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plinth

About Me

the music of plinth is recorded through a dodo feather liberally doused in infants blood and suspended approx. 200 feet above sea level. future projects will hopefully include guest freestyling from arthur conan doyle and raffles, the gentleman thief.
the new record will be called music for smalls lighthouse . it will be accompanied with a short story co-written by myself based around the events that took place there in the 1800's. contributing this time are nicholas palmer (directorsound) and autumn grieve.
a short discography 2008 - plinth - music for smalls lighthouse (durtro jnana)
2007 - plinth "wintersongs lp" (extended reissue of debut cassette on rusted rail)
2006 - five shores (as michael tanner on dorset paeans)
2006 - plinth plays victorian machine music (rusted rail).
2004 - plinth "improv 04" (dorset paeans)
2002 - plinth "wintersongs ep" (dorset paeans)
1998 - plinth "wintersongs" cassette (no label)
1996 - plinth "the footstool e.p." cassette (no label)
compilation appearances:
2004 - 3 live songs on 'the great dorset tea party' (dorset paeans)
2001 - "bracken" on 'you don't need darkness...' (geographic music)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/27/2006
Band Website: "
Band Members: michael fernando tanner
Influences: oliver postgate, paul giovanni and the BBC radiophonic workshop.
Sounds Like: melodic metal whirring things
Record Label: durtro jnana
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

some 'wintersongs' reviews

animal PSI "Plinth, last heard from via the fantastic solo project 'Victorian Machine Music' is here as a four-piece from another life: 'Wintersongs' is a reissue of an earlier CDr by the label  in...
Posted by plinth on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:33:00 PST

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Posted by plinth on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:40:00 PST

'wintersongs' reissue on rusted rail

the first plinth record has been remastered and expanded for release on ireland's rusted rail. go here if you like a copy...i think it still sounds ok. 'victorian machine music' is still availabl...
Posted by plinth on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:02:00 PST

music for smalls lighthouse

the music you can currently hear on my page is taken from a suite of songs i worked on throughout early 2006. they're loosely based on the smalls lighthouse disaster of 1801, and were meant to co...
Posted by plinth on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:24:00 PST

free download

michael tanner - five shoreshello folks. this is dorset paeans number seven, originally released early this summer in a short run of 50 copies. basically myself (plinth) playing repetitive looped guit...
Posted by plinth on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:47:00 PST

VMM interview at smileshop

http://www.thesmileshop.net/plinth.html writing words about yourself can sometimes be the hardest thing in the world. cheers john!...
Posted by plinth on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:00:00 PST

flattering review in this weeks foxy digitalis...

http://digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/review_detail.php?id=16 83 Artist: PlinthAlbum: Plays Victorian Machine Music Label: Rusted Rail Rating: Plinth is the solo endeavour of Michael Tanner, who is a...
Posted by plinth on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:14:00 PST

VMM review in this month's "Wire"

"Dorset's Plinth appeared on the Geographic compilation You Dont Need Darkness To Do What You Think Is Right back in 2001. As the title suggests, all eight tracks on this EP were created by the 'creak...
Posted by plinth on Wed, 24 May 2006 04:09:00 PST

"plinth plays victorian music" 3 inch, plus free album...

hello one and all,rusted rail have just released a limited 3 inch CDr of my music made from the creaking, winding, piping, chiming and wood-knocking of victorian parlour music machines. recordings we...
Posted by plinth on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:07:00 PST

collaborations sought...

i need help. i'm writing some short music pieces about the dead lighthouse keeper of smalls lighthouse off the coast of wales (see below). ideally i want to fit the music onto a 3" CDr that'...
Posted by plinth on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:46:00 PST