A track from "An Alchemical Gathering" - a split release between Michael Plater and Enclosed and Silent Order, out now on the Hypostatic Union label.

Michael Plater: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/an-alchemical-gathering

Hypostatic Union: https://hypostaticunion.bandcamp.com/music

Filmclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-3Dpjy4qc

A Sailor's Song

A track from my forthcoming album "Ghost Music" - https://hypostaticunion.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-music

Filmclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTT9plQ7iGI

Michael Plater - Katie King

From my new album "Ghost Music", out now at:

https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-music-2

Your Family Ghosts

From the compilation album - "Of Lost Things: A Collection of Oddities and Outcasts" - available now at Bandcamp:

https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/of-lost-things-a-collection-of-oddities-and-outcasts

Navigators And Shipwrecks

The Taps of the Holy Trinity are a new project from Australian experimental musicians Arthur Karanikas (BBQ Haque), Michael Plater (solo artist, Ghosts of Electricity, The Northern Lighthouse Board), Dave Bullock (Paul Kidney Experience, Gong Ritual, The Makers of the Dead Travel Fast), Dee Hannan (Xylouris Ensemble), and Danny Martinov (The Exit Keys).

Drawing upon Arthur and Michael’s Mediterranean heritage, their debut single, “Most of Them Were Ghosts”, blends the traditional drone of the Greek demotika style with the hypnotic ecstasy of Anatolian folk music and psychedelic rock.

“Most of Them Were Ghosts” was recorded on quarter inch analogue tape and mixed and mastered by Loki Lockwood at Creepy Hollow in Melbourne.

https://thetapsoftheholytrinity.bandcamp.com/album/most-of-them-were-ghosts

Most of Them Were Ghosts

Taken from the E.P "Live on Soundart Radio" available at: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/live-on-soundart-radio

The Alchemist (Live on Soundart Radio)

Available at: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/track/your-family-ghosts-8 

Film-clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl_vZPq5Ns

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7Gk9tlIEcZVdP7nTjK33fa

Michael Plater: voice, guitar
John Hannon: drums, harmonica, guitar
Stafford Glover: bass
Recorded by John Hannon
Mastered by Adam Dempsey
Artwork: Leigh Chalker

Michael Plater - This Waking Dream (Alt Master)

The Dreamers' Dream is a track from the expanded U.K. edition of "Mythologies," out now on Reverb Worship:

Reverb Worship: www.reverbworship.com 
Purchase link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292475745375
Bandcamp: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/mythologies-expanded-u-k-reverb-worship-edition
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/reverbworship

Michael Plater; vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Dean Richards: guitar
Pete Azzopardi: bass
Matt Green: harmonica 
Claire Birchall: drums

The Dreamers' Dream

New single, out now on Bandcamp:

https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/track/saint-johns-eve

 
Stafford Glover: autoharp, bass, guitar, piano, sound manipulations
Michael Plater: vocals, guitar, lyrics
John Hannon: violin, drums, sound manipulations

Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by John Hannon at No Recording Studio, Rayleigh late 2019 - early 2020.
Written by Stafford Glover and Michael Plater
Artwork: Michael Plater

Label: Hypostatic Union
HYPD001
hypostaticunion.bandcamp.com

Saint John's Eve

Our Dancing Daughters

New single "Gathering Feathers" out now.

Bandcamp: https://michaelplater.bandcamp.com/track/gathering-feathers
Spotify; https://open.spotify.com/album/0ZwOzl72IBjDpcQ7ziKqpq
iTunes: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/gathering-feathers-single/1532864106

Gathering Feathers

Michael Plater is a U.K-based Australian experimental/folk/psych/indie/noir musician and multi-instrumentalist. His first two solo albums “Exit Keys” (2012) and “Mythologies” (2016) received world-wide critical acclaim, with “Mythologies” being re-released in expanded form in the U.K in 2018 through cult British folk/psyche/drone label Reverb Worship. In recent years, he has also released music on such labels as Hypostatic Union (U.K), Dub Cthonic (U.K), Woodford Halse (U.K), Hibernate (U.K), Laily Recordings (U.K), and More Than Folk Records (France).

Michael has also played in the U.K-based dark folk ensemble GhostShips, the ambient project Ghosts of Electricity, the Gothic soundscapes act The Northern Lighthouse Board, Melbourne garage rockers The Exit Keys, and folkloric collective Cornish Wreckers. 

His acclaimed new solo album, “Ghost Music,” is out now on Hypostatic Union. 

Selected Press:

"Beautiful and timeless...Music that breaks your heart." (Peek-a-Boo Magazine, Belgium)

"Dark folk (via destabilised post-punk) and epic mind-bending pieces which leave you gasping for air" (I-94 Bar, Sydney)

"Multifaceted and very emotional...bewitching" (Gezeitenstrom Musik Magazine, Germany)

"Mythologies is an album made of that sweet melancholy that we know so well…at once familiar and reassuring, like an old friend who comes to visit you when a rainy horizon weighs on your soul." (Mithra Templezine, France) 

“Late-night indie rock 'n' roll, woozy dreampop atmospherics, and a generous helping of Gothic Americana,” (Bliss Aquamarine, U.K) 

"His seemingly sweet music approaches you almost tenderly, then comes the deep, deep voice... A voice that carries a real melancholy...exciting, rock and roll and lyrical," (New Box Magazine, France) 

"Michael is an Australian musician who has a deep baritone voice, a voice that he uses to great effect...There are some nice touches in the playing with slide guitar, Leslie harmonica, violin, organ accordion, bass and drums...The album ends with ‘The Dreamer’s Dream’, mostly instrumental, it’s also my favourite, with some fine ensemble playing, tremolo guitar, martial drums and heavily amped harmonica," (Terrascope, U.K)

"Michaels warm, very melodious and deep voice exudes a draft of a special kind and creates goosebumps." (Independent Sounds, Germany)

"Listening to Michael Plater's music, the names that come to mind are Nick Cave, Nikki Sudden (in his 'solo works'), Lou Reed... Intimate folk-blues ballads, with an underground taste...a songwriter with talent...Heartfelt music from a sensitive soul, surely. Very good work." (Sudden Art Music Magazine, Italy)

"Fantastic and melancholic songs, sung with his strong and expressive voice." (At Sea Compilations, Germany)

"Mythologies is vocal-driven, Plater’s deep voice laying down a trail into the forest, the guitars and occasional harmonica and piano are the dark unknown around us…we’re lucky to have him,” (Robert Brokenmouth, I-94-Bar)



Bandcamp: http://michaelplater.bandcamp.com

Website: 
www.michaelaplater.wixsite.com/michaelplater
 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmecIpsw-N0GnEFmoESiZuOcUnYiy0U2C

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