The Heartwood Institute
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Home of The Heartwood Institute and associated projects.
Happy New Year all ! Thanks for your continued support of Heartwood and related projects. Much more new music to release this year 🤘
January 1, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Happy New Year all ! Thanks for your continued support of Heartwood and related projects. Much more new music to release this year 🤘
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Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
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A blessed Yuletide to you all - Medieval Harp.
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A blessed Yuletide to you all - Medieval Harp.
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The Ladybird Christmas tree.
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Ladybird Christmas tree.
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
Spindly, slightly wonky, over decorated with a random assortment of decorations - and always ready to shed an improbable quantity of needles
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)
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Day 19 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. Time for modernist ornaments. We take the chain of electrical pylons from box, the silver wires between them pulled tight. Under them we scatter repurposed dolls and action figures into a march of ragged walkers, Children of The Hum.
December 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Day 19 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. Time for modernist ornaments. We take the chain of electrical pylons from box, the silver wires between them pulled tight. Under them we scatter repurposed dolls and action figures into a march of ragged walkers, Children of The Hum.
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Sometimes the images sprayed and spat from aerosol cans onto underpasses are just intended as pretty scenes. Sometimes they represent ghost trees, omenic corvids and fox brides. It's my job know if they are. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1983
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Sometimes the images sprayed and spat from aerosol cans onto underpasses are just intended as pretty scenes. Sometimes they represent ghost trees, omenic corvids and fox brides. It's my job know if they are. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1983
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now playing on THE SUGAR & LUST RADIO SHOW on NOISEBOX RADIO:
Carlisle City Council - English Gate
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Carlisle City Council - English Gate
carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com || @heartwood9.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982
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There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There are infections of blood. There are infections of the soul. There are I believe, infections of the place. For the land itself may be wounded by our traumas. Where its psychic skin cracks, the spoilings of rot and wickedness can set in. We call such infections hauntings. – Rev. A. Morley
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Goodnight from Gosmer, where the villagers have chosen to burn an effigy of Thatcher the Iron Witch instead of Guy Fawkes. Goodnight from David Appleyard, walking a night filled with bonefire incense and the heady gunpowder smell of exploded fireworks. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Goodnight from Gosmer, where the villagers have chosen to burn an effigy of Thatcher the Iron Witch instead of Guy Fawkes. Goodnight from David Appleyard, walking a night filled with bonefire incense and the heady gunpowder smell of exploded fireworks. Goodnight from Hookland.
Rituals, by The Heartwood Institute
3 track album
theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Divided Time '79, now available direct - sadly vinyl only shipping to the UK : jonathansharp.bandcamp.com/album/divide...
Divided Time '79, by Jonathan Sharp
10 track album
jonathansharp.bandcamp.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Divided Time '79, now available direct - sadly vinyl only shipping to the UK : jonathansharp.bandcamp.com/album/divide...
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The modern world in old Ladybird books.
“A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971)
Artist: BH Robinson
“A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971)
Artist: BH Robinson
October 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The modern world in old Ladybird books.
“A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971)
Artist: BH Robinson
“A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971)
Artist: BH Robinson
Rare live appearance incoming - October 25th, Fell Foot Woods, The Lake District.
quob.uk/2025/
quob.uk/2025/
QUOB 001 : 25th October 2025 at Fell Foot Wood
experimental music, arts, happenings and nonsensical moments
quob.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Rare live appearance incoming - October 25th, Fell Foot Woods, The Lake District.
quob.uk/2025/
quob.uk/2025/
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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
January 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."
Please support - doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/doom-f...
Doom For Palestine (a compilation for gaza), by Various Artists
35 track album
doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Please support - doomforpalestine.bandcamp.com/album/doom-f...
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"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"
By Humbert Wolfe
#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂
🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"
By Humbert Wolfe
#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂
🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896
October 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"
By Humbert Wolfe
#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂
🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896
We have had our summer evenings, now for #October eves!"
By Humbert Wolfe
#October1st #BookChatWeekly #Autumn 🎃🍃🍂
🖼️ 'La Bourrasque' (The Gust of Wind) by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, 1896
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If you're a newsletter subscriber, today's the last day you can save 25% off the newly released Diva Gemini, Diva Gemini Dark and Diva Gemini Bundle.
www.theunfinished.co.uk
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October 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
If you're a newsletter subscriber, today's the last day you can save 25% off the newly released Diva Gemini, Diva Gemini Dark and Diva Gemini Bundle.
www.theunfinished.co.uk
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Tonight we are going to see Rollerball. Tomorrow we are going to Brent Cross the new shopping centre.
September 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Tonight we are going to see Rollerball. Tomorrow we are going to Brent Cross the new shopping centre.
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PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group formed by women for stitching and swearing #WomensArt
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
PEG - Profanity Embroidery Group, Whitstable, UK, a group formed by women for stitching and swearing #WomensArt
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The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
September 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
New release day - Carlisle City Council return..... carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/gatewa...
Gateways To The City, by Carlisle City Council
5 track album
carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New release day - Carlisle City Council return..... carlislecitycouncil.bandcamp.com/album/gatewa...
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This evening's cooking soundtrack, eerie beguiling #electro #folk from the Master of Hauntonica @heartwood9.bsky.social
#Nowplaying
Hedges - The Heartwood Institute
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theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/wf-73-...
#Nowplaying
Hedges - The Heartwood Institute
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theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/wf-73-...
WF 73 - Hedges, by The Heartwood Institute
10 track album
theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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In having an intimate knowledge of the paths she treads, the witch not only knows where and when to gather herbs, she develops a profound relationship with their ecosystem of spirits. Around this bend wild strawberries, in this stretch the Wood Sprite called Whipfast. – #EmilyCBanting 1981 #WitchSky
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
In having an intimate knowledge of the paths she treads, the witch not only knows where and when to gather herbs, she develops a profound relationship with their ecosystem of spirits. Around this bend wild strawberries, in this stretch the Wood Sprite called Whipfast. – #EmilyCBanting 1981 #WitchSky