Buenos Aires-based heavy instrumentalists Poseidótica are looking to release a new full-length next year — as are many at this point; I’ve got a growing list to prove it — and they’ve prefaced that offering with a new single called “Æon” that marks their third since lockdown last year, following behind May 2020’s mostly-drone “Aire” and Nov. 2020’s resonant escapist jaunt “Repercusión,” drifting in its initial guitar and percussion and later unfolding in a krautrock electronic pulse, like it turned out you were vacationing in the future the whole time. Given the shape that future has taken in reality, you might want to book with a different travel agent next time.

Nonetheless, “Æon” presents a more evened-out approach to progressive heavy psychedelic rock, though it still works in movements across its five-plus minutes, and the band seem to intimate that such will be the way of things on the impending long-player, which will not actually feature the track itself. Fair enough. Onto the aforementioned list they go, and one looks forward to finding out precisely where the last few years and a swap in guitarists has taken them.

They’ve also got a recent reissue out on Clostridium Records, and yes, I’m late on this news. What else is new?

From the PR wire:

In September 2021 Poseidótica released a new song called “Æon” that hints at the paths their fifth studio album will take, which is in the pre-production process and is scheduled to be released in mid-2022.

“Æon” presents as a novelty the entry of Eugenio De Luca, the group’s new guitarist replacing founding member Hernán Miceli, and was mixed and mastered by Martín Furia (actual guitarist of German’s thrash metal legends Destruction) in Antwerp, Belgium.

Although the song will not be included in the album, the track explores into the classic dynamics of the band with a more space and progressive rock approach.

During the isolation of 2020, the instrumental group that has already been on the road for 20 years, took the opportunity to deliver its full discography on vinyl and cassette through its own label Aquatalan Records, also releasing several limited editions of singles and EPs in 7″ format, making musical collaborations with some other alternative artists from Argentina like Boom Boom Kid, Carca, Marina Fages and Santiago Córdoba.

Their first three albums “Intramundo”, “La Distancia” and “Crónicas del Futuro” have exclusive distribution worldwide via Kozmik Artifactz.

In August 2021 their fourth album “El Dilema del Origen” was reissued on vinyl by the German label Clostridium Records in three different deluxe editions (Black, Bi-Colour and Swirl die-hard exclusive label edition).

With the flexibility of the restrictions in Argentina, the band returned to perform live concerts in their country, and had several shows scheduled between the end of the year and the beginning of 2022.

Æon
Bandcamp: https://poseidotica.bandcamp.com/track/on
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3CnM7Tq
YouTube: https://youtu.be/OhrKNct2n_A
Other digital platforms: https://songwhip.com/poseidotica/aeon

Poseidótica are
Walter Broide: Batería.
Eugenio De Luca: Guitarra.
Martín Rodríguez: Bajo.
Santiago Rua: Guitarra.

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Poseidótica, “Æon”

Among the many things for which I’m a total sucker, a good poster definitely ranks. The below doodle, for a show Humo del Cairo and Poseidótica are playing together in Buenos Aires (unfortunately just a bit too far for me to get out and review it) on May 25, easily fits that bill. If my — and by my I mean Google’s — translation skills are to be trusted, this gig at the Niceto Club is serving as Humo del Cairo‘s CD release for their second album (review here), and the first 50 people through the door get a free poster.

Don’t quote me on that, because I’m way more of a sucker for a cool poster than I am, uh, able to read Spanish. More info on the show is available on Humo del Cairo‘s Thee Facebooks page, or the event page. Here’s that poster:

Reminds a bit of the cover to Earth‘s The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull, though maybe that’s just a profile-of-an-animal-skull coincidence. Should be a good show either way, if you happen to find yourself in Buenos Aires. In case you don’t recall Poseidótica‘s Crónicas del Futuro, it’s reviewed here.