PLANTOID

Bold jazz fusion-inspired shapes from ambitious young Brits.

JK

IT TOOK PLANTOID three moves around the UK – from Lincoln to London to Brighton – for roots to form, to find a supportive record label, and for their career to blossom further. Although the bandmembers are still young in age, theirs is certainly not an overnight success. “We’ve probably been going for about eight or nine years,” fresh-faced co-founder and guitarist Tom Coyne tells us, recalling the time when the band were called Mangö. “We’d been doing all the same London pub gigs, and then Covid happened… we were on the verge of splitting up.” A new city and a new name brought opportunities. They played a New Year’s Eve show in Brighton in 2022, when a rep from Bella Union happened to be in the audience. Label founder…

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