Michael Tanner
@michaeltanner.bsky.social
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A digital box set of my Cantus Orbis mixes from the last decade are now available for download. Four albums that focus on drone heavy/repetitive music written between the 5th / 15th centuries. I don’t own any of this so encourage you to take the ‘free’ option: iamplinth.bandcamp.com/album/cantus...
Went to an honest-to-god record shop for the first time in years yesterday. Picked up what was probably the most played CD of my teens on LP: Lou B at his most soft-boi and Nick Drake-obsessed. Soundtracked a winter in 1994 like a warm fuzzy blanket.
January 25, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Went to an honest-to-god record shop for the first time in years yesterday. Picked up what was probably the most played CD of my teens on LP: Lou B at his most soft-boi and Nick Drake-obsessed. Soundtracked a winter in 1994 like a warm fuzzy blanket.
Aren’t we lucky to be alive the same time as Martin Carthy?
Martin Carthy - The Cottage In The Wood
YouTube video by dorsetpaeans
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January 23, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Aren’t we lucky to be alive the same time as Martin Carthy?
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Twitter is now saying if you want child porn, you have to pay for it.
Grok, the AI chatbot on X, says it is now limiting image generation and editing capabilities to paying subscribers, amid a backlash from officials and users after the tool was used to create sexualized images of people without their consent.
Grok limits image generator after backlash over sexualized AI images
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot faced backlash for creating images of undressed women and children. The image-generating function will now be available only to paying subscribers.
wapo.st
January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Twitter is now saying if you want child porn, you have to pay for it.
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A winter perennial.
This is great: 8 works by Renaissance composer Nicolas Gombert, arranged for instruments rather than voices by James Weeks. The accompanying conversation on the AT website is illuminating too, criticising religion, colonialism & chill-out aesthetics. anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/g-o-m-...
G O M B E R T, by Nicolas Gombert & James Weeks
14 track album
anothertimbre.bandcamp.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 AM
A winter perennial.
Happy turn of the circle
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Happy turn of the circle
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Two fifteenth century faces in stained glass at the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. They will have seen in over 500 New Years celebrations
December 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Two fifteenth century faces in stained glass at the church of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. They will have seen in over 500 New Years celebrations
Very pleased with his catnip Brussel sprout
December 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Very pleased with his catnip Brussel sprout
Looking forward to the now-annual tradition of being pissed off with Mark Gatiss before midnight on Christmas Eve
December 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Looking forward to the now-annual tradition of being pissed off with Mark Gatiss before midnight on Christmas Eve
On the subject of alternative Christmas albums, this is the one that makes La Monte Young, John Cage and Harry Partch sound like outtakes from Box of Delights:
In a Landscape (Version for Harp)
YouTube video by Amy Shulman - Topic
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On the subject of alternative Christmas albums, this is the one that makes La Monte Young, John Cage and Harry Partch sound like outtakes from Box of Delights:
Nice to see this still doing the rounds over a decade later!
Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
Michael Tanner’s Winter Solstice Mix | Folk Radio UK
For Winter Solstice, Michael Tanner treats us to a collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years.
klofmag.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Nice to see this still doing the rounds over a decade later!
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Annual tradition . . . the transporting folk mix by @michaeltanner.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
A Winter Solstice Mix By Michael Tanner
www.mixcloud.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Annual tradition . . . the transporting folk mix by @michaeltanner.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
Rewatching the shit out of Victorian Farm Christmas
December 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Rewatching the shit out of Victorian Farm Christmas
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Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
Wintersongs, by Plinth
8 track album
iamplinth.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
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Banger album
Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
Wintersongs, by Plinth
8 track album
iamplinth.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Banger album
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Forever a favorite!
Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
Wintersongs, by Plinth
8 track album
iamplinth.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Forever a favorite!
Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
Wintersongs, by Plinth
8 track album
iamplinth.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Hello, it’s bandcamp Friday and this was made over a quarter of a century ago. Christ. One for fans of Children of Green Knowe, field recordings, twigs snapping and the potential of a log fire in some far-off rural pub.
The alternative Christmas album that never gets it’s dues.
mark eitzel - xmas lights spin
YouTube video by tigerinatigermask
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The alternative Christmas album that never gets it’s dues.
I didn’t buy this for 3 English pounds
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I didn’t buy this for 3 English pounds
T-shirt is almost 30 years old and never seen an iron
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
T-shirt is almost 30 years old and never seen an iron
@gregbuzwell.bsky.social is that a Sheila Flinn as your profile pic?
November 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
@gregbuzwell.bsky.social is that a Sheila Flinn as your profile pic?
RIP Wycliffe. We once skirmished going for the same discounted pastie in Waitrose, Lewes.
Jack Shepherd: English actor and star of Wycliffe dies at 85
He will be remembered for his roles as TV detective Charles Wycliffe and fictional Labour MP Bill Brand.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
RIP Wycliffe. We once skirmished going for the same discounted pastie in Waitrose, Lewes.
Sad about Mani. Always seemed like the nice one.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sad about Mani. Always seemed like the nice one.
Me when I tune to DADGAD
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Me when I tune to DADGAD
If you’re of a certain vintage, it’s happy big 50 to the eeriest, most evocative piece of music and TV intro of all time. I can hear it wafting in from my parents front room when I was meant to be asleep, the neon bottle floating in to view.
Another Green World (2004 Remaster)
YouTube video by Brian Eno - Topic
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
If you’re of a certain vintage, it’s happy big 50 to the eeriest, most evocative piece of music and TV intro of all time. I can hear it wafting in from my parents front room when I was meant to be asleep, the neon bottle floating in to view.