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Michael Tanner
@michaeltanner.bsky.social
Mostly antiques, occasional sounds, always messing.

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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...
Somewhat a fairweather jazz fan, but I very much love this.
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It’s that time again.
November 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Still the undisputed changing-of-seasons classic: youtu.be/OjvzjuZ2wcA?...
I Am Daylights
YouTube video by Songs of Green Pheasant - Topic
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November 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This years window offering.
October 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It Is Time.
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
With my first born son. Proud of you, proud of the man you’ve become.
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Sole boot sale purchase today. Victorian Taxidermy dome with beehives (and real bees).
October 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Did not have this on my bingo-card. The first LP is a thing of still beauty.
PREORDER: 'III' by Pullman

Third album and first since 2001 from the Chicago scene post-rock and left-field folk outfit featuring members of Tortoise, Rex, and Come.

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www.normanrecords.com/records/2124...
Pullman - III
Buy III by PULLMAN. LP £22.49. Order online today and get FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.
www.normanrecords.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Streamline Jabba
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Pick ups this week, tucked in the back of an otherwise hum-drum prog collection. Seasonally appropriate!
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Graham Nash!
October 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Today’s insane boot score. Hand/screen printed Westwood Pistols tees (that have definitely lived the life)
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Mudlarking Lower Halstow
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Mexican votive penance ritual, 1940
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Never Forget
Biggie Bertha
YouTube video by Jimbotfu
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September 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Always nice when a single image speaks to your soul
September 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Telescopic view of London (Victorian engraving)
September 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This will be a stunner.
I recently delivered my sleevenotes for this boxset. I can't wait for people to hear it. 7 CDs & a DVD filled with the most incredible music, much of it previously unreleased. Dick Gaughan is, of course, one of the greats. This set makes that fact blindingly & brilliantly clear, time and time again
August 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Proper hyperventilating when I bought this today. Original Pen and Ink sketch by Leonard Foujita, the king of cats.
August 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Most of my life was laser-focused around Hastings for one reason or another. Get togethers, break-ups, chips with my folks on the seafront. The old town is a place forever changing but always the same. Roberts felt like it might be the big brass pin holding it all together - I’ll be sad to see it go
August 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Picked up a little Victorian oil today from Scottish landscape painter and ornithologist Edward Hargitt. Two kids teasing their playmate who is stuck in finishing lunch. I love how there’s an unspoken story behind it, like a page Tom’s Midnight Garden, The Moondial or a long lost children’s story.
August 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Boot sale score from many years ago, full of holes and I’m breathing in - not sure I’ve ever seen another though.
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Any shares of this for algorithmical purposes much-appreciated. I'd love to get these books out of my spare room & into the world before my new novel comes out. I'll sign them all & I really am happy to let people choose what they pay.

(Postage to UK is £4.)
All I have left of the 1000s of books I bought from my ex-publisher's warehouse are about 200 copies of Ring The Hill. I'd *love* to get them to good homes this week.

If you're in the UK & you'd like one, for the price of your choice (any price!), pls email me your address at [email protected].
August 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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A brief history of England's love affair with church bells.
The poetry of steeples
A brief history of England's love affair with church bells
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August 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Framing Victorian seaweed, soundtracked by the footy.
August 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM