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Obscura

by Plaster

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Almo!
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Almo! I've been following Plaster for many years. This is a massive release both in length and scope. With a super-crisp approach to the audio engineering, there's a huge cascade of detail to delve into.

Also, I really love the album cover art. Favorite track: 03_Ω_Dux Femina Facti.
Finn of Tomland
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Finn of Tomland Gianclaudio has not only broaden his sound palette but also outdone himself on this new album because all in all it's honed to perfection.
Every sound and every part of the production has been treated and tweaked with minute detail to form every perfect facet on this diamond of an album and i'm so happy that i got hold of the printed canvas edition.
In a perfect world this album would have had been released on 4xLP and/or 2xCD and be sold out by now...
This is a very highly recommended release!
Jonathan
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Jonathan Obscura is a beautiful album by Plaster with a lot of attention to detail. This is a deep and emotional album, a musical journey that should be listened to in one go from start to finish.
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    Obscura cover art will be available in 22 high quality printed canvas copies, 20 x 20 cm dimension.
    The restricted number of copies is in honor of the age of Mahsa Amini when she died.
    Please do not buy both digital album + the canvas copy. As soon as you buy the Canvas you'll receive a digital code for the album.
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03_A_Obscura 08:31
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Non ricordo quando ma alla fine sono morto ho abbassato così tanto il volume che lentamente mi sono spento. Era il tuo sangue fra le mie dita era il mio amore, la tua vita. Scorreva lento senza rumore erano le tue grida, non più parole la lama nel corpo, il sole che sorgeva ti baciavo gli occhi e uscivo di scena. Fredda la lama, lento il respiro Sul mio corpo il tuo dolore, che compiva il cammino l'aria intorno a noi, brucia nel silenzio di una luce che scaldava, un corpo ormai spento.
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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 strenght 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.

/////High quality master included as bonus tracks with not interleaved fades. Useful for radio or podcasts uses./////

/////Buying the limited printed canvas, you'll receive a digital code for downloading the album via Bandcamp/////

credits

released March 23, 2023

Music written and produced by Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri.
Vocal on “Nec Spe, Nec Metu” and “Numera Stellas” by Valeria Svizzeri.
Poetry on “Interfectōr” written by Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri
interpreted by Gianfranco Miranda and Maria Giulia Ciucci.

Cover Design by Hexagonal AI.

Music published by EPM music
Album Promotion by Pullproxy

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Textvra Rome, Italy

Founded in Rome in 2021 by Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri, Textvra is a platform to release the music of Plaster, Kaeba and Clouds After Rain, but which is also open to new projects.

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