dalston
Looking through a modern window thirty-four minutes after sunrise, there is a generic brick house with a black roof beneath a clear blue cloudless sky.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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I was in Glasgow for 20 hours and the one thing I did that wasn't work-related was visiting the extraordinary Sharmanka Kinetic Theater, thanks to a tip from @regretteruane.bsky.social. What an amazing place! So glad I got to experience that!
A steel bird with a bell in its mouth. One of the kinetic sculptures at Sharmanka kinetic Theater. Me, amazed by the sculptures at Sharmanka. Another amazing Sharmanka kinetic sculpture. Wrought Iron and wheels. Me and the Sharmanka sculptures.
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Good morning from Glasgow
Looking out of a modern window during late morning there is a view of Glasgow Central train station, with a prominent industrial gantry. The sky is blank, impenetrable gray.
November 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Good morning from Brentford
Looking through a three-panelled window two hours after sunrise, we can see a few green bushes and some leafless trees. The sky is pale blue. The sun is visible through the trees, making a horizontal curved lens flare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Good morning from Brentford
Looking through a three-panelled window three hours after sunrise, we can see a few green bushes and some leafless trees. The sky is blank and grey.
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Visited the wonderful NIGERIAN MODERNISM show at the Tate Modern.
Me, a middle-aged white man with spiky red hair and glasses, standing in front of Obiora Udechukwu's gigantic 1993 painting "Our Journey." Museum description: In Our Journey, a bold yellow spiral unravels across the canvas symbolising the sacred python, a divine guide in Igbo cosmology. To create layered designs, Udechukwu used sgraffito, a technique in which a sharp implement is pulled through wet acrylic paint. Shadowy figures embedded in the yellow band evoke wartime displacement and national crisis. Udechukwu references the Nigerian Civil War - in which he served as a member of the Biafran Propaganda Unit - and perhaps the political unrest which followed Nigeria's 1993 election. Widespread protests erupted in June 1993 after the government refused to release the election results. The election was supposed to return Nigeria to democratic civilian rule after a decade of military government. Military rule finally ended in 1999. Erhabor Emokpae's 1963 painting "Struggle between Life and Death." Museum description: 1963 Oil paint on canvas board In Struggle between Life and Death, the black and white palm prints signify both being and nothingness. 'I see in life and death a dialogue between the womb and the tomb', said Emokpae. 'They are the parentheses within which we love and hate, laugh and cry, grow and decay.' Emokpae grew up among the Guild of Carvers in Benin City, and adapted traditional Edo-Benin carving in his wooden sculptures. As a member of the Society of Nigerian Artists and the Nigeria Arts Council, he influenced government policy and helped shape the public perception of Nigerian art. The cover of ~1963 Nigerian magazine BLACK ORPHEUS." A gorgeous abstract block print in red, black, and white. Museum description: Black Orpheus: A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature was a major Nigerian literary and artistic journal. Founded by German scholar Ulli Beier in Ibadan in 1957, Black Orpheus provided a vital platform for contemporary African writers and artists. It featured poetry, art, fiction, literary criticism, and commentary. The journal was committed to publishing translations from writing in French, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as oral histories. A digitised archive of Black Orpheus is available via the online publication OlongoAfrica. Yusuf Grillo's 1963 painting "The Seventh Knot." Museum description: Oil paint on board In these paintings Grillo creates stylised figures, some of which recall the African mask forms that influenced cubist art. Grillo was drawn to the colour blue, influenced by the deep indigo tones of traditional Yoruba adire textiles and the sombre works from Picasso's Blue Period. Initially intending to study mathematics and architecture, Grillo ended up training as a painter at NCAST. His exploration of volumetric form reflects his interest in mathematics, architecture and the work of early European modernists.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Visited Máret Ánne Sara's amazing installation "GEABBIL" at the Tate Modern. A labyrinth in the shape of the internal structure of a reindeer's nose, it includes smells of reindeer milk & the artist's own breastmilk to evoke nourishment & possibility for the future.

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A labyrinth made of Nordic sticks, neon tubes, and reindeer fur, in a giant modern hall. Reindeer skulls on the wall of the labyrinth. Me, a middle-aged white man with spiky red hair, wearing headphones, inside a labyrinth of wavy sticks and a neon tube. Wavy sticks and neon tubes make a wall above a reindeer fur bench.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Walking from Waterloo to the Tate Modern right now, found this Bourdain mural.
A black and white mural of Anthony Bourdain on the side of a building in London with the legend "CONTEXT AND MEMORY PLAY POWERFUL ROLES IN ALL THE TRULY GREAT MEALS IN ONES LIFE" ANTHONY BOURDAIN 1966-2018"
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Surveillance defense system, Kew Bridge station, at this moment
A close circuit camera mounted on a pole with circular spikes beneath it, against a backdrop of blue sky and white puffy clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Good morning from Brentford
Looking through a three-panelled window three hours after sunrise, we can see a few green bushes and some leafless trees. A red car and a bus are passing on the road behind the trees. The sky is full of dense grey clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window forty minutes after sunrise there are a few scattered white puffy clouds in the blue sky above the horizon. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The window is grimy on the bottom.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window two and a half hours after sunrise the deep blue sky has a single, small, puffy white cloud floating in the center. A few other puffy white clouds linger in the distance above the horizon. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The brown tops of two trees are on the bottom and right. The window is grimy.
November 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window three minutes after sunrise there is pale blue sky marked with jet trails at the horizon, while the upper sky is a dense mass or gray and orange finely patterned clouds. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window fifteen minutes before sunrise the cloudless sky fades from lemon yellow at the horizon, through pink, to dusty gray-blue up above. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance.
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I lived in Los Angeles for 12 years and never saw a rainbow. But after I moved back to New York I had to go to LA for my friend Andre Burke's memorial service in 2007, and when we were driving on the freeway to the memorial, here was this amazing rainbow. They do feel like signs, sometimes.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window nineteen minutes after sunrise the candy blue sky is filled with rolling, wintery white clouds. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones with red brickwork are across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The tops of two trees are on the bottom and right, turning red and brown for autumn.
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem
Looking through an arched window twenty-four minutes after sunrise the powder-blue sky is full of undulating, diffuse white clouds. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones with red brickwork are across the street, and a taller apartment buildifng can be seen in the distance. Two trees with brown leaves are on the bottom and right.
November 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM