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Leo Chadburn (London, UK) FKA Simon Bookish is a composer of experimental and 'avant-pop' music, vocalist and writer. His unpredictable work includes music for classical ensembles, dramatic solo perfo...

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Sep 5

I apologise for adding to the #BandcampFriday deluge, but if you'd like to buy my records, today is ideal. I know the very idea of paying for music is withering away these days, but as a 100% independent, DIY musician, your support is a big deal. I'm hugely thankful for it: leochadburn.bandcamp.com

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh ha ha! Thank you. X

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks to The Wire (500th issue published this week!) for these words about my new album:

Lists can be poetic as well as functional. Naming in that direct way conveys a sense of concreteness. Leo Chadburn's "Magic Flora Of The East Midlands", the second of four tracks, starts with a spoken catalogue of plants, minimally glossed with healing or magical qualities traditionally attributed to each, while Latin botanical names are intoned by a monastic voice. This curiously engrossing piece also incorporates a list of traditional occupations - wheelwright, ostler, blacksmith, and so on. Words can generate extensive webs of association, and through time they acquire a patina of accrued meaning. Through texts which engage with landscape, regional history, perception and personal recollection, Chadburn invites us to experience the chemistry of language, its precipitation of imagery, embellished with field recordings and finely judged instrumental and electronic enhancements. An evocative, sonically engaging and thought-provoking work.

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 29

Really nice that my new album is in amongst the best albums this month... thank you thank you!

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 29

Everything you’ll find here, as well as all the other excellent music we’ve covered at tQ this month, will also be compiled into an hours-long playlist exclusive to our subscribers...

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of August 2025

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Quietus Music of the Month composite graphic of several albums collaged together.

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 24

Oh, thank you!

Leo Chadburn Broadcasts a Radiophonic Lullaby of Decline

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 24

ICYMI... an interview with me here about the new album (and other matters): www.thetonearm.com/leo-chadburn...

The experimental composer's album 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator' transforms his childhood memories of Coalville's mines and factories into a dreamlike narrative about the East Midlands' vanis...

Leo Chadburn Broadcasts a Radiophonic Lullaby of Decline

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks so much to The Tonearm for doing this interview with me, about the new album (out today), why the radio is important, the East Midlands, and a belated postscript to the Simon Bookish project: www.thetonearm.com/leo-chadburn...

gerryhectic.bsky.social @gerryhectic.bsky.social · Aug 8

Check out @leochadburn.bsky.social's interview as his new album, 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator' is out today... www.thetonearm.com/leo-chadburn...

The experimental composer's album 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator' transforms his childhood memories of Coalville's mines and factories into a dreamlike narrative about the East Midlands' vanis...

Leo Chadburn – Sleep In The Shadow Of The Alternator

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is a really excellent choice of records, notwithstanding one of them being by me. Also, Dale's new album is his best yet and you should check it out - unnverving and hilarious, ferocious and intimate, red-raw drum machines and saucy vocals.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 13

From to getting his grandma into Björk to the golden years of electroclash, Dale Cornish takes Jennifer Lucy Allan through the soundtrack of his life via 13 key albums

Life is a Jumble Sale: #DaleCornish’s Favourite Albums

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musicOMH @musicomh.com · Aug 8

Leo Chadburn – Sleep In The Shadow Of The Alternator | An important document, this deeply respectful set of audio postcards moves between the past and the future, forming a work that assumes symphonic dimensions

An important document, this deeply respectful set of audio postcards moves between the past and the future, forming a work that assumes symphonic dimensions

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you so much Gerry!

Leo Chadburn Broadcasts a Radiophonic Lullaby of Decline

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks so much to The Tonearm for doing this interview with me, about the new album (out today), why the radio is important, the East Midlands, and a belated postscript to the Simon Bookish project: www.thetonearm.com/leo-chadburn...

gerryhectic.bsky.social @gerryhectic.bsky.social · Aug 8

Check out @leochadburn.bsky.social's interview as his new album, 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator' is out today... www.thetonearm.com/leo-chadburn...

The experimental composer's album 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator' transforms his childhood memories of Coalville's mines and factories into a dreamlike narrative about the East Midlands' vanis...

Leo Chadburn – Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator | The Quietus

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

The new album is out now! leochadburn.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's #BandcampFriday, which means today is an ideal day to pre-order 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator', (out next Friday, 8th). As ever, your support for my work is massively appreciated; album sales enable me to keep on releasing music. Thank you! X leochadburn.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

Cover of the CD version of Leo Chadburn, 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator': two spheres of steel float in a black void, one glows red, green, blue.

Inner sleeve of the CD version of Leo Chadburn, 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator'.

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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · Aug 8

Excellent review by ‪@drtombolton.bsky.social‬ of today's new @leochadburn.bsky.social LP: "...draws on a tradition of poets writing the landscapes that fill their minds. reminiscent of Ivor Cutler, Alan Moore... a perfectly realised work and visionary triumph."

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The composer (fka Simon Bookish) evokes visionary worlds from the ruins of Leicestershire's coal mining and power-generating past

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great review (by Tom Bolton) of the new album (which comes out on Friday) on The Quietus today. Thank you!

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 5

'Sleep… is powered by narration, words murmured into a microphone like the latest of late night radio: the spirit of Chris Morris’ Blue Jam and Delia Derbyshire’s Inventions for Radio.'

Leo Chadburn - Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator

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Leo Chadburn (fka Simon Bookish) - Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator album cover. Two grey spheres, one with a red, blue and green blurring effect as used in 3D imaging, against a black background.

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 2

Great show here! Thanks for including new track of mine...

The Séance @theseanceradio.bsky.social · Aug 1

Séance archived & seething with outliers & eidolons including Kenyon Hopkins @alexandertucker.bsky.social ‬ @leochadburn.bsky.social ZAHGURIM Lee Underwood Dane Law Mura Oka @greyfrequency.bsky.social Cerys Hafana Fhunyue Gao | Sven Kacirek & the unlike. Hear: bit.ly/46DWqom

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's #BandcampFriday, which means today is an ideal day to pre-order 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator', (out next Friday, 8th). As ever, your support for my work is massively appreciated; album sales enable me to keep on releasing music. Thank you! X leochadburn.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks to Elizabeth Alker for previewing my new album on BBC Radio 3's 'Unclassified' last night! "..the narrative just keeps you gripped all the way through, and the electronics carry you along beautifully...” 🙌 Listen again here (album preview is 4:15 into the show): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh thanks! I don't want to Dunning Kruger myself too much though: I am a "enthusiastic very amateur" lepidopterist. There's a few immediately unmistakeable species - Jersey Tiger, luckily, even when photographed from the unflattering underneath, couldn't be anything else. Hope you're well Josie! X

Dr Leo Chadburn @leochadburn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Hello! Apologies I haven't looked at BlueSky all day. It's a Jersey Tiger.