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Plajia - Beating The Charms (music video) from Plajia on Vimeo .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 been nominated with “ Beautiful Explosion ” for the Grand Prix de la relève Archambault 2008. In the words of the great Gerald Levert, Plajia now hopes to “pop pop pop” Montreal, but that decision lies with a very wise and humourful hipster wearing checkered Converses.

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Member Since: 1/24/2005
Band Website: plajia.com
Band Members: Patrick Pleau: vocals, guitars, keyboards & harmonica Simon Boivin: bass & back vocals Pascal Laviolette: drums, percussion & back vocalsSpecial live & guests musicians: Roxanne Gadoua: keyboards & back vocals Simon Mallette St-Pierre: vocals & back vocals Jocelyn Poitras: guitars & back vocals AndrÃ©anne Beaudoin: violon
Influences: Fleetwood Mac, Electric Light Orchestra, Moody Blues, Wings, Supertramp, The Breeders, Paul Simon
Record Label: Orange Music / Select
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Beautiful Explosion nominated for Le Grand Prix De La Relève Archambault (in Quebec)

Plajia is very proud to be nominated for this year Archambault Music Grand Prize with great artists like Tricot Machine, Alfa Rococo and Le Husky. Thanks to a Quebec music industry jury who selected o...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:53:00 PST

Tickets for Petit Cafe Campus show on sales now

Tickets for the next Plajia concert on May 17th in Montreal are now available for sales on the Admission NetworkBUY TICKETS HERE...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:04:00 PST

Plajia featured on Swedish magazine Panda

http://www.pandamagazine.se/?p=1014
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:41:00 PST

Nouvel article sur Plajia dans le Voir

Gatez-vous les amies :) http://www.voir.ca/publishing/article.aspx?zone=1§ion=6& article=57929...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:05:00 PST

French webzine Chronik give Beautiful Explosion 9/10

Read the full review (in French) in the April 2008 issue of Chronik.ca at http://www.chronik.ca/_Webzine/200804/ChronikWebzine200804.h tml...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:17:00 PST

Gypsy music trio Djelem Project covers a Plajia song

The Canadian band Djelem Project released their new album A Sky With No Clouds in February with an authorized beautiful cover of the Plajia song The Party. You can buy the album everywhere in Canada a...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:59:00 PST

Beautiful Explosion reviews

http://www.modsuperstar.ca/archive/2007/11/11/Plajia_-_Beaut iful_Explosion http://hotbiscuits.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/plajia/ http://www.mu6.ca/2007/11/28/plajia-beautiful-explosion/ http://music.all...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:06:00 PST

Beautiful Explosion available now on iTunes

The new album is now on all iTunes stores. You can buy it now with this link. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum? i=267095260&id=267094665&s=14344...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:29:00 PST

Plajia new album released - Order now

The wait is finally over. Plajia present their latest effort Beautiful Explosion. 11 titles really convincing and vibrant. Available in a good selection of worldwide stores. Order your copy now. Order...
Posted by Plajia - NEW MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:54:00 PST