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    <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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      <title>Patrick's new website and MySpace with new song</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:54:03 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - Beating The Charms (music video)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Music video for the song Beating The Charms by the Canadian trip-rock trio Plajia. From the album Beautiful Explosion (2008). 

Directed by Adam Owens
Candyvision Films

www.plajia.com

©2008, Orange Music]]></description>
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      <title>Plajia - Beautiful Explosion</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song Beautiful Explosion by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:19 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - This House</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song This House by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:18 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - Meet Me In Hong Kong</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song Meet Me In Hong Kong by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:18 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - Beating The Charms</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song Beating The Charms by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:17 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - The Other Life Of Squared Pixels</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song The Other Life Of Squared Pixels by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
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      <title>Plajia - God's Waiting In Line</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song God's Waiting In Line by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:16 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - Sleeping</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song Sleeping by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:16 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - A Love Song For Everyone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song A Love Song For Everyone by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:15 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Plajia - Is That The End?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[song Is That The End? by Plajia from album Beautiful Explosion (2008) 

NEW ALBUM NOW IN STORES
www.plajia.com]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:33:15 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/plajia/photos/2047009"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/248/3263347941_0b8790083a.jpg" /></a><p>Patrick Pleau</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:29:01 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/plajia/photos/2047008"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/246/3264173904_837f4fa10e.jpg" /></a><p>Patrick Pleau</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau - Hype-Moi</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://virb.com/plajia/photos/2047007"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/3264173756_7db4080532.jpg" /></a><p>Patrick Pleau - Hype-Moi</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:29:00 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau on Facebook</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:28:25 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau new MySpace</title>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau solo project official site</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The new website of Patrick Pleau for his french debut album Hype-Moi. Visit now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:26:58 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Premier extrait de l'album de Patrick Pleau, Hype-Moi</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chanteur soliste et guitariste du groupe anglophone québécois Plajia, dont l'album Beautiful Explosion fut nominé pour le Grand Prix de la relève Archambault 2008 (en compagnie de Tricot Machine, Samian, Alfa Rococo, Gaële, Le Husky et  Bruno Marcil), Patrick Pleau explore cette fois-çi, avec son premier projet solo francophone réalisé par Bob & Bill (Guy Dubuc et Marc Lessard), des thèmes à la fois urbains et oniriques. Les comparaisons utilisées pour décrire son style pointent souvent vers Daniel Bélanger, Pink Floyd ou Les Beatles, alors que ce ne sont là que des repères, des points de départ, des influences, des pistes...

Il y a beau "Ne rien avoir à faire dans un bocal", comme le dit la chanson, mais comme vous pourrez le constater, Patrick utilise tout son arsenal de guitares, de claviers, de rythmes ensoleillés et de mélodies accrocheuses inspirées des années 70 pour rendre l'expérience des plus ludiques! 
La chanson dégage une telle lumière, un tel souffle de chaleur, un tel sentiment de liberté, qu'elle offre finalement tout pour devenir Bocalophobe!

Armé d'un talent fou et d'un univers musical éclaté, bien campé dans l'âge d'or du pop autant que dans la modernité, Patrick Pleau est une voix à découvrir et qui, malgré toutes les comparaisons flatteuses, demeure totalement unique! L’album sera disponible 10 mars 2009.

<img src="http://www.patrickpleau.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/hypemoi2.jpg" />]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:26:02 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Patrick Pleau releasing his french debut album Hype-Moi www.patrickpleau.com...</title>
      <link>http://virb.com/plajia/posts/status/2046939</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Patrick Pleau releasing his french debut album Hype-Moi <a href="http://www.patrickpleau.com" target="_blank">www.patrickpleau.com</a> for more info.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:22:35 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Dummy</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:42:21 -0700</pubDate>
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