Plaster truly sets the stage—allowing a sonic plethora of soundscapes to escape our reach while at the same time inviting the listener to next level experimental electronics and downtempo sorcery.
Roughened at the edges and exploring wide open soundtracks to lost worlds
Released mid-March 2021, Plaster reveals the ever shapeshifting and dark brewed Blends album. Described as not being a solo effort or compilation, it’s the fifth full length by Plaster (Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri). During the 2020 lockdown, Plaster provided several artists and friends his own personal library of sounds as a sort of experiment to see what would result. With such a varied collection and cohesively dark tones, metallic textures and acoustic instruments, Blends bends, twists, and rummages through an infinite amount of creativity. Each piece delivers rhythmic and often turbulent pulses, industrial backdrops, and intangible electro formations—roughened at the edges and exploring wide open soundtracks to lost worlds. While disjointed and eerie echoes persist throughout, it’s the merging of world sounds, scraping noises, and claustrophobic technoid harmonies that loops the entire body of work together. Abstracted to the bone and eradicating preconceived notions of collaboration, Plaster truly sets the stage—allowing a sonic plethora of soundscapes to escape our reach while at the same time inviting the listener to next level experimental electronics and downtempo sorcery.
Blends is available on Eklero. [Bandcamp]
