PLASTYC BUDDHA
Throwing Stones in Placid Pools
Life Enhancing Audio/ Fusion III
With nujazz artists like Rainer Truby, Les Gammas and Tosca blazing the trail for the non-synchronous, bossa-fuelled breaks and trip-hop movement, it was only a matter of time before another band furthered their cause. Plastyc Buddha infuses head music with more than just the arty wank of bleeps and blops.
Throwing Stones in Placid Pools is one of a handful of this year's releases to fall in the "must have" category. Plastyc Buddha combine the essence of Tosca and Air (circa Moon Safari), without merely replicating the aural signatures of either. This is as good as the electro-organic movement can get, washing the listener in soundscapes that pay homage to Kind of Blue, if not fully replicating its magnificent feel.
With slight vocal samples thrown in for flavour, and the addition of muted trumpet, a broken bossa here and there and an occasional saxophone, it's an essential late-night soundtrack for interplanetary drift. Finally, this band knows the narrative for this music is located somewhere deep inside one’s grey matter.
At worst, Throwing Stones seems to be a revisionist take on the way future music was going to sound before music was suffocated with 19-minute geetar solos. At best, it represents the way the future will make you ache with the potential of it all and bathe you in that thoughtful, quiet splendour located deep, deep inside.
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