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Plato's Dream Machine is a contemporary folk group from Malta.
Diogenes of Sinope was knee deep in a stream washing vegetables. Coming up to him, Plato said, “My good Diogenes, if you knew how to pay court to kings, you wouldn’t have to wash vegetables.”
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”And,” replied Diogenes, “If you knew how to wash vegetables, you wouldn’t have to pay court to kings.”
Plato's Dream Machine make use of guitars, percussion, violin, an accordion, a flute, and throats.
Disenchanted by the moderns, they jump back and forth between traditional folk, punk-influenced numbers, melancholic ballads, and drone-chants reminiscent of gloomy apocalyptic visions.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.