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Instrumentation
Patrick Pleau : vocals, guitars, keyboards & harmonica
Pascal Laviolette : drums, percussion & backing vocals
Simon Boivin : bass & backing vocals
Live and guest musicians
Roxanne Gadoua : keyboards & backing vocals
Simon Mallette St-Pierre : vocals & backing vocals
Jocelyn Poitras : guitars & backing vocals
Andreanne Beaudoin : violin
Discography
Beautiful Explosion (2008) |
Plajia is escapism without leaving the comfort of your own couch. Plajia procures you the unexpected inner strength of a nerd-cum-track & field star in an 80’s movie. Plajia gives you the warm feeling of gruel without the chunky aftertaste. Plajia is music for the soul on sale at all good record stores and digital outlets.
Genre: Trip-rock
Secondary Genre: Humidity-laden minimalist jungle
Lauded
by music critics in Canada and abroad, trip-rock group Plajia, composed
of Patrick Pleau (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica), Simon
Boivin (bass and backing vocals) and Pascal Laviolette (drums,
percussion and backing vocals) feels compelled to buy a crystal ball in
order to preview its future successes.
But let’s get back to
ongoing reality. With its first sonic offering entitled “Beautiful
Explosion ”, the Montreal trio renews a struggling tradition in this
hypermodern and fragmented musical era: the full-fledged album. No
respite for the listener here, the experience is total.
From
gripping beginning to grandiose end, this voyage through eleven songs
transports us in an impressionist soundscape, where unbridled
imagination, open emotion and gleeful sarcasm colour an ethereal and
melodious music. And stylistically speaking, “Beautiful Explosion ” is
certainly audacious, as Plajia infuses its atmospheric rock with
brit-music references, psychedelic accents and eccentric arrangements,
the whole with a pop focus and technical mastery.
After having
won the 2004 edition of Virée chaosphonique and finished first at the
Bluetracks.ca MP3 Contest in 2006, Plajia has recently been nominated with
“Beautiful Explosion ” for the Grand Prix de la relève Archambault 2008. Now, and in the words of the great Gerald Levert, Plajia hopes to “pop pop
pop” Montreal, but that decision lies with a very wise and humourful
hipster wearing checkered Converses. | |
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