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For the few of you who don't know these great musicians from Miami, FL, I can say that Cynic are a progressive rock band, incorporating experimental music, ambient, alternative rock, metal and jazz fusion. Formed by guitarist (and now singer) Paul Masvidal and drummer Sean Reinert, they emerged from the healthy (at the time) floridian death metal scene of the late 80's-early 90's with a noteworthy debut record called "Focus" (that also featured the great bass player Sean Malone). Instead of choosing the brutal and hard-hitting approach to metal like most of their contemporaries, "Focus" took an experimental approach to music, resulting in a critically praised "jazz metal" (as they called it at the time) album. Cynic disbanded during the fall of 1994 while working on a second studio album, to reform in 2006 and record a second full-lenght ("Traced In Air", 2008) and an EP ("Re-Traced", 2009, composed of four re-interpretations of songs from "Traced In Air" and one new song).
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And here they are once again with a new EP called "Carbon-Based Anatomy", where Masvidal and Reinert reunited with Sean Malone to work on six new tracks. Artwork was done by great artist Roberto Venosa, responsible for all previous Cynic covers. Sadly, Venosa passed away short before the release of the EP.
Always hard to pigeonhole, Cynic have once again unleashed their creativity to go beyond the boundaries of the genres, and realize an atmospheric and experimental, yet enjoyble, progressive piece of Art. Paul Masvidal describes the new work as "both a philosophical as well as a musical journey, one that begins in the Amazon jungle on the lips of a shamanic wisewoman (as portrayed by Amy Correia - co-vocalist on the ep) and ends in outerspace".
The album will be out on November, 11th on Season Of Mist Records. Listen to the title-track (a reinterpretation of an older unreleased
Æon Spoke single, "
Homosapien") at
this link.