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L’Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant
is a baroque super group born and based in London since 2011. ODMP brings together world rhythms and moody cinematic moments playing blues and dance pieces, with notable influences from Congolese Soukous, African highlife, Ethiopian jazz, cumbia, whiff of Middle-East and Turkish Psychedelia.

They have recorded sessions for Cerys Matthews on BBC Radio 6 (12.12 and 12.14) and were featured on Fiona Talkington’s Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, Gideon Coe’s BBC Radio 6, Tom Ravencroft BBC Radio 6, Jo Whiley BBC Radio 2.
They are regulars on Resonance Fm 104.4 Fm, SOAS radio and have been featured in French music and culture magazine Gonzai.

ODMP also received radio airplay on both national and local radios around Europe: ByteFm (germany) Radio student (slovenia) Radio Popolare (Italia) East London radio and Amazing Radio (UK) RTBF National Radio (Belgium) amongst others.

They toured extensively throughout England, Germany, France, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Montenegro, Croatia, Serbia, Spain, Holland, Belgium.

They shared stages with the likes of Kuabata Makoto, Hype Williams, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band and Talibam! amongst others.

They recently worked as artists in residence in Germany making music for theatre and collaborating with local musicians as part of New Hamburg Festival commissioned by Deutsches ShauspielHaus.

''No one really knows who or what Orchestre Du Mont-Plaisant are exactly.
Channeling an extraordinarily uplifting and utterly joyous concoction of Cumbia, Latin rhythm, Afro-Cuban guitars, and Arabic-flavoured organ, everyone in the audience tonight stops trying to fathom exactly what’s happening and just starts dancing. If you get the chance do go and see Orchestre Du Mont-Plaisant, go. There are few bands who have the ability to illicit such an immediate sense of merry revelry.''

Dreaming of Pop - 2014


  



''The sounds emanating from those 8 hands were magical. There are hints of African High Life, Guiro-led percussion, an organ playing arabib sounds that I couldn't quite place and a fabulously swinging latin rhythm section''
Simon Landin - Home Spun Show
Read the review here



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''Orchestre du Mont Plaisant are one of the strangest band we've heard in a long time, sounding like the soundtrack of some undergroung 60's art flick where the protagonist wanders around Paris chased by strangely attired Russian Spies''
Spoonfed



''Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant are an imaginary super group. Unless you catch them in hi-fidelity “London Easters” real life you’d reckon to be listening to 2 fifths The Doors (sleezy organ and stomp bass) one 5th Hank Marvin, and one splendidly gelling 5th of cajun (ish) accordian. The fifth fifth sets all in head bopping motion with perfectly uncomplicated yet striking chops. An uplifting gem of coalescent enterprise'
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113 Dalston Lane


Fom Dofe - 2015
 
Ina - 2010



UPCOMING SHOWS

See the SHOWS page.


DISCOGRAPHY




Altin Kanis Klübü
Pudel Produkte #28
[ 2016 ]





II

Polychrome Sounds PS005
[ 2015 ]





Orchestre du Mont-Plaisant

CATALP009
[ 2011 ]





Music to Cook To

CATACD007
[ 2010 ]