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Michael Plater

@mplater.bsky.social

Australian folk noir/experimental musician, historian, writer. Solo, Northern Lighthouse Board, The Taps of the Holy Trinity, Ghosts of Electricity, The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken, What Colour is Sound label and more linktr.ee/michaelplatermusic

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Thanks to Monolith Cocktail for this wonderful review of "Lost Worlds", the latest album from my "hauntronica" project The Northern Lighthouse Board:
"Atmospheres that are as eerie as they are near magical and dreamy...a convincing score to a phantom and sorcery, magik, wiccan film yet to be made."

08.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 05/08/25.

Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 05/08/25.

Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" radio list & buymusic.club/list/fourlar... #FourLarksThreeD

05.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 29/07/25.

Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 29/07/25.

Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" radio list & www.buymusic.club/list/fourlar... #FourLarksThreeD

29.07.2025 02:20 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks to "Four Larks and a Wren" for playing a track off the new album by my "hauntronica" project The Northern Lighthouse Board. The album "Lost Worlds" is available now via my Bandcamp page:

michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/lost-w...

22.07.2025 05:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 15/07/25.

Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 15/07/25.

Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" radio list & www.buymusic.club/list/fourlar... #FourLarksThreeD

15.07.2025 02:18 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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MID-YEAR RELEASE REVIEW 2025

40 titles

49 artists

All can be found at cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

Huge thanks to everyone involved and all that support the label in any way.

This doesn’t happen without you.

You are the best.

Thank you!
Steve x

29.06.2025 12:23 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
Desolated – Birth(defects) – Sally Shapiro – CLAMM – Filalete – Beige Palace / Lo Egin – K Of ARC – Lush Worker – The Right Hand Is Doomed To Blacken – Vile Bees – Dez Dare – album reviews – Fighting ...

Thank you Fighting Boredom for the Filalete / Beige Palace & Lo Egin / K Of Arc / Lush Worker / The Right Hand Is Doomed To Blacken reviews!!!

www.fighting-boredom.co.uk/album-review...

19.06.2025 22:24 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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We still have copies of these tapes available at cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

Very low numbers on most titles.

20.06.2025 08:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And new MRG radio and reviews also feature:

@cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social, @mplater.bsky.social, @superpolar.bsky.social, @akprecordings.bsky.social , @greyfrequency.bsky.social

03.06.2025 16:41 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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OUT NOW

The Right Hand Is Doomed To Blacken “Greenbridge 12.11.24”

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/greenb...

experimental soundscapes, fusing motorik psych rock, synth wave, gothic balladry, and industrial post punk

30.05.2025 06:57 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The debut album from my new project The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken is out today via Cruel Nature Records:

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/greenbridge-121124

michaelplater.bandcamp.com/album/greenbridge-121124

therighthandisdoomedtoblacken.bandcamp.com/album/greenbridge-121124

30.05.2025 02:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond the fettered constraints of normality Different Noises 93

open.substack.com/pub/bobosbor...

28.05.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken - Antipodes
YouTube video by CRUEL NATURE RECORDS The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken - Antipodes

Thanks to Sun 13 for premiering the film-clip to The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken's "Antipodes", starring Nafsika Peppa-Triantari and filmed by Tasos Koromilas in Greenbridge, Trikala, Greece. Watch on Cruel Nature Records' Youtube page here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Cf...

18.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

1) TAVARE
2) FILALETE
3) AUSTIN POTTER
4) BEIGE PALACE / LO EGIN
5) SAD MAN
6) K OF ARC
7) LUSH WORKER
8) THE RIGHT HAND IS DOOMED TO BLACKEN

11.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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OUT NEXT FRIDAY

Available to pre-order now

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

1) TAVARE
2) FILALETE
3) AUSTIN POTTER
4) BEIGE PALACE / LO EGIN
5) SAD MAN
6) K OF ARC
7) LUSH WORKER
8) THE RIGHT HAND IS DOOMED TO BLACKEN

23.05.2025 11:49 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Four Larks And A Wren-2025-05-27

Today's radio show now uploaded to Mixcloud- www.mixcloud.com/FourLarks/fo... #FourLarksThreeD

27.05.2025 02:15 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 27/05/25.

Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 27/05/25.

Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" radio list & www.buymusic.club/list/fourlar... #FourLarksThreeD

27.05.2025 02:09 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Evening!

Grab a brew, go on.

Kicking off tonight with some @armaturesmusic.bandcamp.com

#MOREREALSTICGOALS w/ me & @spennyt.bsky.social, live on Reform Radio reformradio.co.uk

25.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks!!

26.05.2025 02:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Live at 6 - me and @spennyt.bsky.social might play

@bluetapes.bsky.social
@thirdkindrecords.bsky.social
@armaturesmusic.bandcamp.com
@kofarc.bsky.social
@karenvogtmusic.bsky.social
@waysideandwoodland.bsky.social
@greyfrequency.bsky.social
@mplater.bsky.social
and other stuff

#morerealisticgoals

25.05.2025 12:47 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 3
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You just heard Keyser Local by Poorgrass

This is currently Understatum by @kofarc.bsky.social (on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social)

Next up - Spiral by The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken (@mplater.bsky.social)

#MOREREALSTICGOALS w/ me & @spennyt.bsky.social, live on Reform Radio reformradio.co.uk

25.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken - Antipodes
YouTube video by CRUEL NATURE RECORDS The Right Hand is Doomed to Blacken - Antipodes

Thanks to Sun 13 for premiering the film-clip to The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken's "Antipodes", starring Nafsika Peppa-Triantari and filmed by Tasos Koromilas in Greenbridge, Trikala, Greece. Watch on Cruel Nature Records' Youtube page here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Cf...

18.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken: Greenbridge 12.11.24 Taken from Michael Plater’s new collaboration, be the first to watch the video for ‘Antipodes’.

"A 50-minute feat that stretches across borderless territory."

Album review: The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken's 'Greenbridge 12.11.24' - out May 30 via @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social.

Exclusive to Sun 13, watch/listen to video for lead track, 'Antipodes'.

sun-13.com/2025/05/16/t...

16.05.2025 09:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken: Greenbridge 12.11.24 Taken from Michael Plater’s new collaboration, be the first to watch the video for ‘Antipodes’.

"A 50-minute feat that stretches across borderless territory, Greenbridge 12.11.24 sees Plater immersed in the long-form, and guided by Koromilas’ searching synths and Gallo’s assortment of rich arrangements, this milieu suits the songwriter well..." Lovely Sun 13 review: sun-13.com/2025/05/16/t...

16.05.2025 10:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for playing The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken! Glad you didn't play the full 29 minutes of it, wouldn't have been much of a show!

13.05.2025 03:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Four Larks And A Wren-2025-05-13

Today's radio show now uploaded to Mixcloud- www.mixcloud.com/FourLarks/fo... #FourLarksThreeD

13.05.2025 02:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 13/05/25.

Large list of artists, albums and songs played on the Four Larks and a Wren radio show on Three D Radio, 93.7fm, Adelaide, 13/05/25.

Today's "Four Larks and a Wren" radio list & www.buymusic.club/list/fourlar... #FourLarksThreeD

13.05.2025 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
Listen Now! [threed_nowplaying]

On air in 5.!!!, listen in locally at 93.7fm or online via- threedradio.com/listen-now/ #FourLarksThreeD

12.05.2025 23:25 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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africanpaper.com/2025/05/10/t...
#therighthandisdoomedtoblacken #albumreview #michaelplater #massimilianogallo #tasoskoromilas #liverecording #greenbridge #trikala #greece #tape #cruelnaturerecords

10.05.2025 05:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Big thanks to German music website African Paper for this wonderfully descriptive review of the forthcoming debut album by The Right Hand Is Doomed to Blacken (consisting of myself, Massimiliano Gallo, and Tasos Koromilas). The album is out May 30th on Cruel Nature Records.

10.05.2025 09:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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