In his review of the Wyrd Kalendar project Mark Barton describes the Wyrd Kalendar album as "an immaculate set that gathers together thirteen like-minded alchemists operating in the disciplines of folk, psych and hauntology".
He praises the various wonderful artists throughout for example describing Wyrdstone's track as "touchingly drifting n’ dreamy" and Rowan Amber Mill's track as"utterly beguiling."
Of the book he says: "a collection of ghostly prose recanting tales of bewitchment and sorcery from an ancestral past long forgotten yet whose ancient hand still reaches from the shadows to today, captivating and creepy..."
You can read the two part review here and then the second part here...
You can still buy the digital album and book. All profits for the album go to Cancer Research. Profits for the book go to Wildlife Trusts.
"If you like your scare fare laced with imagination, surprise, and plenty of spine-tingling moments, I cannot recommend this enough"- Scream Magazine “…this package represents a thriving literary and musical counter-culture.” **** SHINDIG
Monday 23 December 2019
Tuesday 4 June 2019
Divining Moments - Alison O'Donnell and David Colohan - June Wyrd Artists
Join Alison O'Donnell and David Colohan (aka United Bible Studies), our Wyrd Artists for June for two performances this month in the UK! You can catch them at the Babar Cafe as part of Weirdshire on Thursday 27th June and at the Leigh on Sea Folk Festival on June 30th.
They created an incredible piece of music "Deadly Nest" for the Wyrd Kalendar album inspired by the story "June Bug".
You can hear it and buy the album here.
Saturday 25 May 2019
The Dee Day Do Mix!
It is the Dee Day Do!
Celebrate Doctor John Dee with this new mix from the Wyrd Kalendar. With tracks from Damon Albarn, Roy Orbison, Pink Floyd, Arcade Fire, Elbow, Nick Drake, The White Stripes, Matt Berry, Black Sabbath, The Doors, David Bowie, Moon Wiring Club, Gavin Friday, The Velvet Underground, PM Dawn, The Cult, The Ruby Suns, Ivor Cutler, Rufus Wainwright, Scroobius Pip Versus Dan le Sac, The Dee Felicio Trio, X, Doris Day, Tir na nOg, Frank Zappa, Dolly Dolly, Soundhog, The Mortlake Bookclub and Mick Smiley.
This mix also include extracts from Derek Jarman's "Jubilee", the Wyrd Kalendar and an interview with Peter Jimerson of the Fork Horror Revival.
Dee Day Do - The Dee Gallery by Andy Paciorek
The next event of the Dee Day Do is a look at the art of Andy Paciorek...
The sketches from "Presences" are those of faces he "saw hypnagogically on the edge of sleep at a time he had been reading The Book of Enoch and which he subsequentally associated with the Grigori - The Watchers ~ angels that Kelley and Dee communicated with."
Also included in this collection is a portrait of Dee from The Mirror Obsidian book project and a picture of Necromancers from the Strange Lands book.
The sketches from "Presences" are those of faces he "saw hypnagogically on the edge of sleep at a time he had been reading The Book of Enoch and which he subsequentally associated with the Grigori - The Watchers ~ angels that Kelley and Dee communicated with."
Also included in this collection is a portrait of Dee from The Mirror Obsidian book project and a picture of Necromancers from the Strange Lands book.
Dee Day Do Doc!
I hope you had a Dee-licious lunch! Now before you have a slice of Soul cake and a cup of Dee settle down with this Channel Four Documentary - "Masters of Darkness - John Dee" Let's watch it together! Tell us what you think below!
Dee Day Do! Make your Cut out and Keep Scrying Mirror!
It's the Dee Day Do!
Now before we break for a Dee-licious lunch it's time for some collective colouring! Wyrd Kalendar have made a special Scrying Mirror kit just for you! Get your best black crayons out!
Now before we break for a Dee-licious lunch it's time for some collective colouring! Wyrd Kalendar have made a special Scrying Mirror kit just for you! Get your best black crayons out!
Tickets for the next corporeal Folk Horror Festival in Whitby are available to purchase here...
It's Dee Day!
It's time for the Dee Day Do!
To launch this special day Phil Breach has written a poem just for Doctor Dee.
The Dee Day Do
Phil Breach
I met him down in Mortlake when the Sun stood still.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
And we sang a Song of Summer on the Primrose Hill.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
O how the morn was chill!
O he had such a skill!
But I swear that we did no ill.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
In Enochian he canted at the Solstice sky.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
And I heard the voice of angels as they made reply.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
O let me testify!
O how the flames leapt high!
I saw the mighty angels fly.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
We sang that Song of Summer with the Wingéd Choir.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
And he told me of the founding of a great empire.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
The Dee Day Do!
O it was his great desire!
O how he did inspire!
That morn at the Solstice fire.
It's the Dee Day Do Day!
You can listen to it here read by the Kalendar Host...
Monday 20 May 2019
The Dee Day Do Online Festival - Saturday May 25th
Wyrd Kalendar and Folk Horror Revival are joining forces to bring you a mini online festival in honour of the great Doctor John Dee. It was on this day that Doctor Dee royal astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I was able to look into the future using his scrying mirror.
Celebrate this event by joining in our special Dee Day Do!
Marvel at Dr Dee's actual mirror at the British Museum in Jim Peters' special presentation!
Dance, jig and sway to the Wyrd Kalendar Dee Day do mix!
Watch A Dr Dee Documentary with fellow Dee fans!
Make your own Scrying mirror!
You can keep up with all of these events as they happen right here on the Wyrd Kalendar blog or on the Folk Horror Revival Facebook group.
While you wait catch up with all things Dee right here...
Sunday 5 May 2019
Sunday 3 March 2019
Nickanan Night - A Wyrd Kalendar Mix
This Shrovetide feast on the collop and the pancake before knocking on doors and running away as part of Nickanan Night! Let this be your soundtrack to eggs, flour, bacon and mischief.
As well as insightful words on Shrovetide from Jim Moon's excellent March folklore podcast (which you can subscribe to here), this also contains tracks by Spike Milligan, The White Stripes, The Medical Mission Sisters, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Dean Martin, The Doors, David Bowie, Top of the Poppers, Matt Berry, Rob Bravery, Bob Dylan, The Future Sound of London, Ivor Cutler, The Seahorses, The Honey Pot, David Arnold, Danny John-Jules, Sendelica, Rhett and Link, The Orb, Jaded, Dany Rosevear and Frank Zappa.
As well as insightful words on Shrovetide from Jim Moon's excellent March folklore podcast (which you can subscribe to here), this also contains tracks by Spike Milligan, The White Stripes, The Medical Mission Sisters, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Dean Martin, The Doors, David Bowie, Top of the Poppers, Matt Berry, Rob Bravery, Bob Dylan, The Future Sound of London, Ivor Cutler, The Seahorses, The Honey Pot, David Arnold, Danny John-Jules, Sendelica, Rhett and Link, The Orb, Jaded, Dany Rosevear and Frank Zappa.
Sunday 24 February 2019
4 Star Review from Shindig Magazine for Wyrd Kalendar Book and Album
They said:
"The etching-like pen-and-ink illustrations by Paciorek, the founder of the Folk Horror Revival project and its Wyrd Harvest Press publishing offshoot, perfectly capture the uncanny imagery of the tales, as do the 12 tracks on the accompanying CD..."
"...this package represents a thriving literary and musical counter-culture."
Keep it Wyrd!
You can buy the book here.
You can buy the album here.
Wednesday 20 February 2019
Nickanan Night will coming knocking soon...
Nickanan Night is a musical mix from the Wyrd Kalendar celebrating all things Shrove.
From the Bacon Butties of Collop Monday, to the Ginger Knocking traditions associated with Nickanan Night and the over consumption of pancakes – this promises to be a filling treat.
Sunday 3 February 2019
Wander the Spectral Fields - Mix 3 - Chapters 27-39
The Kalendar Host has been reading.
He has found himself lost in “A Year in the Country - Wandering Through Spectral Fields” by Stephen Prince. This incredible work has inspired a new journey out of the Kalendar Heath and across these Spectral Fields to discover music, ideas, stories, folk horror jaunts, hauntological treats and nostalgic terror.
This is the third of four mixes dedicated to this new book. This mix explores chapters 27-39 through music, sound and key extracts, acting as an accompaniment or, if you will allow, an aural appendix.
Buy the book here.
Discover the delights of MacGillivray, Vashti Bunyan, Anne Briggs, The Owl Service, Audrey Copard, Watersons, David Cain, Howlround, Classroom Projects, Kate Bush, Jonathan Hodge, Roger Whittaker, Christopher Gunning, Pierre Arvay, John Williams, COI, Magpahi, Jane Weaver, Paper Dollhouse and The Eccentronic Research Council.
He has found himself lost in “A Year in the Country - Wandering Through Spectral Fields” by Stephen Prince. This incredible work has inspired a new journey out of the Kalendar Heath and across these Spectral Fields to discover music, ideas, stories, folk horror jaunts, hauntological treats and nostalgic terror.
This is the third of four mixes dedicated to this new book. This mix explores chapters 27-39 through music, sound and key extracts, acting as an accompaniment or, if you will allow, an aural appendix.
Buy the book here.
Discover the delights of MacGillivray, Vashti Bunyan, Anne Briggs, The Owl Service, Audrey Copard, Watersons, David Cain, Howlround, Classroom Projects, Kate Bush, Jonathan Hodge, Roger Whittaker, Christopher Gunning, Pierre Arvay, John Williams, COI, Magpahi, Jane Weaver, Paper Dollhouse and The Eccentronic Research Council.
Monday 7 January 2019
It’s January 7th! POUR A BUCKET OF WATER ON A MAN’S HEAD! (Then get back to work!)
January 7th is Saint Distaff’s Day!*
Traditionally this is the last day before we go back to work.
Men will burn the flax.
Women will soak them with water.
Then it’s back to work tomorrow!
*Please note Saint Distaff never existed. He was made up by weavers as an excuse to have one final party…
As the old hymn goes:
Partly work and partly play
Ye must, on St. Distaff's day;
From the plough soon free your team,
Then come home and fodder them;
If the maids a spinning go,
Burn the flax and fire the tow.
Bring in pails of water then,
Let the maids bewash the men.
Give St. Distaff all the right,
Then bid Christmas sport good night,
And next morrow every one
To his own vocation
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Launch Day! The Wyrd Kalendar Album is Released
You can buy the album right here, right now...
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