Plinth Collection

Michael Tanner’s ‘Plinth’ project comes highly recommended for those wanting to check out something a little different. Below you can listen to three recent releases all available in digital formats…

A suite for Bowed Dulcimer initially limited to 50 copies on the Apollolaan label and sold out within a week – This edition includes the alternate opening track from both versions.

“Plinth will ease your soul with the fragile beauty of “Dulcimer Music”, a collection of Six pieces that drift across the room like clouds, the music beguiling and utterly charming. I assume all sounds are made with dulcimers, both bowed and plucked, (mainly bowed) but I don’t know for sure. However it is done, there is magic in these recording, and interested parties should act quickly as the edition is limited to fifty copies.” – Terrascope

“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 ‘creaking, winding, piping, chiming and wood-knocking of Victorian parlour music machines’. Though Plinth sometimes lets aged fairground/carnival tunes peek through the static, more often he uses the music machines for melancholy toy tunes, or reflective puddles of wistful melody, swamping the sweet metallic ring of the instrument with layers of machine clutter and clatter. ” The Wire.

Early analogue guitar experiments from Michael Tanner (Guitar) and Directorsound’s Nick Palmer (Piano) – track 5 would later reappear in different form on Plinth’s ‘Albatross’. The shores mentioned form a walking route round the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.