As Plasticine prepares for the release of their new album, The Most Beautiful Skies, the fusion band has released their second leading single “Psy Clone” which paints a lovely tapestry of cultural influences swirling into each other.
Combining elements of prog rock, afro-beats, along with Latin and Asian influences, the band covers an expansive musical geography as they dissolve genre boundaries with their thoughtfully complex compositions. “Psy Clone” specifically brings in some psychedelic jam band influences alongside the grooving rhythms that play with the likes of clave and bossa nova style beats.
Through this expansive 7-minute epic, you still get some of the prog rock element in the fuzzy guitar riffs that bring a little fuzz to those jazzy and bluesy licks. The horn section also gets a lot of love with ensemble and solo moments that dance and twirl with aplomb. And though the music defies easy categorization at face value, the further you dive inside of it the more you find those enmeshed influences that keep the music well-grounded and contextualized as it experiments with new mixtures and combinations.
As far as instrumental music goes, this is well worth the listen for those in need of something both easy-going and thought provoking. The driving rhythms will keep you going for nice long stretches allowing for moments relaxation or contemplation depending on what the listener brings to it.
“Psy Clone” is available now on major streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube. This and more exciting new music is available on our Alchemical Multigenre Mixdown Playlist on Spotify.
Charlie Maybee is a dancer, musician, educator, and writer based in Charleston, South Carolina who currently teaches with the Dance Program at the College of Charleston. His primary work as an artist is with his performing collective, Polymath Performance Project, through which he makes interdisciplinary performance art that centers tap dance as the primary medium of expression and research. He also currently plays rhythm guitar for the Charleston-based punk band, Anergy, and releases music as a solo artist under the name Nox Eterna.
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