Plinths 'Music for Smalls Lighthouse' is now available in the shop.
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Plinth's,
Michael Tanner is a musician from Dorset who has recorded under a
myriad collection of names and guises these include Cloisters,
Taskerlands, Thalassing, part of the duo The A Lords - on Mark Fry's
'I Lived in Trees', and with Irish improvisers the United Bible
Studies.
Music
For Smalls Lighthouse was initially released in 2010 as a very
limited edition CD by Second Language, since then it has been
unavailable on a physical format. The album has been specially
re-mastered for vinyl by ISAN's Antony Ryan and features completely new artwork by Frances
Castle, including an illustrated booklet that tells the story of
Smalls Lighthouse. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies it includes a
download of the LP and the bonus mini album 'Flotsam' that was
included in the original release.
Smalls
Lighthouse, is located approximately 20 miles west of St Davids
Peninsula in Pembrokeshire Wales .
Engineered by a violin-maker and standing on flat rocks battered by
the sea, the original lighthouse resembled a squat hut on giant
stilts. In the year 1800 two men Thomas
Howell and Thomas Griffin, well
known locally for their drunken spats and quarrels, boarded a
fishing-vessel to spend six months together as lighthouse keepers on
Smalls Rock. During
this time Griffith was killed in an accident and Howell was left
alone to fend for himself struggling to stay sane in the isolation of
the lighthouse. The music on this record soundtracks the events that
took place with beautiful and often gruesome clarity.
Music For Smalls Lighthouse fosters a subliminal mixture of arcane atmospherics and mournful chamber music....Tanner seals six exquisitely evocative pieces together into one bleakly alluring whole... DOA
Music
For Smalls Lighthouse
is a quite remarkable record...feels like a slice of Britain has been
carved and pressed to vinyl for the listener to enjoy at will…
Fluid
Radio
We’ll likely never see a glut of similar albums, because they are so difficult to do well, without theatrics or pretense. But when they are done well, as is the case here, they stick in the mind like cherished guests in a cozy house. It’s not only their stories that we want to remember, but the ways in which they were told. A Closer Listen (Richard Allen)