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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. https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com

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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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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 4d

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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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 8d

Always a great pleasure - thank you for sharing!

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 10d

A pleasure, great track!

Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 11d

The antepenultimate Apollo Suite: Choose What is Divine. Includes strange wonders by @facadelectronic.bsky.social @fieldswefound.bsky.social @quietdetails.bsky.social @coco-francavilla.bsky.social wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/z...

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 11d

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
wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/z...

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · 11d

The antepenultimate Apollo Suite: Choose What is Divine. Includes strange wonders by @facadelectronic.bsky.social @fieldswefound.bsky.social @quietdetails.bsky.social ‪‬@coco-francavilla.bsky.social ‬‬https://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/zadagan-keep-the-apollo-suite-choose-what-is-divine/

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The Leaf Library @theleaflibrary.bsky.social · 12d

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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quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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#music

The Absence of Being, by Raica

7 track album

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congratulations for ten years of vivid, brilliant electronica! Can't wait to hear what the next ten brings 🎧

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

bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com

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Tak Tent Radio @taktentradio.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

@polypores.bsky.social @wyrddaze.bsky.social

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here is my foreword for a lovely thing.

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.

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Latchless Door: Foreword text
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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.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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.

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · Jul 31

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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Keith Seatman @keithseatman.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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Tak Tent Radio @taktentradio.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thank you so much, Alex! 🎧❤️

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · Jul 4

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

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quiet details @quietdetails.bsky.social · Jul 3

Listen / buy / RSVP here

quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/escape...

Escape Now, by Jo Johnson

8 track album

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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · Jul 1

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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Ingrown Records @ingrownrecords.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Jun 21

A journey into the deep. Choose what is Divine.

Really happy with how this one turned out, some amazing tunes in there!

Tak Tent Radio @taktentradio.bsky.social · Jun 21

Choose What is Devine - A mix by The Ephemeral Man
@wyrddaze.bsky.social featuring @benefitstheband.bsky.social‬ @mortalitytables.bsky.social‬ @loulayorke.bsky.social‬ @fieldswefound.bsky.social‬ ‪@quietdetails.bsky.social‬ @coco-francavilla.bsky.social

Play here >>> taktentradio.com?p=4565

Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Jun 21

A pleasure, it's a fascinating project!

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Leigh Wright @wyrddaze.bsky.social · Jun 21

A pleasure, it's a great track!