Obscura Disc Alpha (https://textvra.bandcamp.com/album/obscura)

Tracklist

01. Macte Animo!
02. Ego Sum Alpha Et Omega 03. Obscura
04. Interfectōr
05. Fiat Lux
06. Nec Spe, Nec Metu
07. Tempora Tempore Tempera 08. Tenebris


About:
Obscura marks the fifth full length studio album by Plaster excluding collaborative, live and split albums. Written between 2019 and 2022, Obscura is the result of a very deep research of Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri in both composition and sound design’s world. The fifteen tracks which build the album are splitted into two parts, A and 𝝮.
According to Gianclaudio, the concept of the compositions is based on the feminine world, to its darkest and brightest side, to Its power and delicacy but also refers to the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran and the following Iranian protests. The tracks are filled with elements of protest messages, words of hope, stories of femicide, fragments and tributes of the imaginary feminine world of Gianclaudio.
The sound is clearly a step forward into the Plaster’s production, we can hear a lot of new inputs, like poetry, distorted guitars, vocals used as the main instrument, but on the other side, Obscura brings back the memories of early works. There’s a lot of passion and cohesion between the tracks and this is not an album which aims for fast listenings or streaming skipping.
Obscura will be released by Textvra in spring 2023 via limited printed canvas (22 copies in memory of the age of Mahsa Amini) and worldwide digital distribution as well.

Obscura_Alpha [Snippets]

Plaster is the electronic music project founded in Rome by Giuseppe Carlini and Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri (Early 2008).

The two young boys where deeply passioned about music production and since their first studio sessions, the sounds of their experiments where really promising and mature. They started to play in most of the experimental festivals in Rome and their performances were clearly dark and solid with a state of the art for mixing Ambient Music, deep beats and sharp metallic sounds.

In 2010, Giuseppe and Gianclaudio moved to Berlin in order to expand their music experiences and In 2011 they started to collaborate with the pioneering Ukrainian label, Kvitnu. 
Founded by Dmytro Fedorenko and Zavoloka, Kvitnu has released most of Plaster's seminal works. After having a wider exposure in Europe (and not only) trough their fresh releases, in 2012 they begin to release music with labels like Stroboscopic Artefacts and Touchin'Bass bringing Plaster's sound to a more Techno direction while preserving their experimental approach.
The renovated sound, pushed the duo to play in important festivals and clubs all over the world and concurrently to enlarge their music to Dance Shows, 3D Structural Mappings, Video Games and Short Films. There have been memorable performances in Taiwan for On Site Festival (2013), at The Rural Festival in Japan (2014) or at the historical Arma 17 in Moscow (2013). 

In 2014 Giuseppe decided to leave the project for a personal break and Gianclaudio took over the work.
The first "solo" release by Plaster is Mainframe (Kvitnu 2015) which along with Platforms (Kvitnu 2011) is considered one of the most influential Italians electronic music albums of the last years.

Over the time, the sound of Plaster has become more mature thanks also to collaboration releases like Blends (Eklero 2021) a huge project which sees Gianclaudio collaborating with International and Italian artists like, Grischa Lichtenberger, Retina.it, Cluster Lizard, Brando Lupi, Pixfoil and many other great artists. Gianclaudio's activities are also related to event managing, in fact he worked as art director for the first two years of life of Klang Rome, probably the only club in Italy dedicated to the experimental music.

Now, Gianclaudio's work is focused on a new live performance developed with long time friend and experimental artist Franz Rosati. Nevertheless the new album for Plaster is under construction and will be released by Textvra Records.