The Wyrd Kalendar Album - April Artist - Crystal Jacqueline

Last year we prepared for the publication of the book Wyrd Kalendar...

This year we are making ready an album of  the same name...

This new album will contain 13 tracks - 12 of which will be related to the stories from the book and the month of the year. The album will be released by the very groovy Mega Dodo (who released Songs from the Black Meadow in 2016). All profits from the album will go to charity.

The artists have been given a month each, a copy of the linked story and Andy Paciorek's picture to give them a starting point and away they go!

We are very proud to reveal that the artist for April is the wonderful Crystal Jaqueline who has created a track based on the month of April and the story "Chasing the  Gowk". I worked with Crystal Jaqueline at the Games for May gig in 2016 in which she sang the brilliant "Water Hyacinth".

More information about the album and our other monthly artists will be released throughout 2018...

Check out the incredible sounds of Sun Arise...

Swansongs - A Special Wyrd Kalendar Mix

To celebrate the Folk Horror Revival Swansongs at the Black Swan in York on May 12th the Kalendar Host has produced a special walk upon the heath that explores the work of the artists at that concert - Sharron Kraus, Sarah Dean and Hawthonn. As well as this you will hear extracts of swan related poetry and tales and music from Passengers, Thom Yorke, The Ken Moule Assembly, REM and Saint Saens.

For tickets to this extra special event visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swansongs-tickets-44059576379

You can find out more about the event here: https://folkhorrorrevival.com/2018/03/11/swansongs/

WYRD NEWSFLASH - Four new mixes for the Wyrd Year - Spectral Fields

We at Wyrd Kalendar are very proud to announce a new mix project that will be taking place this year...

As well as the remaining seasonal mixes for Summer, Autumn and Winter  you can now look forward to wandering the Spectral Fields with the Kalendar Host this year.

The new Spectral Fields mixes explore Stephen Prince's "A Year in the Country" a fantastic wander through the edgelands touching on all things folk horror, hauntological and pastoral in a strange landscape that borders that of the Kalendar Heath... Each mix will explore 13 chapters from the book capturing sounds, extracts, music and strangeness from this brilliant new tome...

The first mix will be broadcast in May.

Join us...

April - A Mix For Fools

To celebrate April Fools and Easter Day conjoining in disharmony enjoy the April  mix that contains extracts from "Chasing the Gowk" the April story for Wyrd Kalendar and explore some of our April discoveries here...

Beware the Fool.

As you wander the Kalendar Heath this month do not let the fool lead you astray. He will lead you a merry dance as you, the Gowk, lose yourself in a mysterious maze of musical magic.

Whilst Jon Neill and Chris Lambert bring to life extracts from Wyrd Kalendar story "Chasing the Gowk" you will be tricked and delighted by the likes of the Cocteau Twins, June Tabor, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tim Hart and Maddy Prior, Frank Churchill and Larry Morey’s “Bambi” soundtrack, David Cain and Ronald Duncan, Fiona Shaw and T.S. Eliot, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Patti Smith, Simon and Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, The Divine Comedy, The Stone Roses, Prince, George Michael, A-ha, Supertramp, Genesis, Pat Boone, Sandy Rogers, Frank Zappa, Tom McRae, Loudon Wainwright III and Rufus Wainwright.