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3/7/2022 0 Comments

Michael Tanner - Vespers / The Blackening (Objects Forever)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like


What We Say

Take an improvisational, gently experimental, inward voyaging cosmic folk trip with Michael Tanner for Objects Forever. Recorded whilst sat on a slab atop a family vault in the local graveyard at dusk over several days with the attendant feathered fauna joining in at will. It's a lockdown meditation for all times.

What The Release Notes Say

Vespers and The Blackening are the latest, and final, two albums by musician Michael Tanner (AKA Plinth, The Cloisters, Thalassing and more). Vespers is a brand new work, recorded in 2020 but only just surfacing now, while the latter has previously only been available in digital form. Objects Forever are pleased to release them as a double set on tape. 

“I made these recordings for Vespers due to the sheer inanity of lockdown - they arrived fully formed and unexpected, like all good improvisational pieces should be I guess. It’s a worn cliche, but they genuinely weren’t meant to be heard by the outside world. In fact, I sat on it a year so as to not get swept up in the deluge of lockdown albums that were already popping up left right and centre. As with any album I put out, if I still want to listen to it after a year then the chances are other people will too. 

“Bar the church organ opening, the album was recorded entirely on a slab atop a family vault in the graveyard at the end of my street. Always at dusk, when the birds in the trees overhead were at their most animated. I’m not a big one for ‘studio trickery’ but this was my first experience with ping-pong delay - borne from the fact that I just really missed playing music with other people, and the call and response nature of it had a somewhat similar sensation; making a sound into the void and it having it bounce back at you, making you then react, think on your feet. 

“You can hear twigs snapping below as I had to shift, mid-recording, as ants bit my ankles. It’s a snapshot of a few days in Spring: no agony, very little tweaking and probably the most honest thing I’ve recorded. 

“The Blackening is a piece of music recorded between 2014 and 2016 in the UK and Italy, mostly as a duo with Alison Cotton. Overdubs were added by my friend and constant inspiration Lino Capra Vaccina in 2016.” 

- Michael

CREDITS

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Vespers: 

Michael Tanner: autoharp 
& harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, church organ, zither, gongs 
with Alison Cotton: viola on Vespers Pt. 2 

Improvised during the hour of dusk in St John Sub Castro graveyard, Lewes during May 2020 
Viola overdubs recorded by Mark Nicholas 
Mixed at Green Witch, Lewes 

The Blackening: 

Michael Tanner: accordion, strohviol, bowed zither 
with Alison Cotton: viola & Lino Capra Vaccina: vibraphone 

Recorded at Green Witch, Lewes 2014 and Elfo Studio, Piacenza 2016 

P&C Michael Tanner 2022 
Vespers image layout by Madeleine Welch 
Design by Matt Ashton 
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