Plaistow have the traditional jazz formation of piano-bass-drums and given their name is derived from a Squarepusher track, Plaistow Flex Out, due anticipation of avant gardist jazz is justified. The sound and language of Plaistow reflect developments in the free and improvised jazz vocabularies; the rigorous discipline shown in expression is not paradoxical to the idea freedom but indeed reinforces their dynamic approach.
Do You Feel Lucky? , released on German netlabel 12rec, starts with a track entitled Steve Reich, could be seen as a homage, in a sense Plaistow adopt minimalist approaches to the jazz tradition. There are cycles of movements, reinforced motifs, built and repeated melody and rhythm, sometimes quite at others a deluage of noise and intensity. Aki’s Apple is while not the most dynamic track, if that is to mean energy and intensity shown, it has phrasing and a quiet simplicity that has a simpatico with this reviewers ears. Yap Yap ends the album most evidently in it’s genre overlapping of rock and jazz styles engaging in vibrant and convulsive interwoven structure.
Formed in 2007 by pianist Johann Bourquenez and bass player Raphaël Ortis and includes Cyril Bondi on drums. The three members met through various Netaudio and improv music networks, like eDogm and Audioactivity. They released their first album, Los Criminales Reciclados En Conductores De Autobuses, through French netlabel Insubordinations.
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