Anton Goudshttp://www.ploctones.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpmit – guitar
Efraïm Trujillo – saxophone
Jeroen Vierdag – electric and double bass
Kristijan Krajncan – drums

The Ploctones represent everything that jazz is about. They express a feeling of liberation, that can only exist in your wildest fantasies. Their music swings, howls, vibrates, bangs and whacks like nothing else. And if you would describe improvisation as ‘a question of catching what goes around’, then the Ploctones prove that they have perfectly tuned antennea for this. Half a note is enough to create a musical universe. But there is not only jazz in this universe.

If you try to put a lable on the Ploctones, they will deliberately break the barriers. So what is it that the Ploctones blow through their microphones? Jazz rock, blues or funk? It is all of that. Latin, kaseko, punk, pop, r&b, country, bluegrass? All styles are in there. Goudsmit, Trujillo, Vierdag & Vink devour every great musical idea with pleasant greed and their joy is utterly contagious. Shall we put another log on the fire? Let’s just do it!

The Ploctones are a highly physical band, straight ahead with a wind force scale 10. Efraïm Trujillo blows the bottom out of his tenor saxophone, Anton Goudsmit is producing electric shocks from his guitar, Jeroen Vierdag dances over his bass strings and Martijn Vink steadily makes the impossible possible on his drums. All four musicians have unique stories to tell on their instruments. They give and take the space to explore and express those stories, but the group sound always has priority over their personal ego.

This is not a band in which a proper rhythm section indicates the time and the soloists take turns in doing their thing. The role-playing is constantly shifting. You can hear the most subtle melodies on bass or drums, carrying you away, and incredibly catchy rhythms from guitar and saxophone. As unambiguous as their song titles are (Ass, Shut Up, Fear of Poles (Fear of Pole Dance?) or the Thirst) as ingenious is their music, ranging from a ticking time bomb, ready to explode, to the finest clockwork mechanism.

In 2004 the Ploctones (at that time called Goudsmit, Trujillo, Vierdag & Vink) were suddenly just there. Everyone knew Anton Goudsmit as the secret weapon ot the New Cool Collective but nobody ever experienced him in the role of a band leader. But is he really a band leader? He firmly keeps a distance from this position. At the most he is the face of an anarchistic gang, serving only the law of the right note at the right time.

In any case, the Ploctones did an amazing concert at the Live op het Dak Festival in Amsterdam. People that attended the show were still trembling with energie for days after the event. The concert was released on CD and the group went on the road worldwide.

Until last year. Then their first studio album, 050, came out. The quartet takes the listener on an adventurous, almost hallucinating trip along dazzling abysses and elusive heights. The ballad Ernesto is as touching, romantic and beautiful as Paalangst is vile, mean and treacherus. The album received an overwhelming amount of positive reviews in the media. And on top of that, Anton Goudsmit was awarded the prestigious Boy Edgar Prize which all resulted in a solid position for the band on the Dutch stages. They will do an extended tour and like a fireball they will roll over the low lands. Be prepared for the hottest band of the moment: The Ploctones.

Anton Goudsmit (1967) – guitar, is currently one of the most interesting guitar players around… in 1994 he was among the first members of New Cool Collective and in the same period he also played in Eric Vloeimans’ Quartet, with Tony Allen, Han Bennink, John Zorn, Ernst Reijseger, John Engels and many, many others. Both in 2006 ánd 2007 he was nominated for the Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival. In spring 2010 he was awarded the most prestigious jazz prize in Holland, the VPRO Boy Edgar Prijs 2010.

Efraïm Trujillo (1969) – tenor- en soprano sax, is well appreciated in many different groups. Amongst others he played with Courtny Pine, Benny Bailey, Steve Williamson en Bootsy Collins and the Dutch bands Nueva Manteca, Cu Bob City Big Band, John Engels Quartet en Martin van Duinhovens double quartet Fra Fra Sound, Ramón Valle Quartet and the New Cool Collective

Jeroen Vierdag (1976) is a very versatile electric- and double bass player. He played with Chris Hinze, Ilse de Lange, Francien van Tuinen, Ed Verhoeff-trio, Tineke Postma and Nueva Manteca.

Kristijan Krajncan – (born 1986 in Kranj, Slovenia) studied violoncello at Music School Vic-Rudnik, Ljubljana, Slovenia with Igor Mitrovic. At the same time he visited High school of Music Ljubljana playing jazz drums with Aleš Rendla and Janez Gabric.
He graduated from jazz drums in 2004 and continued studies at Prins Claus Conservatorium (Groningen, Netherlands)