Aucklanders can catch Francis Plagne tomorrow night at the Wine Cellar, St Kevin's Arcade (7.00pm/entry $10). Plagne is a Melbourne-based musician and songwriter whose work engages with popular and experimental music forms. His music has been described as sounding as "close to Pet Sounds era Beach Boys as it does musique concrete future classics" (Mess + Noise) and as the "unlikely amalgam of Antonio Carlos Jobim's samba and an Andre Breton poem" (Three Thousand). The Wire's John Dale described his work as "slotting into a trajectory of experimental song/sound crossover that stretched from Caetano Veloso's 'Araca Azul' through to Broadcast." . You can hear his work at http://soundcloud.com/francis-plagne
Image: cover for Francis Plagne's Idle Bones (Label: Synaesthesia)
