Plini

Plini Roessler-Holgate is an Australian guitarist and songwriter. He began by releasing music under the name Halcyon, before switching to the use of his first name. Steve Vai named him "the future of exceptional guitar playing", and the website MusicRadar named Plini the best prog guitarist of 2017.

Plini has released a trilogy of EPs (Other Things and Sweet Nothings in 2013, The End of Everything in 2015). His debut album, Handmade Cities, which Vai described as "one of the finest, forward-thinking, melodic, rhythmically and harmonically deep instrumental guitar records [he has] ever heard", was released in 2016. Sunhead, an extended play, was released in 2018.

Discography

Studio albums

• Handmade Cities (2016)

Extended plays

• Pastures (as Halcyon) (2011)
• Other Things (2013)
• Sweet Nothings (2013)
• I (split EP with Sithu Aye) (2013)
• The End of Everything (2015)
• Sunhead (2018)

Singles

• "Moonflower" (2012)
• "1745 7381 3265 2578" (2013)
• "Cloudburst" (2013)
• "Atlas" (2014)
• "Ko Ki" (2014)
• "Every Piece Matters" (2016)
• "Salt + Charcoal" (2018)

Contributions

• "The Argument of Periapsis" Abstraction (Cloudyhead, 2012)
• "Particles Collide" Invent the Universe (Sithu Aye, 2012)
• "Pulse, Pt. 1" Pulse (Sithu Aye, 2014)
• "Sailing Stone" Meridian (The Helix Nebula, 2014)
• "Ode to the Vulture" The Sapling (Trees on Mars, 2014)
• "The Constant" Guiding Light (Skyharbor, 2014)
• "Run" Wishful Lotus Proof (Jakub Zytecki, 2015)
• "Earthshine" Journey to the Stars (Widek, 2015)
• "Water Drops" The Ocean Atlas (Modern Day Babylon, 2015)
• "5:12 AM" Souvenirs (Novelists, 2015)
• "Libra" The Shape of Colour (Intervals, 2015)
• "Decimator" Tearing Back the Veil I: Ascension (Lithium Dawn, 2015)
• "Malaise" (Oceill, 2016)
• "Violet" Tiny, Little Light (Umi, 2016)
• "New Pyramids" The Impressionist (Hedras, 2017)