Plaistow to perform in India

Swiss band, Plaistow will be in India on a five-city tour playing in Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore and Goa.

Schedule 
23 November The Hindu Festival, Ravindra Bharathi Auditorium / Hyderabad 
24 November Shisha Jazz Cafe / Pune 
26 November workshop at the True School / Mumbai 
27 November The Bandra Base, Bombay Jazz Club / Mumbai 
28 November Edward Theatre / Mumbai 
29 November Windmills Craftworks / Bangalore 
30 November International Jazz Live Festival / Goa

Entry: As per festival and venue rules 

The classical trio line-up - piano, bass, drums - is revisited from top to bottom, free from any stylistic constraint. The band's music is constantly evolving. Formed in 2007 in Geneva, Plaistow has since given a hundred concerts (Switzerland, France, Russia, Germany, Morocco, Middle East ...) and published 5 albums. The band's name was inspired by a composition of Squarepusher, aka Tom Jenkinson, called "Plaistow Flex Out". Since its beginnings Plaistow has chosen to distribute its music free of charge on the internet via its website and in close collaboration with netlabels, primarily Insubordinations. This does not prevent the sale of records, mainly after concerts, and also through distributors. Experience shows that these two methods of distribution, far from being opposed, are complementary. The physical object is irreplaceable; Internet and the digital medias, convenient and infinitely reproducible, are apprehended in parallel as powerful communication tools.

Band Members 
Johann Bourquenez / piano
Cyril Bondi / drums
Vincent Ruiz / double bass

For more information: http://www.plaistow.cc/

"Someone asked me the other day what Plaistow's music 'was'. I'm not usually lost for a word but I had to pass on this one. Jazz is very much at the heart of it, and with Citadelle jazz has come through with a new and growing authority, but there are other things going on as well, procedures that come from electronica (even if the specific sounds do not), from the neo-tonality of contemporary classical music (whether the guys consciously listen to these composers or not) and from a huge reservoir of central European vernaculars, where the musical cultures of East and West collide on a daily basis, on the radio, on television commercials, on piped music in bars, on ringtones." - Brian Morton, April 2013
The tour has been organised in partnership with GATECRASH.